K. Statement of expenditures for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, from the marine hospital fund, created under the act of July 16, 1798, from the year 1836 to 1847, inclusive. * $11,208 52 of the sum above referred to is composed of sums paid to James Ritchie and J. S. McFarland, late hospital surgeons, being amount of deductions formerly made from their accounts, for professional services, as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved February 13, 1845. † $7,227 37 of the sum above referred to was expended in rebuilding marine hospital at Key West, Florida. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, March 14, 1848. DANIEL GRAHAM, Register. Ex. Doc. No. 53. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. APPROPRIATIONS-NAVAL SERVICE-1847. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, Transmitting a statement of the appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1847. MARCH 15, 1848. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. NAVY DEPARTMENT, March 14, 1848. SIR: In compliance with an act of Congress approved 1st of May, 1820, I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement from the Second Comptroller of the Treasury of the appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1847. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Hon. R. C. WINTHROP, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. Y. MASON. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Second Comptroller's Office, March 9, 1848. SIR: I have the honor herewith to transmit, in duplicate, the annual statements of the appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1846-'47, showing the balances of appropriations on the 1st July, 1846; the appropriations made for the fiscal year 1846-47; the repayments and transfers in same period; the amounts applicable to the service of the aforesaid fiscal year; the amounts drawn by requisitions on the treasury in same time; and, finally, the balances on the 1st July, 1847; prepared in pursuance of an act of Congress approved May 1, 1820. Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, Hon. JOHN Y. MASON, Secretary of the Navy. Statement of the appropriations for the service of the Navy Department from July 1, 1846, to June 30, 1847; made pursuant to the provisions of the second section of the act of Congress of May 1, 1820, entitled "An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments." $7,007 49 $3,571,735 00 168 79 929 11 $791,631 89 $1,370,374 38 $2,849,445 40 $1,520,928 98 66,920 00 869,722 00 4,968 69 142,455 89 72,057 48 65,393 23 6,664 25 1,013,107 00 746,200 45 266,906 55 Increase, repair, armament and equipment of the navy. 80,581 33 1,421,820 00 315,075 61 1,817,476 941,567,371 85 250,105 09. Contingent expenses enumerated 32,984 34 550,000 00 74,611 19 657,595 53 539,091 47 118,504 06 Contingent not enumerated.... 2,934 57 5,000 00 2,963 48 10,898 05 4,950 12 5,947 93 Home squadron, pay, subsistence, &c., of. 627 81 10,576 29 11,204 10 Fuel for war steamers, &c.. 11,204 10 12,789 66 701 90 13,491 56 12,955 54 536 02 War steamers on the northwestern lakes.. 1,226 80 1,226 80 1,226 80 War steamer, construction of a, for harbor defence 215,729 68 215,729 68 215,729 68 380 00 289,884 89 Steam boilers, &c., testing inventions for the prevention 6,533 29 Pensions to widows and orphans, act March 3, 1837..... Pensions to widows and orphans of Sea Gull and Grampus Pensions to widows and orphans, act 3d March, 1845. (Indefinite). 8,837 50 833 79 14,310 20 9,135 43 5,174 77 41,600 00 3,472 52 63,093 11 43,269 35 19,823 76 312,818 00 335,522 69 324,000 00 11,522 69 pener of Philadelphia. Purchase of Mix's patent mange stopper, act 8th August, 10,919 50 607 35 Carried to surplus fund June 30, 1847. t Of this, $484 30 carried to surplus fund. $200,000 transferred to War Department. |