THE

LAWS

OF THE

UNITED STATES

OF

AMERICA.

VOL. IX.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

WASHINGTON CITY:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY R. C. WEIGHTMAN.

1809.

THE UNITED STATES;

At the first session, begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-sixth of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

CHAPTER I.

AN ACT making further appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Specific apfor defraying the expenses of the navy of propriations. the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums, in addition to the sums heretofore ap propriated for that object, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated; That is to say:

For the pay and subsistence of the offi eers, and pay of the seamen, seventy-four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars, and twenty-nine cents:

For provisions, thirty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars, and fifteen

sents:

For repairs of vessels, one hundred and forty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars, and sixty-one cents:

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