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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1856. 121 graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and ghilggd tlgecalxpe cultivators,” approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the Vgé €,m.y_ p respective periods therein referred to shall be computed from the dates 1854, eh_ g44_ on which the lands became subject to private entry, after the first or orig- Vo]. x. p. 574. inal offering of the same. Approved, August 18, 1856. CHAP. CLXWI.—An Act making Appropriations jbr Fortifications and other Works Aug, 18, 1856. ey' D¢nqe, and jbr Repairs of Barracks and Quarters, jbr the Year ending the thirtieth www of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction, preservation, and repairs of _ _ certain fortifications, barracks, and quarters, for the year ending the thir- APP’°P"‘“°‘°"“ tieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. For Fort Montgomery, outlet of Lake Champlain, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Fort Knox, at the Narrows of the Penobscot River, Maine, sixty thousand dollars ; For Fort Winthrop, Governor’s Island, Boston harbor, ten thousand dollars; V For Fort Richmond, at the Narrows, New York harbor, seventy-tive thousand dollars ; For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, twenty thousand dollars ; For Fort Delaware, Delaware River, one hundred and nfty thousand dollars· For,Fort Carroll, Baltimore harbor, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars · For ,Fort Calhoun, entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars ; For Fort Surnpter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars · For ,Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, Georgia, nineteen thousand dollars; For Fort Clinch, entrance to Cumberland Sound, Florida, twenty-ive thousand dollars; For Fort McRee, and preservation of its site, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars ; For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Alabama, fifty thousand dollars; For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; For Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; For fortifications at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, two hundred thousand dollars; For fortifications at Fort Point, entrance of San Francisco Bay, California, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For repairs of Castle Pinckney, Charleston harbor, ten thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Jackson, Savannah River, fourteen thousand dollars · Fbr repairs of Fort Morgan, mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, twenty- five thousand dollars; For extension of Battery at Fort Jackson, Mississippi River, ten thousand dollars ; v01.. xi. PUB.—16