United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 268
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Chap. CCLXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes.
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 the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for certain fortifications, viz:
Castle Island, &c.For the preservation of Castle Island and repairs of Fort Independence, Boston harbor, one hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Warren.For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, two hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Adams.For Fort Adams, Rhode Island, two hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Schuyler.For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, two hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Columbus, &c.For repairs of Fort Columbus and Castle Williams, and officers’ quarters, on Governor’s Island, New York harbor, twenty thousand dollars.
Fort Delaware.For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Calhoun.For Fort Calhoun, Virginia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Caswell.For Fort Caswell, Oak Island, North Carolina, sixty thousand dollars.
Forts, Charleston harbor.For fortifications, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, and preservation of the site of Fort Moultrie, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Pulaski.For Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Fort Pickens.For Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida, fifty thousand dollars.
Fort at Foster’s Bank.For the fort at Foster’s Bank, Florida, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, and for the purchase of additional land in their neighborhood, one hundred thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.
Re-appropriated for Throg’s Point.
1826, ch. 73.For the purchase of land and the right of way on Throg’s Point, in Long Island Sound, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, carried to the surplus fund the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand dollars.
To close accounts in Third Auditor’s office.And the following sums, necessary to close accounts in the Office of the Third Auditor, viz.
Fort on Cockspur Island.For a fort on Cockspur Island, Georgia, two thousand three hundred and eight dollars and fifty-six cents.
Contingencies.For contingencies of fortifications, sixty-one dollars and eight cents.
Fortifications at Pensacola.For fortifications at Pensacola, one thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-one cents.
Armament of fortifications, &c.
Act of 1836, ch. 62.For the armament of fortifications, in addition to the amount included in the bill making appropriations for the support of the army for one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, including cannon, mortars, howitzers, gun carriages, howitzer carriages, mortar beds, powder, cannon balls, shells, and for the transportation of ordnance and ordnance Kennebec arsenal, &c.stores; and for the purchase of twenty acres of land adjoining the Kennebec arsenal, Maine; and the purchase of land and enclosing the rear of the public ground with a brick wall and coping at the Frankford arsenal, Pennsylvania; and constructing a forging shop, one story high, seventy-five by forty feet, of brick, at the arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts; and in the purchase of a steam-engine of eight horse power; and for the quarters of officers at Fort Monroe arsenal, four hundred thousand dollars.
Fort, &c. near Baltimore.For Fort McHenry, Redoubt Wood, and Covington Battery, near Baltimore, fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Monroe.For Fort Monroe, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Marion, &c.For the repairs of Fort Marion, and the sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida, fifty thousand dollars.
Knapsacks, &c.
Act of 1836, ch. 44.For knapsacks and camp equipage, authorized by the act approved nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for volunteers or militia, fifty-two thousand seven hundred and five dollars.
Accoutrements, &c.For accoutrements for the army, one hundred and two thousand three hundred and five dollars.
Purchase of sites, &c. in Arkansas, &c.
Proviso.For the purchase of sites, and the construction of arsenals, for the deposite of arms in Arkansas, Missouri, and at Memphis, in Tennessee, forty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars. Provided, That the cost of such arsenal shall not exceed fourteen thousand dollars each.
Fire engines.For the purchase of twenty-eight fire engines, and the necessary apparatus, twenty-two thousand four hundred dollars.
Storehouses, Newport, Ken.For storehouses at Newport, Kentucky, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Purchase of land at St. Louis, Missouri.
Proviso.For purchasing seven acres of land, including the site of the powder magazine attached to the arsenal at Saint Louis, Missouri, Provided the same shall be ascertained not to be on land of the United States, two thousand one hundred dollars.
Piazza, Augusta, Ga.For erecting a piazza in front of the building occupied as barracks by the troops at Augusta arsenal, Georgia, four hundred and fifty dollars.
Fort Jesup.For barracks, quarters, storehouses, hospital, stables, and materials for the same, at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Wharf at Fort Wolcott.For rebuilding the wharf, and materials for the same, at Fort Wolcott, Newport, Rhode Island, five hundred dollars.
Fort Monroe.For constructing a wood-yard, and a wood-yard wharf, and for materials for the same, at Fort Monroe, Virginia, one thousand dollars.
For Severn.For constructing a wharf, and for materials for the same, at Fort Severn, Maryland, one thousand dollars.
Fort Brady.For rebuilding and repairing barracks, quarters, hospital, store-houses, and materials for the same, at Fort Brady, Michigan Territory, five thousand dollars.
Fort Sullivan, &c.For the purchase of land adjoining Fort Sullivan, and the buildings thereon, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the following objects, in addition to former appropriations for the same:
Armory, Harper’s Ferry.For national armory at Harper’s Ferry, seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
Armory at Springfield.For national armory at Springfield, forty-five thousand dollars.
Light artillery, &c.For the purchase or manufacture of light brass and iron field artillery, and for construction of field artillery carriages, caissons, and travelling forges, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
Furnaces.For the construction of furnaces for hearing cannon balls, twelve thousand dollars.
President may make transfers of appropriations.
1820, ch. 52.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, under the restrictions of the act of the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, to make transfers from one head of appropriations for fortifications, to that of another for a like object, whenever, in his opinion, the public interest shall require it.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money appropriated by this act and all other sums which have been or may be appropriated during the present session of Congress, shall be drawn from the Treasury, or paid over to the disbursing officers or agents of the Government, only as the same may be required by the several objects of expenditure authorized by law.
Approved, July 2, 1836.