192 THIRTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sizes. HI. Ch. 97,98. 1857. For fort at Fort Point, San Francisco Bay, California, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairs at Fort Hamilton, at the Narrows, New York harbor, ten thousand dollars. For repairs at Fort Lafayette, New York harbor, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Wood, Bedlow’s Island, New York harbor, five thousand dollars. For barracks, quarters, and hospital at Fort Columbus, Govcrnor’s Island, New York harbor, fourteen thousand dollars. For purchase of additional land for site of Fort Tompkins, forty-two thousand three hundred dollars. For modification of Fort ldadison, Annapolis harbor, Maryland, twenty thousand dollars. For artesian well at Fort l\/Ionroe, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Jackson, Savannah River, Georgia, eighteen thousand dollars. For the fortification of Ship Island, coast of Mississippi, one hundred thousand dollars. For fortifications for the defence of the inner passes into Mobile Bay, (known as Grant’s Pass and Pass au Heron,) one hundred thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and extension of Fort St. Phillip, Mississippi River, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Macomb, and preservation of site, Chef Menteur Pass, Louisiana, seven thousand dollars. For repairs of Tower Dupre, Bayou Depre, Louisiana, and perfecting title of site, twelve thousand dollars. For fortifications for the defence of the entrance to Galveston harbor and bay, Texas, eighty thousand dollars. To purchase a site and construct additional defences for San Francisco, Califbrnia, three hundred thousand dollars. C<>¤i¤i¤g¢¤<=i¤S- For contingent expenses of fortifications for preservation of sites, protection of titles, and repairs of sudden damages, thirty thousand dollars. Repairs, &c.¤f For repairs and alterations of barracks, quarters, hospitals, store rooms, b“"“°kS· S"' and fences at permanent forts not occupied by troops, nineteen thousand dollars. Plittforms for For the construction of permanent platforms for modern cannon of °”““°“· large calibre in the existing fortifications of important harbors, one hun-· dred thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1857. March 3, 1857_ CHAP. XCVIII.—An Act reducing the Duty on Imports, andjbr other Pwywses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ad valorem duties shall be imposed, in lieu of those now imposed upon goods wares and merchandize imported from abroad into theUnited States, as follows, viz: Upon the articles enumerated in schedules A, and B, of the tariff act 0nR‘;L°; of eighteen hundred and forty-six, a duty of thirty per centum, and upon gcheduycs those enumerated in schedules C, D, E, F, G, and H, of said act, the 1846, ch. 74. duties of twenty-four per centum, nineteen per centum, fifteen per cen- VOL ix P 42 tum, twelve per centum, eight per centum, and four per centum, respec- tively, with such exceptions as are hereinafter made; and all articles so imported as aforesaid and not enumerated in the said schedules, nor in schedule, I, shall pay a duty of fifteen per centum.
