United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 173
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CLXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
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:
Fort Warren.For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred thousand dollars;
Castle Island and Fort Independence.For the preservation of Castle island, and repairs of Fort Independence, fifty thousand dollars;
Fort Adams.For Fort Adams, Rhode Island, one hundred thousand dollars;
New London harbor.For fortifications at New London harbor, Connecticut, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Fort Schuyler.For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, one hundred thousand dollars;
Ft. Delaware.For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, forty thousand dollars;
Fort McHenry, Redoubt Wood, and Covington battery.For Fort McHenry, Redoubt Wood, and Covington Battery, near Baltimore, thirty-two thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars;
Fort Monroe.For Fort Monroe, Virginia, one hundred thousand dollars;
Fort Calhoun.For Fort Calhoun, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars;
Charleston harbor.
Fort Moultrie.For fortifications in Charleston harbor, and for the preservation of the site of Fort Moultrie, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;
Fort Pulaski.For Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars;
Fort at Foster’s bank.For the fort at Foster’s bank, Florida, thirty-three thousand dollars;
Fort Marion, and sea-wall at St. Augustine.For repairs of Fort Marion and of the sea-wall at St. Augustine, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars;
Bridge at Fort Monroe.For the purchase of the charter right to the bridge across Mill creek, at Fort Monroe, four thousand dollars;
Fort Caswell.For securing the site of Fort Caswell, Oak Island, North Carolina, eight thousand five hundred dollars;
Old fort at the Barancas.For repairs of the Old Fort at the Barancas, Pensacola, seventy-five thousand dollars;
Fort Niagara.For repairing Fort Niagara in the State of New York, three thousand dollars;
Contingencies.For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.
How to be expended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the sums appropriated by this bill a portion not to exceed fifty per centum upon all the items above fifteen thousand dollars, shall be drawn from the Treasury during the present year, and the balance of the said appropriations shall be expended for the objects designated, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
Approved, July 7, 1838.