Chapter CLXVII. *making Appropriations for Fortifications and other Works of Defence, and for Repairs of Barracks and Quarters, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Co
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Chap. CLXVII.— An Act *making Appropriations for Fortifications and other Works of Defence, and for Repairs of Barracks and Quarters, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *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 thirtiethAppropriations. 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; For Fort Richmond, at the Narrows, New York harbor, seventy-five thousand dollars; For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, twenty thousand dollars; For Fort Delaware, Delaware River, one hundred and fifty 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 Sumpter, 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-five 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;
For 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; 122 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 168. 1856. For repairs and extension of Fort St. Philip, Mississippi River, thirty thousand dollars; Contingencies.For contingent expenses of fortifications not herein mentioned, the preservation of sites, the protection of titles, and repairs of sudden damages to forts, thirty thousand three hundred dollars.
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Chapter CLXVII
*making Appropriations for Fortifications and other Works of Defence, and for Repairs of Barracks and Quarters, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Co
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