Chapter CLXXI. *making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defence for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A
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CHAP. CLXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defence for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,Appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence. and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction, preservation, and repair of certain fortifications and other works of defence for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight:—Appropriation for Fort Scammel.
For Fort Scammel, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. 488 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 171. 1867. Appropriation for Fort Georges;For Fort Georges, on Hog Island ledge, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Winthrop ;For Fort Winthrop, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Warren;For Fort Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. Fort at New Bedford harbor;For Fort at entrance of New Bedford harbor, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars.
Fort Schuyler;For Fort Schuyler, East River, New York, fifty thousand dollars. at Willett’s Point;For fort at Willett’s Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York, fifty thousand dollars. on site of Fort Tompkins;For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New York, fifty thousand dollars. at Sandy Hook;For fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Washington ;For repairs of Fort Washington, on the Potomac river, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Monroe;For Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Taylor;For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Jefferson;For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Tortugas, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Clinch;For Fort Clinch, Amelia Island, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars. at Fort Point;For fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California, fifty thousand dollars. at Lime Point;For fort at Lime Point, California, fifty thousand dollars. at Alcatraz Island;For fort at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco bay, California, one hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Preble;For Fort Preble, Portland harbor, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. Fort McClary ;For Fort McClary, Portsmouth harbor, New Hampshire, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Independence.For Fort Independence, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. Survey of northern, &c. lakes.For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Fort Montgomery.For Fort Montgomery, at the outlet of Lake Champlain, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Purchase, &c. of instruments.For purchase and repair of instruments, ten thousand dollars. Purchase of sites for seacoast defences;not to be made until, &c.For purchase of sites now occupied and lands proposed to be occupied for permanent sea-coast defences: *Provided,* That no such purchase shall be made except upon the approval of its expediency by the Secretary of War and of the validity of the title by the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars. For purchase of sites now occupied by temporary sea-coast defences: *Provided,* That no such purchase shall be made except upon the approval of its expediency by the Secretary of War and of the validity of the title by the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Barracks, &c. near St. Louis, Missouri;For construction and repair of barracks and quarters for engineer troops at the depot of engineer supplies near St. Louis, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. at Willett’s Point.For construction and repairs of bar[r]acks for engineer troops at the depot of engineer supplies at Willett’s Point, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Not over one half of these appropriations to be expended this year, &c.Residue. *And be it further enacted, *That there shall not be over fifty per cent of the foregoing appropriations expended during the fiscal year; ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the residue thereof shall not be expended till otherwise ordered.
Sec. 3. Board of officers to make experiments to test the power of resistance of turreted and broadside systems of iron-clad vessels of war *And be it further enacted, *That, in order to determine the relative powers of resistance of the turret and the broadside systems of iron-clad vessels of war, and whether or not our present heaviest guns are adequate to the rapid destruction of the heaviest plated ships now built, or deemed practicable on either system, and whether or not our [best stone forts will resist our heaviest guns, and if not what increase in strength by adding either stone or iron or variation in form is necessary THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 171, 172. 1867. 489 to that end, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy areagainst guns of the heaviest calibre. hereby authorized to detail a joint board of not less than six competent officers, three from the army and three from the navy, whose duty it shall be to construct, and test by firing upon them, such targets as they may deem necessary for the purposes above named. And the Secretary ofFacilities, how to be furnished, and expenses how borne.
War and the Secretary of the Navy are hereby authorized and directed to supply the board with such facilities for this purpose as they may require: *Provided,* it can be done from the unexpended funds and materials now at their disposal, the expenses to be borne equally by the War and Navy Departments, and from such funds at their disposal as the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may designate respectively. Approved, March 2, 1867.