Chapter LXI. making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for other purposes
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Chap. LXI.— An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for other purposes. March 3, 1823. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Specific appropriations for fortifications. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows, viz :
For Fort Delaware, fifty-eight thousand dollars: For Fort Washington, forty-six thousand dollars: For Fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars : For Fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars : For collecting materials for a fortification at Mobile Point, in the state of Alabama, fifty thousand dollars : 784 SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 62, 63, 64. 1823. Appropriations.For the Rigolets, and Chief [Chef ] Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars: For collecting materials for, and progressing with, a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite Fort St.
Philip, forty thousand dollars: For repairing Fort Jackson, in the harbour of Savannah, eight thousand dollars: For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty-six thousand dollars: For the purchase of small arms for arming the whole body of the militia, in addition to the annual appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for arming the militia, twenty thousand dollars: For completing the barracks and other public buildings, at Baton Rouge, twenty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars seventy-seven cents.
Approved, March 3, 1823.