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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 4 STAT. · March 19, 1828 · Chapter XVIII

Chapter XVIII. making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight

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Chap. XVIII.— An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. March 19, 1828. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Sums appropriated for fortifications. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated; to wit: for fortifications, to each specifically, as follows: Forts.For fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars.
For fort Hamilton, sixty thousand dollars. For fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars. For fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Macon, at Bogue point, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For fort at Mobile point, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Jackson, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Pensacola, fifty thousand dollars. For fortifications at Charleston, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For fortifications at Savannah, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fort at Oak Island, North Carolina,Preservation of islands in Boston harbour. sixty thousand dollars. For preservation of islands in Boston harbour, two thousand dollars. Sec. 2. To be paid from the treasury. *And be it further enacted, *That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 19, 1828.
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