Chapter XVII. *making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.* Sept. 9, 1841. [Obsolete.] *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 sam
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Chap. XVII.— An Act *making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.* Sept. 9, 1841. [Obsolete.] *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 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: West-head battery. For repairs of West-head battery, Governor’s island, Boston harbor, five thousand dollars;
South-east battery. For repairs of Southeast battery, Governor’s island, Boston harbor, five thousand dollars; Fort Independence, &c. For repairs of Fort Independence and sea-wall of Castle island, Boston harbor, sixty-five thousand dollars; Fort Warren. For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred and five thousand dollars; Fort at New Bedford. For repairs of old fort at New Bedford harbor, five thousand dollars; Fort Adams. For Fort Adams, Newport harbor, forty-five thousand dollars;
Ft. Trumbull. For fortifications in New London harbor—rebuilding of Fort Trum bull, Connecticut, thirty-five thousand dollars; Ft. Griswold. For repairs of old Fort Griswold, New London harbor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars; Fort Niagara. For completing repairs of Fort Niagara, and erecting and repairing necessary buildings therein, New York, twenty thousand dollars; Fort Ontario. For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, and erecting necessary buildings therein, fifteen thousand dollars;
Fort Schuyler. For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, seventy thousand dollars; Fort Wood. For repairs of Fort Wood and sea-wall, Bedlow’s island, New York harbor, fifty thousand dollars; Ft. Columbus, Castle William and South battery. For permanent walls for Fort Columbus, Castle 'William and South battery, Governor’s island, New York harbor, twelve thousand dollars; Castle William, Governor’s island. For repairs of sea-wall of Castle William and other parts of Governor’s island, seven thousand dollars;
Ft. Delaware. Proviso. For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, provided the title to the Pea Patch island shall be decided to be in the United States, including twenty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars carried to the surplus fund, January first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty thousand dollars; Forts at Annapolis. For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland, five thousand dollars; 459 For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river, thirty-five thousand Fort Washington.dollars;
For Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one hundred and fifteen Fort Monroe.thousand dollars; For repairs of Forts Caswell and Johnson, and preservation of the Forts Caswell and Johnson.site of the former, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, North Carolina, five thousand dollars; For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, fifteen thousand Fort Sumter.dollars; For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoal, for preservation of Drunken Dick shoal, Sullivan’s island, and Fort Moultrie.Sullivan’s island, and site of Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, thirty thousand dollars;
For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars; Fort Pulaski. For repairs of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, twenty thousand Fort Marion.dollars; For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida, five thousand dollars; St. Augustine. For Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars; Fort Pickens. For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, forty-five thousand Ft. Barrancas.dollars; For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty thousand dollars;
Fort Morgan. For Fort Livingston, Barrataria bay, Louisiana, thirty thousand dollars; Ft. Livingston. For repairs of other forts on the approaches to New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans.fifty thousand dollars; For defensive works, and barracks, and purchase of site at or near Detroit.Detroit, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars; For purchase of site, and for barracks and defensive works at or near Buffalo.Buffalo, New York, fifty thousand dollars; For fortifications at the outlet of Lake Champlain, and purchase of Lake Champlain.site, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For defensive works, barracks, and other necessary buildings, and Matawankeag and Penobscot rivers. 1843, ch. 70. 62.purchase of site for a depot at or near the junction of the Matawankeag and Penobscot river, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars; For contingencies of fortifications, fifteen thousand dollars; Contingencies. For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, fifty-five Incidental expenses.thousand five hundred dollars; Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated in like manner:
For current expenses of ordnance service, twenty-five thousand dollars; Ordnance service. For purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, seventy-five thousand dollars; Ordnance and stores. For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars; Fortifications. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars; Saltpetre and brimstone. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be in like manner appropriated: For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, viz.:
For balance required, in addition to the sum applicable out of the Arrearages of pay due Florida militia.amount appropriated at the last session of Congress, for arrearages of pay due Florida militia called into service by the Governor of the Territory in eighteen hundred and forty, nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and two cents; For arrearages of pay due Florida militia, commanded by Brigadier Arrearages o pay due Florida militia.General Read, for six months in the service of the United States, commencing November, eighteen hundred and forty, and terminating April, eighteen hundred and forty-one, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents; 460TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 18. 1841. Arrearages of pay due Georgia militia. For arrearages of pay due to a battalion of Georgia militia, for service on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, in eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-two cents; Quartermaster’s Department. Appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities. Act of March 19, 1836, ch. 44.Quartermaster’s Department. Appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.
Act of March 19, 1836, ch. 44. For the Quartermaster’s Department, the sum of four hundred and forty thousand and forty dollars; that being the amount required in addition to the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress; which last sums of money for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, are to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein referred to;
Surveys. For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, thirty thousand dollars; Arrearages. For arrearages due for roads, harbors, and rivers, where public works and improvements have hitherto been made, and for the protection of public property now on hand at these places, and for arrearages for surveys 1839, ch. 83.and completing maps authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, forty thousand dollars; Site for a national armory.
For the defraying the expenses of selecting a suitable site on the Western waters for the establishment of a national armory, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause such selection to be made, and to communicate all the proceedings which may be had therein to the Congress of the United States, to be subject to its approval; Defence of the Northwestern lakes. For the construction or armament of such armed steamers or other vessels for defence on the Northwestern lakes, as the President may think most proper, and as may be authorized by the existing stipulations between this and the British Government, one hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, September 9, 1841.