Chapter CV. *making Appropriations for certain Fortifications of the United States, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* July 20, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate awl House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the fol
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Chap. CV.— An Act *making Appropriations for certain Fortifications of the United States, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* July 20, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate awl House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preservation, repairs, and construction of certain fortifications, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine;
Detroit For defensive works and barracks near Detroit, fifteen thousand dollars; Lake Champlain. For fortifications at outlet of Lake Champlain, twenty thousand dollars; Penobscot River. For defensive works and barracks at narrows of Penobscot River, Maine, ten thousand dollars; Fort Preble. For repairs of Fort Preble, Portland Harbor, Maine, nine thousand dollars; Fort Scammel. For repairs of Fort Scammel, Portland Harbor, Maine, ten thousand dollars; Governor’s Island. For repairs of fortifications on Governor’s Island, Boston Harbor, fifteen thousand dollars;
Fort Warren. For Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, thirty thousand dollars; Fort Adams. For Fort Adams, Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars; THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108. 1848. 249 For rebuilding Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars; Fort Trumbull. For Fort Schuyler, Long Island Sound, New York, ten thousand dollars; Fort Schuyle. For repairs of Fort Wood, and sea-wall of Bedlow’s Island, New Fort Wood.York, ten thousand dollars; For batteries on Seller’s Point Flats, Baltimore Harbor, fifteen thousand Soller’s Point Flats.dollars;
For Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, twenty thousand Fort Monroe,dollars; For preservation of site of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, South Fort Moultrie.Carolina, ten thousand six hundred dollars; For dike on Drunken Dick Shoal, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, Drunken Dick Shoal.fifteen thousand dollars; For Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, twenty Fort Sumpter.thousand dollars. For Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, Georgia, eight thousand dollars; Fort Pulaski.
For repairs of Fort Jackson, Savannah River, Georgia, twenty thousand Fort Jackson, Georgia.dollars; For Fort McRee, Pensacola Harbor, Florida, fifty thousand dollars. Fort McRee. For Fort Barancas and barracks thereat, Pensacola Harbor, Florida, Fort Barancas.forty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, twenty thousand Fort Morgan.dollars; For repairs of battery Bienvenue, Louisiana, three thousand dollars; Battery Bienvenue, Louisiana. For repairs of Fort Jackson, Mississippi River, Louisiana, five thousand Fort Jackson, Louisiana.dollars;
For repairs of Fort St. Philip, Mississippi River, Louisiana, twenty Fort St. Philip.thousand dollars; For Fort Livingston, Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, ten thousand Fort Livingston.dollars; For fortifications at Key West, Florida, fifty thousand dollars; Key West. For fortifications at Garden Key, Tortugas Island, Florida, twenty-five Tortugas Island.thousand dollars; For protection of Great Brewster Island, and security and defence Great Brewster Island. Proviso as to title.of the principal ship channels into the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portion of said sura of forty thousand dollars shall be expended for the objects aforesaid, until the United States shall procure a good and valid title to so much of said Great Brewster Island as may be necessary to the construction of the proposed fortifications;
For additional preservation of the site of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Additional for Fort Moultrie.Harbor, three thousand dollars; For Fort Delaware, on the Pea Patch Island, Delaware River, fifty Fort Delaware.thousand dollars. Approved, July 20, 1848.