Chapter XCIV. *making Appropriations for certain defensive Works of the United States for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth Day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *
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Chap. XCIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for certain defensive Works of the United States for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth Day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *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 they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of anyAppropriation. unappropriated money in the treasury, for the preservation, repair, and construction, of certain fortifications for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
For the purchase from the State of New York of the defensivePurchase of defensive works on Staten Island. N.Y., with land for site. works on Staten Island, together with the land bought by the State for the site of said works, with all the material on and about them, and for repairs of said works when the title of the State of New York shall have been extinguished, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Executive be, and he is hereby, authorized to disposeFort Gansevoort to be sold. of the site and materials of old Fort Gansevoort, and to apply the proceeds of such sale to the repair of the works on Staten Island.
For the commencement of batteries on Soller’s Point Flats, belowSoller’s Point Flats. Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars. For the commencement of a fort at the entrance to CumberlandCumberland Sound, Georgia. Sound, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars. For the commencement of a fort on the east side of Dauphin Island,Dauphin Island. Mobile Bay, Alabama, twenty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the President of theAdjustment of title to Pea Patch Island.
United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to take such steps as he may deem advisable fur adjusting the title to the Pea Patch Island; and, should the same be found to be adverse to the United States, that he cause the value to be ascertained by arbitration, according to the agreement entered into between the Secretary of War and the agent of the claimants. Approved, August 8, 1846.