United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 14

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
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Public Acts of the Nineteenth Congress, First Session, Chapter 14
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March 14, 1826.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XIV.An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and for other purposes.

Specific appropriations for certain fortifications.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 wit: For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:

Fort Adams.For fort Adams, at Brenton’s Point, one hundred thousand dollars.

Fort Hamilton.Fort fort Hamilton, at New Utrect [Utrecht] Point, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Fort Monroe.For fort Monroe, at Old Point Comfort, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

Fort Calhoun.For fort Calhoun, at the Rip Rap Shoal, eighty thousand dollars.

Fort at Bogue point.For the fort at Bogue Point, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Oak island.For the fort at Oak Island, North Carolina, thirty thousand dollars.

Mobile point.For the fort at Mobile Point, ninety thousand dollars.

Chef Menteur.For the fort at Chef Menteur, eighty-five thousand dollars.

Fort Jackson.For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Bend, ninety thousand dollars.

Fort at Bayou Bienvenu.For the fort to be commenced at Bayou Bienvenu, Louisiana, ninety thousand dollars.

Repairs, &c.For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars.

Fort Constitution.For repair of fort Constitution, in Portsmouth Harbour, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of land, &c., on Throg’s point.For the purchase of land, and the right of way on Throg’s Point, in Long Island Sound, seventeen thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 14, 1826.