# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 17

Chap. XVII.—An Act making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.
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 Trumbull, 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;
​Fort Washington.For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Fort Monroe.For Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;
Forts Caswell and Johnson.For repairs of Forts Caswell and Johnson, and preservation of the site of the former, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, North Carolina, five thousand dollars;
Fort Sumter.For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars;
Drunken Dick shoal, Sullivan’s island, and Fort Moultrie.For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoal, for preservation of Sullivan’s island, and site of Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, thirty thousand dollars;
Fort Pulaski.For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Fort Marion.For repairs of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, twenty thousand dollars;
St. Augustine.For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida, five thousand dollars;
Fort Pickens.For Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars;
Ft. Barrancas.For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, forty-five thousand dollars;
Fort Morgan.For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty thousand dollars;
Ft. Livingston.For Fort Livingston, Barrataria bay, Louisiana, thirty thousand dollars;
New Orleans.For repairs of other forts on the approaches to New Orleans, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars;
Detroit.For defensive works, and barracks, and purchase of site at or near Detroit, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars;
Buffalo.For purchase of site, and for barracks and defensive works at or near Buffalo, New York, fifty thousand dollars;
Lake Champlain.For fortifications at the outlet of Lake Champlain, and purchase of site, seventy-five thousand dollars;
Matawankaeg and Penobscot rivers. 1843, ch. 70. §2. Contingencies.For defensive works, barracks, and other necessary buildings, and 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;
Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars;
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated in like manner:
Ordnance service.For current expenses of ordnance service, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Ordnance stores.For purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, seventy-five thousand dollars;
Fortifications.For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;
Saltpetre and brimstone.For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars;
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be in like manner appropriated:
For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, viz:
Arrearages of pay due Florida militia.For balance required, in addition to the sum applicable out of the 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:
Arrearages of pay due Florida militia.For arrearages of pay due Florida militia, commanded by Brigadier 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;
​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.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 direction 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 soldiers;
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 and completing maps authorized by1839, ch. 83. act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, forty thousand dollars;
Siote 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;
Defense 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.