# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 60

Chap. LX.—An Act making appropriations for the engineer and ordnance departments.
Appropriations for engineer and ordnance department.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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For collecting the materials, and making the preliminary arrangements, for the construction of a fort on George’s island, Boston harbour, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of a building for military and other exercises, at the United States’ military academy, West Point, six thousand dollars.
For the erection of a chapel at the United States’ military academy, West Point, ten thousand dollars.
For the erection of two new dwelling-houses at the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, for the use of the master armorer and paymaster, seven thousand dollars.
For building a pay office and store at the same armory, for the preservation of models and patterns, two thousand dollars.
For building a workshop for grinding and polishing, at the same armory, six thousand dollars.
For enlarging and repairing the shop, for welding and boring musket barrels, at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional machinery at the same armory, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For one steam-engine of fifteen horse power, at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For thirty-six double racks for placing arms in the new arsenal, at the same armory, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of twelve additional dwelling-houses for the workmen, at the national armory at Harpers’ Ferry, Virginia, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For the repair and extension of the public dam, on the Potomac river, ​from which the supply of water is obtained for the works at said armory, five thousand dollars.
For the enlargements of the canal, supplying the water power of the public works of the said armory, from the Potomac dam, thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For repairing the walls of four workshops at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For constructing three new water-wheels, and the machinery in the boring, turning, and stocking shops, and sinking flumes, at the said armory, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
For completing the forging shops tilt-hammer, and new workshop, at the same armory, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one square acre of land, with the improvements, adjoining the arsenal near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of forty-five acres of land adjoining the Watervliet arsenal, New York, nine thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the right to the water power on the Shenandoah river, for the use of the United States’ rifle factory, which is established on that river, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For the repairs of the Spanish fort Marion, at St. Augustine, and for re-constructing the sea wall, to prevent the encroachments of the sea, at and near the same, twenty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and for erecting quarters and barracks for the United States’ troops at Savannah, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Purchase of lands.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to apply to the purchase of the square acre of land above mentioned, a sum not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, out of the proceeds arising from the sale of certain lots of land at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, belonging to the United States, which may be disposed of,Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 48. under the provisions of the act of Congress of the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Approved, March 2, 1833.