Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-04-17
PUBLIC, No. 23.]


PUBLIC, No. %
AN ACT making appropriations for the En-
gineer and Ordnance Departments.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That the following
out of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, namely
For collecting the materials, and making the
preliminary arrangements, for the construction
Of a fort on Georges Island, Boston harbor,
Massachusetts, twenty five thousand dollars.
For the erection of building for military
and other exercises, at the United States Mi
litary Academy, West Point six thousand dol
lars.
For the erection of 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, Massa-
ehusetts, for the use of the Master Armorer and
Paymaster, seven thousand dollars.
For building pay-office and store at the
same Armory, for the preservation of models
and patterns, two thousand dollars.
For building 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
Armorv, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional machinery, at the same Ar
mory, 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 Armorv, five
thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of twelve additional dwell
ling houses for the workmen, at the National
Armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, eight thou
sand 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 of said
Armory, five thousand dollars.
For the enlargement of the canal, supplying
the water power of the public works of the said
Armory, from the Potomac dam, thirteen thou
sand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For repairing the walls Of four workshops a
the same Armory, fifteen hundred dollars
For constructing three new water wheels
and the machinery in the boring, turning, anc
stocking shops, and sinking fumes, at the sait
Armory, eight thousand four hundred dollars
For completing the forging-shop tilt-ham
mer, and new Workshop, at the same Armory
thirteenth thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one square acre ofand
with the improvements, adjoining the Arsena
near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, three Thousand
five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of forty-fve acres of lane
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 o
the United States rifle factory which is estab,
lished on that river, four thousand six hundred
dollars.
For the repairs of the Spanish fort Marion
at St. Augustine, and for demonstrating the
Sea Wall, to prevent the encroachment 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-fve thou
sand dollars.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of War be. and he is hereby autho'
rized to apply to the purchase of the square
acre OF land aforementioned, sum not ex'
ceeding three thousand five hundred dollars
out of the proceeds arising from the sale o
certain lots Of land at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl,
vania, belonging to the United States, which
may be disposed of, under the provisions of thu
act Of Congress Of the second of August, ont
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
A. STEVENSON,
Speaker Of the House Of Repre,entatipe,
HUI: L. WHITE,
President Of the Senate pro tempore
APPROVED, March I'd, 1883.
ANDREW JACKSON.
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