Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-07-29

The FoRTIFIcArIoN BrLL--We give below
the details of The forif cation bill as passed by
majority of nearly two TO one. 1t is n document o
much import and will be read wIh interest by oil
parties By it, it wiibe perce ved, the defence o
harbor has been literally provided for, the
sum apporoned for the repairs of the different forts
being $Is5, 900. lBos. Times.
A BILL making appropriation for fortifcations for
ordinance, and for preventing and SURPRISING In
dian hostilities.
BE IL enacted bu the Senate and House of Repre-
ssnta.ires ofthe United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the following snns be and
the same hei eby appropriated. IN be paid ont of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropra-
ted, namely
For repairs of Westhead battery, Governor's Is
land, Boston harbor, five thousand dollars
For repairs of Southeast battery, Governors Is
land, Bostan ha, Dor. FIVE thousand dollars.
For repairs Of Fort Independence and sea-wall of
Castle Island, Boston habor, sixty five thousand
dollars
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor one hundred and
five thousand dollars
For repairs of old fort a, New BedgoId harbor,
five thousand dollars.
For Fort Adams, Newport harbor forty five thou
sand dollars.
For Notifications in New London harbor-re-
building of Fort 1rumbull, Connecticut. thirty five
thousand dollars
For repairs of old Fort Niagara. and erecting and
repairing necessary buildings therein, New York,
twenty thousand dollars
For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego
New York; and erecting necessary buildings there
in, fifteen thousand dollars
For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, seventy
thousand dollars.
For repair of Fort Wood and sea wall, Redoe's
Island, New York.harbor. fifty thousand dollars.
For permanent walls for Fort Columbus, Castle
William, and South battery, Governors Island,
New York harbor, twelve thousand 'doura.
For repairs OF sea-wall of Castle William and 9th
er ports of Governors Island, seven thousand dol
lars.
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 |, lo4l. fifty thousand dol
hrs
For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river
q tblrty-hve thousand dollars
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,
For Fort Sumter, Charleston harhor, South Caro-
lima, fifteen thousand dollars.
For commencing dixie TO Drunken Dick shoa, for
preservation of Sullivan Island, and site Of Fort
Moultrie Charleston harbor, South Carolina, thirty
, Thousand dollars.
For Fort Pulaski. Savannah river, Georgia, thirty
five thousand dollars.
For repairs of Fort Marion St. Augustine, Flor.
da twenty thousand dollars
For continuing sea-wallat St Augustine, Florida,
five thousand dollars
For Fort Pckens, Pensacola harbor, Elurida,
twenty thousand dollars.
For Fort Barancas, Pensacola harbpr, Florida
, forty. five thousand dollars.
For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty
thousand dollars
For Fort Livingston, Barraiarin bay, Louisiana,
thirty thousand dollars,
For repairs of other forts the approaches to
New Orleans, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingencies offortlcatiOns. fifteen thousand
dollars.
For incidental expenses attending repairs of forth
ications, ffty-6ve thousand hVe hundred dollars.
Sec. 9 Ind be it furthur enacted, That the