Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-09-13
BS AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
PASSED AT rHE FIRST SESSION OF r,yrsrr.s,,rsr,
CONGRESS.
IpUDlTc-NO m

AN ACT making Hppropri4t atoms tor various Cor,i6.
Cations Tor ordnance and for preventing and sup
| pressing Indian hoStilitieS.
BE II enacted by the Senate and House of rn,s-
senIalNes OF the United States OF America in Con.
sresS assembled, That the following sums be and
INC same are hereby, appropriated be paid out OF
| puated, namely: fF'N
For repairs OF wesi.head battery, Governors is.
and Boston haroo-, hye thousand collars
FOR 'epAirs Of SoutheaS; battery, Governors is
| and, Boston haTbor, five thousand dollars
| For repairs OF Fort Independence ana sea. w ,lI
| dollars.
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred and
hyc thousand dollars.
For repairs OF Old fort New Bedford harbor. five
| thousand lars.
For Fort Adams, Newport harbor, forty FIVE thou
sand dollars.
Fer tcu6ca,iors in New London harbor. reb,lj.
inc OF Font Trumouu, Connecticut, thirty five
! thousand dollars.
For repIis OF old Fort Cris~oIJ New Iop,Ior
| harbor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars.
F'T completing repairs oiEon Niagara and ercct.
ING ami repairing necessary buildings therein NJ
| York, twenty thousand dollars.
For completing epIIrs OF Fort Ontario, Oswepo
New ORR, and erecting necessary buildings there.
IN, fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor scvc,,,.
thousand dollars. 10y
For repairs OF Fort Wool and sea.waII. Bel.
COWS ISLAND, New York haroor, fifty thousand dol.
lars.
For permanent walls for Fort Columbus. Castle
William, and South battery, Governors island. Ne,y
ork haTbor, twelve thousand dollars
For repairs OF sea wall OF Castle William and
dollars.
| For Fort Delaware, Delaware river. provided III.
Title TO the Pea Patch island shall be decided To he
III me United States, including twenty-five thou.
sand seven hundred and seventy dollars CARTEL IN
the surplus fund, January one, eighteen hundred
ana iorty-one, h'ty thousand dollars.
FOR IePiluns forts at Annapolis harbor, Mary
land, five thousand dollars.
For repairs OF Fort WASHINGTON Po,o,,,, rir.-
h'Gy'hye thousand dollars.
FOR Fort Monroe, Ola Point Comfort, Virginia.
one hundred ana fifteen thousand collars.
FOR repairs OF Forts CaS;wcll and Johnson. and
Preservation oil the site OF the former, the mouth
dollars.
For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Caro-.
lima, fifteen thousand dollars.
For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoar.
Tor preservation of Sulljvan's island, and site af
Fort MOultre, Charleston hagbor South C,r,ri,,
tHIr'y thousand dollars.
FOR Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia, thirty
five thousand dollars.
For repairs Of Fort Marion S. Augus,ipe El,-,
d, twenty thousand dollars.
For continuing sea-wal! At ST. Augustine, Florida.
five thousand dollars. '
Fe' Fort Pickens, Pensacola haroor, Florida.
twenty thousand dollars.
For Fort B,rrancas, Pensacola. Forid, f,,,,,
five thousand dollars. S
For For. Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty
thousand collars. 10y
For Fort Livingston, BlrratarIa hay Iou;si,p,
thirty thousand dollars.
For rePiirs Of other forts on the approaches n
New Creams, Louisiana, fifty thous nd dollars.
For defensive works and barracks aud purchase
so lars
For purchase Of site, and for barracks and d.C,n.
siye works at or near Buffalo, New Yook fuv
thousand dollars. '
Fog notifications at the outlet Of Lake Channplsi,
and purchase OF site, seventy five thousand dol ,rs
For defensive works barracks and other neces.
Sary buildings, and purchase Of site Tor Gelot nj
or near the junction oil the Nlatawankeas and pc
mob. cot rivers, Maine, twenty-five thousand dolars
sand dollars.
For incidental expenses attending repairs of for.
uhcaIons, hlty-hyc thousand I've bundled dollars
Sec. 2. And be It further enacted, That the fol-
like manner:
For current expenses Of ordnance service. TWEEN
ty-fye thousand dollars.
For purchase Of ordnance and ordnance stores
scyeniy-hye thousand dollars
For armament Of Qualifications one burll,eJ ,bo,,
SAND dollars. ''
For purchase Of salIpeIre and birthstone, twenty.
thousand dollars.
Sec. ;. And be it further enacted, That the fol-
owing sums oc IN like mariner appropriated.
For preventing and supprcssIrg Indian hoslIii-
ties, VIZ ''''
For balance required, in addition to the sum H..
phcaGie out Of the amount Appropriated NJ the o -
session Of Congress- tor arenragcs Of pay due Flor
ia militia called into service by the Governor of I'm,
Territory in eighteen hundred AID forty. nineteen
and Two cents.
For aueamgos Of pay due Florida militia. com
manded Oy Brisader Genera Read, for SIX months
On the service oftho United States. commcrcing Nn,
vcmuer, eighteen hundred and forty. and terminal
ING hpnI, eighteen bundled and iorty.one t,yo.
hundfsl ono nihetY-seyen thousand two hundred
and thirteen DO lars and ninoty-two cents
For auearlges of pay due TO a battalion Of Geor.
ga militia for service on the frontiers of Crptsi,
and Florida, IN eighteen hundred and forty and
eighteen hundred and forty. one, seventy. ei,bt
thousand tour hundred and ninety five dollars and
nnety-twO cents.
For the Ouauermas,ci's Department. the s,,,o nj
four hundred and forty thousand and forty do.n,s.
that being the amount required IN addition TO tbe
amount appropriated at the last session Of Congfes,
"hish last sums Of money for preventing and sup
pressing ludan E0st''tlcs, are ~ be expended IN
uer the directions Of the Secretary Of War CON
lpmtDIy 10 tie acts Of Cong Css Of the nineteen IA
oil March, ono thousand eight hundred and thirty.
SIX, and the acts therein referred TO-
For surveys IN reference % the military d.f.c,ss
/ dollars.
/ For aTcoHgrs due for roads, h1rbo.s. and riv
| c,s where public works and Improvements have
/
property now on hand nt these places. and Tor NJ.
rchrages FOR surveys and completing maps author.
zod Ivy the act y March third, one thousin md e,,6t
| hundred and tUuy.aln0. forty thousand do Iars
For tglruyirs the expenses d selecting "a ANITA s
site on the Western waters Tor the Establishment of
! a national armDry, sum not exceeding 6ye thou.
sand dollars and the President of the United s,tcs
/ IS hereby authorized 90 cause such selection to no
made, aud 10 communicate all the PROCEEDINGS which
/ may he hlJ therein 10 The Congress O! tho United
| states, 10 hc subject TO as approval.
FOR the construction or armament OF such armed
steamers or Other vessels for defence on the NORTH.
western lakes n8 the President may think most pro.
| per and rs may be authorized by the existing st.-
! puntons between this and the British Government
/ one hundred thousand do. ar.
JOHN WHITE,
Speaker Of the House Of Reprcsenta,ives.
SAML J.. 5OUTIIARD,
President Of the Senate pro tempOrc
/ Approved, September 9, IsIL
JOHN TYLER.
PUBLIC No. i2i
AN AC j 10 provide Tor placing Grecnough's Sta
tue al Washington ~ the R1tundo 0t the Capit1I
nuu Tor fTlgU.re therein unrnttur,I