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said Bayport be made part and annexed to the
collection district of st. Marks, in said State of
Florida; and all the privileges and facilities af
orded to Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, st. Louis, Nashville and Natchez, by the
act of Congress aforsaid, be, and the same are
hereby extended to the said ports of Palatka and
Bayport ,.sae.o
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Keo-
kuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, be, and
hereby are, constituted ports of delivery within
the Collection District of New Orleans and there
shall be appointed Surveyor of the Customs
for each of said ports, who shall be residents
thereat; said surveyors shall perform the duties
and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
entitled can act allowing the duties foreign
merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling,
Cincinnati, louisville, st. Louis, Nashville and
Natcnez, to be secured and paid at those places
APPROVED, August 3, 1854.
CHAP. CCIV.-.An .Act to reUire the .4ct approved
March third, eighteen hundred and tlDenty-three,
and the .Act approved May taUemty-sirth, eighteen
hundred aud t,Uenty four, supplemental thereto,
in reference to the Rio Hondo claims to Land in
Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiyes of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the act approved
March third, eighteen hundred and tWenty-three,
entitled can act providing for the examination
Louisiana situated between the Rio Hondo and
the Sabine River" and the act approved May
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four,
entitled Gan act supplementary to an act provi-
ding for the examination of titles to land in that
part of theState of Louisiana situated between the
Rio Hondo and the Sabine,o be, and the
same are hereby, revived for and during the
. space of two years from the PRONUNCIATION of
this act
SEB. ?. And be it further enacted, That the
register and receiver at Natchitoches shall, sew
orally, receive, full compensation for the
duties required of them by the acts herein revived
the sum of fifty dollars, whenever they shall
have finished the business required of them by
the acts herein revived, and shall forward their
reports to the Secretary of the Treasury.
APPROVED, August, 3, 1854.
CHAP. CCXXVII.-.4n .4ct making .Appropria-
tiOnS for FOrtificati01s and other toorfS of de-
fence, and for repairs Of barracks and quarters,
for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one tos
sand eight hundred and Jffty.fUe.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums
be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be
paid out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, for the construction, preserva
ton, and repairs Of certain Notifications, barracks
and quartersSfor the year ending the thirtieth of
June, one thousand eight hundaed and fifty-hve
For Fort Montgomery,a lat outlet of Lake Cham
plain, New York, fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Knox, at Narrows Of Penobscot RiV-
er. Maine, twenty thousand dollars.
For Fort Warren, at the Narrows, Boston Har-
hOr, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars.
For Fort Adams and quarters entrance to Mar
ragansett Roads, Rhode Island, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, entrance to Long Island
Sound, New York, fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Richmond, at the NarroWs, New
York Harbor, sixty thousand dollars.
For Fort Delaware, Delaware River, Delaware
fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Carroll, Baltimore Harbor, Mary
land, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe, entrace to Hampton Roads,
Virginia, twenty thousand dollars.
For Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For Fort Clinch, entrance to Cumberland
Sound, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Barancas and Barracks, Pensacola
Harbor, ten thousand dollars.
| For Fort N'Ree, Pensacola Harbor, and pres
ervation of the site, ten thousand dollars.
For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, seventy
five thousand dollars.
For Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida, fifty
| thousand dallars.
| For Notifications at Alcatras Island, SanFran-
cisco Bay, California, one hundred thousand dol
| lars.
For Notifications at Fort Point, entrance to
San Francisco Bay, California, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For armament of Notifications in the Harbor
| of san Francisco, California, one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars.
For forts on the western frontiers Of Texas,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For repair of Fort Niagara, New York, three
thousand dollars.
For repalrso Fort Preeble, Portland harbar
Maine, one thousand dollars.
| For repair and improvement of Fort Indepen-
dence, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, ten thou
sand dollars.
For repair of Fort columbus and castle will
liams, New York Harbor, four thousand five
hundred dollars.
| For repair of Fort Hamilton. and for perma-
nent wharf thereat, New York Harbor, ten thou
sand dollars.
For repair of Fort Mifiin, Delaware River,
| pennsylvania, one thousand dollars.
For repair of wharf at Old Point comfort,
| Virginia, seven thousand dollars.
! For repair Of Fort Macon, Beaufort Harbor,
North carolina, two thousand dollars.
For preservation Of the site of Fort Macon,
Beaufort Harbor, North carolina, one thousand
dollars. -f
For preservation of the site of Fort Johnson,
! including new wharf, Charlie ston Harbor South
Carolina, four thousand two hundred dollars. -
For preservation of fort Moultrie, Charleston
Harbor, South Carolina, twelve thousand three
hundred dollars.
| For repairs of Fort Jackson, Savannah River,
| Georgia, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of Fort Morgan, mouth OF Mobile
Bay, Alabama, FIVE thousand dollars.
For repairs of fort Pike, ,Rigolet Pass Louisiana,
| one thousand dollars.
For repairs of fort Macomb, (formerly fort
wood Chef Menteur Pass, Louisiana two thou
1 sand dollars.
For repairs of Tower Dupre, Bayou sDupre,
Louisiana, five hundred dollars.
| For repairs and extension of fort st. Phillip,
Mississippi River, Louisiana, twenty-five thou
sand dollars. ;
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