Arkansas intelligencer., 1858-07-09

Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, seventy
FIVE thousand dollars.
Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Tortucas
Florida one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
Fort Point, San Francisco, California. on,
hundred and twelve thousand five hundred
/ dollars.
For contingent expenses Of fortiications
I preservation Of sites, protection of titles, and
repairs of sudden damage, thirty thousand
| dollars.
For const etion of permanent platforms
for modem canRon of large calibre in existing
Notifications Of important harbors, thirty thou
sand dollars
For the payment of claims favorably re
ported upca. bv the board of army officers
(appointsd under the sixth section at the aet
approved August thirtv-iirst. eighteen hum
dred and ffy-two,) in their bnai .-r~.. w.
Congress dated April nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and fifty FIVE, seven thousand eight
hundred and seyenty-two dollars and tiity-tso
and one third cents.
For the construction of bridges and the
improvement of the crossing Of streams on the
road from Fort Smith, in Arkansas, to Albu-
queroue in New Mexico, fifty thousand dol
lars: and that the sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated,
out OF any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, to be expended in com
pleting connected sections of the road extend
ing from Albuquerque, IN the Territory of
New Mexico, westward, on the route to the
Colorado river, on, or near the thirty fiith
parallel Of north latitude.
SEC. g And be 1t Turther enacted, That
the balances from the appropriations for ''pre-
venting and suppressing Indian hostilities,
and for travelling allowance of volunteers"
already expended in the payment of Florida
volunteers called into service by authority Of
the War Department, may be applied by the
accounting officers of the Treasury to the set
tlefaen. Of the accounts Of Paymasters by
whom said balances were disbursed.
SEC. 8. 4Rd be 1t further enacted, That
it shall be lawful for any commissioned off
Ger of the army to administer the prescribed
oath of enlistment to recruits; Provided the
services Of civil magistrate authorized to
administer the same cannot be obt ined.
SEC. f. Ind Be a. further enacted, That
lhe~. -, appropriated, out Of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
prepariu.g the drawings OF the sailing charts
of the Bhering's Strait and North Pacific Ex-
plorinr and Surveying Expedition under the
control and direction Of the Secretary of the
Navy, but not for printing the same, six thou
sand seven hundred dollars.
SEC. s. Ind be IL further snaetsd, That
the eleventh section of the act of third March,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled
"An act making provision for an additional
number of general officers and for other pur-
poses," which deprives suffers IN the army of
their right to lien upon any part OF the pay
of the soldiers, or to appear at the pay table
to receive the soldiers pay from the Paymas-
ter. be and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That
all the existing laws, OF parts of laws which
authorize the sale of military sites which are
or may become useless for military purposes
be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and
said land- shall not be subject to sale or pre-
emption under any of the laws of the United
States: Procided turther, That the provis-
ions of the act of August eighteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty SIX, relative to certain
reservations in the State OF Florida shall con-
tnue in force.
Approved jane II, 1853.