The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-05-25

BE it enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentdisUeS or the United States of america in Con-
| CresS assembled, That the following SUMS be, and
the sine are hereby, appropriated, out OF any
ey III ,he treasury not oherwise appropriated FOL
the following Notifications and other works of de-
tense:
For Fort Gorges, Portland harbor, Maine fifteen
For Fort Preble, Portland harbor Maine twenty
eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Scanned, Portland harbor, Maine, fifty
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Massachusetts,
fifty thousand dollars.
Fer battery on Long Island head, Boston harbor
Massachusetts, thirty-segen thousand five hundred
dollars.
For Fort Winthrop. Boston harbor, Massachusetts
| forty five thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston hsrbor Massachu
sets, tTenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars
| FOR Fort Schuyler, East riy yer, New York fity-
| seven thousand five hundred dollar- y
For tort at Willetts point East river, New York
| forty-fve thousand dollars.
For Fort amiiton and additional batteries New
| York harbor twenty-five thousand dollars.
II fort on size OF Fort Tompkins, New York har-
Dor. 1ty-tw0 thousand dollars.
For Battery Hudson, New York harbor. sixteen
thousand five hundred dollars
For Fort Miffin, near Philadelphia, twenty-six
For battery on Firms point, Delaware river, twen-
ty thou sand dollars.
For new tort opposite Fort Delaware, Delaware
shore, fly thousand dollars.
sor Fort Moultrie, Charleston h,rbor, twenty-five
thousand dollars
EOi NulnDer, CHdfleStOn nal Dor, twenty five
thousand dollars.
For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river twenty six
thousand fiv- hundred dollars
For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, forty
two tloUs and i've humid ed dollars
For Fort jackson, Mississippi river, Louisiana,
fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river, Louis-
ana th'rty-seven thousand five hundred doliars.
FOR fort at Fort point, enrran e to San Francisco
harbor, California. fifty Thousand dollars.
lars. ii' INV " o ~
ror iort on Alcatraz island, in the harbor of San
e. syo california seventy five thousand dollars.
III purchase OF sites proposed 10 ne occupied Tor
- rinaheht sea coast deenses: PyOpided 4 hat no
,n I'uichase shall be made eXceut upon the an
mo az ~ us eXpe iiency by the Secretary of War
ara 'ue VdidIly OF the title by the Alton new Gen.
o,.,; Jae hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and
p"e turner, That no cont acts or ob,gation he
r. a Ioi future exp nditures therefor
~ contnsencles of Notifications two h,,,ano,
| and fifty thousand dollars '"o huhdred
| sand dollars. one nahdred thou-
For survey Tor military defenses ono b,ndroa -, 3,
fifty thousand dollafs and the unexpeuded baj,nna
Of appropriations for permanent deiences at No.
pansett bay, Rhode Island" remaining on Tho az;
| tieth day OF June, eighteen hundred and ssventr
and the unexpended balances of the approptjations
made by the act approved July eleven, eighteen
hundred and seventy, entitled san act making ap-
preparations Tor the construction preservatisn and
repairs OF certain Notifications and other works of
defense for the fiscal year ending June thirty eight