Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-09
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed Mt the Third Session of the Forty first
Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTIEORITY.l
GENERAL NATURE-No. 5l.l

AN ACT making appropriations for the con-
struction, preservation and repairs of certain
Notifications and other works of defence. ~
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States Of Anse7Tcu
"a Congress assembled, That the following
sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the following Notifications and
other works of defense:
For Fort Georges, Portland harbor, Name,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For Port Preble Portland harbor Maine
twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Scammell, Portland harbor, Maine,
fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Massachu-
sets, fifty thousand dollars.
For battery on Long Island head, Boston
harbOr, Massachusetts,, thirty-seven thousand
five hundred dollars
For Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor, Massa-
chusetts, forty-five thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
F,r Fort independence. Boston harbor, Mas
sachusetts. twenty seven thousand FIVE hundred
dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York
fifty seven thousand five hundred dollars
For fort at Willetts point, East river New
York forty five thousand dollars F.,
For Fort Hamilton and additional batteries,
New York harbOr, twenty-five thousand dollars
For fort on site of Fort Tompkins New York
harbor, ffty-two thousand dollars
For Battery Hudson, New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Miffln, near Philadelphia twenty
six thousand dollars.
For battery on Firms point, Delaware river,
twenty thousand dollars. -.
For new fort opposite Fort Delaware, Della
ware shore, fifty thousand dollars
For Fort Moultre, Charleston harbor, twenty
five thousand dollars.
For Fort Sumter Charleston harbor, twenty
five thousand dollars.
For Port Pulaski, Savannah river, twenty-six
thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, for
ty-two thousand five hundred dollars
For Fort jackson, Mississippi river, Louisi-
ara, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river, Lou
isiana, thrty-seven thousand five hundred dol
lars ~ if
For fort at Fort point, entrance to San Fran
cisco harbor, California, fifty thousand dollars.
For fort Mt Lime point, one hundred thousand
dollars.
For fort on Alcatraz island, in the harbor of
San Francisco, California seventy-fve thousand
dollars
For purchase of sites proposed to be occupied
for permanent sea-coast defenses PrOrided,
That no such purchase shall be made except
upon the approval of its expediency by the Sec
rotary of War, and of the validity of title by
the Attorney General. one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; And prortdcd further, That
no contracts or obligation be incurred for future
expenditures therefor
For contingencies of Notifications two hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars. 80 r
For sea-coast mortar batteries, one hundred
thousand dollars. "'rI Eri i-ui
For survey for military defences, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. and the unexpended
balance of appropriations for ''permanent de-
fences at Narragansett bay, Rhode Island, ~
remaining on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and the unexpended bal
ances of the appropriations made by the act APP
proved July eleven, eighteen hundred and sew
enty, entitled IAN act making appropriations
for the construction, preservation, and repairs
of certain Notifications, and other works of de-
fence, for the fiscal year ending June thirty,
reappropriated for the same purpose "a, :.
Approved March 3, 1871.