For the following items which have been carried to the surplus fund on the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, viz:
For contingent expenses prior to 1824.For contingent expenses prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, eight hundred and forty-two dollars, thirty-four cents.
For contingent expenses for 1824.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars, four cents.
For contingent expenses for 1825.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, twenty-eight cents.
Contingent expenses not enumerated.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, not enumerated, two thousand and forty dollars, eight cents.
Navy yards.For navy yards, five thousand dollars.
Navy yard at Pensacola.For navy yard at Pensacola, three hundred thirty-seven cents.
Swords, &c.For swords and medals, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars, sixty-two cents.
Five schooners.For five schooners, fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.
For building barges.For building barges, sixty-seven dollars sixteen cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
A sum not exceeding 10,000 dollars appropriated, &c.
1827, ch. 94.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, for the purchase of such lands as the President of the United States may think necessary and proper to provide live oak and other timber for the use of the navy of the United States, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States, by the first section of the act, entitled “An act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.”
Approved, March 10, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Sums appropriated for fortifications.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated; to wit: for fortifications each specifically, as follows:
Forts.For fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Hamilton, sixty thousand dollars. For fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars. For fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Macon, at Bogue point, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For fort at Mobile point, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Jackson, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Pensacola, fifty thousand dollars. For fortifications at Charleston, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fortifications at Savannah, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fortPreservation of islands in Boston harbour. at Oak Island, North Carolina, sixty thousand dollars. For preservation of islands in Boston harbour, two thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 10, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XIX.—An Act granting the right of preference in the purchase of public lands, to certain settlers in the St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana.
