Fort Pike.For repairs of Fort Pike, and preservation of sites, Rigolets, Louisiana, eleven thousand dollars;
Fort Jackson.For repairs of Fort Jackson, Mississippi river, Louisiana, five thousand dollars;
Ft. Livingston.For Fort Livingston, Grand Terre Island, Barrataria bay, Louisiana, forty thousand dollars;
Fort Smith.For the public buildings at Fort Smith, Arkansas, the sum of thirty thousand dollars;
Fort Gibson.For the construction of suitable barracks and defences, at Fort Gibson, in addition to the former appropriation for that purpose, fifteen thousand dollars;
Fort Towson.For completing the public buildings at Fort Towson, on the Kiameche, six thousand dollars;
ProvisoProvided―That the said appropriations shall be applied in the first instance to the completion of the barracks, quarters, and other needful buildings, which may have been commenced or are in progress of construction at the said Western ports: and the Secretary of War is hereby required to take all proper measures to effect that object by the employment of such of the United States troops as may be stationed there, in aid of said appropriations.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of fortifications, being part of the sum of two balances which were subject to revert to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December last; namely, the balance of fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seven cents remaining of appropriations for “contingencies of fortifications,” and the balance of twelve thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents remaining of appropriation for “incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications,” twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Approved, May 31, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXVII.—An Act directing a disposition of the maps and charts of the Survey of the Coast.
Maps and charts may be disposed of, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose of the maps and charts of the survey of the coast of the United States at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed by the said Secretary; and that a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three hundred, be presented to such foreign governments, and departments of our own government, and literary and scientific associations as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
Approved, June 3, 1844.
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Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act to alter the places of holding the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.[1]
- ↑ See notes of acts relating to the District Court of New Jersey, vol. 3, 678.
