United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 61
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXI.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for other purposes.
Specific appropriations 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, to each specifically, as follows, viz:
For Fort Delaware, fifty-eight thousand dollars.
For Fort Washington, forty-six thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars.
For Fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars:
For collecting materials for a fortification at Mobile Point, in the state of Alabama, fifty thousand dollars: Appropriations.For the Rigolets, and Chief [Chef] Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars:
For collecting materials for, and progressing with, a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite Fort St. Philip, forty thousand dollars:
For repairing Fort Jackson, in the harbour of Savannah, eight thousand dollars:
For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty-six thousand dollars:
For the purchase of small arms for arming the whole body of the militia, in addition to the annual appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for arming the militia, twenty thousand dollars:
For completing the barracks and other public buildings, at Baton Rouge, twenty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars seventy-seven cents.
Approved, March 3, 1823.