United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 44
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIV.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Specific appropriations for certain 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:
For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the fort at Chef Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the fort at Mobile Point, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fort fort Monroe, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.
For topographical reconnoisance, repairs, and contingencies, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at New Utrecht Point, one of the works intended to defend the Narrows, in New York harbour, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at Brenton’s Point, Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, April 29, 1824.