United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 44
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Chap. XLIV.—An Act making a supplementary appropriation for the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
100,000 dollars appropriated for the armament of fortifications.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, for the armament of fortifications.
Quartermaster general authorized to apply 1800 dollars of the money heretofore appropriated, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the quartermaster general be, and he is hereby, authorized to apply the sum of eighteen hundred dollars of the money heretofore appropriated for the quartermaster’s department, to the confirmation and completion of the purchase of thirty acres of land, near the city of Savannah, in Georgia; which purchase was conditionally made by Lieutenant C. A. Waite, for the purpose of erecting barracks for the United States.
Approved, May 2, 1828.