United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 217
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CCXVII.—An Act making appropriations for certain expenditures on account of the engineer, ordnance, and quartermaster’s department.
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:
Barracks.For the erection of barracks and the purchase of land at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, twelve thousand dollars.
Barracks.For the payment of the land upon which the barracks are erected at Houlton, in the state of Maine, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.
Barracks.For the completion of the barracks at New London, and for a portico to the officers’ quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Barracks.For barracks, quarters, hospital, and storehouses at Green bay, fifteen thousand dollars.
Barracks.For the completion of Jefferson barracks, in the state of Missouri, eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars.
Storehouse.For the erection of a storehouse for the subsistence and quartermaster’s departments at Baton Rouge, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Barracks.For the erection of barracks at Key West, and for ditching, draining, and clearing, the ground required to be used for military purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.
Road.For opening a road from Green bay to Winnebago lake, and thence to Fort Winnebago, two thousand dollars.
Road.For the completion of the military road in the state of Maine, forty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-two cents.
Barracks.For the erection of wooden barracks for the troops at Fortress Monroe, ten thousand two hundred dollars.
National armory.For the purchase of five and a half acres of land for the use of the national armory at Springfield, in Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars.
Arsenal.For the erection of a new fire-proof arsenal at the national armory at Springfield, in Massachusetts, sixteen thousand dollars.
Arsenal, &c.For the national armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, viz: For extending the walls and embankments which convey the water from the Potomac river to the works, nine thousand three hundred dollars; for erecting a forging-shop, tilt hammer, and new work-shop, six thousand five hundred dollars; for the erection of ten additional dwelling-houses for the workmen, ten thousand dollars; for slating the roofs of the present workshops, three thousand two hundred dollars. Arsenal, &c.For the purchase of five acres of land adjoining the arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.
West Point.For the erection of a military laboratory and workshop at West Point, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Lithography.For the purchase of a lithographic press, of paper and ink, and for the employment of a suitable lithographer for the War Department, six hundred dollars.
Barracks.For barracks at Fort Gratiot, five thousand dollars.
Fort Delaware.For the security of the Pea Patch island; for the construction of a new water-tank; and for gravelling the parade at fort Delaware, forty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fourteen cents.
Approved, May 31, 1830.