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State of New York.-Four thousand dollars for a light house in Hudson river, at Four Miles point, on the west side of the river, and four miles north of the city of Hudson, or at some other site in the vicinity.

Five thousand dollars for a light house on or near one of the islands called the Brothers, at the Narrows in Long Island Sound; and

Five hundred dollars for eight buoys to be placed at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook.

State of New Jersey.-Two hundred dollars for placing buoys at proper sites at New Inlet, or its vicinity, in the district of Little Egg harbor.

State of Pennsylvania.-Seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars for placing four buoys in the channel to the eastIward of the Pea Patch.

State of Delaware -Five thousand dollars for a light house on a proper site, on or near the northern extremity of Bombay Hook island, in the Delaware bay.

State of Virginia.-Five thousand dollars for a light house or beacon light, at a point of land at or near Back river point on the Chesapeake bay.

State of South Carolina.-Six hundred dollars for the erection of a beacon near the Charleston light house, in order to mark the entrance into the channel commonly known as Lawford's channel; and three hundred dollars for placing three buoys on proper sites on the Georgetown bar. State of Georgia.-One thousand dollars for placing a buoy on the outer edge of the shoal called Martin's Industry, at the entrance of Port Royal sound, or such other place as shall be designated.

State of Ohio.-Three hundred and sixty dollars for six buoys to be placed on proper sites on the middle ground or bar at the entrance of Sandusky bay.

Eight thousand dollars to build a light house at Cleaveland, on lake Erie.

Territory of Michigan.-Instead of building the light house at Otter creek point, as directed by an act of the first session of the twentieth Congress, the sum of five thousand dollars, therein appropriated, is hereby directed to be applied to build one at some other point or place, to be designated, in that vicinity.

Eight thousand dollars for a light house at a suitable place near Fort Gratiot, at the entrance of Lake Huron.

Territory of Florida.-Seven thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a light house at the mouth of St. John's river; and Eight thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a light house near St. Mark's harbor.

State of Mississippi.--Five thousand dollars for a light house at or near the Pass Christian.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money appropriated by this section be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at the disposition of the President of the United States, for the following specified purposes or objects, to wit:

State of Maine-Five thousand dollars for repairing the pier on the eastern side of the channel at the entrance of Kennebunk river; and

structions at the mouth of the same, and to make an estimate of the cost.

One hundred and fifty dollars for examining the piers erected at Sandy bay, to report the condition of the same, and what works are necessary to make a good and safe harbor at that place, together with an estimate of the cost. Thirty thousand dollars for removing the bar at the mouth of the harbor of Nantucket.

Two thousand five hundred dollars for extending the pier on which the light house is built, at the entrance of Edgartown harbor to the shore; and

One hundred and fifty dollars to survey the harbor at Bass river, between Yarmouth and Dennis, to ascertain the practicability and expense of improving the said harbor.

State of Connecticut.-Six thousand and ninety-seven dollars for improving the navigation of Mill river, by removing obstructions in the said river, and constructing such works as will prevent the sand from filling up the channel of the same.

One hundred and fifty dollars for making a survey of the river Thames, with a view to improve the navigation of the same, and the cost of such improvements.

One hundred and thirty dollars for making a survey of the harbor of Westbrook, near the mouth of Connecticut river, with a view to the improvement of the said harbor, and for ascertaining the cost of such improvement.

Eighty dollars for making a survey of the harbor of Norwalk, with a view to its improvement.

One hundred dollars for making a survey of the harbor of Stamford, with a view to its improvement. One hundred and fifty dollars to place a buoy on a rock in Long Island Sound, opposite Lloyd's Neck.

State of New York.-One hundred and fifty dollars for surveying the bar at the mouth of Sagg Harbor, to ascertain the best method of preventing the harbor being filled up with sand, and the cost of the same.

Thirty thousand dollars for extending the pier of Black Rock harbor, at the outlet of Lake Erie, to a point opposite Bird's island.

For removing obstructions at the entrance of the harbor at Big Sodus bay, on Lake Ontario, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For the improvement of the navigation of the Gennessee river, in the State of New York, ten thousand dollars.

State of New Jersey --One hundred dollars for surveying Flatbeach, alias Tucker's island, situated between Old and New Inlet, with a view to preserve the anchorage of the port, and to report an estimate of the cost of such improvements as may be necessary to effect those objects.

State of Pennsylvania.-Five thousand dollars for repairing the piers at Marcus Hook; for filling up the sluice between the said piers, and improving the harbor of Marcus Hook, by the removal of obstructions.

State of Virginia.-Eighty dollars for making a survey of Deep creek, or branch of the South branch of Elizabeth river, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the same, and an estimate of the cost.

State of North Carolina.--Eighty dollars for making a survey of Pasquotank river, for removing bars or obstructions in the same, and an estimate of the cost.

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Three hundred dollars for surveying the ship channel of Penobscot river, from Whitehead to Bangor, and ascer-propriation, for effecting the removal of the shoals forming taining the cost of improving the navigation of the same, and proper sites for spindles and buoys.

State of New Hampshire.-Sixty dollars for making a survey of Cochecho branch of Piscataqua river, from Dover falls to its confluence with the Piscataqua, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of removing obstructions to navigation, and the cost.

State of Massachussetts.--One hundred and eighty dollars for surveying North river, between Scituate and Marshfield, to ascertain the expediency of removing ob

obstructions to navigation near Ocracock Inlet; and Twenty thousand dollars for improving the navigation of Cape Fear river, between the town of Wilmington and the mouth of the said river

Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys at the new channel point, at Gales's Island point, and at the lower mouth of Wallace's Channel in Pamlico Sound.

State of Ohio.-Seven thousand five hundred dollars for improving the navigation of Conneaut creek, by removing the bar at the mouth of the same.

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State of Louisiana.-Two hundred dollars for making a survey of the entrance of the river Teche, with a view to improve and shorten the navigation of the same, and an estimate of the cost of such improvements.

Five hundred dollars for making a survey at the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi, with a view to improvements in the navigation, and building light houses and buoys.

State of Mississippi.-Five hundred dollars for placing buoys at Pass Christian.

Five hundred dollars for placing buoys at Pass Marianne.

Two hundred dollars for making a survey of the water tract between Lake Pontchartrain and Mobile bay, with a view to the erection of light houses and placing of buoys. State of Alabama.-Twenty thousand dollars, the sum required for completing improvements in the harbor of Mobile.

Territory of Florida.-Three hundred dollars for making a survey of the harbor of St. Augustine, and the bar at or near the entrance of the same, with a view to remove the latter, and to render the access to the harbor safe at all times, and to make an estimate of the cost of accomplishing that object; and

Six thousand five hundred dollars for improving the harbor of St. Mark's, by removing obstructions in the same. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making an additional appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the 24th of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, to wit:

For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the Military Academy, seven hundred and ninetythree thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

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For completing the military road from the mouth of Matanawcook river to Mars Hill, in the State of Maine, forty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars. For repairing the military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.

For repairing the same road between St. Augustine and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.

For fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., repairs, and for improving buildings, procuring articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and contingencies for the Military Academy at West Point, twenty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

For deficit of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, for the expenses of the Board of Visiters, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eleven cents.

For expenses of the Board of Visiters in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the contingencies of the army, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For National Armories, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For armament for fortifications, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the Ordnance service, fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For Arsenals, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For arrearages between the 1st of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the 1st of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand five hundred dollars.

The following sums, transferred to the surplus fund, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, are hereby re-appropriated:

For the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbor, appropriated by act of 20th of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For subsistence, in addition to the unexpended balance For removing obstructions in the harbor of Mobile, apin the treasury on the 31st day of December last, of twen-propriated by act of 20th May, one thousand eight hunty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For forage for officers, thirty thousand and ninety-six dollars.

For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the Military Academy, and twenty supernumerary second lieutenants, graduates of the Military Academy, fourteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first day of December last, of three thousand dollars, twelve thousand and forty-seven dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars, seventeen thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars. For the Purchasing Department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to eighty thousand dollars, viz: For clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, sixty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, twenty thousand dollars.

For the Medical and Hospital Department, in addition to the probable amount on hand on the thirty-first of December last, of eight thousand dollars, eleven thousand dollars.

For the Quartermaster's Department, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.

dred and twenty-six, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-two cents.

For piers at Newcastle, appropriated by act of the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, seventeen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-nine cents.

Creek treaty, appropriated by the act of the twentysecond of May, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix, sixty thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-five cents.

For the purchase of provisions for the Quapaws, by act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, two thousand dollars.

And for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, per act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, eleven thousand three hundred and twentyeight dollars and twenty-five cents.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That eight hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-five cents be appropriated to pay a company of Illinois militia, commanded by Captain Achilles Morgan, called into service on the Northwestern frontier, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; to be settled by the Secretary of War, agreeably to third section of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, approved 21st of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

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AN ACT authorizing the subscription of stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.

AN ACT for the construction of the Cumberland Road, westwardly of Zanesville.

Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred thouBe it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose sand dollars, of any money not otherwise appropriated, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe, of opening and making the Cumberland Road, westwardin the name and for the use of the United States, for sevenly from Zanesville, in the State of Ohio; which said sum hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the Chesa- of one hundred thousand dollars shall be replaced out of peake and Delaware Canal Company; and also, for two hundred shares of the capital stock in the Dismal Swamp the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the fund reserved for laying out and making roads, under Canal Company; and pay for the same, at such times, and the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and in such proportions, as may be required by the said companies respectively; to be paid out of any money in the Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the oritreasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for President and Directors of the said Companies respectively, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock the proportion of the tolls which shall, from time to time, be due to the United States for the shares expended.

Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making provision for the payment of pensions to the widows or children of pensioners, in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That, in case of the death of any invalid pensioner, before the certificate of the continuance of his disability, required by the act, entitled "An act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners," passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, was obtained, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of War, and he is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of such deceased invalid, the arrears of pension due at the time of his death, at the rate at which it was fixed at his last examination ; Provided, Such last examination was within two years from the time of his death.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Revolutionary pensioner shall die, the Secretary of War shall cause to be paid the arrears of pension due to the said pensioner at the time of his death; and all payments, under this act, shall be made to the widow of the deceased pensioner, or to her attorney, or if he left no widow, or she be dead, to the children of the pensioner, or to their guardian, or his Attorney; and if no child or children, then to the legal representatives of the deceased.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of applications for pensions, for wounds received in the Revolutionary war, the testimony to establish the facts may be authenticated in the same manner with those who apply for pension for wounds received in the late war with Great Britain.

Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making appropriations for completing certain Roads, and for making examination and surveys. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For continuing the road from Detroit to Chicago as far as the boundary line to the State of Indiana, eight thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys under the act of thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thousand dollars. For completing the road from Detroit to Saganaw, ten thousand dollars. For completing the road from Detroit to Fort Gratiot, fifteen thousand dollars. For the completion and improvement of the military road recommended by the Quartermaster-General, between Pensacola and Blakeley and Mobile Point, three thousand dollars.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

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diate accomplishment of this object, the second and third SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the immesections of the act, entitled "An act for the continuation of the Cumberland Road," passed third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, which authorize the appointment, prescribe the duties, and fix the compensation, of a Superintendent of said road, shall be in force, and apply to the construction of the road authorized by this act. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT for the continuation of the Cumberland Road.

Be it enacted, &c. That the road located through the State of Indiana, as declared by the act of Congress, entitled an Act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned," approved fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty, and the act, entitled "An act for the continuation of the Cumberland Road," approved third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, the President of the United States shall cause the said road to be opened eighty feet wide, by cutting off the timber, removing it from the road, and digging down the banks preparatory to making a turnpike road, commencing at Indianapolis, cutting and digging as aforesaid, to be eastern and western boundary of the said State.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, of moneys not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of opening and making the road, as mentioned in the first section of this act, which said sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads, under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the accomplishment of this object, the President shall appoint two fit persons, as the superintendents of said road, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to divide the same into sections, of not more than ten miles each; to contract for, and personally superintend the opening and making the said road, as before mentioned, as well as to receive, disburse, and faithfully account with the treasury, for all sums of money by them received in virtue of this act; that the superintendents, before they enter upon the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, shall execute a bond to the United States, with security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties, prescribed by this act; that they shall hold their office during the pleasure of the President, and shall receive at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum, for their services, during the time they may be employed in the discharge of the duties required by this act.

Approved: 2nd March. 1829.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:

Laws of the United States.

For pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian Agents, as authorized by law, thirty-one thousand dollars.

For pay of Sub Agents, as allowed by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.

For presents of Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.

For pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies for the benefit of the Indians, under treaty provisions and orders of the Department of War, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith shops, five thousand dollars.

For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For expense of provisions for the Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when specially assembled on public business, ten thousand dollars.

For expense attending the visits of such Indian deputations to the Seat of Government as it may be deemed necessary to authorize, five thousand dollars.

For expenses incurred by the Marshal of the Michigan Territory, and authorized by the War Department, in conducting the prosecution against the Winnebago Indians, at Prairie du Chien, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingencies of Indian Department, twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For expenses incurred by the exploring party of Indians under the control of Captain Kennerly, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated, the sum of seven thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirteen cents.

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SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for President and Directors of said Company, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the tolls which shall, from time to time, be due to the United States for the stock aforesaid. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making additional appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen other than those at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, nine hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars.

For pay, subsistence, and allowance of officers, and pay of the seamen at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, one hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars.

For pay of Superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment, at the several yards and stations, forty-four thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars.

For provisions, three hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred dollars.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, three hundred and fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, twenty thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For ordinance and ordinance stores, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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For the purpose of purchasing such reservations of For repairs and improvements at navy yards, one hunland as are yet claimed by Indians, or Indian country-dred and seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty men, within the limits of the State of North Carolina, by virtue of treaties made by the United States with the Cherokee Indians, the sum of twenty thousand dollars; which sum, or such part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be applied, under the directions of the President of the United States, to the purpose aforesaid, and to no other purpose whatever.

To enable the President of the United States to extinguish the title of the Delaware Indians to their reservations in Ohio, and to aid them in their removal west of the Mississippi, under the provisions of the treaty of St. Mary's in eighteen hundred and eighteen, six thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Indians in Ohio, for depredations committed upon their property by white citizens, under the intercourse law, one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

For defraying the expenses that may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to wit: for freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel, and candles to officers other than those attached to the navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to Navy Agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to Judge Advocates, for per diem allowance for the persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and for stationery of every description, and for books, maps, and charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and mainteBe it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury nance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, and be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to subscribe workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letfor or purchase, in the name of and for the use of the United ters on public service; for pilotage, for cabin furniture States, any stock which may have been forfeited to the Com- of vessels in commission, and furniture for officers' houses pany, and which shall be undisposed of on the fourth day at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public properof March next, not exceeding thirteen hundred and fifty ty; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incishares of the capital stock of the Louisville and Port- dental labor at navy yards not applicable to any other apland Canal Company; and to pay for the same, when call-propriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, ed upon by said Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, Said shares can be had for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars each. |

AN ACT to authorize a subscription for stock, on the part of the United States, in the Louisville and Portland Canal Company.

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and for no other object or purpose whatever, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses for objects arising during the year o ne thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and not herein before enumerated, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the reinbursement of the Marshal of Florida, for expenses incurred in the case of certain Africans, who were wrecked on the coast of the United States, and for the expense of exporting them to Africa, sixteen thousand dollars.

The following sums transferred to the surplus fund: For the gradual increase of the Navy, forty-seven thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars, eighty-eight cents. For survey of Savannah, by act of fourteenth March, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, three thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For captors of Algerine vessels, by acts of twenty-seventh April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, fourteen thousand six hundred and ninety dollars seventy-five cents.

For pay and subsistence to the Marine Corps, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For clothing for the same, twenty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars.

For fuel for the same, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars.

For contingencies for the same, twelve thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars.

For the erection of new barracks and quarters at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For the erection of new barracks for one company at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars. For the erection of new barracks for two companies at Fort Winnebago, at the portage of Fox and Ouisconsin rivers, ten thousand dollars.

To complete the barracks, quartermaster and storehouses at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, ten thousand dollars.

For the repair of the marine barracks at the navy yard in Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the construction of a new wharfat Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the construction of a new wharf at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, six hundred dollars. For the construction of a new wharf at Fort Delaware, Delaware, two thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making additional appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for certain

For military stores for the same, two thousand two hun- fortifications of the United States, for the first quarter of dred and fifty dollars.

the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to

For medicines for the same, one thousand seven hundred wit: for fortifications, to each, specifically, as follows: and seventy-seven dollars.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making additional appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:

For invalid and half-pay pensioners, exclusive of a balance on hand of one hundred and eighty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and nine cents, forty-two thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars.

For Revolutionary pensioners, exclusive of a balance on hand of one hundred and ten thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy cents, four hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT making appropriations for the erection and completion of certain barracks and quarters, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:

For the erection of a tower at Bayou Dupre, Louisianna, sixteen thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-one cents.

For the erection of barracks for one company at Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For Fort Adams, at Newport, Rhode Island, eighty-five thousand dollars.

For Fort Hamilton, New- York, eighty thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.

For Fort Macon, North Carolina, fifty thousand dollars. For fort at Oak Island, North-Carolina, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars.

For fortifications at Charleston, South Carolina, sixtythousand dollars.

For fortifications at Savannah, Georgia, sixty thousand dollars.

For fortifications at Pensacola, West Florida, fifty-five thousand dollars.

For fort at Mobile point, Alabama,eighty thousand dollars. For completion of the battery at Bayou Bienvenu,six thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty cents.

For completion of the sea wall for the preservation of George's Island, in Boston harbor, seven thousand three hundred and ten dollars and fifty-four cents.

For repair of the pier on which is constructed Fort Lafayette, and such other repairs as are absolutely necessary for the preservation of that fort, thirty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy cents.

For repairs at Fort Delaware, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and contingencies of fortifications, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved: 2d March, 1829.

AN ACT providing for the printing and binding sixty thousand copies of the Abstract of Infantry tactics, including manœuvres of Light Infantry and Riflemen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, to contract with Hilliard, Gray, and Company, of Boston, or some other person or persons, for printing, binding, and delivering,

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