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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17. 1S41.
1819, ch. 47.
Proviso.
Statute X.Sept. 9, 1841.[Obsolete.]
West-head
battery.
South-east
battery.
Fort Indepen-dence, &.C.
Fort Warren.
Fort Ontario.
Fort Schuyler.
Fort Wood.
Ft. Columbus,Castle Wil-liam and Southbattery.
Castle Wil-liam, Governor’sisland.
Proviso.
the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with theoriginal States,” for the making of a road or roads leading to the saidState, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to the said State of Ala-bama , payable in two equal instalments, the first to be paid on the firstday of May, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the other on the firstday of May, eighteen hundred and forty-three, so far as the same maythen have accrued, and quarterly, as the same may thereafter accrue:Provided, That the Legislature of said State shall first pass an act, de-claring their acceptance of said relinquishment, and also embracing aprovision, to be unalterable without the consent of Congress , that thewhole of said two per cent, fund shall be faithfully applied, under thedirection of the Legislature of Alabama, to the connection, by somemeans of internal improvement, of the navigable waters of the bay ofMobile with the Tennessee river, and to the construction of a continu-ous line of internal improvements from a point on the Chattahoochieriver, opposite West Point, in Georgia, across the State of Alabama , ina direction to Jackson in the State of Mississippi .
Approved, September 4, 1841.
Chap. XVII. — An Act malting appropriations for various fortification, for ord-nance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money inthe Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For repairs of West-head battery, Governor’s island, Boston harbor,five thousand dollars;
For repairs of Southeast battery, Governor’s island, Boston harbor,five thousand dollars;
For repairs of Fort Independence and sea-wall of Castle island, Bos-ton harbor, sixty-five thousand dollars;
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred and five thousanddollars;
For repairs of old fort at New Bedford harbor, five thousand dollars;
For Fort Adams, Newport harbor, forty-five thousand dollars;
For fortifications in New London harbor—rebuilding of Fort Trum-bull, Connecticut , thirty-five thousand dollars;
For repairs of old Fort Griswold, New London harbor, Connecticut ,ten thousand dollars;
For completing repairs of Fort Niagara , and erecting and repairingnecessary buildings therein, New York , twenty thousand dollars;
For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York , anderecting necessary buildings therein, fifteen thousand dollars;
For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, seventy thousand dollars;
For repairs of Fort Wood and sea-wall, Bedlow’s island, New York harbor, fifty thousand dollars;
For permanent walls for Fort Columbus, Castle William and Southbattery, Governor’s island, New York harbor, twelve thousand dol-lars ;
For repairs of sea-wall of Castle William and other parts of Gover-nor’s island, seven thousand dollars;
For Fort Delaware, Delaware river , provided the title to the PeaPatch island shall be decided to be in the United States , includingtwenty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars carried to thesurplus fund, January first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty thou-sand dollars;
For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland , five thousanddollars;