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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cii. 18. 1841.
Quartermas-ter’s Depart-ment.
Appropriationsfor preventingand suppressingIndian hostili-ties.
Act of March19, 1836, ch. 44.
Surveys.
Arrearages.
1839, ch. 83.
Site for a na-tional armory.
Defence of theNorthwesternlakes.
Statute I.Sept. 9, 1841.
Accounts ofH. Greenoughto be settled,how.
Proviso.
Appropriationfor erecting thestatue.
For arrearages of pay due to a battalion of Georgia militia, for ser-vice on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida , in eighteen hundred andforty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one, seventy-eight thousand fourhundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-two cents;
For the (Quartermaster’s Department, the sum of four hundred andforty thousand and forty dollars; that being the amount required inaddition to the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress ;which last sums of money for preventing and suppressing Indian hos-tilities, are to be expended under the directions of the Secretary ofWar, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein refer-red to;
For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier,inland and Atlantic, thirty thousand dollars;
For arrearages due for roads, harbors, and rivers, where public worksand improvements have hitherto been made, and for the protection ofpublic property now on hand at these places, and for arrearages for sur-veys and completing maps authorized by act of March third, eighteenhundred and thirty-nine, forty thousand dollars;
For the defraying the expenses of selecting a suitable site on theWestern waters for the establishment of a national armory, a sum notexceeding five thousand dollars; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause such selection to be made, and to com-municate all the proceedings which may be had therein to the Congressof the United States , to be subject to its approval;
For the construction or armament of such armed steamers or othervessels for defence on the Northwestern lakes, as the President maythink most proper, and as may be authorized by the existing stipula-tions between this and the British Government, one hundred thousanddollars.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Chap. XVIII .—An Act to provide for placing Greenough ’s Statue of Washingtonin the Rotundo of the Capitol , and for expenses therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounts ofHoratio Greenough for expenses incurred in the execution of the pedes-trian statue of Washington, authorized by a resolution of Congress ,February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the accountsand charges for freight of the same to the United States , be settledunder the direction of the Secretary of State, according to the rightsof the claimants under their several contracts liberally construed: Pro-vided, That not more than six thousand five hundred dollars shall beallowed the said Greenough in the event that the Secretary of State,under such construction as aforesaid, shall consider him entitled tocharge the same; and not more than eight thousand six hundred dollarsfor the freight aforesaid, and detention of the ship, and for an iron rail-ing around the statue, including the sum of fifteen hundred dollars as-sumed to be paid by the said Greenough in addition to the original con-tract as made by Commodore Hull; and the sum of fifteen thousandone hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is herebyappropriated for the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousanddollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated,for the purpose of removing the said statue from the navy yard atWashington, and for erecting the same in such part of the Rotundo ofthe Capitol , as may be deemed best adapted for the same by the Secre-tary of the Navy, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress