1819, ch. 47.

Proviso.

STATUTE I.

Sept. 9, 1841. [Obsolete.]

West-head battery.

South-east battery.

Fort Indepen

dence, &c.

Fort Warren.

Fort at New
Bedford.
Fort Adams.
Ft. Trumbull.

Ft. Griswold.

Fort Niagara.

Fort Ontario.

Fort Schuyler.
Fort Wood.

Ft. Columbus, Castle Wil

liam and South battery.

Castle Wil

the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States," for the making of a road or roads leading to the said
State, 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 first
day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the other on the first
day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-three, so far as the same may
then 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 a
provision, to be unalterable without the consent of Congress, that the
whole of said two per cent. fund shall be faithfully applied, under the
direction of the Legislature of Alabama, to the connection, by some
means of internal improvement, of the navigable waters of the bay of
Mobile with the Tennessee river, and to the construction of a continu-
ous line of internal improvements from a point on the Chattahoochie
river, opposite West Point, in Georgia, across the State of Alabama, in
a direction to Jackson in the State of Mississippi.
APPROVED, September 4, 1841.

CHAP. XVII.-An Act making 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 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the 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, Boston harbor, sixty-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred and five thousand dollars;

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 repairing necessary buildings therein, New York, twenty thousand dollars; For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, and erecting 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 South battery, Governor's island, New York harbor, twelve thousand dollars;

For repairs of sea-wall of Castle William and other parts of Goverliam, Governor's nor's island, seven thousand dollars;

island.

Ft. Delaware.
Proviso.

Forts at Anna

polis.

For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, provided the title to the Pea Patch island shall be decided to be in the United States, including twenty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars carried to the surplus fund, January first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty thousand dollars;

For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland, five thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;

For repairs of Forts Caswell and Johnson, and preservation of the site of the former, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, North Carolina, five thousand dollars;

For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars;

Fort Washing

ton.

Fort Monroe.

Forts Caswell

and Johnson.

Fort Sumter.

Drunken Dick

For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoal, for preservation of Sullivan's island, and site of Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, South shoal, Sullivan's Carolina, thirty thousand dollars;

For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida, five thousand dollars;

For Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars; For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, forty-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty thousand dollars; For Fort Livingston, Barrataria bay, Louisiana, thirty thousand dollars;

For repairs of other forts on the approaches to New Orleans, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars;

For defensive works, and barracks, and purchase of site at or near Detroit, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars;

For purchase of site, and for barracks and defensive works at or near Buffalo, New York, fifty thousand dollars;

For fortifications at the outlet of Lake Champlain, and purchase of site, seventy-five thousand dollars;

island, and Fort Moultrie. Fort Pulaski.

Fort Marion.

St. Augustine.

Fort Pickens.
Ft. Barrancas.

Fort Morgan.
Ft.Livingston.

New Orleans.

Detroit.

Buffalo.

Lake Cham

plain.

Junction of

and Penobscot rivers.

For defensive works, barracks, and other necessary buildings, and purchase of site for a depot at or near the junction of the Matawankeag Matawankeag and Penobscot river, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars; For contingencies of fortifications, fifteen thousand dollars; For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated in like manner :

For current expenses of ordnance service, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;
For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars;
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be in
like manner appropriated :

For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, viz.:

Contingencies.
Incidental ex-

Arrearages of

militia.

For balance required, in addition to the sum applicable out of the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress, for arrearages of pay due Florida pay due Florida militia called into service by the Governor of the Territory in eighteen hundred and forty, nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and two cents;

For arrearages of pay due Florida militia, commanded by Brigadier General Read, for six months in the service of the United States, commencing November, eighteen hundred and forty, and terminating April, eighteen hundred and forty-one, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents;

Arrearages of pay due Georgia militia.

Quartermaster's Depart

ment.

Appropriations for preventing and suppressing

Indian hostilities.

Act of March 19, 1836, ch. 44. Surveys.

Arrearages.

1839, ch. 83.

Site for a national armory.

Defence of the Northwestern

lakes.

STATUTE I.

Sept. 9, 1841.

Accounts of H. Greenough to be settled, how.

Proviso.

Appropriation for erecting the

statue.

For arrearages of pay due to a battalion of Georgia militia, for service on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, in eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-two cents;

For the Quartermaster's Department, the sum of four hundred and forty thousand and forty dollars; that being the amount required in addition to the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress; which last sums of money for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, are to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein referred 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 works and improvements have hitherto been made, and for the protection of public property now on hand at these places, and for arrearages for surveys and completing maps authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, forty thousand dollars;

For the defraying the expenses of selecting a suitable site on the Western waters for the establishment of a national armory, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause such selection to be made, and to communicate all the proceedings which may be had therein to the Congress of the United States, to be subject to its approval;

For the construction or armament of such armed steamers or other vessels for defence on the Northwestern lakes, as the President may think most proper, and as may be authorized by the existing stipulations between this and the British Government, one hundred thousand dollars.

APPROVED, September 9, 1841.

CHAP. XVIII.—An Act to provide for placing Greenough's Statue of Washington
in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounts of
Horatio 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 accounts
and charges for freight of the same to the United States, be settled
under the direction of the Secretary of State, according to the rights
of the claimants under their several contracts liberally construed: Pro-
vided, That not more than six thousand five hundred dollars shall be
allowed the said Greenough in the event that the Secretary of State,
under such construction as aforesaid, shall consider him entitled to
charge the same; and not more than eight thousand six hundred dollars
for 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 thousand
one hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of removing the said statue from the navy yard at Washington, and for erecting the same in such part of the Rotundo of the Capitol, as may be deemed best adapted for the same by the Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress

of the twenty-seventh of May, eighteen hundred and forty, any thing designating a particular spot contained in the act of fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, September 9, 1841.

Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 224.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. XIX. —An Act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and Sept. 9, 1841. from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets, carried by post to and from Mrs. Harrison, relict of the late William Henry Harrison, be conveyed free of postage during her natural life. APPROVED, September 9, 1841.

CHAP. XX. - An Act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of four hundred and ninety-seven thousand, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Post Office Department to meet its engagements and pay its debts, and of which sum fifteen thousand dollars are hereby appropriated to enable the Auditor of said Department to purchase account-books for his office, and to bring up arrears of its business: Provided, That in virtue hereof no clerk shall be employed for a longer period than one year; to be accounted for in the manner prescribed in the second section of the "Act to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof," passed July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall be accounted for by the Post Office Department hereafter, when the condition of its funds shall permit; to be refunded into the Treasury, or deducted from any sums which the Post Office Department may heretofore have paid into the Treasury. APPROVED, September 9, 1841.

Franking privMrs. Harrison. ilege granted to

Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43, sec. 23.

CHAP. XXI.—An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance Sept. 11, 1841. and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of six hundred thousand dollars be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing ordnance and ordnance stores, for the use of the Navy of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to apply a part of the sum herein and hereby appropriated, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the purpose of making experiments to test the value of improvements in ordnance, in the construction of steamers, and other vessels of war, and in other matters connected with the naval service and the national defence; and also to the purpose of defraying any charges left unpaid on account of experiments of the like character heretofore made by authority of law. APPROVED, September 11, 1841.

CHAP. XXII.—An Act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,

[Obsolete.]

Appropriation

to purchase ord

nance and ordnance stores.

Sec. Navy to make certain experiments.

STATUTE 1.

Sept. 11, 1841.

[Obsolete.]

Outfits of ministers and charges d'affaires.

Salaries of mi

nisters.

Secretaries of

legation.

Extra pay to

gress, &c.

and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:

For outfits of ministers to Russia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, and of charges d'affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sardinia, Naples, Chili, and Texas, sixty-three thousand dollars.

For salaries of ministers to Spain and Brazil, for the residue of the current year, eight thousand dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Also, so much as may be necessary to pay, for compensation, to the officers of Con- clerks and other officers in the service of the two Houses, the librarian and assistant librarians of Congress, the gate-keeper and lamp-lighter, for the services rendered by them during the present extra session, three months' additional pay; and to the messengers, assistant messengers, pages and laborers of the two Houses and Library of Congress, and to the hostler of the House of Representatives, the usual allowances made at the close of each session; and to each of the police of the Capitol, the same as to the messengers, to be paid under the direction of the Committee on the Contingent Fund of each House: And the regular pay of the messenger of the office of the Secretary of the Senate, and office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall be equal to the pay of any other permanent messenger employed in the Capitol.

Regular pay of messenger, off Sec. of Senate,

and off. Clerk

House of Reps.

Catalogue of

Library of Con

greas.

STATUTE I.

Sept. 11, 1841.

Also, a sum not exceeding two hundred and seventy-three dollars, for completing the contract for printing and binding the catalogue of the library.

APPROVED, September 11, 1841.

CHAP. XXIII.-An Act to provide for repairing the Potomac Bridge. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand eight hundred and six dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated and unexpended, for the repair of the Potomac bridge in the District of Columbia, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

How to be expended.

Mineralizing

of the timbers authorized.

Appropriation therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the following manner, to wit: He shall designate some competent officer of the Engineer corps to draw plans and make specifications of the work to be performed, and estimates of the cost or value thereof, which shall not exceed the sum of forty-five thousand eight hundred and six dollars; the officer thus selected, shall lay his plans, specifications, and estimates before the Secretary of War for his approval, and the said Secretary shall thereupon cause the work to be constructed upon the plan most approved by him, under the immediate superintendence of some competent officer of either Engineer corps, who shall make all necessary contracts for materials and labor, and cause the work to be constructed in the best and most substantial manner within the estimates and according to the plan approved by the Secretary of War, and under the orders and general direction of said Secretary, who will, from time to time, cause such advances of the amounts for this object appropriated as he may deem necessary and proper.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the timbers, or such of them as the superintending engineer may think fit, shall be mineralized, and a sum not exceeding three and a half cents per cubic foot is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense and cost thereof, the proper amount to be paid on the requisition of the Secretary of War, founded on the estimate of the superintendent.

APPROVED, September 11, 1841.