Purchase of lands.

from which the supply of water is obtained for the works at said armory, five thousand dollars.

For the enlargement of the canal, supplying the water power of the public works of the said armory, from the Potomac dam, thirteen thou sand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.

For repairing the walls of four workshops at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.

For constructing three new water-wheels, and the machinery in the boring, turning, and stocking shops, and sinking flumes, at the said armory, eight thousand four hundred dollars.

For completing the forging-shop tilt-hammer, and new workshop, at the same armory, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.

For the purchase of one square acre of land, with the improvements, adjoining the arsenal near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of forty-five acres of land adjoining the Watervliet arsenal, New York, nine thousand dollars.

For the purchase of the right to the water power on the Shenandoah river, for the use of the United States' rifle factory, which is established on that river, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For the repairs of the Spanish fort Marion, at St. Augustine, and for re-constructing the sea wall, to prevent the encroachments of the sea, at and near the same, twenty thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site, and for erecting quarters and barracks for the United States' troops at Savannah, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dol lars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to apply to the purchase of the square acre of land above mentioned, a sum not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, out of the proceeds arising from the sale of certain lots of land at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, belonging to the United States, which may be disAct of Aug. 2, posed of, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the second of 1813, ch. 48. August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

CHAP. LXI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three

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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:

For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million three hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For forage of officers, fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars.

For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-four thousand dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand dollars, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospi tal furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars.

For medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand dollars. For arrearages in the same department during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, three thousand dollars.

&c.

Pay of army,

For various expenses of the quartermaster's department, viz: for fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments, and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage. of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses; for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labour, under the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ; and for expenses of expresses, 2, 1819, ch. 45. escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster's department, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

For transportation of officers' baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.

For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, two thousand dollars.

For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, for the military academy, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharf, and boat, at West Point, four thousand dollars.

For pay of adjutant's and quartermaster's clerk, nine hundred dollars. For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars. For philosophical apparatus, eight hundred and ninety dollars. For models of department of engineering, six hundred dollars. For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, nine hundred dollars.

Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-nine thousand three hundred dollars.

For arsenals, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.

For the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twelve thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, sixteen thousand and forty-four dollars, including an unexpended balance of eight thousand five hundred dollars on hand.

For the purchase of accoutrements and swords, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the purchase of cannon, fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For payment of arms for mounted rangers, two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

For the purchase of arms for South Carolina, six thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars.

For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor's office, five thousand dollars.

To enable the second auditor to close the accounts, under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, allowing three months' gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars.

Act of March

1821, ch. 35.

For arrearages of pay of certain militia of the state of Missouri, called out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For the pay of the militia of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan, ordered into the service of the United States during the last year, six hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the same purpose.

For completing barracks, quarters, and store-houses, at fort Crawford, eight thousand dollars.

For completing barracks, quarters, and store-houses, at fort Howard, ten thousand dollars.

For completing barracks, and erecting an hospital at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For making good a deficiency of appropriation for the erection of barracks at fort Severn, Annapolis, three hundred dollars.

For the construction of a wharf at fort Preble, Portland, including the purchase of a site, three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.

For repairing the wharf at fort Independence, Boston, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairing the wharf at fort Washington, on the Potomac, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairing the wharf at fort Moultrie, Charleston, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of ground adjoining fort Trumbull, New London, four hundred dollars.

For the erection of a store-house and stable on the public lot at Pittsburgh, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of the ground at Key West, on which the barracks and quarters are erected, three thousand two hundred dollars.

For the purchase of land at fort Gratiot, one thousand six hundred dollars.

To make good a deficiency of a former appropriation for the building of a wharf at fort McHenry, ninety dollars and forty cents.

For repairing and extending the levees, securing the works at fort Jackson, Mississippi, and for improving the store rooms and magazine, four thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized, at his discretion, out of the moneys appropriated by this, or any former act, for the payment of the militia ordered into the service of the United States, according to law during the last year, to allow and pay to the district paymasters of the army of the United States employed in making such payments, a commission on the sums respectively paid by them, not exceeding one per centum upon the amounts. APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

STATUTE II.

March 2, 1833.

Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227. Certain provisocs suspended till June 1, 1834.

CHAP. LXII.-An Act to explain and amend the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports passed July fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, so far as relates to hardware, and certain manufactures of copper and brass, and other articles.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

Repeal cf du

bottoms, &c. repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the ties on copper fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as repeals the duties heretofore levied on copper bottoms cut round, and copper bottoms raised to the edge, and still bottoms cut round and turned upon the edge, and parts thereof, and on copper plates or sheets, weighing more than thirty-four ounces per square foot, commonly called braziers' copper, and on tobacco leaves, or unmanufactured, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, shall be so construed as to authorize the exemption, from the payment of duty on shect and rolled brass, but the same shall be charged with the payment of a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

Duty on sheet and rolled brass.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. LXIII.-An Act making appropriations for the erection of certain fortifica- March 2, 1833.

tions.

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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:

For a fort on Throg's Neck, East river, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding fort Delaware, Delaware river, fifty thousand dollars. For a fort on Foster's Bank, Pensacola harbour, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For a fort on Grande Terre, Barataria, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars.

APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

[Obsolete.]

Appropriations for erection of

fortifications.

CHAP. LXIV.-An Act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the terri-
tories of Florida and Michigan, and for surveys, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of remov-
ing obstructions, and improving the navigation of certain rivers in the
territories of Florida and Michigan, the following sums be, and they are
hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury; to be
expended under the direction of the President of the United States.

For removing obstructions in, and improving the navigation of, the
Escambia river, five thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Ochlochney river, five thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Choctawhachie river, as recommended by the Postmaster General, for the transportation of the mail from Pensacola to Tallahassee, five thousand dollars.

For improving the harbour at Chicago on lake Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For a survey of White and Saint Francis rivers, in the territory of Arkansas, five hundred dollars.

APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

STATUTE II.

March 2, 1833. [Obsolete.] Appropriations for the improvein Florida and Michigan.

ment of rivers

STATUTE II.

March 2, 1833.

1834, ch. 155.

advertised for.

CHAP. LXV.-An Act in relation to the Potomac bridge.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Contracts to be States of America, in Congress assembled, That so soon as the President of the United States shall decide on a plan for the erection of a bridge over the Potomac river at Washington, on or adjoining the site of the old bridge, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to advertise for contracts, after giving, at least, thirty days' notice.

Appropriation SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, towards the construction of the for construction said bridge, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, of bridge. to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in such sums, and at such times, as may be agreed on by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the contractor or contractors, who shall give to the said Secretary satisfactory security for the faithful performance of the

contract.

APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. LXVI.—An Act to improve the navigation of the Potomac river between
Georgetown and Alexandria, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congrèss assembled, That, in order to aid the citizens of Georgetown in removing the obstruction to their navigation, by causing the cut already made through the bar, below the town, to be enlarged and deepened; and for the further purpose of enabling them to make a free turnpike road to the district line on the Virginia side of the river, and to purchase of the present proprietors, and make for ever free, the bridge over the Little Falls of Potomac river, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sum shall be paid, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the order of the corporation of Georgetown, in such sums as to enable the said corporation to effect the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That before the said sum be paid over to the said corporation, it shall pass an ordinance to make said road and bridge free, and to be kept in repair by said corporation for ever. APPROVED, March 2, 1833.

CHAP. LXVII.—An Act [in] addition to the act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, annually, for six years, from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, when the present appropriation expires.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to cause the above-mentioned appropriation to be applied, as directed and prescribed by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to which this is in addition, the provisions whereof are hereby continued in force for the term above mentioned, and to be applied also to the purchase of other necessary materials as well as timber suitable for the con struction of vessels of war.