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 harbour, at that place, together with an estimate of the cost. Thirty thousand dollars for removing the bar at the mouth of the harbour of Nantucket. Two thousand five hundred dollars for extending the pier on which the lighthouse is built, at the entrance of Edgartown harbour, to the shore; and One hundred and fifty dollars to survey the harbour at Bass river, between Yarmouth and Dennis, to ascertain the practicability and expense of improving the said harbour. Sandy Bay. Nantucket. Edgartown harbour. Bass river. Connecticut. State of Connecticut: Six thousand and ninety-seven dollars for improving the navigation of Mill river by removing obstructions in the said Mill river, &c. 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 harbour of Westbrook, near the mouth of Connecticut river, with a view to the improvement of the said harbour, and for ascertaining the cost of such improvement. Eighty dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Norwalk, with a view to its improvement. One hundred dollars for making a survey of the harbour 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. pre State of New York: One hundred and fifty dollars for surveying the bar at the mouth of Sag Harbour, to ascertain the best method of venting the harbour being filled up with sand, and the cost of the same. Thirty thousand dollars for extending the pier of Black Rock harbour, at the outlet of Lake Erie, to a point opposite Bird's Island. For removing obstructions at the entrance of the harbour 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. Thames. Westbrook harbour. Norwalk har bour. Stamford har bour. Buoy at Lloyd's neck. New York. Sag Harbour. Black Rock Gennessee ri ver. New Jersey. Flatbeach. Pennsylvania. State of Pennsylvania: Five thousand dollars for repairing the piers at Marcus Hook: for filling up the sluice between the said piers, and improv- Marcus Hook. ing the harbour 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 Pascotank river, for removing bars, or obstructions in the same, and an estimate of the cost. Virginia. Deep creek. na. North Caroli Pascotank river. Twenty-one thousand dollars, being an additional appropriation, for effecting the removal of the shoals forming obstructions to navigation let. 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' Island point, and at the lower mouth of Wallace's Channel in Pamlico Sound. Ocracock in Cape Fear river. Buoys. Mississippi river. Mississippi. Pass Christian. Pass Marianne. Lake Ponchartrain, &c. Alabama. Mobile harbour. Florida. harbour. 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. 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 improve ments. 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 lighthouses 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 Ponchartrain and Mobile Bay, with a view to the erection of lighthouses and placing of buoys. State of Alabama: Twenty thousand dollars, the sum required for completing improvements in the harbour of Mobile. Territory of Florida: Three hundred dollars for making a survey of St. Augustine the harbour 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 harbour safe at all times, and to make an estimate of the cost of accomplishing that object; and St. Mark's harbour. STATUTE II. March 2, 1829. [Obsolete.] Additional appropriations for military ser- May 24, 1828, ch. 123. Pay, &c., of Six thousand five hundred dollars for improving the harbour of St. CHAP. XXVI.-An Act making additional appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. 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, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twentynine, 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 pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military officers and the academy, seven hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred and military acadeeighty dollars. my. For subsist ence. For subsistence, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of twenty-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 Supernumera- dollars. ry lieutenants. For forage for officers. For clothing for servants of officers, &c. For the recruiting service. For the pur For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first 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 sixtytwo dollars. For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, chasing depart 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. ment. 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 thou- Quartermaster's sand seven hundred and eighty dollars. department. For completing the military road from the mouth of Matanawcook Military road river to Mars Hill, in the state of Maine, forty-two thousand nine hundred to Mars Hill. 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 dol lars. Military road, Pensacola and Tallahassee. Military road, St. Augustine and Tallahas see. Fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., for military academy at West Point. Board of visiters. Contingencies of army. National ar mories. Armament of For national armories, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For armament of fortifications, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty thousand nine fortifications. hundred and fifty dollars. For arsenals, ninety-eight thousand dollars. For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the first 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 harbour, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, three thousand five hundred dollars. For removing obstructions in the harbour of Mobile, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred 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 act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, sixty thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. Ordnance service. Arsenals. Transfers to surplus fund re-appropriated: Provincetown harbour. 1826, ch. 78. Mobile har bour. 1826, ch. 78. Newcastle. 1826, ch. 78. Creek treaty. 1826, ch. 148. Quapaws. 1825, ch. 16. 1826, ch. 110. 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 twen- Indian treaties. tieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty-eight 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 pany of Illinois militia, commanded by Captain Achilles Morgan, called into service on the northwestern frontier, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty Pay of com militia. 1828, ch. 21. 1828, ch. 21. Appropriations to be paid out of the treasury. STATUTE II. March 2, 1829. [Obsolete.]. Secretary of Treasury to subscribe for 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 twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight. 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, March 2, 1829. CHAP. XXVII.—An Act authorizing the subscription of stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Trea750 shares Che-sury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe, in the sapeake and name and for the use of the United States, for seven hundred and fifty Delaware canal. shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ComFor 200 shares pany; and, also, for two hundred shares of the capital stock in the Dismal Dismal Swamp Swamp Canal Company, and pay for the same, at such times, and in such proportions, as may be required by the said companies respectively; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. canal. 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, March 2, 1829. STATUTE II. March 2, 1829. Entitles representatives of deceased invalid pensioner to any arrears of pen sion. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 81. Arrears due to deceased re- Testimony regarding wounds re ceived in revolutionary war. CHAP. XXVIII.-An Act making provision for the payment of pensions to the SEC. 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. SEC. 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 pensions for wounds received in the late war with Great Britain. APPROVED, March 2, 1829. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act making appropriations for completing certain roads, and March 2, 1829. for making examinations and surveys. 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 wit: For continuing the road from Detroit to Chicago as far as the boundary line of 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. 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, March 2, 1829. [Obsolete.] Road from Detroit to Chicago. Surveys, &c. under act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46. Road from Detroit to SagGratiot; and between Pensaco anaw and fort la and Mobile Point. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXX.—An Act for the construction of the Cumberland road, westwardly March 2, 1829. of Zanesville. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, of any money not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of opening and making the Cumberland road, westwardly from Zanesville, in the state of Ohio; which said sum of one hundred 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. Opening and Cum making Appropriation to be replaced from road fund, &c. Appointment of superintend ent. 1825, ch. 98. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the immediate accomplishment of this object, the second and third sections of the act, entitled "An act for the continuation of the Cumberland road," that passed the 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 and compensaof the road authorized by this act. APPROVED, March 2, 1829. His duties tion. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXXI.-An Act for the continuation of the Cumberland road. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 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 twentyfive, 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 March 2, 1829. Cumberland road through Indiana, to be opened from Indianapolis to the east and west boundary of the state. 1820, ch. 123. 1825, ch. 98. (a) See notes of the acts which have been passed relative to the Cumberland road, vol. ii. p. 357. |