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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 improvements.

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 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 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

Six thousand five hundred dollars for improving the harbour of St. Mark’s, by removing obstructions in the same.

, March 2, 1829.

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 twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the, to wit:

For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, seven hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

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 dollars.

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 purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, 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.