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or the United States vested in the corporations of said towns, or which have been set apart for churches or burying grounds by the laws aforesaid, or by any ordinance of the corporate authorities of the said cities.

. And be it further enacted, That the title to the lot of ground in St. Augustine, known as the Old or Burnt Hospital lot, with all its appurtenances, be, and the same is hereby, vested, in the mayor of St. Augustine, and his successor for ever, in trust, for the purpose of erecting thereon, by the local authorities of St. Augustine, buildings necessary for the education of free white children of both sexes.

. And be it further enacted, That the President shall cause the buildings which may be selected for public purposes under this act, to be refitted and repaired fit for use, and the better to preserve them from ruin and dilapidation, for which purpose, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to dispose of such part of the military reservations in the city of Detroit, and upon the river Rouge, in the territory of Michigan, as in his opinion may not be wanted for the public service, and to vest the proceeds in the purchase or erection of a store-house and wharf in the said city of Detroit, and in the erection of an arsenal in the vicinity thereof, either upon the public lands or upon a site to be procured for that purpose.

, June 28, 1832.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the purpose of making the improvements hereinafter enumerated, viz:

For removing obstructions to the navigation of Kennebeck river, at Lovejoy’s Narrows, Maine, including a balance of former appropriations, of two thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-eight hundredths, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred dollars.

For repairing Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the further protection and preservation of the Beach at Provincetown, Massachusetts, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For deepening the channel through the Pass au Heron, Alabama, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, carried to the surplus fund, first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, six thousand and fifty dollars.

For deepening the channel at Pascagoula river, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, carried to the surplus fund the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Red river, Louisiana, and Arkansas, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars.

For carrying on the work of the Delaware breakwater, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay Lucius W. Stockton the