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said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.

, April 29, 1824.

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 fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:

For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For the fort at Chef Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the fort at Mobile Point, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Fort fort Monroe, ninety-five thousand dollars.

For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.

For topographical reconnoisance, repairs, and contingencies, twenty-six thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at New Utrecht Point, one of the works intended to defend the Narrows, in New York harbour, fifty thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at Brenton’s Point, Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars.

, April 29, 1824.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court, for the district of Missouri, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays in March and September, in every year; any thing in any act heretofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted, That all writs, pleas, suits, recognisances, indictments, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with, by the said court, at the times fixed in the first section of this act, in the same manner as if no alteration in the times for holding said court had taken place.

, April 29, 1824.

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