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to extend the benefits of the act of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled “,” to the captains and subalterns of the corps of United States marines under similar cases.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be settled by the proper accounting officers of the department, all arrearages of pay and allowances which shall be found due the said captains and subalterns of the United States corps of marines from the period at which the act of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, above referred to, went into operation, up to the passage of this act; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

, June 30, 1834.

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 be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain fortifications, viz:

For the preservation of Castle Island, and repair of fort Independence, seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars.

For a fort on George’s Island, one hundred thousand dollars.

For fort Adams, one hundred thousand dollars.

For repairing fort Columbus and Castle Williams, fifty thousand dollars.

For a fort on Throg’s neck, East river, New York, one hundred thousand dollars.

For rebuilding fort Delaware, seventy-nine thousand dollars.

For fort Monroe, fifteen thousand dollars.

For fort Calhoun, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For fortifications in Charleston harbour, fifty thousand dollars.

For the fort at Cockspur island, Georgia, eighty-two thousand dollars.

For completing a fort at Pensacola, forty thousand dollars.

For a fort on Foster’s bank, Florida, fifty thousand dollars.

For a fort at Grand Terre, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars.

For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.

For completing fort Macon, repairing the wharf and dyke, and for the protection of the site of that work, seven thousand dollars.

In satisfaction of a contract made with John Urquhart for attending the troops of the United States, as surgeon from fort Mitchell to Charlestown and thence to Point Comfort, four hundred and fifty dollars.

, June 30, 1834.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby made and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, for building lighthouses, light-boats, beacons and monuments, to wit: