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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 Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the preservation of Castle island, and repairs of Fort Independence, fifty thousand dollars;

For Fort Adams, Rhode Island, one hundred thousand dollars;

For fortifications at New London harbor, Connecticut, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, one hundred thousand dollars;

For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, forty thousand dollars;

For Fort McHenry, Redoubt Wood, and Covington Battery, near Baltimore, thirty-two thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars;

For Fort Monroe, Virginia, one hundred thousand dollars;

For Fort Calhoun, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars;

For fortifications in Charleston harbor, and for the preservation of the site of Fort Moultrie, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the fort at Foster’s bank, Florida, thirty-three thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Marion and of the sea-wall at St. Augustine, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars;

For the purchase of the charter right to the bridge across Mill creek, at Fort Monroe, four thousand dollars;

For securing the site of Fort Caswell, Oak Island, North Carolina, eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs of the Old Fort at the Barancas, Pensacola, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For repairing Fort Niagara in the State of New York, three thousand dollars;

For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That of the sums appropriated by this bill a portion not to exceed fifty per centum upon all the items above fifteen thousand dollars, shall be drawn from the Treasury during the present year, and the balance of the said appropriations shall be expended for the objects designated, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

, July 7, 1838.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector of the customs for the port of New York, the naval officer of the said port, and the district attorney for the southern district of the State of New York, be, and they are hereby, constituted a commission to ascertain the amount of duties paid, or secured to be paid, upon all goods, wares, and merchandise destroyed, in unbroken and original packages as imported, by the great conflagration which took place in the city of New York on the sixteenth and seventeenth days of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the name or names and places of residence of the several persons entitled, as owners of the said goods, or otherwise, to receive or have remitted to them the amount