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there resulting from surveys of the unexplored portions of our own country, or from the exploring expedition now in the South Seas, by the authority, and at the expense of the United States, or otherwise, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand dollars, appropriated by the, to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the State of Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War for the accomplishment of the same object.

. And be it further enacted, That in case of a deficiency of receipts of revenue from customs, or lands, or other sources, or of a failure on the part of the late deposite banks or of the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania to pay the debts due from them, or to become due in the course of the present year, or if, from many other cause, the means of the Treasury shall not be sufficient to meet all the appropriations made by Congress, the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to postpone the expenditures under the following heads of appropriation embraced in this act, viz: “for barracks, quarters, and storehouses,” &c.; “for the national armories;” “for armament of fortifications;” “for the current expenses of the ordnance service;” “for ordnance stores and supplies;” “for arsenals;” “for repairs and improvements at the Springfield armory;” “for repairs and improvements at the Harper’s Ferry armory;” “for the purchase of saltpetre and brimstone;” “for continuing the barracks, quarters, &c. at Fort Leavenworth;” “at Fort Wayne;” “at Fort Smith;” “at Plattsburgh;” and “at Fort Jessup;” or such and so many of them, or such proportions of each, as in his judgment, after careful examination and inquiry, the condition of the Treasury shall demand, and the public interests will best permit; such postponements in each case, to be merely temporary, or until the close of the next session of Congress, as the means of the Treasury and the prospect of accruing revenue shall warrant, and as shall be most in accordance with the public interests involved.

, July 20, 1840.

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 the preservation, repairs, construction, and incidental and contingent expenses of certain fortifications in the year eighteen hundred and forty, viz:

For repairs of Fort Niagara, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For rebuilding and repairing the old fort at Oswego, twenty thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Preble, three thousand two hundred dollars;

For repairs of Fort Scammel, three thousand four hundred dollars;

For repairs of Fort McClary, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For repairs of Fort Constitution, three thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars;

For repairs of Fort Independence and sea wall of Castle island, one hundred thousand dollars;

For Fort Warren, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For Fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars;