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

For Fort Schuyler, eighty thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Hamilton, twenty thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Lafayette, five thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Columbus, one thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars;

For repairs of Castle William, five thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars;

For repairs of south battery, Governor’s island, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs of Fort Monroe, fifty thousand dollars;

For rebuilding bridge over Mill creek, near Fort Monroe, five thousand dollars;

For repairs of road from Fort Monroe to said bridge, one thousand dollars;

For purchase of land in the vicinity of Fort Monroe, one thousand dollars;

For Fort Calhoun, fifty thousand dollars;

For Fort Caswell, six thousand dollars;

For Fort Sumter, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Moultrie, ten thousand dollars;

For Fort Pulaski, forty-four thousand dollars;

For Fort on Foster’s bank, Florida, fourteen thousand dollars;

For Fort Pickens, eight thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Barrancas, fifteen thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Morgan, ten thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Pike, five thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort Wood, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars;

For repairs of the battery Bienvenue, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs of Tower Dupre, four hundred dollars;

For repairs of Fort Jackson, twenty thousand dollars;

For repairs of Fort St. Philip, three thousand three hundred dollars;

For Fort Livingston, Grande Terre, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars;

For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars;

For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, fifty thousand dollars. Provided, however, That in case of a disappointment in the receipts of revenue from customs, or lands, or other sources, or of a failure to collect the debts due from the late deposite banks, or from the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania, so that the means of the Treasury shall not be sufficient to meet the ordinary calls for the service of the year, according to the appropriations made by Congress, and also the expenses authorized by this act, the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized, upon ascertainment, at any time, of these facts, from the Secretary of the Treasury, to direct the postponement until after the close of the next session of Congress, or until Congress shall otherwise direct, of the whole, or such portion of the appropriations made by this act as the state of the Treasury shall seem to him to require; any order for postponement to be made alike applicable to each item of appropriation, so far as the state of facts, at the time it is made, and a due regard to the public interests, will permit, and all contracts entered into in pursuance of these appropriations to be made subject to the conditions of this proviso.

, July 21, 1840.