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 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Ssss. I. Ch. 94. 1846. 67 Madison, in the State of Tennessee, if the proceeds of the sales of said lands shall amount to so much; and if the aggregate amount of said sales (not paid over nor deposited as aforesaid) shall not amount to the said sum, then whatever sum smaller than forty thousand dollars they may amount to, in accordance with the provisions contained in an act of the General— Assembly of said State, passed in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, being chapter one hundred and seven, section eight, and in accordance with the desire expressed by said General Assembly, in their certain memorial to Congress, passed December four, eighteen hundred and forty-five: Provided, nevertheless, That the release herein provided for to the said State of Tennessee of Such release said lands shall be in full satisfaction for any and all services ren-  Ziff:; dered and expenses incurred by said State, or the authorities thereof, and expenses of in the management, disposal, or administration, of said public lands, T°¤“°“°°· and as agent or agents of the United States, in virtue of the provisions of the act entitled "A1i Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue Grants and perfect Titles to limi °h· 7* certain Lands therein described, and to settle the Claims to the vacant and unappropriated Lands within the same} passed the eighteenth February, eighteen hundred and forty-one : "And provided also, That all the said lands the release of which is herein provided for, and the proceeds thereof, shall be and remain subject to all the same claims, _ incumbrances, and liabilities, in relation to “North Carolina land migdlgsgizgra warrants," or other claims of North Carolina, as the same would or certain claims. could be subject to as regards the United States, if the same were not so as aforesaid released. Approved, August 7, 1846. CHAP. XCIV. ——An Act making Appropriations for certain defensive Work: of the N13- 6,18%- United Statesfm- tliejisenl Year cruling the thirtietb Day of June, one thousand eight Y’_""' hundred and forty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States if America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any Appropriation. unappropriated money in the treasury, for the preservation, repair, and construction, of certain fortifications for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. For the purchase from the State of New York of the defensive Purchase or works on Staten Island, together with the land bought by the State ggrgmgi ,2;;;*:,* for the site of said works, with all the material on and about them, N, y,, wm, [ggé and for repairs of said works when the title of the State of New York for ¤i*·¢· shall have been extinguished, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Executive be, and he is hereby, authorized to dis- v°0rf:·‘°"bg;'j;°‘ pose of the site and materials of old Fort Gansevoort, and to apply ` the proceeds of such sale to the repair of the works on Staten Island. Sou r, P _ For the commencement of batteries on Soller’s Point Flats, below Flaul ° ° mnt Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars. For the commencement of a fort at the entrance to Cumberland S g“(';*b°'l§¤¤ Sound, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars. mmwrgm For the commencement of a fort on the east side of Dauphin Island, D¤¤Phl¤ Y¤l¤~¤d· Mobile Bay,`Alabama, twenty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the _ Adjustment or United States be, and e is hereby, authorized to take such steps as P°° P"°°" he may deem advisable for adjusting the title to the Pea Patch Island; and, should the same be found to be adverse to the United States, that he cause the value to be ascertained by arbitration, according to the agreement entered into between the Secretary of War and the agent of the claimants. Approved, August 8, 1846.