38. Fort on Hawkins's Point, below Baltimore, Md *Expected to be completed within about one year after the amounts required to complete shall have been appropriated. These estimates are conjectural. Works have been projected for these positions. H. Rep. Com. 86-22 GENERAL REMARKS. In estimating for peace garrisons, it is considered disadvantageous to discipline to break up the companies when it can be avoided. Several works are reckoned as requiring peace garrisons, though they will not, at our present rate of progress, be prepared for troops for some years. Some of these garrisons might, on an emergency, be reduced for a time; but the force proposed should be regarded generally as the minimum proper to secure our ports from insult and keep watch over the military property. The garrisons, as stated, amount to forty-seven and a half companies for the Atlantic and Gulf seaboard, independent of Tampa Bay and the city of New Orleans. The works that have been under repair of class A, and those of class B, may all be regarded as completed as respects efficiency. The expenditures still required have relation, most generally, to matters of accommodation of troops, to storehouses, sea walls, wharves, and roads; to repairs of perishable portions; to the substitution of permanent for certain decaying materials; to preservation of sites from the action of the sea, &c. The amounts given in the column under the head of expended for construction or repair, include all the appropriations heretofore made. In some cases balances of these appropriations remain, and are in course of expenditure. Classes and description of works. Class A-Old works repaired Class B.-New works completed or nearly completed.. Deduct value of ordnance and ammunition now on hand Amount still required for armament of the first five classes 47 62,300 44,958, 626 20, 659, 536 24,299,090 12,685 8,345,066 Total number of guns. Estimated cost of armament, including 100 rounds of ammunition. B.-NORTHERN FRONTIER. Statement of the number of fortifications which have been built, including those nearly completed under the general system adopted after the war with Great Britain, the number in progress of construction, and the number not yet commenced, but proposed to be erected; and exhibiting, also, the States and Territories in which the several forts are situated, or are to be located; when they were commenced, when completed, and when they are expected to be finished; the number and calibre of the guns mounted or to be mounted; the estimated cost of construction and armament, respectively; the amount expended for construction or repair, and an estimate of the amount required to finish or construct; and the total amount required to be appropriated to complete the armament. Garrison in war-number of men. When commenced. When completed. Estimated cost of construction or repair. Amount expended for construction or repair. Amount required to complete con struction or repair. 42-pounders. 32-pounders. 24-pounders. 18-pounders. 12-pounders. Field pieces. Flank howitzers. 8-inch howitzers, heavy. 8-inch howitzers, light. 13-inch mortars. 10-inch mortars, heavy. 10-inch mortars, light. 8-inch mortars, light. 10 inch stone mortars. Coliorns, Total number of guns. ARMAMENT, INCLUDING 100 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION FOR EACH PIECE. Expected to be completed within about one year after the amounts required to complete shall have been appropriated. HOWITZERS. C. Statement of the cannon and carriages at the forts and at the arsenals. A 22 42-pounders. 32-pounders. 24-pounders. 18-pounders. 12-pounders. 10-inch sea-coast. 8-inch sea-coast. 8-inch guns. 10 inch sea coast. 8-inch sea-coast. 8-inch siege. 24-pounders, flank defence 13-inch, heavy. 10 inch, heavy. 10-inch, light. 8-inch, light. 16-inch, stone. 24-pounders, cohorn. 42-pounders. 32-pounders. 24-pounders. 24-pounders, flank defence. 8-inch columbiads. Names of forts. GUNS. COLUMBIADS. |