During the present fiscal year it is expected to complete two breastheight walls and gun-platforms. Fort McClary, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. C. Duane, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year three temporary wooden platforms for heavy guns, with a sufficient parapet, on the site of the old circular battery, were nearly completed. Otherwise the condition of the work remains the same as at the date of the last annual report. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Constitution, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. C. Duane, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year a temporary position was prepared for one heavy gun in the southwest angle of the old fort, and the platform partially laid. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Battery on Gerrish's Island, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. C. Duane, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the parapet was raised nearly to its full height, and rock excavations for a part of the roadway in rear of the terrepleins and for two of the six traverse-magazines were completed. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875 Appropriation asked for next fiscal year $15,000 35,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to prepare the foundations for all the traverse-magazines and to build three of them. Battery on Jerry's Point, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. C. Duane, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year two-thirds of the parapet embankment has been raised to its full height, and the earth and rock excavations for the foundations of all the traverse-magazines completed. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.... $15,000 35,000 During the present fiscal year it is expected to complete the concrete work of all the magazines and breast-height walls, and make ready all the positions for gun-platforms. Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Col. Henry W. Benham, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year operations in bastion A consisted in the completion of the five new 15-inch gunplatforms and their breast height walls, the completion of the masonry of the two traverse magazines with the connecting-parados arch, and the necessary doorways, staircases, &c.; about one-half of the earthcover has been put in place, and the new sand-parapet essentially completed from the salient of bastion A to include three-quarters of the curtain front I. In bastion B, two of the four new 15-inch gun-platforms have been completed, and a third finished except the setting of the pintle and the traverse rails. In the parade of this bastion the foundations of the new arch-piers have been completed. In bastion E, the parados arch has been built, connecting the two traverse-magazines, with entrances, drains, &c., and from each extremity an arched covered stairway has been constructed leading to the flank casemates. An inclined way, (with stationary engine,) from the wharf to the terreplein of this bastion, has been built, to aid in the moving of material. In the demilune, of the five new gun-platforms, one is ready for its armament and two others are ready except iron-work. The breast-height wall for the whole battery has been built, and considerable progress made with the new sand-parapet. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $50,000 Battery at Long Island Head, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Col. Henry W. Benham, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year, owing to the exhaustion of funds, work was confined to the latter part of the season, and resulted in the completion of the center pintle 15-inch gun-platform at the east salient of the battery, as also of the masonry of the adjacent magazine and parados, excepting the doorways connecting with the batteries and covered way. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $40,000 50,000 Fort Winthrop, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Col. Henry W. Benham, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year fourteen front-pintle platforms, with their breast-height walls, in the east and south batteries, were finished; two others, with their breast-height walls, were completed, except iron-work, and four more finished except ironwork and about half of the breast-height wall, thus completing the platforms for forty-four 15-inch guns upon these works. The new sandparapet of the east battery was also completed, and much of the excavation necessary for that of the south battery was executed. Two new traverse-magazines in the south battery were entirely finished, and a third advanced to the completion of its masonry and about one-half of its earth cover. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending Jun 30, 1875. $50,000 Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Col. Henry W. Benham, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year one new 15-inch platform for the enceinte, and the iron-work of fourteen others were completed, thus finishing, ready for armament, the whole of the new barbette-battery. The new sand-parapet, the traversemagazines, and parados of fronts I and II, and the two traverse-magazines on front III, were completed, as also the excavations for the sandparapet. In the east exterior battery, the most eastern gun-platform, with its breast-height and sustaining walls, was completed as to its masonry. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $45,000 Fort at Clark's Point, New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-Nothing was done at this work during the past fiscal year, except some needed repairs to the buildings to protect them from decay. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Phoenix, New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-No work was done during the past fiscal year. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Adams, Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the concrete of six magazine-traverses, with their partitions, was completed. The parapet, in front of a space to contain fourteen guns, was carried up to give a breast-height of seven feet, and the terreplein graded. A new wharf, convenient to the work, and in quiet water, was constructed as far as it was necessary to make it available, and a substantial roadway made to connect it with the battery by means of rails and cars, as well as by ordinary vehicles. A large culvert, suitable for electric cables, was constructed under the terreplein and parapet, and a thorough system of drainage completed. The appropriation asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, contemplates the completion of the emplacements for six more heavy guns, building one set of quarters, and repairs to the present quarters, to the main work, and to the permanent or north wharf. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. .$20,000 30,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to complete the emplacements for four heavy guns, and to lay the foundations for the platforms and breast-height wall of two more guns. Dumpling's Battery, Canonicut Island, Rhode Island, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.—No work has been done at this site during the past fiscal year, no appropriation having been made for the work. It is proposed to construct this battery for heavy guns on the site of the ruins of an old casemated tower, built about the close of the last century on Canonicut Island, opposite Fort Adams. No appro, ration was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Defenses of Dutch Island, western entrance to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year four magazine-traverses have been covered in with sand and properly sodded. The parapet for a breast-height of seven feet, connecting them, has been completed. A scarcity of water compelled the construction of a reservoir to store surface rain-water, one large common well, and a drilled well on the summit of the island, which penetrates. one hundred and twenty feet below the surface. Brick drains with suitable man-holes and gratings have been nearly completed. Necessary repairs to tools, boats, carts, cars, railroad track, and roads were made. The rubbish, stone, &c., in rear of the new battery were removed, and the place plowed and sowed in grass. Large quantities of bowlders were deposited on the northwest shore to check further inroads of the waves. survey was made showing changes in shore-lines since survey of 1862, and a complete set of records of Dutch Island was compiled, extending from the first occupation of the island by the United States for military purposes, in 1863, down to date. A The appropriation asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, contemplates the completion of emplacements for four more heavy guns, the building of two needed storehouses, and the construction of a road around the island. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, . $20,000 40,000 During the ensuing fiscal year it is proposed to complete the platforms and breast-height walls for four heavy guns, and raise the parapet eleven feet above the terreplein. Fort Trumbull, New London Harbor, Connecticut, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-Nothing has been done here during the past fiscal year, except some minor repairs. It is designed to mod ify the exterior batteries so as to mount heavy guns. It is desirable, also, to alter the pintles and chassis of the main work, so as to admit of mounting 10 inch and equivalent rifle cannon. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875... $25,000 40,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to prepare for the battery of heavy guns. Fort Griswold, New London Harbor, Connecticut, in charge of Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers.-No work has been done here during the past fiscal year. It is designed to modify this battery so as to mount 15-inch guns or equivalent rifle cannon. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Hale, New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, in charge of Maj. G. K Warren, Corps of Engineers.-No work has been done here during the past fiscal year. The jetty which was begun the year before at right angles, nearly, with the shore, made of stone taken from Luddington Rock, was designed to cause the beach material to close the breach in the ditch of the fort. This it accomplished during the past winter. The fort is abandoned. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Schuyler, East River, New York, in charge of Maj. H. L. Abbot, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year, in the main work, north front, the earthen parapet has been embanked and exterior slope sodded; two center-pintle platforms for 15-inch guns have been laid; traverse-magazine No. 1 has been completed, and sodded, except the portion extending over parapet; traverse-magazine No. 2 has been built, covered with mastic, and partly covered with sand; a small part of breastheight wall has been built. On the northeast front, the parade-wall has been finished, and coping of scarp-wall set; the unfinished pier completed; the casemate arches have been covered with mastic, and partly with sand; all the valleydrains have been made; traverse-magazine built and partly covered with mastic. On the southeast front, the abutment pier has been completed, two other piers built, and the third raised to the sixth course. Two stone arches have been turned; the brick arches in east angle and one casemate-arch have been built, and a second commenced. The old parade-wall, stone parapet, and gun-platforms have been removed; the scarp-wall has been nearly prepared for the coping, all of which has been cut. Stone, brick, and concrete-stone for completing the front have been purchased. In the ten-gun battery, the parapet, traverses, epaulment, and parados in rear of two west guns have been graded and sodded, and the magazine doors prepared. About one-half the parapet has been built; a short section of sea-wall, serving for the protection of the west angle, has been begun. The wharf has been thoroughly re covered with plank, and a drop. added. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.. $25,000 50,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to devote all available. funds, after putting the ten-gun battery pletion hereafter, to the main work. 15-inch gun in the west angle of the in a fit condition to await comOne front pintle-platform for north front will be laid, and breast-height walls in front of it, and of the two center-pintle platforms for 15-inch guns already laid, will be completed. As far as practicable, the appropriation will be expended with a view to putting the barbette tier into a condition for immediate service. Fort at Willet's Point, eastern entrance to New York Harbor, in charge of Major H. L. Abbot, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year, in the west battery, concrete foundations have been laid for one 15-inch front pintle gun-platform, and the sea-wall has been completed. In the middle battery, about 3,000 cubic yards of earth-filling in parapet and about 1,000 superficial yards of sodding of exterior slopes have been completed. Concrete foundations have been laid for four 15-inch front-pintle gun-platforms and for two 15-inch center-pintle gun platforms. Two of the four 15-inch front-pintle gun-platforms are nearly ready for mounting the guns. The sea wall has been completed. Four concrete storage-casemates for torpedo cables in rear of the eastern part of the battery and the extension of underground passage-way have been completed. In the east battery, about 6,000 cubic yards of earth have been placed in the parapet. One traverse-magazine has been built and covered with earth to grade, and two others have been covered with earth in part. The mortar battery has been completed, and platforms are nearly ready for mounting the four 13-inch mortars on hand. It is proposed to continue the construction of storage-casemates, and to prepare platforms for three 15-inch guns and for the four 13-inch mortars, and also to prepare the torpedo-casemate as planned by the board of engineers and duly approved. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875 $30,000 50,000 Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year no work has been done except the replacing of the floor of the drawbridge at the entrance of the fort with new plauk. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. New Barbette Battery at Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-No work has been done here during the past fiscal year. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $50,000 Castle William, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-Nothing has been done at this work during the past fiscal year. South Battery, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-Nothing has been done at this work during the past fiscal year, except the extension of the permanent drain to the beach. Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year work has been confined to grading and sodding the magazines, raising the parapet, and putting in drain. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Hamilton and additional batteries, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year |