in battery No. 1. magazines Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, have been completed and sodded, the drains put in, the terreplein graded to its proper level, and the parapet raised to an average elevation of reference, (18'.) In the 15-inch gun-battery all the 5-inch pintles have been taken out and replaced with 6-inch pintles. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.. $26,000 15,000 Mortar Battery at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the main drain has been completed, the exterior slopes have have been sodded, and three magazines supplied with doors. Five wooden platforms have been laid, and concrete foundations for the remaining eight platforms have been put down. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gilmore, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year, the only operations carried on at this work consisted in replacing the old pintles with new 4-inch pintles in the six-barbette gun-platforms, Nos. 22 to 27, inclusive. No operations are contemplated during the present fiscal year. One of the casemates of this work is to receive some alterations to adapt it to the requirements of torpedo defense. The ditch on the land side requires cleaning out, all the embrasure irons need painting, and a large portion of the masonry of the work requires pointing. It has never been pointed. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $7,000 Fort on site of Fort Tompkins, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the ten timber platforms, for the authorized armament of the channel front, have been laid upon concrete foundations, and a masonry breast-height wall for the same constructed; thirteen wooden ceilings have been put in the second-tier casemates, and seven floors laid, thus completing the interior finish of the casemate quarters in the south half of the work, with the exception that eleven of them have yet to be glazed. Seven second-tier casemates in north face have been furred off with brick. A flagged sidewalk of nine feet four inches wide, with bluestone curb and gutter, and a macadamized road thirteen feet wide, with suitable cess-pools and drains, have been constructed around the entire parade next the parade wall, except on the channel front. Cast-iron conduct pipes have been placed in the casemate piers of channel front to conduct the water falling upon the casemate roofs into the cisterns. Five solid doors have been made and hung in service magazines. The glacis northwest of the fort has been graded and seeded down; the earth-filling of cover-face on channel front has been finished with the exception of fifty feet in length at each end, and the slope of the cover-face next the work graded and sodded. A large quantity of earth washed down from the main slope between the fort and the north-cliff battery, has been returned to the foot of the slope where required. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875 $30,000 75,000 During the present fiscal year the side-walls of south sally-port will be constructed, and the sally-port paved; the solid gates of sally-ports will be made and hung. All the magazine-doors and lamp-closets will be completed, and a macadamized road constructed along the parade wall of channel-front. The parade will be graded and seeded down during the present working-season. The brick furring of casematequarters will be completed. The cover-face on channel front and the macadamized road between it and the scarp-wall will be finished. Amount required, in addition to the existing appropriation, to complete Fort Tompkins, and North Cliff and South Cliff batteries, in accordance with approved plans, $100,000. In this amount is included the sum of $25,000 to be applied to the large casemates on the channel-front of Fort Tompkins, in paving them with concrete and building fire-places, and parade and partition walls, with doors, windows, &c., according to the official plan. Extensive repairs to slopes have been necessary during the past spring, in Fort Tompkins and in the Glacis gun battery, and the North Cliff battery. Glacis Gun Battery, (north of fort on site of Fort Tompkins,) Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-This battery was reported in readiness to receive its armament in the last annual report. The magazine-doors and lamp closets have not yet been entirely finished, but will be during the present working season. No appropriation is asked. Glacis Mortar Battery, (south of fort on site of Fort Tompkins,) Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-This battery has received its armament. A little unfinished work upon the lamp-closets and magazine-doors is now in progress, and will be finished during the present working-season. No appropriation is asked. Battery Hudson, Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year, six of the guns forming the old armament on the east face were dismounted, and their platforms removed, and in place thereof five permanent front pintle-platforms, with low traverse rails, and the corresponding breastheight wall for the approved armament, constructed. Two drains of 8-inch glazed pipes were built from the interior of the battery down to the river to drain terreplein. The masonry in the five feet and in the four feet arched passage-ways leading to the south and the north principal magazines was finished, except the coping for the entrance retainingwalls, and the earth cover over these magazines partially formed. inch pintles, with keys, have been inserted in all the permanent platforms. In the south branch of the old battery, four timber front pintleplatforms, with high traverse rails, for the approved armament, have been laid, and all the magazine doors (except three grated doors) made and hung. In the extension, five timber-platforms, with high traverse rails, for the approved armament, have been laid, and the breast-height in front of them temporarily revetted with sods. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. . Appropriation asked for next fiscal year. Six $13,000 26,000 (The estimate of $26,000 for completing the work is designed to cover the $17,500 covered into the Treasury, and the construction of stone breast height walls in positions for which temporary revetments were formerly contemplated.) During the present fiscal year Battery Hudson and its extension will be finished, with the exception of five permanent platforms for large guns on the east face, and the necessary breast-height wall for those guns, and also for nine others on the south face where temporary revetments were formerly contemplated, and some of which have already been built. The new estimate includes the cost of permanent platforms for the new ordnance carriage and masonry breast-height walls for all positions, an not included in any previous estimate. South Mortar Battery, (in rear of Battery Hudson extension,) Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year all the masonry and earthwork of this battery were finished, and the area in rear graded and seeded down. Two outer magazine-doors made and hung, and a strong picketfence erected along the road so as to inclose the rear of the battery. The work yet to be done to finish the battery consists in constructing and laying eight timber mortar-platforms, upon concrete foundations now in place, and the fitting up of two inner magazine-doors and two lamp-closets. North Cliff Battery, Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gilimore, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the operations have consisted in completing the addition of masonry and earthwork to the traverse-magazine south of the north principal magazine, in laying four concrete foundations for timber gun platforms, and laying two of the platforms. The outer solid magazine-doors have all been made and hung. A macadamized road leading to Fort Wadsworth has been made and provided with suitable gutters. During the present fiscal year the two timber gun-platforms not yet laid, in consequence of their having been required elsewhere for experimental firing, will be put down, and the temporary breast-height wall finished. The battery will be in readiness to receive its entire armament during the present working season. The parapet will have to be thickened and the slope next the river finished from some future appropriation. No separate appropriation is asked for this battery. South Cliff Battery, Staten Island, New York Harbor, in charge of Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers.-No work was done upon this battery during the past fiscal year beyond that necessary to keep it in good order. The authorized modification will be commenced as soon as funds are provided for the purpose, the estimates being included in those for fort on site of Fort Tompkins. No separate appropriation is asked. Fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, in charge of Lieut. Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers.-A temporary battery for six guns was ordered to be constructed, but the funds allotted therefor having reverted to the Treasury under the decision of the First Comptroller, nothing was done beyond selecting the site and having the wooden platforms constructed. During the past fiscal year one jetty, 109 feet long, was built, and appearances are favorable for the preservation of the site, with occasional attention to repairs of jetties. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Mifflin, Delaware River, Pennsylvania, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the south battery of the demilune has been completed, and the platforms made ready for the guns; the dike along the south boundary-line was completed. Exterior battery embanked for three fourths of its length and partly graded; repairs made to the wharf, dike, large magazine on parade, and to the roof of main gateway entrance. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. $50,000 During the present fiscal year nothing can be done except to complete the embanking of the exterior battery, and maintain general care and supervision over the dikes, bridges, and works. During the next fiscal year it is proposed to complete the exterior battery, commence battery on the north face and new storage magazine in the demilune, and make necessary repairs to dikes, roads, and buildings. Mortar Battery at Fort Mifflin, Delaware River, Pennsylvania, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.--During the past fiscal year repairs have been made to the mastic covering of the magazines, a sandtraverse formed over each, a temporary drain dug, the flooring and door of the north magazine placed, and a door fixed on the south magazine. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Site for the defenses at Red Bank, New Jersey, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year repairs have been made to the dikes, buildings, sluice, and fences, and general care and supervision exercised. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort Delaware, Delaware River, Delaware, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.--This work is on Pea Patch Island, and, with the batteries at Finn's Point and on the Delaware shore, forms the outer line of defense for the Delaware River. During the past fiscal year the three remaining wooden platforms of the barbette tier, for 15 inch guns, have been put down; the breastheight wall and parapet in front of them have been finished; the doors of the barbette service magazines have been hung, and the floors laid; the steps and coping have been completed, and storm-sheds built over the entrances; a leak under one of the new platforms has been stopped; the iron balconies in rear of magazine-traverses have been commenced; the tops of four stair-towers have been removed to make room for mounting guns; a new flag-staff has been erected; the old pintle and traverse rail of one of the barbette platforms for ten-inch guns has been replaced with a keyed pintle and heavy rail; the iron shield used in experimental firing has been removed, and the rebuilding of the embrasure and closing of the breach commenced; the thorough cleansing of the ditches of the island, and repairs of dike, have been completed; the wharves have been partially repaired, and preparations have been made for building a stone top to upper eastern wharf. • Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.. Appropriation asked for next fiscal year.. $25,000 25,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to complete the iron balconies, to rebuild embrasure No. 17, and close breach in scarp; to repair the flagging of parade-walk, to build temporary sheds over stair-towers, and to commence the stone superstructure of upper eastern wharf. Battery at Finn's Point, Delaware River, New Jersey, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the wharf has been completed; the parapet of the battery has been embanked to the level of the terreplein for a distance of 300 feet south of mortar battery; the shelter room and magazine at intersection of gun and mortar batteries have been commenced; a retaining wall for exterior slope of right wing has been built; the dike at the upper part of the United States land has been extended from the wharf south to the boundary-line. Two wooden platforms for 15-inch guns, and three for 10-inch guns have been placed in temporary positions. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875...... Appropriation asked for next fiscal year.... $30,000 40,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to complete the shelterroom and magazine; to construct one other magazine, and the traverses of both; to embank the parapet for 350 lineal feet from mortar-battery; to complete four platforms for 15-inch guns, and to build the breastheight wall in front of two of them. Mortar Battery at Finn's Point, Delaware River, New Jersey, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the sea wall supporting the exterior slope of parapet has been completed, and the embankment behind it has been brought to nearly the level of the top; the terreplein has been embanked; the masonry of two magazines has been finished; the mastic roofing put on, and their traverses sufficiently embanked to protect the masonry from frost. The positions of three of the platforms are temporarily occupied by 10-inch guns. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort opposite Fort Delaware, Delaware shore, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the dike along the river-front has been completed, a sluice-way built, and the ground behind it partially graded; the right wing of the battery has been completed to a little above the terreplein; two wooden platforms for 15inch guns have been laid, one magazine built, and the breast-height wall commenced. The front of the battery has been embanked to an average height ref. (16',) or six feet below level of terreplein. The fencing of the grounds has been finished, a shed for stone-cutting has been built, and a crane erected on the wharf. Three wooden platforms for 10-inch guns have been constructed temporarily on the terreplein of the mortar-battery. Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.. $30,000 40,000 During the present fiscal year it is proposed to complete the right wing of the battery, including two gun-platforms; and, on the front, to complete embankment for 250 lineal feet from mortar-battery; to build shelter-room and magazine with their covering traverse; to put down two wooden gun-platforms; and to build the breast-height wall in front of them. Mortar-battery near Delaware City, Delaware, in charge of Lieut. Col. J. D. Kurtz, Corps of Engineers.-During the past fiscal year the terreplein of this work has been formed; two magazines have been nearly completed, and their traverses sufficiently embanked to protect the masonry from the weather. The exterior slope of the battery has been made and sodded up to 2 feet above the terreplein, and the body of the parapet has been embanked to 7 feet above. The positions of three of the platforms are temporarily occupied by 10-inch guns. No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. Fort McHenry, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, in charge of Maj. Wm. P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers.-This work forms part of the inner line of defense of Baltimore and its dependent interests, and commands with its fire the interior water of the harbor and the channel of approach thereto. During the working-season of 1873 and 1874, within the fiscal year, a large force was employed on front No. 4 of the new earthen battery, building the parapet and the heavy embankment for the terreplein, besides constructing the concrete work of three magazines and completing the necessary drains for that portion of the work. At the close of the fiscal year, when operations were closed for want of funds, the terrepleins had |