The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19

| used AND all acts heretofore passed ana now IN
| force in the District of Columbia for the protec
tion of telegraph poles, wires. and corporations
| shall be extended to any such line OF telegraph.
Approved, March 3, 1868.
No. 81
A Resolution to enable the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to obtain the Title to certain Property in
| the City of Denver, Colrado Territory, for the
| Purposes of the Branch Mint located in said
Place.
Whereas, The Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, in order 10 carry into effect an
act entitled An act to establish branch mint
at Denver, in the Territory OF Colorado" APP
proved April tive y first, eighteen hundred and
| siXty-txo, has purchased of Mcssrs Clarke
Gruber, aud Company, the preeml pJtors and
occupants thereof, certain city lots in said town
OF Denver, together with all the valuable i'm
provementS thereon:
And whereas the said Clarke, Gruber, and Com
pany have not, and cannot at an early day, per-
feet their title to said lots by entry vi the same
at the district land office, for the sole reason
that no such Office is yet established III said dis
trict:
And whereas it is highly important for the inter
| est OF the Government to obtain at an early day
the use and possession of said property 10 es
taDsh and open said mint, therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentativcs of the Uni ed States of America in
Congress assembled That, the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to re-
ceve and except from said Clarke, Gruber, and
Company such ACCOMPLISHMENTS and conveyances
of their right claim to said lots and propt rty
as he, the sail Secretary, shall deem sufficient tor
the eXtinguiShment of amy claim, right, or title
which the said Clarke Grul,er and Company may
! or can have thereto. And said lots and property
shall thereafter be reserved from public sale, pre-
! emptiOn, or homestead settlement, and shall re-
main the property OF the United States.
Approved, March ), 1868.
No. 81.
Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the
| Navy to adjust the E. uitable Claims of Contrac-
tors for Naval Supplies, and regulating Con-
tracts with the Navy Department.
| Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
! resentatives of the United States of Ame:lca i'll
| Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized TO adjust
and settle the claims oi contractors for naval sup
plies, who, during the last fiscal year ending
| thirticth june eighteen hundred and sixty two,
! have furnished to tae department more than one
| hundred per centum above the quantities Spcciti-
ed in their contracts and without default therein
and for the purpose oi hearing said claim, may
sociatc with the chief of The bcurrau with which
the contract waS made the chief of any other bll-
rrau, subject to an appeal to said Secretary from
| their decision: Provided That no contractor shall
be allowed, except upon the excess over the stip-
ulatcd quantity and one hundred per ccntum in
| addition thereto, and upon such excess not more
than sufficient to make the price thereon equal
| to the fiir market value of the supplies at tine
time and place of delivery; nor shall any cOntrac
tor be allowed any amount under this section un-
less there has been actual loss to the contractor
upon the whole contract: And provided, further,
! That all claimants under any such contracts sall
present their claims 10 the department within six
months after the passage of This joint resolution,
| or be forever barred from ady equitable claim OH
| account of said contracts.
! See. =. And he it further resolved, That the
! chief OF any bureau of the Navy Department, in
contracting for naval supplies. shall be at liberty
to reject tine Offer OF amy person who, as principal
or surety, has been Il dciaulter in any previous
contract with the Navy Department; nor sinai
parties who have failed principals surcties in
any former contract be received as surites un
| other contracts; nor shall the copartncrs of any
firm be received as suriteS FOR such firm or for
each other; nor, in contracts with the same bI-
/ reau shall one contractor be received surety
| for another; and every contract shall require the
delivery of specified quantity and no bids iIav
| ing nominal or fictitious prices shall be consider
cd. That If more than onc bid be offered 10y any
one purity by or i'll the name of his or their clerk,
partner or other person, all such bids may be re-
! jccted and no person shall he Seccivcd Us Il cOu-
tractor who is not Il manufacturer OF, Or reg ular
dealer ill., the articles which he offers 10 supply,
| who has not license such manufacturer or
! dealer. And all persons offering bids shall have
! the right to be present when the bids opened
and inspect the same.
! Sec. 5. And he it further resolved. That the Sc
crctary Of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authori
zcd to release and discharge the penalties, the
provisions in the nature of penalties, in certain
| cases OF uniultllcd contracts with the bureau Oi
! construction and of provisions and clothing OF
the Navy Department., made by Nathaniel w.
Coffin, William Lang. Henry Newton, Baxter and
summer, and Tilton, Wheelwriyiit, and Company,
for the fiscal year endin thirticth of june, cigh
teen hundred and siyty-twO. made prior to the
proclamation of the President establishing klock.
AIDES of the southern ports, or to the several acts
| OF Congress passed subsequent thereto, imposing
additional duties upon domestic and foreign pro
ducts, wherein, by reason of said acts and failure
of the Government to pay according to the pre-
| scribcd terms, parties have been Obstructed and
prevented from proper fullilment of the same,
to the end that these accounts may he settled and
adjusted on terms of equity and justice; and in
the settlement of such accounts, there sll. be
| sociatcd with the chief of the bureau of the Navy
Department, and their desisioh shall be passed
upon, modified, abridged, rejected or approved
by the Secretary of the Navy as, in his Judgment,
! the law and justice shall require.
Approved, March3 1868