New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-20

in the act making appropriations for sun
dry civil expenses of the government for the
year ending June tlirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-seyen, and for other pur-
poses" approved July twenty-eighth,
same is hereby, so amended that said ap-
preparation, or any part thereof, may be
expended under the direction of either the
War Department, or the Navy Department,
in the discretion of the President.
Approved June %, 1870.
GPUBLIC-No. 81.
JOINT RESOLUTION donating condemned
ordnance for a soldiers monument at
POughkeepsie, New York.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War is hereby authorized to
deliver to the municipal authorities of the
city Of Poughkeepsie, New York, three con-
demned iron cannon, two condemned brass
cannon, and two hundred round shot, to be
used in the erection of a soldiers monument
at that place.
Approved, June %, 1870.
PUBLIC REsOLUTIoN-No. 81.
JOINT RESOLUTION granting an Amer
lean register to the British built schooner
''Venilia"
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is,
authorized to issue an American register to
the British built schooner ':Venilia,' wrecked
and abandoned in waters of the United
States, and now owned by citizens of Maine.
Approved, June p, 1870.
PUBLIC REsOLUTION-NO. 53
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the
Secretary Of War to place at the disposal
of the judges of the county court Of
Greene county, State of Missouri, certain
captured ordnance.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary Of War be, and he is hereby, au-
thOrized and directed to place at the dis
posal of the Judges of the county court of
the county of Greene, in the State of Mis-
souri,, eight captured twelve-pounder guns
of obsolete pattern, now condemned and in
store at the Rock Island arsenal. to be
placed in Franklin Square, North Spring
field, Missouri, around a monument to be
erected to the memory of the late Brigadier
General Nathaniel Lyon and the federal
soldiers who fell with him at the battle OF
Wilson Creek.
Approved, June 1850.
(PUBLIC REsOLUTION-No. 80.
JOINT RESOLUTION granting condemned
guns to the Soldiers Monument AsssOcia-
ton of Adrian, Michigan.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United STATES of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be authorized to turn over
to the Soldiers Monument Association, OF
Adrian, Michigan, four pieces of condemned
iron or bronze guns, on hand unfit for army
purposes, for enumeration OF their soldiers
monument grounds.
Approved, June p, 1870.
PUBLIC REsOLUTION-No. 40.
JOINT RESOLUTION to enable the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to collect wrecked
and abandoned property, derelict claims,
and dues belonging to the United States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled. That the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby author
lied to make such contracts and provisions
as he may deem most advantageous for the
interests of the government. for the preser-
walton, sale. or collection of any property,
or the proceeds thereof. which may have
been wrecked, abandoned, or become dere-
lict, being within the jurisdiction of the
United States, and which ought to come to
the United States, or any moneys, dues, and
other interests lately in the possession
of or due to the sO-called Confederate
States, or their agents, and now belonging
to the United States, which are now
withheld or retained by any person, corpor-
alton, or municipality whatever, and which
ought to have come into the possession and
custody of, or been collected or received by,
the United States; and in such contracts to
allow such compensation to any person Civ
ing information thereof, or who shall ac-
tually preserve, collect, surrender, or pay
over the same, as the Secretary Of the
Treasury may deem just and reasonable:
Provided, That no cost or claim, OF what
ever name or nature, shall become charge
able to the United States in so obtaining
preserving. collecting. receiving. or making
available property, debts, dues, or interests,
which shall not be paid from such moneys
as shall be realized and received from the
property so collected, under each specific
agreement.
Approved, June 81, 1870.
(PUBLIC REsOLUTION-NO. so
RESOLUTION authorizing a distribution
of the copies remaining in the Depart
ment Of State of the Tributes of the
Nation to Abraham Lincoln
Resolved by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
copies of the Tributes of the Nation TO
Abraham Lincoln" now remaining undis-
posed of in the possession of the Secretary
of State, be distributed as follows, to wit
three copies to cash senator and member of
the House of Representatives OF the forty
first Congress, and the remainder to be dis
tributed BY the Secretary of State to such
persons as he shall indicate, the Secretary
of State having the authority to have re-
finished at the Government Printing Office
such copies as may need the same.
Approved, June p, 1870.
CPUBLIC-No. 81.
AN ACT to regulate the salaries of chief
justices and associate justices in the Ter
ritories.
Be it enated by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That from
and after the passage of this act the sala-
ries of the chief justices and associate JUS
tees of the Territories Of New Mexico,
Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Dakota and Utah, shall be
three thousand dollars each per annum
Approved, June II, 1870.
[PUBLIC-No. s..
AN ACT exempting from taxes certain
property in the District of Columbia, and
to amend the ''Act to provide for the ere
alton Of corporations in the District OF
Columbia by general law"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That from