New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-24

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, in equity. And II shall be lawful for eitht
party to tie said suit to appeal from ID
final decree Of the said circuit court to tn
Supreme Court of the United States, as i
other cases, and the Supreme Court sha
| thereupon proceed TO hear and determin
the said case and make a final decree there
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favor OF said company, tn Secretary of til
Treasury of the United States shall, ont o
any moneys in the treasury not otherwis
appropriated, pay to the said company sucl
sum Of money as shall BY the said Suprenl
Court be SO decreed to be paid to the sal,
company; provided, nevertheless that p
money shall be paid by the Secretary of tn,
Treasury to the said company until the Su
preme Court of the United States, upon ap
| peal taken as aforesaid, shall render a fina
| decree in the case in favor of said company
Approved March 3, 1871.
! AN ACT making Appropriations for thu
Construction, Preservation and Repairs
of certain Notifications and other Works
/ of Defence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o.
Representatives of the United States o.
/ America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
following Notifications and other works Of
/ defense:
For Fort Georges, Portland harbor, Maine
| fifteen thousand dollars
| For Fort Preble, Portland harbor, Maine.
! twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars
For Fort Scanned, Portland harbor,
Maine, fifty thousand dollars
For Fort Warren, Boston hsrbor, Massa-
| chusetts, fifty thousand dollars.
For battery on Long Island head, Boston
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| sand five hundred dollars.
| For Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor, Mas
| sachusetts, forty-tive thousand five hundred
| dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston harbor,
Massachusetts, twenty-seven thousand five
| hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New
York, hfty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For fort at Willetts point East river,
New York, forty-fve thousand dollars
For Fort Hamilton and additional bat
teries, New York harboE, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, New
York harbor, fifty-two thousand dollars
For Battery Hudson, New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Miffiin, near Philadelphia,
twenty-six thousand dollars :.
For battery on Firms point, Delaware
river, twenty thousand dollars.
For new fort opposite Fort Delaware,
Delaware shore, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river.
twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida,
fOrty-tw0 thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort jackson, Mississippi river, Louis
lana, fifty Thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river,
louisiana, thirty thousand five hun
bred dollars.
For fort at Fort point, entrance to San
Francisco harbor, California, fifty thousand
dollars.
For fort at Lime point, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For fort on Alcatraz Island, in the harbor
of San Francisco, California, seventy-five
thousand dollars.
For purchase of sites proposed to be occu-
pied for permanent sea-coaSt defenses: pro-
vided, that no such purchase shall be made
except upon the approval of its expediency
by the Secretary of War, and of the validity
OF the title by the Attorney General, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
provided further, that no contracts or obi
CATION be incurred for future expenditures
therefor.
For contingencies of Notifications, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For sea-coast mortar batteries, one hum
dred thousand dollars.
For survey for military defenses, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the
unexpended balance of appropriations for
permanent defenses at Narragansett bay,
Rhode Island" remaining ON the thirtieth
day OF June, eighteen hundred and seventy,
and the unexpended balances of the appro-.
priatsons made by the act approved July
eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled IAN act making appropriations for
the construction, preservation, and repairs
OF certain Notifications, and other works of
defenSe, tor the fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy one."
are hereby appropriated for the same pur-
pose.
Approved March 3, 1871.
AN ACT making Appropriations for Rev
enue Cutters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of |
Representatives. of the United States of |
America in Congress assembled. That the |
sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, |
and the same hereby is, appropriated out |
OF any moneys in the treasury not other |
wise appropriated, to enable the Secretary |
Of the Treasury to construct steam cutters |
tor the revenue marine service, the same |
not to exceed in tonnage the maximum re- |
commended by the commission appointed /
by the Secretary of the Treasury December |
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. I
Approved December %, 1870.
AN ACT relating to the printing of the |
annual report of the Secretary of War;
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF /
of the United States of
America in Congress assembled That it
shall be the duty of the congressional prin-
er,. in place of the twenty five hundred
copies of the abridgment of the annual re-
bort OF the Secretary of War ordered by
section one OF the act of July TWENTY |
seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty six, to
'ause to be printed and bound for the use |
II the War Department, eight hundred full
oples OF the last annual report and accom-. |
'anying documents
Approved, January 10. 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 5S.1
IN ACT amendatory of an act entitled
An act to further provide for giving |
eheet to the various grants of public
lands to the State of Nevada" approved
June eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
of the United States of
america in Congress assembled, That Sec
ion four of an act entitled AN act to fur
her provide for giving effect to the various
rants of public lands to the State of Ne
ada be and the same is hereby amended
Q as to read as follows And it is further
nacted that the lands granted to the State
4 California for the establishment of an |
gricultural college by the act of July
econd. eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
nd acts amendatory thereto, may be |