New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-03

party to the said suit to appeal from the
final decree of the saids reuit court to the
Supreme Court of the emitted States, as in
other cases, and the Supreme Court shall
thereupon proceed to hear and determine
the said case and make q final decree there
in, and thereupon, If such decree shall be in
favor of said company, the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States shall, out of
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, pay to the said company such
sun of money as shall by the said Supreme
Court be so decreed to be paid to the said
company; provided, nevertheless, that DO
money shall be paid by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the said company until the SUI
preIne Court of the United States, upon APP
peal taken as aforesaid, shall render a final
decree in the case Ia favor of said company.
Approved March 3, 1871.
AN ACT making Appropriations for the
Construction, Preservation and Repairs
of certain Notifications and other Works
OF Defence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sun be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury o otherwise appropriated, for the
following Notifications and other works of
defense:
For Fort Gorges, 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 harbor, Massa-
chusetts, fifty thousand dollars.
For battery ON Long Island head, Boston
harbor, Massachusetts, thirty-seven thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Winthrop, Boston harbOr, Mas
saehusetts, forty-fve Thousand five hundred
dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston harbor,
Massachusetts, twenty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New
York, tifty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For battery on Firms point, Delawa 2
river, twenty Thousand dollars.
For fort at Willett's point, East river,
New York, forty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Hamilton and additional bat
teries, New York harbor, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, New
York harbor, fifty-two thousand dollars.
Fol Battery Hudson, New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Mih1in, near Philadelphia,
twenty-six 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-two thousand five hundred dollars.
l. For Fort jackson, Mississippi river, Louis
lana, fifty Thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river
Louisiana, thirty-seven thousand five hun.
dred dollars.
For fort at Fort point, entrance to San
Francisco harbor, California, fifty thousand
dollars. T..
For fort at Lime point, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For fort on Alcatraz Island, in the harbol
! of San francisco, California, s~eventy-fve
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 eXpediencJ
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 expenditure;
therefor.
For contingencies of Notifications, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For sea-coast mortar batteries, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
For survey for military defenses, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the
unexpended balance of appropriations fol
''permanent defenses at Nara gansett bay
Rhode Island" remaining on the thirtietl
day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy
and the unexptnded balances of the appro
priations made by the act approved July
eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled AN act making appropriations fol
the construction, preservation, and repair
of certain Notifications, and other works OF
defense, for the fiscal year ending Jun'
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy one,
are hereby appropriated for the same pur
pose.
Approved March 3, 1871.
AN ACT to authorize THE Worthington Ma
tiOnal Bank of Cooperstown, New York
to change its name and location.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House O.
Representatives of the United States o.
America in Congress assembled, That thu
Worthington National Bank, now located
in Cooperstown, State of New York, ii
hereby authorized to change its location t.
the village of Oneonta, in the county O.
Otsego, and State of New York. When
ever the stockholders representing three
fourths of the capital of said bank, at
meeting called for that purpose, determine
to make such change, the president ant
cashier shall execute a certificate, under
the corporate seal of the bank, specifying
such determination, and shall cause The
same to be recorded in the office OF tn,
controller of the currency, and thereupol
such change of location. shall be effected
and the operations OF discount and deposi
of said bank shall be carried on under tn
name of the First National Bank of One
onta, in the village of Oneonta, in tn
county of Otsego, and State OF NeI
Ysrk.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, Tha
nothing in this act contained shall be s
construed as in any manner to release til
said bank from any liability, or affect an
action or proceeding in law in which tn
said bank may be a party or interested
And when such change shall have been dt
termined upon as aforesaid, notice thereC
and of such change shall be published in a
least two weekly newspapers in the afor'
said county in which COoperstown is sitl
ate, in the State of New York, for not les
than four successive weeks.
Approved February u, ISL
GENERAL NATURE-No. 67.1
AN ACT to amend an act for the relief
Jearum Atkins, approved July tifteel
eighteen hundred and seventy.
BE it enacted by the~ Senate and Hous
of Representatives of the United States
America in Congress assembled, That I'll
act entitled "An act for the relief of Jearul
Atkins" approved July fifteen, eightee
hundred and seventy, be, and the same
hereby, amended so as to read as follow
That the Commissioner of Patents be, an
he hereby is, authorized to entertain an
exercise jurisdiction over a petition