New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13

party to the said suit to appeal from tn
, final decree of the saids :rcuit court to th1
Supreme Court of the united States, as il
other cases, and the Supreme Court shall
thereupOn proceed to hear and determin,
/ the said case and make final decree there
in, and thereupon, if such decree shall be il
favor Of said company, the Secretary of tn,
Treasury of the United States shall, out O
any moneys in the treasury not otherwis,
appropriated, pay to the said company sucl
sum of money as shall by the said Supreme
Court be SO decreed to be paid to the sale
company; provided, nevertheless, that pt
money shall be paid by the Secretary of thu
Treasury to the said company until the Su
preme Court of the United States, upon ap
peal taken as aforesaid, shall render tinal
decree in the case in 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 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 Forr 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.
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, tifty-seven thousand five hundred
| dollars.
For battery on Firms point, Delawa
| river, twenty thousand dollars.
| For fort at Willetts point, East river,
! New York, forty-ive thousand dollars
| For Fort Hamilton and additional bat
! teries. New York LarbOr, twenty-five thou
| sand dollars.
For fort on site Of Fort Tompk;ns, New
York harbor, tfty-two thousand dollars
For Battery Hudson. New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia,
For new fort opposite Fort Delaware
Delaware shere, 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.
forty-twO thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Jackson. Mississippi river, Louis
lana, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river.
louisiana thirty-seven thousand tive hun
dred 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-fve
thousand dollars.
For purchase of sites proposed to be occu-
pied tor permanent seacOast detenses 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
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 hun
bred thousand dollars.
For survey for military defenses, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and the
unexpended balance Of appropriations for
permanent detenses at Narragansett bay,
Rhode Island remaining on the thirtieth
day OF. June, eighteen hundred and seventy,
and the uneXpended balances of the apprO-
priations 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. for the fiscal wear ending June
thirty. eighteen hundred and seventy one,"
are hereby appropriated for the same pur-
pose.
Approved March 3, 1871.
AN ACT to authorize [.heI Worthington Ma
tional Bank o. Cooperstown. New York,
TO change its name and location.
BE L enacted by the Senate and House of
America in Congress assembled. That the
Worthington National Bank. now located
in Coopers,own, State OF New York, is
hereby authorized to change its location to
tie village OF Oneonta. in the county OF
Otsego. and State OF New York. When
ever the stockholders representing three
tourths OF the capital OF said bank, at a
meeting called for that purpose, determine
10 make such change, the president and
cashier shall execute a certificate, under
the corporate seal o. the bank. specifying
such determination and shall cause the
same to be recorded i'll the Office of the
controller of the currency, and thereupOn
such change OF location shall be effected;
and the operations OF discount and deposit
of said bank shall be carried Oh under the
name Of the First National Bank of One
onta. in the village of OneOnta, in the
county of O.segO. and State OF New
York.
SEC. .. And be it further enacted. That
nothing IN this act contained shall be SO
construed as i'll any manner to release the
said bank from any liability, or affect any
action or proceeding in law in which the
said bank may be a party or interested.
And when such change shall have been de-
te,mined upon as aforesaid, notice thereof
and OF such change shall be published in at
least two weekly newspapers in the afOre.
said county in which COoperstown is situ-
ate, in the State Of New York, for not less
than four successive weeks.
Approved February q, 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 81
AN ACT to amend an act for the relief
Jearum Atkins. approved July fifteen,
eighteen hundred and seventy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
act entitled can act for the relief of Jearum
Atkins" approved July fifteen. eighteen
hundred and seventy, be- and the same is
hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
That the Commissioner of Patents be, and
he hereby is, authorized to entertain and
exercise Jurisdiction over petition OF