New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-26

coed therein to final decree as IN other cases
| in equity. And it shall be lawful for either
party to the said suit TO appeal from the
final decree of the said circuit court to the
Supreme Court of the United States, as in
other cases, and the Supreme Court shall
thereupon proceed to hear aud determine
| the said case and mike q final decree there
| in, and thereupon, Il such decree shall be in
favor of said company, the Secretary OF the
/ Treasury of the United States shall, ont of
hany moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated pay to the said company such
sum 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
| peal taken as aforesaid, shall render a final
| decree in the case in favor of said company.
Approved March 8 1871.
| AN ACT making Appropriations fer the
Construction, Preservation and Repairs
of certain Fortiications 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 III the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, Tor 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 Scammell, 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
sachusetts, forty-five thousand five hundred
dollars.
| For Fort Independence Boston harb6r,
| Massachusetts, twenty-seven thousand five
| hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New
York, hfty-seven thousand five hundred
| dollars.
| For fort al Willett's point. East river.
| New York. forty-tive thousand dollars.
| For Fort Hamilton and additional bat
teries. New York harbor. twenty-five thou
! sand dollars.
/ For fort on site of Fort Tompkns, New
| York harbor, ffty-two thousand dollars.
For Battery Hudson, New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
| For Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia,
!
| 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-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 nve hun
| bred dollars.
Fer fort at Fort point entrance to San
| Francisco harbOr, California, fly thousand
| dollars.
For fort at Lime point one hundred
| thousand dollars.
| For fort on Alcatraz Island, in the harbor
| Of San Francisco, California, seyenty-tiye
| thousand dollars
| For purchase of sites proposed to be oecu-
| 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 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
/ dox oil ,1pa air
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 year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy one"
are hereby appropriated for the same pur-
| pose.
Approved March g. 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
y
| for 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.
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
Representatives of the United States of
| America in Congress assembled, That it
shall be the duty of the congressional prin-
! ter. in place of the twenty-five hundred
copies of the abridgment of the annual re-
| port of the Secretary of War ordered by
! section one of the act of July twenty
| seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty six, to-
cause to be printed and bound for the use
| OF the War Department, eight hundred full
! copies of the last annual report and accom-
| pahying documents.
Approved. January 10, 1871.
| GENERAL NATURE-No. S.
| AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled
| IAN act to further provide for giving
| effect 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
| Representatives of the United States OF
| America in Congress assembled, That sec
/ tioH foup of an act entitled 1" An act to fur