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} final decree of the saids .-cuit court to the
Supreme Court of the United States, as in
other cases, and the Supreme Court shall
thereupon proceed to hear and determine
the said case and make 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
sum Of money as shall by the said Supreme
Court be so decreed to be paid to the said
company; provided, nevertheless, that no
money shall be paid by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the said company until the Su-
preme Court OF the United States, upon ap:
peal taken as aforesaid, shall render final
decree in the case in favor of said company
Approved March g. 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,
| treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
following fortifcations 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, Massar
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-fve thousand five hundred
dollars.
For Fort Independence. Boston harbor,
Massachusetts, twenty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler. East river, New
dollars.
For battery on Firms point, Delawa g
river, twenty thousand dollars.
For fort at Willett's point. East river,
New York, forty-fve 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, ffty-two thousand dollars.
For Battery Hudson. New York harbor,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars
For Fort Mitfiin. 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.
For Fort jackson, Mississippi river, Louis
| lana, fifty thousand dollars.
! For Fort Saiut pfjiin NiSSi sSipy,i river
Louisiana, thirty-seven thousand five hun
I 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-dve
thousand dollars.
| For purchase OF sites proposed to be Occu-
| pied tor permanent sea-coast 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
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 fer military detenses, one
| hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the
! unexpended balance OF appropriations for
| permanent defenses at Narragansett bay,
Rhode Island remaining OF tie thirtieth
| day of June. eighteen hundred and seventy.
| and the uneXpended balances OF the apprO-
| prations made by the act approved July
| eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy en-
titled An act making appropriations for
the construction, preservation. and repairs
of certain Notifications. ard OtLer works of
defense. for the fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seveuty-one,"
are hereby appropriated tor the same pur-
pose.
Approved March 3. 1871.
AN ACT to authorize 1.-THE Warrington Ma
tional Bank Of Cooperstown. New York,
to change its name and location.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled. That the
Worrhington National Bank. now located
in CcoperstOwn, State OF New York, is
hereby authorized to change its location to
the village Of Oneonta. il the county of
Otsego. and State of New York. When
ever the stockholders representing three
fourths of the capital OF said bank. at a
meeting called for that purpose. determine
to make such change. the president and
cashier shall execute a certificate, under
the corporate seal of the bank, pecifying
such determination, and shall cause the
same to be recorded III 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 on under the
name of the First National Bank of One
onta. in the village OF Oneonta. in the
county Of Otsego, and State OF New
York.
Sec ?. And be it further enacted, That
nothing in this act contained shall be SO
construed as in any manner TO release the
action or proceeding in law in which the
And when such change shall have been de-
tern:ned 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 stu
ate, in the State of New York, for not less
than four successive weeks.
Approved February y, 1871.
GENERAL NAIURE-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 IAN act for the relief Of Jearum
Atkins approved July fifteen, eighteen
hundred and seventy, be, and the same is
hereby, amended so as 10 read as follows:
THAT the Commissioner CT Patents be, and
he hereby is, authorized to entertain and