New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-22

party to the sad suit 10 appe2l from. fpe
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 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
7 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
| Dreme Court of the United States upon APP
| peal taken as aforesaid, shall render final
| decree in the case 10 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 III the
treasury not otherwise appropriated for the
following Notifications and other works OF
defense:
For Fort Gorges, Portland harbor, Maine,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Preble, Portland haFbor, Maine.
twenty thousand i've 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,, tlirty-seycn thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor, Mas
sachusetts, forty-fye thousand five hundred
dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston harbor,
Massachusetts, twenty-seyen thousand five
hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler. East river, New
York, ffty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For fort at Willett's point, East river
New York, forty-fve thousand dollars.
For Fort Hamilton and additional bat
tcries. New York harbor, 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,
Del ware 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 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 obl-
CATION be incurred foT 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 defenses at Nara gansett 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 AN 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,h
are hereby appropriated for the same pur-
pose.
Approved March 3, 1871.
AN ACT making Appropriations for Rev
enue Cutters.
I, 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
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 il
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 ,seport and accom-.
panying documents
Approved, January 10, 1871.
GENERAL NArURE-No. ST.
AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled
An 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
ton four OF an act entitled 90 An act to fur
ther provide for giving effect to the various
grants of public lands to the State of Ne.
yada, be and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows: And it is further
enacted that the lands granted to the State
of California for the establishment of an
agricultural college by the act of July.
second, eighteen hundred and sixtv-two.l
and acts amendatOry thereto, may be,