New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-17

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| 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 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 DO
money shall be paid by the Secretary of the
| Treasury to the said company until the SUI
| preme 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 sums be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated, out of any money In the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
following IoftlucdGioHS anu obhoi wins w
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
ho, MoSc hns l1iptx p
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, ffty-seven thousand five hundred
| 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.
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,
| 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 five 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 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 defenses at Narragansett bay,
| Rhode Island" remaining on the thirtieth
| day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy
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| priatiOns made by the act approved July
| eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
| titled San 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, Y
| are hereby appropriated for the same pur-
| pose.
Approved March 3, 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 meshereby is, appropriated, out
| of any moneys in the treasury not other
| wise appropriated, to enable the Secretary
| of the Treasury to construct steam cutters
| luz bUt ISNtuuc SclNlCt, tuC cdluc
| 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 mine.
Approved December y, 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-
panying documents.
Approved, January 10, 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 58,l
| AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled
An act to further provide for giving
effect 10 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 81 An act to fur
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