New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-07


f;nai decree of the saidf 2rcuit court TO zthF
I Supreme Court of the United States, as lh
other eases. and the Supreme Court shall
| thereupon proceed to hear and determines
| fine said case and make final decree there
| in and thereupon, if such decree shall be Up
favor of said company, the Seeretary'of inc
| Treasury OF the United States shall, out OF
| any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, pay to the said company sucip
| sum of money as shall by the said Supreme
| Court be so decreed to be paid to the said
| company: provided, nevertheless, that DP
money shall be paid by the Secretary OF thf
Treasury to the said company until the ou-
preme Court of the United States, upon APT
peal taken as aforesaid, shall render f1naA
decree in the case ia favor of said company
Approved March B, 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 thf
treasury not otherwise appropriated, Tor inc
following Notifications and other works OF
defense:
For Fort Gorges, Portland harbor, Maine
fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Preble, Portland harbOr, Maine.
tWenty-eioht thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Scammell, Portland harboI
Maine, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Warren, Boston harbOr, Masss-
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, fortyfve thousand five hundred
dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston harbOf
Massachusetts, twenty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New
York, tfty-seyen thousand five hundred
dollars.
For battery on Firms point, Delawa !
river, twenty thousand dollars.
For fort at Willett's point, East river
New York forty-tiv 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 harbof,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Miftiin. near Philadelphia
twenty-six thousand dollars.
For new fort opposite Fort Delaware
Delaware shore, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort MOultrie, Charleston har0Of
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbOf,
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, LouiF-
lana fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river,
Louisiana. thirty-seven thousand five hum
bred dollars.
For fort at Fort point, entrance to San
Francisco harbor, California, fifty THOUSAND
dollars.
For fort at Lime point, one hundre
thousand dollars.
For fort on Alcatraz Island, in the harbd T
of San Francisco, California, seventy-hye
thousand dollars.
For purchase of sites proposed to be occt-
pied tor 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, Ole
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
provided further, that no contracts or oblE-
CATION be incurred foI future expenditures
therefor.
For contingencies of Notifications, tv o
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 fPr
permanent detenses at NaTagansett 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 Jaly
eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled AN act making appropriations fbr
the construction, preservation, and repairs
of certain Notifications and other works bf
defense. for the fiscal year ending Jul be
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy ond,'
| are hereby appropriated for the same pllr-
pose.
Approved March 3. 1871.
AN ACT to authorize 1.-THE Worthington 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 tbe
WOrthington National Bank, now located
in CoOperstown, State of New York, is
hereby authorized to change its location Ito
the village of One0nta, in the county of
Otsego, and State of New York When-
ever the stockholders representing thrAe-
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, specifying
! such determination; and shall cause the
same to be recorded in the office of the
controller of the currency, and thereapbn
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 Orle-
onta, in the village of Oneonta, in the
county of Otsego, and State of Ndw
York.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That
nothing in this act contained shall be $50
construed as in any manner to release the
said bank from any liability, or affect ahy
action or proceeding in law in which the
said bank may be party or interested
And when such change shall have been de-
termined upon as aforesaid, notice thereof
and of such change shall be published in lat
least two weekly newspapers in the afote-
said county in which Cooperstown is stu
ate, in the State of New York, for not l4ss
than four successive weeks.
Approved February q, 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 81.
AN ACT to amend an ast for the relief o
Jearum Atkins. approved July fftefn,
eighteen hundred and seventy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hot[ se
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
act entitled IAN act for the relief of Jearhm
Atkins" approved July fifteen. eightd len
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