New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-15

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Supreme Court of the omitted States, ~ in
other eases, and the Supreme Court shall
thereupOn proceed to hear and determine
the said case and make fS1al 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 APP
peal taken as aforesaid, shall render a final
| decree in the case in 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 Notifications and other works of
defense:
For Fort Gorses, Portland harbO-, Maine,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Preble, Portland harbor. Maine.
twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort ScammeIl. 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, torty-iive thousand tive hundred
dollars.
For Fort Independence. Boston harbor,
Massachusetts. twenty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars.
For Fort Schuyler. East river. New
York, tifty-seven thousand tive hundred
dollars.
For battery on Firms point. Delawa :
river, twenty thousand dollars.
For fort at Willert'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 Tompkins. New
York harbor. ffty-two thousand dollars.
For Battery Hudson. New York harbOr,
sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For Fort Mithin. near PhiladelphiB
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 harboa
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.
| 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 tive
thousand dollars.
For purchase OF sites proposed to be occu-
pied tor permanent sea-coast defenses: pro-
vided that no such purchase shall be made
except upon the approval of its expediencv
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 ODli-
CATION DC incurred for future expenditures
therefor.
For contingencies of Notifications two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
dred thousand dollars.
For survey for military defenses. one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and the
unexpendeG balance of appropriations tor
permanent detenses at Narragansert bay.
Rhode Island remaining on the thirtieth
day OF June. eighteen hundred and seventy.
ard the unexpended balances of the appro-
prlations 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 3. 1871.
AN ACT to authorize [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 the
Worthington National Bank. now located
hereby authorized to change its location to
the village of Oneonta. in 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, specifying
such determination, and shall cause the
same to be recorded in 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. 2. And be it further enacted. That
nothing in this act contained shall be so
construed as in any manner to release the |
said bank from any liability, or affect any |
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 at
least two weekly newspapers i'll 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 q, 1871.
GENERAL NArURE-No. g.
AN ACT to amend an act for the relief o
Jearum Atkins, approved July fifteen
eighteen hundred and seventy.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That the
act entitled can act for the relief Of Jearum
Atkins approved July fifteen. eighteen
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