New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-23
UNDEB THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAvY-FARDS,

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EAvY-FARDs.
Tayy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
For repairs of all kinds, seVentY-fye thou
sand dollars; for repairs Of floating docks
eighty thousand dollars; for permanent i'm
provements, namely, for bridge connecting
Seayey's island, four thousand dollars; il
all, one hundred and fifty nine Thousand
two hundred dollars.
For constructing and testing experimental
breech-loading boathO witzers, ten thou
sand dollars.
Maynard, Boston, Massachusetts,: Fol-
repairs of all kinds, seyeDty-tiye thousand
dollars
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For
repairs Of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars
Maynard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand
dollars.
Navy yard, Washington, District of Co,
lumbia: For repairs of all kinds. seventy
five thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For re-
pairs Of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars.
Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For re-
pairs Of all kinds, twenty-five thousand dol
Navy yard Mare island, California: For
dollars; for repairs Of floating docks, one
hundred thousand dollars; for permanent
improvements, namely, tor commencing dry
dock, two hundred thousand dollars CON
tinuiHg quay wall and whaFves, thirty thou
sand dollars; continuation of rail tracks,
five thousand dollars; in all, four hundred
and ten thousand dollars.
Naval station at League island, Pennsyl-
yania: For repairs and maintenance of en-
H.. a.. i "A
and fifteen thousand dollars.
For naval station at New London, Con-
necticut: For building wharf, grading, for
building st0rehouee and for care and pre-
serTation OF property twenty thousand
dollars
Naval station at Key Wess, Florida: For
repairs OF alb kinds. fifteen thousand dol
lars.
Emergencies as naval stations; For ener-
gencies that may arise At naval stations.
forty thousand dollars.
UNDER yRE DEPARTMENT or 4G-
RICULTURE.
BUILDINGS &ED GROUNDS.
Tor Improvements Of grounds For labor,
twelve thousand dollars; For heating appa-
ratus for new grapery, two thousand dol
lars; for material for roads and walks, one
thousand five hundred dollars; for cast iron
labels for naming trces in arbOretum, one
hundred dollars; tor tUOls, repairs and
blackBmithing, one Thousand dollars; for
draining tiles fop grounds, five hundred dol
lars; for terrace walls, two thousand five
hundred dollars; for Repairing fence around
grounds. one thousand dollars; and for a
furnace in she laboratory, four hundred
dollars; in all, twenty-0ne thousand dollars.
Toward completing the Museum under
the charge of Professor T0WQsen1 Glover.
three thousand dollars.
SEC 3 Bnae cat of che nnexpCnded
balance Of the appropriation (8ecti0n twen-
ty seven Of the act approved april TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-onPi
for more etectaally securing life and prop
erty on She coasts Of New Jersey and long
Island, for the fiscal year 6nding June thirs
tieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-tRo,
the sum Of two hundred thousand dollars is
hereby excepted frOm the operation of the
fifth section of the act OF July twelfth,
eighteen hundred and seventy.
SEA. 3. Thab the sum OF tSo hundHed and
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
tifty-one dollars and eight cents is hereby
appropriated TO enable the Secretary of the
Treasury 20 return to the clerk of the
United States district court, for the South
ern district OF Illinois tie One-haIf Of four
hundred and htty-one thousand five hun
dred and twS dollars and sixteen cents paid
20 said Secretary by said clerk As prize
money, in pursuance of d decree Of said
court made on the aleSenth day of Nav,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which de-
exec was atterVard, TO wit, on the ninth
day OF June. eighteen hundred and sixty
1--WE held 10 be erroneous and
set aside by said couEt, and said
money ordered to DO returned 20 said court
Tor distribution 10 the lawful owners there
20 nj Nd bat 4 .+.,r
cause to be Transferred the said sum of two
hundred and twenty-five thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars and eight
}entS from the navy pension funG to the
5redlt Of the Treasurer OF the United States; |
he moneys so directed 10 be returned hay-
ng been deposited to she credit OF saio |
und on che SwentgtAirta Of May, eighteen !
hundred and Sixt Four, by warrant nusQbey !
inc hundred and sixty nine.
SEC. 4. That the PROPER accounting offjcers |
# ch8 Treasury Department be, and they |
.re hereby, authorized and objected, in ad- !
usting the account of William &apas, col !!
ectOr of customs ior the dietgict OF Alaska, !
o make aB allowance for tie Compensation |
Il Charles Il. Pierce tor services rendered 7
q aid OF the collection Of the revenue from |
ustOtns ut the port OF 0onalaSks, iI4 said |
district, Of such sum "a they !aAg deem Just
nd equitable for the time actually en-
,iOy@d. not TO exceed the rate 81 enc thaU- !
and five hundred dollars per annun.
SEC 3. That 70 enable the Secretary "f I
he Interior to pay StaDdish and Ballard. J
ttOTueya, their account Tor defending the !
eGisteT and She Toceiyer at IouiH, Michjgan,
be SUM % one $houSa03 dollars il hereby
ppropriaHed. Z
SEC. 8. That iD the sett1smens Of ju6g-
lent8 by the Court OF Claims or the Su-
RENE Court of the United States, hereafter !
) be rendered for captured or abandoned !
ottOn, or III settlements foB cotton seized
lbFeqnent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
red and siK$y-1ve, the Secretary OF the
reasnry is hereby directed to pay such
Idgments, cr the amounts as 8Bcert8ined |
pom such settlements in full without de-
uCtiOn on account OF Internal revenue taK
pen cotton.
Sec. 7. That the accounting officers of She
essuTy be and they are hereby authorized
id directed, IN adjusting the accounts Of
le collector of customs for the port of
hicago, to allow him, az an ex-offfcio de-
7sitary Of moneys belonging to the United
5ates, a credit for such sum or sums in
lin Or currency, as may satisfactorily ap-
eaE to have been held by him, AS such de-
)sitafy, 8G the time Of the fire in said /
ty on the ninth and tenth days of Octo-
ar, eighteen hundred and sev8Dty-one,
i'd to have been hest or destroyed by fire.
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL EATURB-NO. 134l
o act making appropriations for the repair,
preservation and completion of certain
public works on rivers and harbors and
FOR other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House !
Representatives of the United States of
neriea in Congress assembled, That the |
flowing sums Of money be and are hereby