New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-13
arIIDISGs AND GROUNDS.

Ut iL1tiCNEs AMI HtSOJNDS
For improvement 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 iror
| labels for naming trees in arboretum, one
| hundred dollars; for TOOLS repairs anC
| blacksmithing, one thousand dollars; f0l
draining tiles for 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 the laboratory, four hundred
dollars; in all, twenty-One thousand dollars
Toward completing the museum under
the charge of Professor Townsend Glover,
three thousand dollars.
Sec. 2 That out of the unexpended
balance OF the appropriation (secti0n TWEEN
ty-seven of the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seyentv-one)
for more ettectually securing life and prop
erty on the coasts of New jersey and Long
Island, for the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-two,
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
SEC. ;. That the sum of two hundred and
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
ffty-one dollars and eight cents is hereby
appropriated TO enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to return to the clerk Of the
United States district court, for the South
ern district OF Illinois the One-half of four
hundred and ffty-one thousand five hun
dred and TWO dollars and sixteen cents paid
to said Secretary by said clerk as prize
money, in pursuance of a decree of said
court made on the eleventh day of Nav
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which de-
cree was atterward, to wit, on the ninth
day Of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
five, held to be erroneous aud
set aside by said court and said
money ordered to be returned to said court
for distribution to the lawful owners there
of and to this end that the said Secretary
cause to be transferred the said sum of two
hundred and twenty-five thousand seven
hundred and ffty-One dollars and eight
cents from the navy pension fund to the
credit OF the Treasurer of the United States;
the moneys so directed to be returned hav-
ing been deposited to the credit of said
fund on the twenty-third Of May, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four. by warrant number
one hundred and sixty nine.
SEC. 4. That the proper accounting officers
of the Treasury Department be, and they
are hereby, authorized and directed, in adj
justing the account of William Kapus, col
leCtOT Of customs for the district of Alaska
to make an allowance for the compensation
Of Charles II. Pierce for services rendered
in aid OF the collection of the revenue from
customs at the port of Oonalaska, in said
district, Of such sum as they may deem Just
and equitable for the time actually en-
plOyed, not to exceed the rate OF one thou
sand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. }. That to enable the Secretary of
the Interior to pay Standish and Ballard,
attorneys, their account for defending the
register and the receiverat IOpia, Michigan,
the sum Of one thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated.
SEC. e. That in the settlement of judg-
ments by the Court of Claims or the Su-
preme Court Of the United States, hereafter
to be rendered for captured or abandoned
cotton, or in settlements for cotton seized
to June thiTtieth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-fye, the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby directed to pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertaned
upon such settlements in fun without de-
ductiOn on account of internal revenue tax
upon cotton.
SEC. 7. That the accounting officers Of the
treasury be and they are hereby authorized
and directed, i'll adjusting the accounts of
the collector of customs for the port Of
Chicago, TO allow him, as an ex-otficio de-
postaTy Of moneys belonging to the United
States, a credit for such sum or sums, in
coin or currency, as may satisfactorily ap-
pear to have been held by him, as such de-
at the time Of the fire in said
city on the ninth and tenth days OF Octo-
Der, eighteen hundred and seventy-oRe,
and to have been lost or destroyed by fire.
Approved June TO- 1872