New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-18
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NATY-YARDs.
Maynard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For repairs of all kinds, seventy-five thou
sand dollars; for repairs Of floating docks,
eighty thousand dollars for permanent i'm
proTements, namely, for bridge connecting
Seavey's island, four thousand dollars; in
all, one hundred and fifty nine thousand
two hundred dollars.
For constructing and testing experimental
breeeh-loadiDg boat-howitzers, ten thou.
sand dollars
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts,: For
repairs Of all kinds, seventy-hVe thousand
dollars
Maynard, Brooklyn, New York Fer
repairs Of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars.
Navy-yard, 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
lars.
Navy yard, Mare island, California: For
repairs of all kinds, seventy-hye thousand
dollars; for repairs of floating docks, one
hundred thousand dollars; for permanent
improvements, namely, tor commencing dry
dock, two hundred thousand dollars; con
tinuing quay wall and Wharves, 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-
vania: For repairs and maintenance Of en-
bankments and for dredging, one hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars.
For naval station at New London, Con
necticut: For building wharf, grading, for
building storehouse, and for care and pre-
servation of property, twenty thousand
dollars.
Naval station at Key West, Florida: For
repairs Of all kinds, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
Emergencies at naval stations; For emer-
gencies that may arise at naval stations,
forty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AG-
RICULTURE.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
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 iron
labels for naming trees in arboretum, one
hundred dollars; for tools, repairs and
blacksmithing, one thousand dollars; for
draining tiles for grounds, five hundred dol
lars; for terrace walls, two thousand five
hundred dollars; for repairing fence around
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. g That out of the unexpended
balance Of the appropriation section TWEEN
ty-seVen OF the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one)
for more effectually 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. 3. That the sum of two hundred and
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
fifty-0ne 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-hait of four
hundred and ffty-0ne thousand five hun
bred 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 May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-f0ur, which de-
cree was atterward, to wit, on the ninth
day Of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
FIVE, held to be erroneous and
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-0ne dollars and eight
cents from the navy pension fund to the
credit OF the Treasurer Of the United States;
the mCnevs 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-tOur, by warrant mum Der
one hundred and sixtynine.
SEC. l. That the proper accounting officers
of the Treasury Department be, and they
are hereby, authorized and directed, III adj
+iusting the account of William kapus, col
Iector Of customs for the district of Alaska,
to make an allowance for the compensation
Of Charles H. 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-
ploved, not to exceed the rate OF one thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. 5. That to enable the Secretary Of
the Interior to pay Standish and Ballard,
attorneys, their account for defending the
register and the receiver at Ionia, Michigan,
the sum OF one thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated
SEC s. 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
subsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-tiye, the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby directed to pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertained
upon such settlements in full 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, in adjusting the accounts Of
the collector of customs for the port of
Chicago. to allow him, as an exotficiO de-
positary 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-
positary, at the time Of the fire in said
city on the ninth and tenth days of OCto-
Der, eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
and to have been lost or destroyed by fire.
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 1874.
An act making appropriations for the repair,
preservation and completion of certain
public works on rivers and harbors and