New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-24
UNDER gsRE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

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Navy-yard, Portsmouth New Hampshire
| Foo repairs of all kinds, seventv-fsve thou
| sand dollars; for repairs of floating docks
eight. thousand dollars; for permanent i'm
! provelnents, namely, for bridge connecting
| Seavey's island, four thousand dollars: il
| all, one he8Qre2 an0 fifty niQe tS08san&
( SSQO dHp9re8 Dollars.
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88nba9 D6oB Bepaire Of al6 H!a9s@s, seventy
Gye thousand dollars q.
} Savy yard, NorfdS, girginia For re-
pairs Of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dOllarg0
Navy yard, Pensacola. Florida: For re-
pairs OF an kinds, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
Navy yard. Mare isIanG. California: For
repairs Of all kinds, seyenty-fve thousand
collars; for repairs of floating docks, one
hundred thousand dollars; for permanent
impro0Cnents, namely, tor commencing dry
dock two hundred thousand dollars; CON
Ginning quay wall and wharyes, thirty thou
sand dollars; continuation of rail tracks,
J five thousand dollars in all, Gou9 hundred
and ten thousand dollars.
naval station at League island, PennSyl-
Sania; qor repairs and maintenance of en-
bankments and for dredging, one hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars.
For naval station at New Q0ndOn, Con-
aecticut: For building wharf, grading, for
building storehouse, and for care and pre-
seryatiou OF 9ropertyo Swent9 thousand
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oepailo ag al5 kinds9 tftee0 ehoe6an3 dol
lars
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gencies eha9 may arise Of 38oal s66i0no,
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2%elve 9housanG dollars; for heating appa-
qatus fog neB gPapery, 9wo thousand doA-
BARS; for material for SOads and walks, 8ne
Qhousand 6iyQ hundred dollars; for cast iron
1abFbs Pop naming 9rees in artBoretBtns one
hundred dollars; Cor to0l5, repairs and
blacksmithing, one thousand dollars for
draining tiles Tor grounds, five hundred dol
Iarss 5or terrace walls two thousand i've
hundred dollars for repairing fenee around
grounds, one thousand dollars; and for
furnace in the laboratory, gour hundred
dollars; in all, twenty one thousand dollars.
Toward completing the museum under
the charge % Professor BOWRsgnd Glover,
three thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. That QUE Of qhe u6expended
balance Of tho appropriation section tYen
ty-seveQ Of the act approved gpril TWEEN
Qieth, eighteen hundred and Seyenty-Onel
for more etfectually securing life and prop
erty on the coasts of New 9ersey and Long
Qslanol 8or 8he fiscal year ending Sune thir-
qieth, eighteen hundred and 8eventyqwoO
8h8 SUM of two hundred thousand dollars is
hereby excepted troB the operation of the
6ttlQ sectiogb Of che ace Cd Julg 9weBtho
eighteen huRdred and se5entBo
SEC. 3. Thaq the cum of PWO hundred ana
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
tiftv-0ne dollars and eight cents is hereby
appropriated to enable the Secretary Of the
Treasury to return to fhe clerk Of the
United states district court, fog the South
6Tn district of Illinois the One-ha& Of 60ug
hundred and ftty-one thousand five bun
bred and fwo dollars and sixteen cents paid
to said Secretary by said clerk SO prize
money, IN pursuance of a decree OF sai8
court made on the eleventh dav OF Nav
Qighqeen hundred and eixty-four, which de-
cree was afterward 20 VIE, 04 the ninth
day Of June, eighteen hundred ana eixty-
6ye, held 10 BE erroneous and
Get aside by said GourS. and said
money ordered 60 0e ge9urne8 Go said cOure
for distribution 90 che 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 aeveB
hundred and 8fty-one doliaro and eight
cents from the navy pension fund to the
credi9 cd the Treasurer of the Emitted STAGES
the moneys so directed to be returned nav
ing been deposited 90 the credit of said
fund on the twenty-third of May eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, by UagyaGt 1U9nbey
@e hundred and sixty-nineo
SEC. T. Chat the proper accounting officers
02 che Treasury Department be. and ghey
are hereby, authorized and directed, in ado
iusting the account of William Kapus, col
lector of customs for the district of Alaska,
to make an allowance for the compensation
of Charles II. Pierce tor services rendered
in aid of the collection of the revenue from
customs at the port Of O0naiaska, in said
district, Of such sum as they may deem just
and equitable for the time actually @n1-
plOyed, not 20 exceed the rate OF one 9toGo
sand five hcndred dollars peg annUnAo
SEC. j. That 20 enable the Secretary Of
the Interior to pay Standisb and Ballard.
attorneys, their account for defending the
register and the receiver az Ionia. Riehigang
the sum of one thousand dollars 5s hereby
appropriated.
SEC. s. That in the settlement o.; iUdg.
ments by the Court Of Claims az the Su-
preme Court OF the United States hereafter
to be rendered for captured OK abandoned
COTTON o. IN settlements Sur cotton sGiZeG
TO June thirtieth, eighteen ;lun.
dre6 and sixty-tiyeo the SecgetaSV Of the
Treasury is hereby directed 60 pay such
judgments. or the amounts as ascegtaine5
upon such settlements in full without de
ducti0n gu account OF internal 6egeGGe Ga8
upon cotton.
See. Z. That the accounting ofticera Of the
treasury be and they are hereby authorized
and directed, in adjusting the accounts 81
the collector OF customs &oT the port Of
Chicago, to allow him, as an ex-oticio de
pOsitary of moneys belonging TO che United
States, credit fog 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 she fire in said
city on the ninth and tenth days OF Octo-
Der, eighteen hundred and seventy-OReo
and 10 have been lost or destroyed by 6ireo
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL NATUREe-S0 338.
An 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
of Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
sums of money be and are hereby
appropriated, to be paid out OF any money
in the treasury not otheEWise appropriated,