New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-30
UNDER TIE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAvT-YARDs.
Nayy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
| For repairs of all kinds, seventy-fve thou
sand dollars; for repairs of floating docks,
eighty thousand dollars; for permanent i'm
provements, 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
breecn-loading boathOwitzers, ten thou
sand dollars.
Maynard, Boston, Massachusetts For
repairs Of all kinds seventy-tve thousand
dollars.
Navv-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For
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 ward, Pensacola, Florida: For re-
pairs of all kinds, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
Navy ward. Mare island, California: For
repairs of all kinds, seventy-tiVe 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, toug 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 Swenty thousand
dollars.
Naval station at Key West Florida: For
repairs of all kinds, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
Emergencies &c naval stations: For emer-
cencies that, may arise at naval stahOnsg
forty thousand dollars.
IHDEB gIIE DEPARTMENT OF sAG-
RICULTURE.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
22or 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 arb0ratum, one
hundred dollars; for tools, repairs and
bIacksmithing, one thousand dollars; for
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 3 That out of the unexpended
balance of the appropriation (sectiOn TWEEN
ty-seven of the act approved April TWEEN
fieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-One)
for more etfectaally 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 seventy-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
tifty-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 tifty-one thousand five hun
bred and two dollars and sixteen cents paid
to said Secretary by said clerk as prize
money, in pursuance of decree of said
court made on the eleventh day of May
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 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 tifty-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
iusting the account of William Kapus, col
lector of customs for the district OF Alaska,
to make an allowance for the compensation
of Charles FL. 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-
pIoyed, not to exceed the rate OF one thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. S. 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 5. That III the settlement of iudg.
ments by the Court Of Claims or she SUI
irene Court of the United States. hereafter
10 be rendered for captured or abandoned
cotton. or in settlements for cotton seized
subsequent to June Uhirtieth eighteen hun
dred and siXtY-five. the Secretary of the
Treasury il hereby directed 20 pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertained
upon such settlements in full without de-
ducti0n on account OF IQtepna! revenue taS
upon cotton.
SEC. :. That she accounting officers OF the
treasury be and they are hereby authorized
and directed. in adjusting the accounts OF
the collector OF customs tor the port OF
Chicago. 20 allow him, az an ex-0tfcio de-
positarv al moneys belonging 10 the United
States, q credit fer such sum or sums. in
coin or currency. as may satisfactorily ap-
pear to have been held by him! as such de-
posifaHy. az che time of the tire in said
city on the ninth and tenth days Of Octo-
Der, eighteen hundred and seventy one,
and 20 have been lost or destroyed by tire.
Approved June 10, 1879.
GGENER2H. EArURE~-EO l3ij
Sc sc: making appropriations for the repair,
preservation and completion Of certain
public works on rivers and harbOg9 and
Cor other purposes.
BE Is enacted by che Senate and House