New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-15
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.,

UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
EAvY-YARDs.
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
For repairs of ali kinds, seventv-fiye thor
| sand dollars; for repairs of floating docks
eighty thousand dollars; for permanent i'm
| provements, namely, for bridge eonnectin
| Seavey's island, four thousand dollars; il
all, one hundred and fifty nine tho4san,
| two hundred dollars.
| For constructing and testing experimental
breech- loading boat-howitzers, ten thou
sand dollars.
Nayy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts Fo
| repairs of all kinds, seyenty-fve thousanc
| dollars.
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Fo,
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
tive 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 ali kinds, seventy-fve 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, PennsyE-
vania: For repairs and maintenance of en-
bankmeuts 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-
sergatiop 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 &G-
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
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. 9 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 efectually 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. g. That the sum of two hundred and
twenty five thousand seven hundred and
ffty-one dollars and eight cents is hereby
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
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 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 fifty-one dollars and eight
'ents from the navy pension fund to the
credit of the Treasurer of the United States;
5he moneys SO directed to be returned hay
ng been deposited to the credit of said
'und on the twenty-tAird of May, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, by warrant number
,ne hundred and sixty-nine.
SEC. 4. That the proper accounting officers
II the Treasury Department be, and they
ire hereby, authorized and directed, in adj
listing the account of William Kapus, col
ector of customs for the district of Alaska,
% make an allowance for the compensation
# Charles Fl. Pierce for services rendered |
n aid OF the collection of the revenue from
at the port of Oonalaska, in said |
district, of such sum as they may deem just
md equitable for the time actually en-
,lOyed, not to exceed the rate of one thou |
and five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. ). That to enable the Secretary of |
he Interior to pay Standish and Ballard, !
ttorneys, their account for defending the |
egister and the receiverat Ionia, Michigan, |
he sum OF one thousand dollars is hereby |
appropriated,
SEC g. That in the settlement of judg- |
lents by the Court of Claims or the Su- |
RENE Court of the United States, hereafter
. be rendered for captured or abandoned |
Ott0n, or in settlements for cotton seized !
ubsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
red and sixty-five, the Secretary of the |
treasury is hereby directed to pay such |
ldgments, or the amounts as ascertained |
pom such settlements in full without de-
uction on account of internal revenue tax |
pom cotton.
SEC. Z. That the accounting officers of the
-eaSury be and they are hereby authorized
nd directed, in adjusting the accounts of
10 collector Of customs for the port of
hicagO, TO allow him, as an ex-otfiCio de-
Ositary of moneys belonging to the United
tates, a credit for such sum or sums, in
bin or currency, as may satisfactorily aD-
ear to have been held by him, as such de-
ositarY, at the time of the fire in said
~ on the ninth and tenth days of Octo-
or, eighteen hundred and seVenty-one,
nd to have been lost or destroyed by FIRE.
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL EATURE-No. 134.l
n act making appropriations for the repair,