New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-20


purpose. And the Congressional Printer
is hereby authorized to employ clerk of
class two to have charge of said accounts;
and that he make detailed report of each
account with Departments or public Offices
to Congress in his annual report
SEC. 4. That all acts and parts of acts
prescribing and limiting the number of
congressional documents to be printed for
the use of any head of Department or pub
lie office are hereby repealed.
SEC. ). That all proceeds of sales of old
material, condemned stores, supplies, or
other public property of any kind, shall
hereafter be deposited and covered into the
treasury as miscellaneous receipts, ON
account of proceeds of government prop
erty," and shall not be withdrawn or ap
piled except in consequence of a subse
quent appropriation made by law: and a
detailed statement of all such proceeds OF
sales shall be included in the appendix to
the book of estimates. But this section
shall not be held to repeal the existing au-
thOrity of law in relation to marine hos
pitfalls, revenue cutters, the clothing fund of
the navy. or the sale of cOmmissaFy stores
to the officers of the army. And it shall be
the duty of the Register of the Treasury to
furnish to the proper accounting officers
copies of all warrants. covering such pro-
ceeds where the same may be necessary in
the settlement Of accounts in their respec-
tive Offices.
SEC. 6. That the public grounds surround
ing the Capitol shall be enlarged according
to the plan approved by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the Senate and House
of Representatives, respectively, which
plan is hereby directed to be deposited in
the custody of the Secretary of the Inte-
riOr) by extension between First street east
and First street west, in the following man
ner: nOrthwaPdly to the south side of
North b street, and sOuthwardly to the
north side Of South B street, including, in
addition to so much of the reservations,
avenues and streets as are necessary for
such extension. the two squares designated
on the plan of the city of Washington as
numbers six hundred and eighty-seven and
six hundred and eighty-eight, respectively.
SEC. I. That it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of the Interior to purchase from
the owner or owners thereof, at such price,
not exceeding its actual cash value, as may
be mutually agreed on between the Secre-
tary and such owner or owners, and not eX-
ceeding the appraisal made by the com
mission of nine in their report to Robert
Ould, United States district attorney for the
District of Columbia, ON the twenty-hrst
day of January, eighteen hundred and
sixty one, such private property as may be
necessary for carrying this act into effect,
the value of the property so purchased to
be paid to the owner or owners thereof, out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Appropriated, on the requisitiOn of said See
rotary; provided, that before such payment
shall be made, the owner or owners of
the property purchased shall, by good and
sufficient deed or deeds, in due form of law,
and approved by the Attorney General of
the United States, fully release and convey
to the United States all their and each of
their several and respective rights in said
titles to such lands and property so pur-
chased.
SEC. 8. That if the Secretary of the In
terror shall not be able to agree with the
owner or owners of any private property
needed for the purposes of this act upon
the price to be paid therefor; or if for any
other cause he shall be unable to obtain the
title to any such property by mutual agree
neut with the owner or owners thereof, 1t
shall be his duty to make application to the
supreme court of the District of Columbia,
which court is hereby authorized and re-
quired, upon such application, in such
mode, and under such rules and regulations
as it may adopt, to make just and equit-
able appraisement of the cash value of the
several interests of each and every owner
of the real estate and Improvements there
on necessary to be taken for the public use
in accordance with the provisions of this
act and to which the Secretary has been
unable to obtain the title by mutual agree
ment with the owner or owners thereof
SEC. 9. That the feesimple of all prem
ise5 so appropriated for public use, OF
which an appraisement shall have been
made under the order and direction Of said
court, shall, upon payment to the owner or
owners, respectively, of the appraised
value, or in case the said owner or
owners refuse or neglect for fifteen days
after the appraisement of the cash
value of said lands and Improvements by
said court to demand the same from the
Secretary of the Interior, upon depOsiting
the said appraised value i'll thu said court
to the credit of such owner or owners, re-
spectively, be vested in the United States.
And the Secretary Of the Interior is hereby
authorized and required to pay to the SOW
eral owner or owners, respectively, the APP
praised value of the several premises as
specified in the appraisement OF said court,
or pay into court by deposit, as hereinbe-
fore provided, the said appraised values:
and the sum necessary, not exceeding four
hundred thousand dollars, for such pur
pose, is hereby appropriated out of any
moneys III the treasury not otherwise APP
prOpriated: provided, that the Secretary of
the Interior is hereby authorized to sell at
public auction such materials in the build
ings in squares number six hundred and
eighty and six hundred and eighty
eight as are not necessary for the public
works in this District; andfurthPr that the
moneys realized by such sales shall be APP
piled to the Improvement and extension of
the Capitol grounds.
SEC. 10. That said court may direct the
time and manner in which possession of the
property condemned shall be taken or de-
livered, and may, if necessary, enforce any
f,,y, sriyr
session. The cost Occasicned by the in
quiry and assessment shall be paid by the
United States, and, as to other costs which
MAY arise, they shall be charged or taxed as
the court may direct.
SEC. IL. That no delay in making an as
sessment of compensation, or in taking
possession, shall be Occasoned by any
doubt which may arise as to the ownership
of the property or any part thereof, or as
to the interests Of the respective owners,
but in such cases the CONT shall require a
deposit Of the money allowed as cOmpen-
sation for the whole property or the part
in dispute. In al cases, as soon as the
United States shall have paid the cOmpen-
sation assessed, or secured its payment, by
a deposit Of money, under the order OF the
court, possession Of the property may be
taken.
SEC. y. That the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Company anu the
Metropolitan Railroad Company be, and
they are hereby, required to remove their
tracks. respectively, from the Capitol
grounds, as hereby established, and to run
the same as they may be directed, from
time to time. by the officer in charge Of the
public buildings and grounds, as the
grading and filing up OF said grounds may
render necessary. That commission con
sisting of the Secretary OF the Interior,
the Chief Engineer OF the army, and the
officer in charge of the public buildings
aud grounds, is hereby authorized and di
rected to examine and report to Congress,
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