New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-20
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
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UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
BAvY-YARDs
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
For repairs of all kinds, seventy-fye 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: il
| all, one hundred and fifty nine thousand
| two hundred dollars.
For constructing and testing experimental
breech-loading boat-howitzers, ten thou
| sand dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts,: For
| repairs Of all kinds. seventy-fve thousand
! dollars.
Maynard, 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 yard, Pensacola, Florida: Fer re-
pairs OF all kinds, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
Navy yard, Mare island, California: For
repairs OF al kinds, Beventy-fve thousand
dollars; for repairs of floating docks, one
hundred thousand dollars; for permanenb
improvements, namely, tor commencing dry
dock, two hundred thousand dollars; CON
tinuing quay wall and Wharyes, 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 ct New London, Con-
necticut: For building wharf, grading, FOR
building storehouse and for care and pre-
serYation OF property, twenty thousand
dollars.
Naval station at Key West, Florida: For
repairs Of all kinds, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
Emergencies Mt 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
huAdred 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. 2. That out of the unexpended
balance of the appropriation lsection TWEEN
ty-seVen of the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventv-Onel
for more etfectually 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 oseventy-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
ifty-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 tilty-One thousand Ave hun
dred and two dollars and sixteen cents paid
to said Secretary by said clerk az prize
money, in pursuance of a decree of said |
court made on the eleventh day of NAV, |
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which de- |
cree was atterward, to wit, on the ninth |
day of June, eighteen hundred aud 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 shat the said Secretary
cause to be transferred the said sum OF two |
hundred and twenty-five thousand seven |
hundred and ffty-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.
Sect. That the proper accounting officers
Of the Treasury Department. be, and they
ire hereby, authorized and directed, in adj
listing the account of William K8pus, col
ector of customs for the district of Alaska,
to make an allowance for the compensation
If Charles II. Pierce for services rendered
n 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-
DlOyed, not to exceed the rate OF one thou
ianu nV6 ncDdT6d dollars per Annum.
SEC. 5. That to enable the Secretary of
he Interior to pay Standish and Ballard,
attorneys, their account for defending the
egister and the receiver at IoDia, Michigan,
he sum of one thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated.
SEC. 6. That in the settlement CT judg-
nents by the Court of Claims or the Su-
creme Court of the United States, hereafter
o be rendered for captured or abandoned
otton or in settlements for cotton seized
ubsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
red and sixty-fve, the Secretary Of the
treasury is hereby directed to pay such
or the amounts as ascertained
pom such settlements in full without de-
uction on account of internal revenue tax
pen cotton.
SEC. 7. That the accounting officers OF the
reasury be and they are hereby authorized
nj directed, IN adjusting the accounts Of
he collector of customs for the port of
'hicagO, to allow him, as an eX-otficio de-
ositary Of moneys belonging to the United
tates, credit for such sum or sums, in
DIN or currency, as may satisfactorily ap-
ear to have been held by him, as such de-
ositaTy, at the time of the fire in said
ity on the ninth and tenth days Of Octo-
en- eighteen hundred and seveuty-oRe,
nd to have been lost or destroyed BY fire. |
Approved june 10, 1872.
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