New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-27
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

forty thousand u0liafE.
UNDER TIE DEPARTMENT OF AG-
RICULTURE.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
For Improvement of grounds; For labor,
twelve thousand dollars; for heating appa-
r8tus 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
blacksnithing, 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. 2, That out of the unexpended
balance of the appropriation lsection TWEEN
tyseven of the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one)
for more etfectuaIly securing life and prop
erty on the coasts of New Jersey and Long
Island, for tue 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,
ClgnJe6u nuuuEGu anu 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 fifty-one thousaSd 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 Nav,
eighteen hundred and sixty-fopr, which de
cree was atteTward, 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 OwEeTB 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 ad-
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 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. 5. That to enable the Secretary OF
the Interior TO pay Standish and Ballard,
attorneys, their account for defending the
register and the receiverat IOnia, Michigan,
the sum Of one thousand dollars IS hereby
appropriated.
SEC 6. That in the settlement Of ;udg-
ments by the Court Of Claims or the Su-
preme Court Of the United States, hereafter
to be rendered for captured or abandoned
cotton, or in settlements for cotton seized
to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
drCd and EiXty-five, the Secretary OF the
Treasury is hereby directed - pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertained
upon such settlements in tuli without de-
ductiOn on account Of interna! revenue FAX
upon cotton.
SEC. 7. That the accounting officers O: :ne
treasury be and they are hereby authorized
and directed, in adjusting the accounts Of
the collector of customs for the port Of
Chicago, to allow him, as an ex-otf1cio de-
positary of moneys belonging to the United
States, credit for such sum or sums, il
coin or currency, as may satisfactorily ap-
pear to have been held by him. as such de
positaTv, at the time of the fire. IN said
city on the ninth and tenth days Of Octo-
Der, eighteen hundred and seventy-oRe,
and to have been lost or De: :Eoye6 by fire.
Approved june 10, 1872.