New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-16
UNDER ZEE NAvY DEPARTMENT.
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UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
| EAYY-YARDs.
Maynard, 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; il
all, one hundred and fifty nine Thousand
| two hundred dollars.
| For constructing and testing experimental
| breech-loading boat-hOwitzers, ten thou
| sand dollars.
| Maynard, Boston, Massachusetts: Fol-
repairs of all kinds, seventy-fye thousand
| dollars.
Maynard, Brooklyn, New York: Fol-
repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand
| dollars
Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand
dollars.
sNavy yard, Washington, District of Co.
lumbia: For repairs of ali kinds, seventy
five 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 all kinds, seventy-five thousand
dollars; for repairs of floating docks, one
hundred thousand dollars; for permanent
improvements, namely, for 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 at 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 at 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
hundred dollars for repairing fence around
grounds, one thousand dollars; and for a
furnace in the laboratory, four hundred
dollars; in all, tWentyone 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 (section TWEEN
tyseven of the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one)
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 seyenty-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
ffty-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
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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 afterward, 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
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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 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.
SEC. T. That the proper accounting officers
Of the Treasury Department be, and they
are hereby, authorized and directed, in ad-
justing the account of William Kapus, col |
Iector 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 lust |
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DlOyed, not to exceed the rate OF one thou |
sand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. 5. That to enable the Secretary of |
5he Interior to pay Standish and Ballard, |
attorneys, their account for defending the |
'egister and the receiver at Ionia, Michigan,
he sum Of one thousand dollars is hereby |
appropriated.
SEC. 6. That in the settlement of 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
pOn such settlements in full without de-
ucti0n on account of internal revenue tax
pom cotton.
SEC. z. That the accounting officers of the
reasury be and they are hereby authorized
nd directed, in adjusting the accounts Of
he collector of customs for the port of
'hiGago, to allow him, as an ex-oficio de-
ositary of moneys belonging to the United
tates, credit for such sum or sums, in
DIN or currency, as may satisfactorily APP
ear to have been held by him, as such de-
ositary, at the time of the fire in said
Ity on the ninth and tenth days of Octo-
or, eighteen hundred and seventy-ope,
nd to have been lost or DESTROYED by fire.
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. l34T