New Orleans Republican., 1872-11-28
UNDER THE NAVY APARTMENT.


For repairs of all kinds, twenty-five thou
sand dollars; for repairs Floating docks,
eighty thousand dollars; f. permanent i'm
provements, namely, for Eidge connecting
Seayey's island, four thsand dollars; in
all, one hundred and fy nine thousand
two hundred dollars.
For constructing and teng experimental
breech-lOading boat-howiers, ten thou
sand dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts,: For
repairs Of all kinds, seveY- five thousand
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, ew York For
repairs Of all kinds, one hdred thousand
dollars
Navy-yard, Philadelphia Pennsylvania:
For repairs OF all kindsforty thousand
dollars.
Navy yard, Washington District of Co
Iumbia For repairs of aIkindg, seventy
five thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Vginia: For re
pairs of all kinds, one h1dred thousand
| dollars.
Navy yard, Pensacola, Iorda: For re-
| pairs Of all kinds, tWeptyVe thousand dol
| lars.
Navy yard Mare islam California: For
repairs Of all kinds, sevtty-fye thousand
dollars; for repairs of fitting. docks, Que
hundred thousand dOlla; for permanent
|
| dock, two hundred thOund dollars; con-
| tiDuing quay wall and whves, thirty thou
sand dollars: cOntinuatil of rail tracks,
| five thousand dollars; inll, four hundred
| and ten thousand dollars
Naval station at Leaguisland, PenDsyl-
vania: For repairs and mntenance of EN-
bankments and for dredng, one hundred
and fifteen thousand dolls.
For naval station at Nv London, Con-
/ Il ,F 20
| building stOrehOuSe, and ,r care and pre-
servatiou Of property, senty thousand
| dollars
Naval station at Key WIT, Florida: For
repairs of all kinds, hfteS thousand dol
lars.
Emergencies at naval staons: For emer-
! gencies that may arise atnaYal stations,
| forty thousand dollars.
UNDER TIE DEPARTMENT OF AG-
RICULTURE
BUILDINGS AND GRoEDs.
| For improvement of grouno: For labor,
twelve thousand dollars; for eating appa-
ratus for new grapery, two thousand dol
| lars; for material for roads ad walks, one
thousand five hundred dollars for cast iron
| labels for naming trees i'll aDoretum, one
| hundred dollars; for tools, repairs and
| blacksmithing, one thousand dollars; for
draining tiles for grounds, five undred dol
lars; for terrace walls, two tousand FIVE
hundred dollars; for repairing tnce around
| grounds, one thousand dollar; and for d
furnace in the laboratory, for hundred
dollars; in all, twenty one thouand dollars.
Toward completing the mueum under
| the charge of Professor ToWnsnd Glover,
| three thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. That out OF the nexpended
| balance of the appropriation (scti0n TWEEN
| tyseyen Of the act approved lpril TWEEN
tieth eighteen hundred and sventy-one)
for more etfectually securing Iifand prop
erty on the coasts Of New Jerse and Long
Island, for the fiscal year endingJune thiI-
tieth, eighteen hundred and sventy-twO,
the sum of two hundred thousan dollars is
hereby excepted from the operation Of the
fifth section of the act of Juy twelfth,
eighteen hundred and 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 cbrk of the
United States district court, forthe South
ern district OF Illinois the One-hlf OF four
hundred and fitty-One thousand i've hun
dred and two dollars and siXteeI cents paid
to said Secretary by said cleH as prize
money, in pursuance of decee of said
court made on the eleventh day of May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-fOul which de-
cree was atterward, to wit, Oh 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 tOsaid court
for distribution to the lawful owners there
of; and to this end that the salt Secretary
cause to be transferred the said sum Of two
hundred and twenty-five thOWand seven
hundred and tifty-one dollars and eight
cents from the navy pension tlnd 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-tAird 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-
justing 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-
ployed not to exceed the rate o. one thou
sand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC ). 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 g. That in the settlement of judg
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
subsequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
I1 J,f l1T
Treasury is hereby directed TO pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertaineC
upon such settlements in tuil without de
duction on account of internal revenue taI
upon cotton.
SEC. 7. That the accounting officers OF thf
treasury be and they are hereby authorized
and directed, in adjusting the accounts O
the collector Of customs for the port O.
Chicago, to allow him, as an eX-ottici0 de
positarY Of moneys belonging to the UnlteC
States, a credit for such sum or sums, il
coin or currency, as may satisfactorily ap
pear to have been held by him, as such de
positary, at the time Of the FIRE in said
city on the ninth and tenth days of Octo
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-oRe
and to have been lest or destroyed by fire
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. l34.1
An act making appropriations for the repair
preservation and completion Of certain
public works on rivers and harbors AM
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States 0.
America in Congress assembled, That tht
following sums of money be and are hereby
appropriated, to be paid out Of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated
to be expended under the direction Of th'
Secretary Of War, for the repair, preserva
ton and completion of the following public
vr-Orlyc h hereinafter named