New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-19
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT,

! UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
GAvT-YARDs.
&avy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
For repairs of all kinds, seventy-tive 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 thousan,
two hundred dollars.
For constructing and testing experimental
breecb-loading boat-howitzers, ten thou
sand dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Fo,
| repairs Of all kinds, seveDty-fve Thousand
| dollars.
Nayy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Fol-
repairs of all kinds, one hundred Thousand
dollars
Maynard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| For repairs Of all kinds, forty thousand
| dollars.
Navy 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, twepty-f thousand dol
lars.
Navy yard, Mare island, California: For
10 pau VI ala MINUS, b5Ntulf -IlNt JHbuSdlu
dollars; for repairs of floating docks, one
hundred Thousand dollars; for permanent
improvements namely, tor commencing dry
dock, two hundred thousand dollars; con
tinuing quay wall and wharves, 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-
how TO- 4
and fifteen thousand dollars.
For naval station at New London, Con
necticut: For building wharf, grading for
building st0rehOuse, and for care and pre-
servation Of prosperity, 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.
RUILDIEGs AND GROUNDS.
For improvement of grounds: For labor
twelve thousand dollars; for heating apDa-
ratus for new grapery, two thousand dol
lars; for material for roads and walks, one
thousand five hundred dollars; for cast iron
I8DcLS IoI ldLIluS trees III hEDOF6LuIQ, 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, twenty one thousand dollars.
Toward completing the museum under
the charge of Professor Townsend Glover,
three thousand dollars.
Sec. =. That out of the unexpended
balance Of the appropriation tsection TWEEN
ty-seven 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 seventy-tw0,
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
iittY-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-haf of four
hundred and ttty-one thousand five hun
d. ed and two dollars and sixteen cents paid
~ S"Ai3 tCSOl' vol Ny SdlNA SIGLh DIS JIlLt-
money, i'll pursuance of d decree Of said
court made on the eleventh. day of MAY,
hundred and sixty-four, which de-
cree was atterWard, to wit, on the ninth
day Of June, eighteen hundred ana sixty
five, held 20 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 that the said Secretary
IN, h., IL, r -
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 hay- |
ing been deposited to the credit OF said |
fund on the twenty-third OF May, eighteen |
hundred and siXUY-four, by warrant number
one hundred andRiXty nine.
SEC. d. That the proper accounting officers |
OF the Treasury Department be, and they |
are hereby, authorized and directed in ad- |
justng the account Of William Kapus, col |
iact0r OF customs for the district OF Alaska, |
to make an allowance for the compensation |
of Charles Ii. Pierce tor services rendered |
in aid OF the collection of the revenue from |
customs at the port of O0nHlaska. III said
district, OF such sum as they may deem just !
and equitable for the time actually em-
JlOyed, not to exceed the rate OF one thou
SEC. ). That to enable th0 Secretary of |
5he Interior to pay Standish and Ballard,
attorneys, their account for defending the
'egISCer and the receiver at I0nia, Michigan
he sum Of one thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated.
SEC, {. That in the settlement of judg-
nents by the Court of Claims or the Su-
IRENE Court of the United States, hereafter
. be rendered for captured OF abandoned
cotton, or IN settlements for cotton seized
ubeequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hun
red and siXtydye, the Secretary of the |
treasury is hereby directed to pay such
Judgments, or the amounts as ascertained |
pom such settlements i'll full without de
uCti0n on account Of internal revenue tax |
pom cotton.
SEC. I. That the accounting officers of the
reasury be aud they are hereby authorized
nd 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, d credit for such SUM or sums, in
oln or currency, as may satisfactorily ap-
ear to have been held by him, as such de-
0Ritary, at the time of the fire in said
lty on the ninth and tenth days of 0cto-
er, eighteen hundred and seventy-ope,
nd 70 have been Lost or destroyed BY FIRE
approved June 10, 1872.
EGEERRAE EATURR-No. 1871
Z act making appropriations for the repair,
preservation and completion of certain |
public works ON rivers and harbOrs and
for other purposes.