New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-19
UNDERTHE NAVY DEPARTMENT
NAyY-yARDs.

UNDER'THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAyY-yARDs.
Navy-yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For repairs of all kinds, seyenty-five 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; in
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,: For
repairs Of all kinds, seveDty-iVe thousand
dollars.
NaYy-yard Brooklyn, New York: For
repairs Of all kinds, one hundred thousand
Maynard, 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
lara
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 WharVeR, 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 st0rehouse, and for care and pre-
servation Of property, twenty thousand
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 andwalks, one
thousand five hundred dollars; for cast iron
labels for naming trees in arboretum, one
hundred dollars; for tools, repairs and
blacksinithing, 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; i'll all, twen'ty-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 (section TWEEN
ty-seyen of the act approved April TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one)
for more efeCtually 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-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. g. That the sum of two hundred and
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
fifty-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 onehaf OF four
hundred and titty-0nG thousand five hun
bred and two dollars and sixteen cents paid
money, III pursuance OF decree OF said
court made on the eleventh day of May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which de
cree was atterward, 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 owners there
Of and to this end that the said Secretary
no cfo,,ppI tho JojJ Of'
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 hay
ing been deposited to the credit OF said
fund on the twenty-third Of May, eighteen
hundred and sixty-tOur, by warrant number
one hundred and sixty-nine.
SEC. i. That the.pr0per 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 OF 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 receiver at 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 SUI
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
dred and sixtY-fve, the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby directed to pay such
judgments, or the amounts as ascertained
upon such settlements IN full without de-
ducti0n on account of internal revenue tax
upon cotton.
SEC. Z. That the accounting officers of the
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-officio de-
positary Of moneys belonging to the United
States, a credit for such sum or sums, in
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-
and to have been lost or destroyed by fire.
Approved June 10, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 1874. ..
An act. making appropriations for the repair
preservation and completion of certain
public works on rivers and harbors and
for other purposes
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