New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-31


is hereby authorized to employ clerk of
class two to have charge of said accounts;
and that he make detailed report of each
account with Departments or public offices
to Congress in his annual report.
SEC. 4. That all acts and parts of acts
prescribing and limiting the number of
congressional documents to be printed for
the use of any head of Department or pub
lie office are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. That all proceeds of sales of old
material, condemned stores, supplies, or
other public property of any kind, shall
hereafter be deposited and covered into the
treasury as miscellaneous receipts, on
account of proceeds of government prop
erty,' and shall NOT be withdrawn or ap
piled except in consequence Of a subse-
qUent appropriation made by law; and a
detailed statement of all, such proceeds OF
sales shall be included in the appendix to
the book of estimates. But this section
shall not be held to repeal the existing au-
thOrity of law in relation TO marine hos
pitfalls, revenue cutters, the clothing fund Of
the navy, or the sale of cOmmissary stores
to the officers of the army. And it shall be
the duty of the Register of the Treasury to
furnish to the proper accounting officers
copies of all warrants covering such pro-
ceeds where the same may be necessary in
the settlement of accounts in their respec-
tive Offices
SEC. s. That the public grounds surround
ing the Capitol shall be enlarged according
to the plan approved by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the Senate and House
of Representatives, respectively, which
plan is hereby directed to be deposited in
the custody of the Secretary of the Inte-
riOr) by extension between First street east
and First street vest, i'll the following man
ner: wardlY to the south side of
North street, and sOuthwardly to the
north side of South street, including, in
addition to so much of the reservations,
avenues and streets as are necessary for
such extension. the two squares designated
on the plan of the city of Washington as
numbers six hundred and eighty-seven and
six hundred and lightweight, respectively.
SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of the Interior to purchase from
the owner or owners thereof at such price,
not exceeding its actual cash value, as may
be mutually agreed ON between the Secre-
tary and such owner or owners, and not ex-
ceeding the appraisal made by the COM
mission of nine in their report to Robert
Ould, United States district attorney for the
District of Columbia, on the twenty first
day of January, eighteen hundred and
sixty one, such private property as may be
necessary for carrying this act into effect,
the value of the property so purchased to
of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Appropriated, on the requisitiOn of said See
rotary; provided, that before such payment
shall be made, the owner or owners of
the property purchased shall, by good and
sufficient deed or deeds, in due form of law,
and approved by the Attorney General of
the United States, fully release and convey
to the United States all their and each of
their several and respective rights in said
titles to such lands and property so pur-
chased.
SEC. g. That if the Secretary of the In
terror shall not be able to agree with the
needed for the purposes of this act upon
the price to be paid therefor, or if for any
other cause he shall be unable to obtain the
title to any such property by mutual agree
nent with the owner or owners thereof it
shall be his duty to make application to the
supreme court of the District of Columbia,
which court is hereby authorized and re-
Iuired, upon such application, i'll such
mode, and under such rules and regulations
as it may adopt to make a just and equit-
able appraisement of the cash value of the
several interests of each and every owner
Of the real estate and Improvements there
On necessary to be taken for the public use
IN accordance with the provisions of this
act, and to which the Secretary has been
unable to obtain the title by mutual agree
nent with the owner or owners thereof.
SEC. 9. That the fee-simple of all prem
ses so appropriated for public use, Of
which an appraisement shall have been
made under the order and direction of said
,ourt, shall, upon payment to the owner or
owners, respectively, of the appraised
value, or in case the said owner or
owners refuse or neglect for fifteen days
after the apprasement of the cash
value of said lands and improvements by
iaid court to demand the same from the
of the Interior, upon depOsiting
he said appraised value in the said court
o the credit of such owner or owners, re
pectively, be vested in the United States.
And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby
authorized and required to pay to the soy
raj owner or owners, respectively, the APP
praised value of the several premises as
pectied in the apprai5ement of said court,
II pay into court by deposit, as hereinbe-
ore provided, the said appraised values
md the sum necessary, not exceeding four
hundred thousand dollars. for such pur-
rose, is hereby appropriated out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise APP
rOpriated: provided, that the Secretary of
he Interior is hereby authorized to sell at
,ubliC auction such materials in the build
ngs in squares number six hundred and
ighty-seven and six hundred and eighty
light as are not necessary for the public !
works. in this District; and further, that the
1oneys realized by such sales shall be APP
lied TO the improvement and extension of
he Capitol grounds.
SEC. 10. That said court may direct the
ime and manner in which possession Of the
condemned shall be taken or de-
vered, and may, if necessary, enforce any
rider or issue any process Tor giving pos |
ession. The cost Occasirned by the in
uiry and assessment shall be paid by the
Jnted States, and, as to other costs which !
nay arise, they shall be charged or taxed as
he court may direct.
SEC. IL. That no delay in making an as
essment of compensation, or in taking |
OssessiOn, shall be OCcaSiOned by any
Oubt which may arise as to the ownership |
the property, or any part thereof, or as |
D the interests of the respective owners, |
ut in such cases the court shall require a |
epOsit of the money allowed as cOmpen- |
alton for the whole property or the part !
4 dispute. In all cases, as soon as the |
Tnited States shall have paid the cOmpen- |
alton assessed, or secured its payment, by |
deposit Of money, under tie order Of the |
Ourt, possession of the property may be |
aiken.
SEC. y. That the Washington and |
Georgetown Railroad Company and the /
Metropolitan Railroad Company be, and |
hey are hereby, required to remove their |
racks, respectively, from the Capitol |
rounds, as hereby established, and to run
he same as they may be directed, from |
me to time, by the officer in charge of the |
ubIic bHildings and grounds, as the !
rading and filing mp cf said grounds may
endpT necessary. That a commission, con |
sting of the Secretary Of the Interior, |
he Chief Engineer OF the army, and the
tiicer in charge Of the public buildings |
nd grounds, is hereby authorized and di !
ected TO examine and report to Congress, |
rior to the second Monday Of December |
ext, plan by which the locomotive rail