Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-08

United States military convicts confined
in them, siXty-five thousand dollars. al
Refunding to States expenses incurred in
raising volunteers To indemnifythe States
for expenses incurred by them in enrolling,
equipping and transporting troops for the
defense of the United States during the late
Instruction, five hundred thousand dol
lars. itiae-i-E ...sii9 ii go ~
To enable the Secretary of War to pay
the expenses incurred, on the part of the
United States, in the arbitration had be-
tween the United States and the Green
Bay and Mississippi Canal Company,
thirteen thousand seven hundred and
thirteen dollars and ninety seven cents.
To provide for the erection of headstones
upon the graves of soldiers in the national
cemeteries, the sum of two hundred thOus
and dollars. l1- 5"tHt-
For the establishment of an astronomi-
cal base, and continuance of military and
geographical surveys and explorations
west of the one hundredth meridian of
longitude, under the direction of the Sec
rotary of War, seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
For the purchase and preparation of in
struments for a proper observation of the
transit ofVenus, which is predicted to occur
on the eighth of December, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-four, fifty thousand dol
lars, to be expended under the direction of
commission, to be composed of the Su-
perintendent and two of the professors of
mathematics of the navy attached to the
Naval Observatory, the President of the
National Academy of Sciences, and the
Superintendent of the Coast Survey !;
Provided, That no contracts or engage
ments shall be made for such instruments
to an amount not exceeding the sum herer-
10y appropriated.
For pedestal for the equestrian statue of
General Winfield Scott, authorized by act
of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and
seventy, forty-two thousand dollars. .r
For expenses of the United States com
missioners to the International Peniten-
tiary Congress at London, in eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, five thousand
dollars. a-FEE a..
For expenses of the United States COM
missioners to the International Statistical
Congress at Saint Petersburg, five thous-
and dollars. tr. .i..ia .f..l -gi
To enable the Secretary of the Interior
to provide law library for the Territory
of Colorado, two thousand, five hundred
dollars, said library to be selected by the
chief justice of said Territory. v
For preparing and printing series of
maps, not exceeding twenty in number,
toillustrate graphically the quarto volumes
Of the ninth census, twenty thousand dol
lars. - .-....-.. .f.r 4-.,r.-. f
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT..
NAVY YARDS.
Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For repairs of all kinds, seventy five thousand
dollars for repairs of floating docks, eighty
thousand dollars; for permanent improvements,
namely, for bridge connecting Seayveys 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 thousand
dollars. ..-.r. .....r. .rIf .If5r .f
Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, For
repairs of all kinds, seyenty-five thousand
dollars.
Navy yard, Brooklyn, New York: For
repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars. '4
repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Washington, District of Column
bia For repairs of all kinds, seventy five thou
sand dollars.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia. For repairs of
all kinds, one hundred thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For repairs
of all kinds, twenty five thousand dollars
Navy yard Mare island, California: For re-
pairs of all kinds, seventy five thousand dollars.
for repairs of floating docks. one hundred thou
sand dollars; for permanent improvements,
namely, for commencing dry dock, two hundred
thousand dollars; continuing quay wall and
W harves, thirty thousand dollars; continuation
of rail tracks, five thousand dollars; in all, four
hundred and ten thousand dollars. ,. .t..T
Naval station at League island, Pennsylva-
MIA: For repairs and maintenance of embank-
ments and for dredging, one hundred and ff
team thousand dollars.
For navel station at New London, Connect
cut: For building wharf grading for building
store house, and for care and preservation of
twenty thousand dollars. .ft
Naval station at Key West, Florida: For re-
pairs of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars
Emergencies at naval stations: For emergen-
cies that may arise at naval stations forty thou
sand dollars. XIII. -.... ..-f...
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT AGRICUL-
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