Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-08
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT AGRICUL.
TURE
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

For improvement of grounds: For labor,
twelve thousand dollars; for heating apparatus
for new grapery, two thousand dollars; for ma
terial for roads and walks, one thousand five
hundred dollars; for cast iron labels for naming
trees in arboretum, one hundred dollars; for
tools, repairs and backsmithing, one thousand
dollars; for draining tiles for grounds, five hun
dred dollars; for terrace walls, two thousand
five hundred dollars; for repairing fence around
grounds. one thousand dollars; and for fur
mace in the laboratory, four hundred dollars; in
all, twenty one thousand dollars t4I
Toward completing the museum under tho
charge of Professor Townsend Glover, three
thousand dollars: s~4 r arF
See 2. That out of the unexpended balance
of the appropriation (section twenty seven of
the act approved April twentieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy one) for more effectually Sc
curing life and property on the coasts of New
Jersey and Long island, for the fiscal year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ane seven
ty two, the sum of two hundred thousand dol
lars is hereby excepted from the operation of
the fife section of the act of July twelfth eigh-
teen hundred and seventy.
Sec. g. That the sum of two hundred and
twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty
one dollars and eighty cents is hereby appro-
priaten to enable the Secretary of the Treasury
to return to the clerk of the United States dis
trict court for the southern district of Illinois
the one half of four hundred and fifty one thou
sand five hundred and two dollars and sixteen
cents paid to said Secretary by said clerk as
prize money, in pursuance of decree of said
court, made on the eleventh day of May, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty four, which decree was
afterward, to wit, on the ninth day of June,
eighteen hundred and sixty five, held to be err
roneous and set aside by said court, and said
money ordered 10 be returned to said court for
| distribution to the lawful owners thereof; and
| to this end that the said Secretary cause to be
transferred the said sum of two hundred and
twenty five thousand seven hundred and nifty
one dollars and eight cents from the navy pen
sion fund to the credit of the Treasury of the
United States; the moneys so directed to be re-
| turned, having been deposited to the credit OF
said fund on the twenty third of May eighteen
hundred and sixty four, by warrant number one
hundred and sixty nine. .,..t.i 7.
Sec. 4. That that proper accounting officers of
the Treasury Department be, and they are here
by authorized and directed, in adjusting the ac-
count Of William Kapus, collector of customs
for the district of Alaska, to make an allowance
for the compensation of Charles III. Pierce for
service 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 dealn
just and equitable for the time actually employ
ed, not to exceed the cate of one thousand five
hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. s. That to enable the Secretary of the In
terror to pay Standsh 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 6. That in the settlement OF judgments