The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-22
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AG RIGHT.
TIRE

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
=, For Improvement of grounds: For labor. twelve
thousand dollars; for Neutrality-suspicious. for new
grapery two thousand dollars for material for roads
and walks, one thousand five hundred dollars: for
easssron labels for naming trees in arbcyetun, one
hundred dollars; for TOOLS repairs, and blacksmith
ing, one thousand dollars; for draining titles for
grounds, five hundred dollars for terrace-walls two
thousand five hundred dollars; for repairing fence
around grounds one thousand dollacs; and for fur
mace in the laboratory four hundred dollars in ALL
twentyoDe thousand dollars. ~
Toward completing the museum under the claroe
OF Professor Townsend Glover three thousand dol
lars ~
SEC 2: That cut Of the unexpended balance of the
appropriation Section twenty-seven of the act APP
proved April twentieth. eighteen hundred and sew
enty for more efectually securing life and prop
erty on the coasts of New Jersey and Long island
for the fiscal year ending june thirtieth eighteen
hundred and seventy-two the sum of two hundred
thousand dollars hereby excepted from the opera
eighteen hundred and seventy,
SEC 3. That the sum of two hundred aud twenty
hve thousand seven hundred and ffty-one dollars
and eight cents IL hereby appropriated to enable tho
Secretary of the Treasury to return to the clerk of
the United States district court for the southern dis.
t[c OF Illinois the OF andhfyone
thousandfv hundred and two dollars and sixteen
cents paiuto said Secretary by said clerk as prize
money in pursuance OF decree of said court made
sixtyfour, which decree was afterward to wit on the
ninth day of june eighteen hundred and sxty-fye
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 thereof and TO this
end that the said Secretary cause to be transferred
the said sum of two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand seven hundred and ffty-one dollars and eight
cents from the pension fund to the credit of the
Treasurer Of the United States; the moneys SO d.
rected to be returned having been deposited to the
credit of said fund on the twenty-third of NAV
eighteen hundred and siXty-four, by warrant num
Der one hundred and sixty -nine.
SEC. T. That the proper accounting officers of tbe
Treasury Department be- and they are hereby, au-
thorized and directed in adjusting the account of
William Kapus, collector Of customs for the district
OF Alaska, to make an allowance for the compensa-
of Charles II. Pierce for services rendered in aid of
the collection of the revenue from customs ut the
port OF Oonalaska in said district of such sum as
they may deem just and equitable for the time ac-
tualy employed not to exceed the rate of one thou
sand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC D. That to enable the Secretary of the Interior
to pay Standish and Ballard, attorneys their account
for defending the register and the receiver ut Iouia
Michigan the sum OF one thousand dollars Is hereby
appropriated.
SEC 6. That in the settlement of judgments by the
Court Of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United
States hereafter to be rendered for captured or aban
doed cotton or in settlements for cotton seized sub
sequent to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
direct d to pay such judgments, or the amounts as
ascertaiued upon such settlements in full without de-
ducton account of nternal-revenue tax upon cot
ton.
SEC. T. That the accounting officers of the treasury
be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed in
the port of Chicago, to allow him ex-ofcio de-
postary of moneys belonging to the United States
credit for such sums, in coin or currency as
may satisfactorily appear to have been held by him
such depositary, at the time of the fire in said CITY
on the ninth and tenth days of October eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, and to have been lost or
destroyed by fire.
Approved, June 16, 1872