Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-04
THE DAILY CHRONICLE.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session OF the Forty
p idEHeli Second Congress. @
UNPUBLISHED BIZ AUTHORITY
GENERAL MATURING. 55.l

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil eX
- ing June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and seventy
s. four, and for othee purposes. fGHG- "'i5 ~
j. 4oirisft (Continued) ne; NJ 81
For completion of the building for the Gus,
tom house at Portland, Oregon, seventy thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars. .sgr...ea
For continuation of construction OF the 6ulld-
ing for the custom hoase, court house and post
office ut Saint Louis, Missouri, one million dol
lars Provided That the total cost of the build
ing and site shall not exceed four million dol
lars $4,000 yt5IiiiiA
For completion of binding for Post office
and court house in the city of Raleigh, North
Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars.
IL To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
obtain by purchase, or to obtain by condemna-
ton in the courts Of the State of Massachusetts,
the several lots or parcels of land lying easterly
Boston, and bounded by said site, Water street,
Congress street and Milk street. upon the lines
Of said streets as they are now established or
may hereafter be established by due process of
law, and for repairing the injuries to the post
Office building, caused by fire, and to extend
the building over said site, eight hundred thou
sand dollars provided, that no money appro-
priated for this purpose shall be used or ex-
pended in the purchase of the several lots or
parcels of land for said site until valid title
thereto shall be vested in the United States,
nor until the State of Massachusetts shall cede
its jurisdiction over the same, and shall duly
release and relinqui,h to the United States the
right to tax or in any way assess said site and
the property of the United States that may be
thereon during the time that the United States
shall be or remain the owner thereof: And pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall make no purchase OF land under this
provision, until the city of Boston shall cause
the triangular space between Congress, Pearl,
Milk and Water streets to be opened to the
public, and graded and paved OF the expense of
u.
streets, where the buildings have been destroy
ed by fire. to a width of at least sixty feet
And the sums hereby appropriated for the
construction of public buildings under the
Treasury Department including the building
fer tie new State, War, and Navy Departments;
shall be available Immediately upon the ap-
prevail of this act
For machinery for the new branch mint
building, San Francisco California, two hun
dred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars
including such part of the appropriation for tina
same object made for the present fiscal year es
shall be expended prior to June thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy three.
For the minis of the United States: ~ e
For wages of workmen, from April first to
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three thirty one thousand two hundred and if-
ty dollars ..u.b ID ...s
tden thousand dollars. ~ ... t...f..,,s.-,
For wages of workmer for fiscal year ending
June Thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy
four, one hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars. f. 5l!cfa d" IH n@arbi p 5i'tit
For ordinary expenses, repairs and repla, ing
oil, dies. acids, coal, wood and other
items for same period, fifty thou
sand dollars, to be available Immediately upon
the passage of this act, ii .,aa1as- 4 -lua
!, For repairs and preservation of all the public
Department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the annual repairs and improvements of
he Treasury building, Washington, District of
Columbia, twenty FIVE thousand dollars. ~
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 3
Ell Armories and 4rsenals.
q Springfield armory, Springfield, Massachus
Its. For repairs and preservation of grounds
ars and for macadamizing the hill portion of
street and curbing one side of its entire
ength, three thousand five hundred dollars |
n all, twenty three thousand five hundred dol !
Rock, Island arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: |
shop, two hundred and thirty thousand dol |
airs. 80 ~ /
For completion of new finishing shop for |
.rmory, one hundred and fftp thousand dol
airs and for one set of subaltern officers quar-
ers, twenty three thousand seven hundred and |
fifty dollars in all, one hundred and seAenty |
hree thousand seven hundred and fifty dol |
For FORCES, foundery, chimneys, machinery,
md shop fixtures, for forge shop, fifty thousand |
dollars. |
For machinery and shop fixtures for shop C. |
Is laid down on the plan adopted by the War |
fifteen thousand dollars 79i.t5 |
For Improvement of grounds, building new
roads, and care and preservation of the same, |
light thousand dollars. B.. e.l.,.j. l.,..-.l,
For paving the basement of shops B and G, |
Is laid down in the plan adopted by the War |
Department.; twento one thousand eight hun |
lred and fifty dollars go 9ilI i5....ii
For new guard house, fire engine house, |
md quartermaster's and commissary store |
house, twenty seven thousand five hundred |
dollars. |
For machinery for transmitting power from
he water power to shops, eighteen thousand |
dollars. g
For painting the buildings and fences, md |
or care and preservation of water power and |
public building, ten thousand dollars. 'Hitt
Bunicia arsenal, Bunicia, California; For |
,ne set of officers quarters: twenty six thou |
sand five hundred and seventy one dollars for |
repairing roads, buildings sewers and drains, |
our thousand eight hundred and seventy six |
dollars for grading grounds, seven thousand |
nanent repairs of post Machinery for shops,
and fences, five thousand nine hundred and FIVE |
dollars; for artesian we'll, four thousand eight |
hundred and twenty nine dollars; in all, fifty |
thousand and forty five dollars. t.Ht3 |
DtOr tue cOHStrucLlou VI QepOt UuIlQtDSS, III
GLIDING shops. Offices and commissary and quar- |
termaster's store rooms, at San Antonio, Texas
one hundred thousand dollars. Fl3qs 5di guil
For necessary repairs and preservation of all
other arsenals, fifty thousand dollars Provid>
ed That the same shall not be expended at
ode arsenal, but shall be distributed to the va
rious arsenals not herein named, as the same
shall be in need of such preservation and re-
pairs. % 9lifiW tlile 1855 = Eis- q httH
For Buildings and Grounds in and around
t'o- Washngton.
Improvement and care Of public grounds
For repair care, and Improvement of public
buildings, grounds and works in the District of
Columbia, under the direction of the Chief of
Engineers: Completing improvement of reser>
yations, viz:
For Monumental grounds, FIVE thousand dol
. For Smithsonian grounds, ten thousand dol
lars. iYf "T53fsi11 7o< -rfilt. Ga saf} ID s-tl
For Armory square, five thousand six hum
dred dollars. sglf ,rfi r5flfll57- - q =
For reservation between Shird streets; FIVE
thousand dollars. ~, \: .,.r- ~
For grounds south of the Executivo Mene;on