Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-10-15

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eighty thousand and five hundred dollars. a
Repairs and completion of a stone reservoir, S
as follows: For a WateF-tight interior wall, i
floor and roof, five thousand and one hundred
dollars; for water-pipe and laying the same, 6
FIVE thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; t
for Rock Island water-power, i've thousand
and four hundred dollars. s
Rock Island Bridge: For alteration and re- {
pairs and additional machinery (for draw of
the bridge and for care and preservation,
twentY-three thousand and four hundred Gol-
lars one half of which sum shall be rs-im-
bursed to the Government by the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
Fer sewers, building new roads, care and
preservation of water-Power, painting and
care and preservation of permanent bdIIdlngs
and bridges. building fences, and grading
grounds, and repairs and extension of the
railroad, twenty thousand dollars.
New machinery and shop fixtures for shops, /
fifteen thousand dollars.
Springfield armory, Springfield, Massachu |
sets: For repairs and preservation of grounds |
buildings and machinery. twenty thousand
dollars.
! Benecia arsenal, California: For blacksmith
| shop, twenty five thousand dollars; for trans
| ferring machinery from the present shop build
| ing to the new shop buildings, two thousand
three hundred and seventy-fye dollars.
Repairing roads, buildings, sewers, drains,
! and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars.
Continuing the boring of artesian well,
or, if artesian water is procured, for putting
down permanent iron pipes and turbine wheel
to be run by flow of water, to pump up water
| to the reservoir, five thousand and forty-seV-
| en- dollars.
Machinery for shops. for fences and other
similar necessaries, four thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-fve dollars.
Repairs of arsenals: For repairs of small
arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expen-
ditures at arsenals as accidents other con-
| tingeneies during the year may render neces-
| sarV, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of War to provide
for constructing o military bridge across the
North Plrtte River, at or Fort Laramie,
Wyoming Territory fifteen thousand dollars.
To enable 1he Secretary of War to purchase
for the United States, of the owners theeeof,
the lot, and buildings thereon, immediately
west of Winder's building, on street, Wash
q ington City, and the house and lot in the rear
, Of and Immediately adjoining the Army Med
9 ical museum, on Tenth street, Washington
City, thirty els CHE thousand five hunderd dol
, lars. or SO much thereof as may be necessary
t for the purpose: PrOuided, That the cest of
said lot adjoining Widder's building shall not
| exceed thirty five thousand dollars, and the
cost of said property adjoining the Army
q Medical Museum shall not exceed three thou
+ sand five hundred dollars, and that payment
shall not be ma de for either lot until the title
thereto is perfect and the property free of in
q cum brance.
s It is hereby declared that the northern part
of Woodlawn Cemetery, in the city of Elmi-
t ra, In the State of New Yerk, occupied by sol
a diers' graves, shall be deemed national GEM
etery so far only that the head stones of said
= soldiers graves shall be renewed and main
= tained and the graves cared for, under the
provisions Of law applicable to national Gem
t eteries.
] That section second of an act entitled :" An
act making appropriations for the support OF
9 the army for the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-fve. and
i for other purposes passed at the present ses-
sion. shall be construed to direct the Third
Auditor of the Treasury to certify to tn e Treas
ury the sum necessary in the settlement of &C
: counts for steam boats and other vessels, pend
e ing in his office, under the joint resolution ap
Y proved December twenty-third, eighteen hun
dred and sixty -nine and March third, eight
e cen hundred and seventy-one, and said sun
1t so certified shall be excepted from the opera
= ton of the said second section: But nothing
Or herein contained shall be construed to eRec
e, the present jurisdiction of the Second Comp
r troller of the Treasury in this class of cases
is Pr0Uided, That the Secretary of War is au-
0, thorized to employ not exceeding thirteen en-
OF listed men for one year in the Ordnance Bu
as reau.
II To enable the Secretary of War to begin tn
be publication Of the Official records Of the wa
e. Of the rebellion, both of the Union and of til
hit Confederate armies, the sum of fifteen thou
to sand dollars. And the Secretary of War
nd hereby directsd to have copied for the Publ
ry Printer all reports letters, telegrams, an
IRE general orders not heretofore copied or print
nd ed and properly arranged in chronologict
a. order.
For continuing experiments with breacF
n loading cannon, under the direction of th
cot Secretary of War, the sum of ten thousan
dollars is hereby appropriated.
sut For the purpose of testing Mr.. Lees breecf
nd loading gun, under the direction of the Sec
retary of War, the sum of ten thousand do
sht lars is hereby appropriated
OIL Te enable the Secretary of War to alter ce
tain stone buildings and make the proper wal
sht and constructions around the same, to t
them for & military prison. at Fort Leaver
ky worth, Kansas, the sum of twenty-five thol
sand dollars.
nee sIGNAL-oFFIcE.
,ort Observations and reports of storms: For e,
nj penses of the observation and report of storm
by telegraph and signals. for the benefit
tb commerce and agriculture throughout Il
~ United States; for manufacture. purchase,
'1u repair of meteorological and other necessal
nd Instruments for telegraphing reports; for e
~ penses of storm signals, announcing propab
approach and force of storms; for eontinuir
; the establishment and connection of station
~ at life-saving stations and light houses; f
'nu instrument shelters; for hire, furniture al
i, expenses of Offices maintained for public u
- in cities or ports receiving reports; for riV
an reports; for maps and bulletins to be displa
- ed in chambers of commerce and boards O
%: ! tradero0ms and for distri button; for boo
'i"' and stationery ;and for incidental expenses
-, otherwise provided for, three hundred and fl
Sne ty five thousand three hundred and twent
! y five dollars.
.sa' To enable the Secretary of War to extel
lnLs the line of military telegraph from Prescott
CIV Camp Verde and Camp Apache in Arizen
= four thousand dollars Pr0ejGed, That Fl
a. Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, al
VI thorized to pay the expenses Of operating al
keeping in repair the telegraph lines ceI
III structed and operated by the War DEPARTING
in said Territory Of mi V
&c for dispatches sent over said lines; any ba
1 Iot ance remaining after the payment of such e.
ma penses to be covered into the Treasury as
- miscellaneous receipt; the moneys received
[e any one fiscal year to be used only in pa
, sh ment for the expenses of that year. And
reu full report Of the receipts and expenditures
connection with the said telegraph lines sht
shS be made quarterly to the Secretary of W
'no through the Chief Signal Officer. AND t
-, Chief Signal Officer shall have the charge al
lon control of said lines of telegraph in the CO
'0'' structon, repair and operation of the same.
mol For this amount, or much thereof as mi
- be necessary for the erection of winter qua
an ters fer troops stationed near the Red Clol
'eY- and Whetstone Indian agencies thirty tho
:g sand dollars.
,ion NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES.
nn- For continuation of the survey of norGhe
Of and northwestern lakes, one hundred and SO
MIN entY live thousand dollars; and the unexpe
eby ed balances of appropriations for Surveys
military defeDses" existing June thirtiet
tin eighteen hundred and seveptv-tbree Lo %
and the same are hereby, continued and render
ON available for the service of the fiscal year er
ing June thirtleth, eighteen hundred and 8,
ser enty-fve.
ap- MISCELLANEOUS ORJENTS
50 Support of Freedmen's Hospital and Al
lum at Washington, District of CoIumb
Pay of medical officers and attendants; me
cines medical supplies and rntions; ciothir
~. rent of hospital buildings; fuel and lights;
IN pairs and transportation, fifty thousand 4
King lars: ProUided, That after June thirtie
one eighteen hundred and seventy-fOur,
freedmen s Hospital in the District of Oelu
1or bl" shall, until otherwise ordered by Congr