The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-29
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, July 28.-The amount OF the
indemnity from Spain growing out of the
capture of the virginius has been received by
this Government and is ready for distribu-
tion. 9 a'mants to any share theerin should
! address the Department of State
Ex-Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury De-
partment, was to-day arrested on warrant
from St Louis, and released on 5000 bail.
The Syndicate has the option till Novem-
Der 18th, to take the remaining forty. eie hi
and one half millions of the five per cent loan
under the refundinR act Secretary Bristow
has called in S14, S97, 200 five-twenty bonds,
the interest on which ceases October 2Sth
This call includes all outstanding bonds is
sued unier act Of February 25th, 1862
Com. Cooper reports no cases of yellow
fever at the navy yard or villages in the
vicinity. Five deaths have occurred at Bar
rancas. DR.. Steinburg is down with the
fever. No new cases reported from Fort
Pickens during the past thirty-six hours.
The following Executive order was issued
yesterday:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July ~, 1875.
Ordered, in conformity to provisions con-
tanned in the River and Harbor Act, ap-
proved March 8, 1875, granting to James B.
Eads and his associates authority to use for
the construction of jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi River any material on the public
lands of the United States that shall be suit
able for or may be needed on said works, I'M
der such regulations as the Secretary of War
shall prescribe, it is hereby ordered and di-
rected:
l. That the general supervision of all mat
ters properly appertaining to the grant there
in made is placed in the hands Of the officer
of engineers, Major G. 3. Comstock, detailed
by the Secretary of War; under the provisions
OF the said act to report to him the depth of
water and width of channel secured and main
tanned from time to time in said channel, TO-
.gether with such other information as the
Secretary of War may direct
2. Protection of the interests of the United
States, SO far as the taking of material is con-
cerned. Said Eads and his associates shall,
prior to taking material from any public
lands, obtain authority to do SO from the
Secretary of War, their application specifying
the kind and amount of material they wish to
take from each subdivision OF the public
lands, and they shall at once cease from such
taking on being notified that the authority is
withdrawn.
3. Protection of the interests of the United
States so far as structures are concerned.
Said Eads and his associates and contractors
are authorized to erect, at their own expense,
such shops, dwellings, storehouses and
wharves on the military reservation at the
mouth of the Mississippi as may be neces-
sary for the prosecution of the work, and
shall furnish a list and plan showing the loca-
ton of same to the Secretary of War; but they
shall be erected in such way and at such.
places as not to interfere unnecessarily with
navigation or other interest in which the
United States is concerned whereof the Secre-
tary Of War shall be the, judge at his direc-
ton any such structure shall be at once re-
moved
4. Protection of James B. Eads's interests
No person save said Esds and his contractors
shall erect any building, tent or habitation
on the military reservation at the mouth of
the Mississippi River. Any person SO doing
may be summarily elected by the United
States Marshal or his deputy; but as au-
thority bas already been given to said James
B. Eads by the Secretary of War to collect
the material aforesaid, until he should be
furnished with the regulations as now herein
given, the said Eads is authorized to continue
collecting material under that authority until
the first day of September. 1875 after which
these regulations will 60 into effect.
(Signed) U. s. GRANT.