The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-13
sixth August. eighteen hundred and forty

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resentatives to pay for the books furnish
ca 70 me members of the House of Repre-
sentatves OF this Congress, who had not
received Them, by the order of the House
OF me third day of August last, and for
oooks furnished under former resolutions
to members of this House
rot compiling, printing, and binding the
Dienhiai Register, IN addition to an unex-
- pehued balance OF former appropriations
10 reimburse The owners the principal spe-
che value OF loan Office and final settlement
certinca'es which may be produced and
| exhibited :
For furniture for the custom-house at Bos-
ton
For annual repairs OF the Capitol: lamp
lighters, oil for lamps, wicks, and repairs
OF lamps and lamp posts; attendance on
furnaces OF the crypt; attendance on wa
ter Closets cleaning the rotundo and
! crypt; brushes and brooms; laborers and
nariage on the Capitol grounds; tools,
wire, twne, leather, nails, stakes, ma
nure, and straw, Tor grounds; spent ashes,
lime, and plaster, for grounds, trees; at
tendance at the western gates of the Capt.
tol, enlarging Matchbox at the north
western gate of the Capitol, repairs of
| public stables, tagging, and enclosures;
Keeping In order iron pipes that convey
the water TO the Capitol and public Offices;
| for repairs of the western front of the Cap
itol 10 prevent the cracking of the wall
| over the windows in the basement story;
TO necessary repairs OF the southern abut,
men OF the bridge across Pennsylvania
avenue and Second street, over Tiber
creek; new basin at fountain, and re-
pairing jet d'eauX; shovelling snow, and
wooden spades, gardeners salary
For taking up and reIaying the floor of the
Senate chamber, to increase the number of
seats, making flues, building tire-proof
| ar. afpe nd 9TH
For payment OF bill of John Skirving for
extra work done in the Capitol during the
year eighteen hundred and forty-siy
For annual repairs Of Presidents house;
gardeners salary; laborers, and carriage;
tools, wire. twlne, leather, nails stakes,
straw for plants, and oil for lamps; ma
nure for garden and grounds, and La Fay
cite square repairs Tor fence at Fountain
square, La Fayette square, and Presidents
garden
For the completion OF the new marine hos
pltal o. the United States now building in
! New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana
For the construction OF a custom house in
the city OF New Orleans, TO be erected on
square OF ground on which stands the
building now used as a custom house in
said city, or the land in front of the Gus.
| tom house square embraced within the
! public road, Custom house, Canal, and Ge-
! nols street, on condition that the corpo-
rate authorities of said city relnquish and
convey TO the United States an absolute
and unconditional title in and to such por.
ton of said ground as mav in the opinion
| OF the Secretary of the Treasury, be ne
! cessary and expedent for the erection
and use OF such custom house; and so
soon as said REIMBURSEMENT and convey
ance is made, as stated, that then, and in
that case, the United States release to the
said city OF New Orleans all claim on
their part to the residue of the ground in
cluded within said square /,
For the support and maintenance of the
Pententary OF the District of Columbia,
For completing the paving and Improvement
OF Pennsylvania avenue, agreeaby to the
estimate Of the Typographical Engineer,
made at the last session of Congress
For support, clothing, and medical treatment
of insane paupers OF the District of Co
lumbia
For the execution of an historical painting
for the rotundo of the Capitol, by Will
liam IL. Powell, in place of the one con-
racted for with Henry Inman, deceased,
under the joint resolution of the twenty
third of June, eighteen hundred and thir-
To pay Swami & Palmer for work exc
cuted by them at "Twin Island" on the
river Ohio, above the falls
To make good a deficiency in the fund for
the relief of sick and disabled seamen
For payment for one thousand copies of the
seventh and eighth volumes of the stat
utes at large of the United States
For continuing the publication of the works
of the exploring expedition, including the
printing of the charts, the pay of the scien-
tiic corps, salary of the horticuturist,
and care OF the collections
For refunding certain duties collected under
the act OF thirtieth August, eighteen hun
dred and forty-two, entitled IAN act to
provide revenue from imports, and to
change and modify existing laws imposing
duties on imports, and for other pur-
poses," contrary to the terms of the trea-
ty OF commerce and navigation of the
first May, eighteen hundred and twenty
eight, between Prussia and the United
States
For refunding certain duties collected under
the tariff act of eighteen hundred and for
ty-two, above mentioned, contrary to the
terms of the treaty of twentieth Decem-
Der, eighteen hundred and twenty seven,
between the Hanseatic republics of Lrl-
bee, Bremen and Hamburg, and the Uni
ted States
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For supplying lighthouses, containing two
thousand five hundred and ninety four
lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff
skins; whiting, and cotton cloth; trans
portation, and other expenses on the
diu ioi hccPIiS tie ll1HtnlHp
paratus in repair Il
For repairs and incidental expenses, reft-
ting, and Improvements of lighthouses,
and buildings connected herewith
For salaries OF two hundred and thirty weight
keepers, and sixteen assistant keepers OF
lighthouses, seventeen of them charged
with double, and two with triple lights,)
including also the salary of an inspector
of lights on the upper lakes, and superin-
tendent on Lake Michigan II
For salaries of thirty keepers of floating
lights
For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of
thirty floating lights
For weighing, moorlng, cleansing, repair
ing, and supplying the losses Of beacons,
buoys, chains, and slnkers
For expenses incurred by superintendent in
visiting their lighthouses annually, and
examining and reporting the condition of
each
For superintendents' commissions, at two
and half per centum
SURVEYORS OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For salary of an assistant surveyor, TO have
charge an oversight of the resurveys in
the Greenbur5 district (lale St Helena,)
under the direction and supervision OF the
surveyor general OF Louisiana
For salary OF an assistant surveyor, to sur
vey the private claims in Florida, under