Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-11-17

ditional six hours the like rate of compensa-
ton A71d proUided further, That all books
in the Offices of the clerks of the circuit and
districts courts of the United States, containing
the docket or minute of the judgments or de-
crees of said courts, shall, during Office hours.
be open TO the inspection of any person des,-
ring 10 examine the same, without any fee or
charge therefor.
For repairs of the United States courthouse
at Detroit, heretofore made by William K.
Moves, under the direction of the marshal,
such amount as the treasury decide is due.
Miscellaneous For payment of annuities
and grants by special acts of Congress, seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of one or both of the
bridges over the Eastern Branch, near the city
of Washington, at a valuation TO be made in
such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury
may direct, a sum not exceeding thirty thou
sand dollars, which bridge or bridges, when
purchased, shall be free of toll to all persons
whomsoever, under such regulations as are
now in force, or as the same may be legally
modified, or added TO, in relation to the Potion.
&C bridge opposite said city.
For COMPENSATION and contingent expenses
of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven
hundred and seventy five dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, atten-
dance on furnaces in the crypt, attendance on
water-closets, cleaning rotunda for public
gardner and laborers, and carriage on the Cap
itol grounds; tools, wire, Irvine, leather, nails,
chains and posts, boxes, straw, withdrawing,
manure, and trees for grounds; attendance at
the western gate of the Capitol repairs OF
public stables; tagging, enclosures, &C., keep
ing in order the iron pipes that convey water
to the Capitol and public Offices, and repairing
damage by freshets brooms, brushes, wood
en- spades, and shovelling snow; erecting a
suitable building for the keeper of the western
gates, repairing western front of the Capitol,
repairing abutments of Tiber creek bridge, and
building protecting walls; painting exterior
wood work of the Capitol and iron fences a
round the same altering and enclosing wood.
en- stairway from the roof of the Capitol TO
the opening in the dome; erecting iron fence
on Pennsylvania avenue, enclosing part OF
the public grounds at the Presidents House;
for enclosing public grounds at the north and
south of the Capitol, at the western front of
the Capitol, and the public grounds at the
south front of the Presidents House with
wooden fences grading said grounds; for sui
table trees for planting nursery, seventeen
thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dol
lars and fifty cents.
For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from the
Capitol square to the Treasury Department,
and mpensatioh for one lamp-lighter for the
same, and for lighting Capitol and Capitol
grounds, and Presidents House, six thousand
dollars, to be expended under the direction of
the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For annual repairs and painting of Presi-
dents House gardener and laborers, manure,
leather, nails, tools, carriage, &C., for the
grounds about the same repairs OF the fence
at La Fayette square, Fountain square, Presi-
dents garden, and repairs of gardeners house,
eight thousand three hundred and slxty-elght
dollars and twenty five cents.
For grading, draining, planting, and enclo.
sing with wooden fence the grounds south OF
the Presidents House, and extending to the
canal, six thousand dollars.
For sprinkIing Pennsylvania avenue during
the session OF Congress, one thousand dollars.
For painting the Capitol, twenty thousand
dollars.
For compensation to James Crutchet for ex-
ira work done in making the necessary fixtures
for lighting the Capitol with gas, two thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars
and eighteen cents.
For pay for removing the mast ard lantern
above the dome OF the Capitol, three hundred
and twenty-three dollars and for the purchase
and erection of lamps and lamp-posts of iron,
and for the laying of gas pipes, and for other
necessary fixtures for lighting the Capitol
grounds with gas, to be expended under the
direction of the Commissioner of Public Bull
1ings, sum not exceeding ten thousand dol
lars.
For laying gas pipes from the main gas pipe
at the Capitol TO the foot of Fifteenth street,
on both sides of Pennsylvania avenue, and for
one hundred lam-posts and lamps and other
necessary fixtures, and for work and materl-
ais rendered and supplied in establishing the
same, to be expended under the direction OF
the Commissioner of Public Buildings, sum
not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pub
lie Buildings to have the pipes fully and suffi-
GENTLY tested and proved before they are re.
ceived.
For laying eight hundred feet of gas pipe
| from the foot of Fifteenth street to the Presi-
dents House, and sixteen hundred feet OF
branch pipe through the house, thirty single
burners. pendents and brackets in the kitchen
and passages below, twenty brackets in the
bedrooms, fifty double brackets in the other
rooms, five four-ight chandeliers, four six
| light do, six eight-lght do, wo tweIve-lighl
do, altering chandeliers in the east room, and
for all other necessary fixtures for completing
the same, to be expended under the direction
of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, q
sum not exceeding five thousand dollars
For paying the Washington Gas Company
for lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds
including fixtures furnished, 10 the thirty frs
of August, eighteen hundred and forty light
to be paid under the direction of the Commit
tee on Public Buildings, two thousand dollars
For grading, planting with trees, and enclo'
sing with substantial wooden fence for theil
protection, the public mall from Seventh stree
westward to the Potomac river, three thousand
six hundred and twenty eight dollars
For necessary repairs of The public proper
ty at the lazaretto, at Philadelphia, eight hun.
dred and thirty-two dollars.
For survey of the coast of the United States
including compensation to superintendent and
assistants, one hundred and sixty five thou.
sand dollars.
For the further prosecution of the survey Of
the northern and northwestern lakes, twenty.
five thousand dollars,
For payment to clerks of the district court:
of the United States, for statements of the pro-
ceedings under the Bankrupt act, made in pur
suance of the resolution of the House of Rep.
resentatives of the twenty-ffth March, eigh.
teen hundred and forty -four, at the rate of fiji.
| teen cents for each application for relief under