Southern shield., 1850-11-30
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| For relief of Stephen H. Weems, late :, consnI of the United States at Guatemala, l and to enable him to procure a passage
 home. twelve hundred dollars, to be eX- pended under the direction ot the o'a'e : Department.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 For the annual repairs in the capitol ana
 attendance on furnaces in crypt, attenu- ance on water closets. cleaning rotuhda' ioi pubIic oardner, and aborers, and cartaSo
 on the capitol grounds, tools, wre' 1wlne' WI IL. leather, nails, chains, and posts' poAeS' 0'ian'
 whitewashing, manure, trees for grounds attendance at the western gales ol 'n0 capitol. repairs of public stables. flagg!ng' enrrIosnres &c.. keeping in order iron pipes I that convey water to the capitol and pubic offices. and repairing damages by ireshetss;
 brooms. brushes, wooden spades, and shovel- ino snow. repairing abutments at Fiber
 creek, oraveling the walks in the capitol grounds, inclosng and improving the public Grounds at the north, south, east, and west of the capitol, the open triangular spaces
 on Pennsylvania avenue, for relaying and repairing flag pavements in the building, terraces, and western approaches, &c., and
 for other incidental repairs and improve
 ments, twenty thousand dollars.
 For annual repairs of Presidents house,
 garden, and laborers, graveling the walks
 in Presidents square, manure, leather, nails,
 tools, &c., and repairs of fence at Lafayette
 square, Fountain square, Presidents square,
 and Presidents garden, carriage, &c., four tI thousand five hundred dollars.
 fl For tho urOuudc in afa vet tte i Square, and fencing the same, three thou 7 sand dollars; to be expended under the direc- l ton of the President of the United States. 2 For compensation of four assistants, 2 draw keepers at the Potomac bridge, in f fIcluding oil for lamps and machinery, fire !, wood, and repairs, five thousand dollars: t Prouided, That the allowance to the two 3 assistants employed in keeping the southern l draw of said bridge shall be two dollars ] ger day.
 For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from
 Capitol Square to the Treasury Department, } and compensation of two lamp-lghters for the same, and for lighting the Capitol and l Capitol grounds and Presidents house, ee-
 ven thousand dollars.
 l For compensation and contingent ex- penses of auxiliary guard, six thousand seven ', hundred and seventy-five dollars.
 For repairs of the bridges on the Eastern 7 Branch of the Potomac, pay of two draw ] keepers, oil for lamps and machinery, and
 for rembursing to the Corporation and levy l court of Washington city the sum of six ! hundred and fifty dollars advanced by them
 for repairs already done, five thousand dol : lars.
 7 For completing the improvements on h.
 diana avenue, three thousand dollars. s For grading, graveling, repairing side
 walks, Building culverts, and otherwise inn Q otherwise improving New Jersey avenue, l. north of the Capitol, three thousand dollars, | to be expended under the direction of the !, Commissioner of Public Buildings. d For like improvements on New Jersey = avenue, from the Capital Square to the pub l. lie reservation, number seventeen, accord s ing 10 such grade as the Corporation of l. Washington may hereafter establish, two = thousand dollars, to be expended under the ! direction of the Commissioner of Public d Buildings.
 For paying balance due Peter German, l. for furnishing stone for paving Pennsyva-
 nia avenue, two hundred and sixty dollars : and sixty-tive cents.
 For completing the graveing on Four e and d-a-half street, from Maryland avenue to
 the Arsenal grounds, and hagging the west o side, one thousand two hundred dollars. $ For the support care, and medical treat ,t ment ot twelve transent pauper medical or o surgical patients in the Washington Infirm- 7, ary, two thousand dollars, to be expended n under the direction of the Commissioner of $ Public Buildings: ProUided, The physicians l, and surgeons of the aforesaid infrmary give
 bonds for the maintainance of twelve pau e per transient patients during one year, ii
 application be made for their reception d and bind themselves to keep rooms for the o accommodation of twelve pauper patients g weekly on an average during the year. d For completing the grading, planting d with trees and enclosing with a substantial 5. wooden fence for their protection, the nal r. from Sixth street westward, to the Potomac h river, five thousand dollars.
 l. For extending the sewers from the Ex. e ecutive Department and the Presidents
 house to the canal, and for further improv. l- ing the grounds south of the Presidents 3, house, fifteen thousand dollars e For paying balance due the contractors
 for laying gas pipes between the Capito e and Fifteenth street, within the Capitol anc e Capitol grounds, and for chandeliers anc > burners in the Presidents house, and com
 pleting the branch pipes, lamps, &c., within n the Capitol Grounds, three thousand dol
 lars.
 n For continuing the sewer under Pennsyl n vania avenue on the east line of Fourteenth t, street to the canal, three thousand dollars l. to be expended under the direction of the
 Commissioner of Public Buildings.