The Empire County argus., 1855-05-19


including emoluments during the time of such employ
ment shall be increased to that sum.
Public Bu6kdingS and GroundS-For compensation, IN
part for the messenger in charge of the main furnace In
the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars;
For painting and repairs inside of the Capitol new fur
under the Senate Chamber and Supreme Court oom
five thousand dollars;
For furnishing and putting up furnaces and repair
ing old furnaces rebuilding and ventatng air chambers
for the House of Representatives four thousand hive hun
For repair and renewal Of the gas pipes through the
Capitol three thousand five hundred dollars;
70 enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for two
hvndred and twenty feet and five inches OF grae coping
used in the mprov of the triangular square at the
corner of Thirteenth Street and Pennsy Avenue,
five hundred and fifteen dollars and fory-seven cents;
For compensation to the aborer in charge of the water
closets in the Capitol three hundred and sixtyfve dollars;
For compensation of the public gardener thousand
two hundred dollars;
For compensation of sixteen aborers employed in the
public grounds and Presidents garden at forty dollars per
month each thousand six hundred and eighty doars
For compensation of the keeper of the western gate
Capitol Square, seven hundred and thirty dollars;
Fer compensation of two day watchnen, employed in
the Capitol Square, al five hundred dollars each one thou
For compensation of two night watchmen employed at
the Presidents house, at five hundred dollars each one
thousand dollars;
For compensation of the doorkeeper at the Presidents
house, five hundred dollars;
For compensation of assistant doorkeepe at the Pres
dents house. three hundred and sxty-fve dollars;
For compensation of four drawkeepers, at the Potomac
bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps two thousand seven
For compensation of two drawkeepers a the two bridg
the branch of the Potomac, and fuel OIL
and lamps, one thousand dollars;
For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard fuel, and oil
for lamps, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars;
For support care and medical treatment of eighteen
transient paupers medical and surgical patients in Wash
ington Infarmy, three thousand dollars;
For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one
thousand dollars
For hire of carts on the public grounds thousand
dollars;
grounds, five hundred dollars;
For purchase of trees and treeboxes to replace where
such have been planted by the United States
and the repair pavements in front OF the public grounds
five thousand dollars;
For the Capitol extension seven hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars P,ogided That any officer of the army
navy who has been be appointed hereafter to dis
burse the money which may hereafter be appro
prated for the erection alteration or repair OF any OF the
edfces structures works for which appropriations
made this act shall be subject to all the pains, penalties
and liabilities contained in the provisions of the act en
tied An provide for the better organization of the
treasury and for the collection safekeepng transfer and
disbursement of the public revenue approved sixth of
August, eighteen hundred and forty-sih;
For completing the bridge the Potomac River, near
the Little Falls, fifteen thousand dollars;
For the compensation of one night watchman employed
for the better protection of the buildings lying south of
the Capitol and used public stables and carpenter
shop, five hundred dollars;
For permanent repair of the roof OF the Capitol with
"copper" two thousand dollars;
For annual repairs of the Capitol waer-cosets, public
stables water-ppes, pavements and other walks within
the Capitol Square, broken glass; and locks five thousand
For annual repairs of the Presidents house, improve
ent of grounds purchasing and plants for garden,
and making hObeds therein, six thousand dollars,
For lighting the Presidents house and Capitol the pub
lie grounds around them and around the executive offices
and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-five thousand dollars
For completing the improvement of Maryland Avenue
from Seventh street to the Potomac river, two thousand
Eve hundred dollars;
For furnishing lamps and ampposts from Sixteenth to
Seventeenth Streets Pennsylvania Avenue In front OF
Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars;
For completing the improvement OF Pennsylvania Ave
nue., west of Seventeenth street. nine thousand dollars
To reimburse the expenditure made by the Commission
of Public Buildings for the repair of the Potomac bridge
when injured by fire four thousand five hundred dollars
For continuing the repairs of the two bridges the
Eastern Branch of the Potomac, four thousand dollars
For completing the west wing of the patent office build
ing two hundred thousand dollars
For altering the streets and repairing in front of the
wing of the Patent Office putting up iron ratings,
Tagging footway, putting in order yards, painting
saloons Of the Patent Office in fresco fourteen thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars;
For iron railing and tagging in front of the old portion
the and dressing off the granite to make it conform
the 'front.' and for private stairway in the building five
thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars;
For enlargng the cuverts and openings into the same,
Penny Avenue, to prevent overflow of the
avenue, four thousand dollars;
For repairing renewing the xtures at the Pres
dents house, including the bathroom, two thousand dol
For Public Reservation Number Two, and Lafayette
square, three thousand dollars
For grading done by order of Ignatiu Mudd late Com
missioner of Public Buildings, in Reservation Number
seventeen, between Third east and New Jersey
nue. four hundred eghty-four dollars and eghty-nine
cents;
For compensation of commissioner and surveyor employ
ed upon the boundary between the United States and Mex
ico and their assistants including office rent and incidental
expenses, thirty ycigh thousand hundred dollars
For payment of the Annals of Congress for the House
library Of the House of Representatives under resolution
Of said House of September twenyeghth, thousand
eight hundred and fifty hundred sets of each volume
from the twenty third to the ortieth both included in all
seventeen hundred Volumes at five dollars per volume
eight thousand five hundred dollars;
For payment of the Annals of Congress- for hundred
and members Of the thirtysecond Congress-
entitled to them under the resolution of the House of Rep
resentatve of July twenysixth thousand eight hun
dred and fftytwo hundred and fortythree of
twentyou volumes each from the sixteenth to the ort-
eth inclusive in all three thousand four hundred and thir
tytwo volumes, at five dollars per volume, seventeen
thousand one hundred and sixty dollars
For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe two
thousand eight hundred and xtyve columns of the pro-
ceedng of the House of Representatives for the first
sion Of the thrtyhird Congress- at dollars and fifty
cents per column twentyone thousand four hundred and
eghty-seven dollars and fifty cents
For twenyfOur copies of the Congressional Globe and
Appendix for the first session of the thirty Congress-
for each member and delegate of the House Of Represent
aves making aggregate of five thousand hund
red and twelve copies at six dollars copy, thirty -four
thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars
For binding the Congressional Globe and appendix for
thousand hundred and sxtysix dollars and forty
cents
For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe, one
hundred and ftyone columns of the proceedings of the
House of Representatives for the second session of the
thrysecon Congress, at dollars and fifty cents
column, thousand hundred and thrtytwo dollars
and fifty cents
To pay deficiency in the appropriation for eight humid
red copies of the Documentary History purchased for the
members of the House of Representatives, from the
twentyxth to the thrysecond Congress inclusive, being
at seventeen dollars twenty-seven cents and two mills