Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-09

erection, alteration or repair of any of the edi-
hces, structures, or works for which appropria.
tions are made in this act shall be subject to all
the pains, penalties and liabilities contained In
the provisions of the act entitled Gan act to
provide for the better organization of the treas
ury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, trans
fer, and disbursement of the public revenue"
approved sixth of August, eighteen hundred and
forty-six;
| For completing the bridge over the Potomac
River, near the Little Falls, fifteen thousand dol
lars; W
1 For compensation of one night watchman,
employed for the better protection of the build
ings lying south of the Capitol, and used as
PUBLIC stables and carpenters shop, five hun
dred dollars
For permanent repair Of the roof of the Cap
| itol, with copper, two thousand dollars;
| For annual repairs Of the Capitol, water-clos
cts, public stables, water--pipes, pavements and
other walks winthin the Capitol Square, broken
glass, and locks, five thousand dollars;
For annual repairs of the Presidents house,
improvement of grounds, purchasing trees and
plants for garden, and making hotbeds therein,
six thousand dollars;
For lighting the Presidents house and Cap
itol, the public grounds around them, land around
the executive Offices and Pennsylvania Avenue
twenty two thousand dollars;
| For completing the improvement OF Mary
land Avenue, for Seventh Street to the Potomac
River, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For furnishing lamps and lamp-Posts from
1
Avenue, in front Of Lafayette Square, five hun
dred dollars;
For completing the improvement of Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, west of Seventeenth Street, nine
thousand dollars;
| To reimburse the expenditure made by the
Commissioner of Pulic 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
across the eastern branch Of the Potomac, four
| fhoucoDd dollara.
For completing the west wing Of the patent
Office, building, two hundred thousand dollars !;
| For altering the streets and repairingin front
of the east wing of the Patent Office, putting up
iron railings, tagging, footway, putting in or
der yards, painting new 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 of the Patent Office building, for al
tering the windows in the rear and dressing off
the granite to make it conform to the front, and
for private stairway in he building, five thou
sand seven hundred and thirty dollars;
| For enlarging the culverts, and openings
| into the same, acrosss Pennsylvania Avenue, to
prevent overflow of the avenue, four thousand
| dollars;
For repairing or renewing the water-6xtu1e es
at the Presidents house including the bathroom
two thousand dollars;
| For Public Reservation Number Two, and
Lafayette Square, thi ee thousand dollars;
| For grading done by oroer of Ignatiul Mudd,
late Commissioner of Public Buildings, i'm Reser-
vation Numder Seventeen, between Third Street
| east and NeWJersey Avenue -four hundred eighty
four dollars and eighty-nine cents
| For compensation of commissioner and sur
veyor employed upon the bundary between the
United States and Mexico: and their assistants,
| including Office rent and incidental expenses,
thirty eight thousand one hundred dollars
For payment of the Annals of Congress for
the House Library of the House of Representa-
tives, under resolution of said House of Septem-
Der twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred
| and fifty, one hundred sets of each volume from
the twenty third to the fortieth, 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
one hundred and forty-three members of the
| the resolution of the House of Representatives
Of July twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hun
dred and hundred and fifty two, one hundred and
fOrty-three sets of twenty-four volumes each,
'front.' the sixteenth to the fortieth inclusive, in
all three thousand four hundred and thrty-two
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 sixty
columns of the proceeding of the House of Rep
resentatives, for the first session OF the thirty
third Congress, ,at seven dollars and fifty cents
per column, twenty-one thousand four hundred
and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; -
For twenty-four copies of the Congressional
/ thirty-third Congress, for each member and
delegate of the House of Representatives, max
ing anaggregate Of five thousand seven hundred
and twelve copies, at six dollars copy, thirty
four thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars
For binding the Congressional GlOde and Ap-
peddix, for the first session of the thirty-third
Congress, thirteen thousand seven hundred and
sixty-six dollars and forty cents;
! For reporting and publishing in the Daily
Globe, one hundred and ffty-one columns of
fho NJ fha of Mt
tives for the second session Of the thirty-second
Congress, at seven dollars and fifty cents col
Iumn, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two
dallars and fifty cents
| To pay deficiency in the appropriation for
eight hundred copies of the Documentary Histo-
Try purchased foT the new members of ths House
| of Representatives, from the twenty-sixth to the
thirty-second Congress inclusive, being at sew
enteen dollars twenty-seven cents and two mills
a volume, six hundred and ffty-five dollars and
| twenty cents;
For payment of the balance due, for the Sec
| ond and third volumes Of the fifth series of the
Documentary History, under contract with the
Secretary of State, four hundred and seventy
| For one hundred copies of the Congressional
Globe and appendix for the 1st session of the thr
ty-third Congress, for House Library, six hum
dred dollars, and for binding the same two hum
dred and forty dollars for one hundred copies
of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for
the second session Of the thirty-thlrd Congress,
for House Library; three hundred dollars, and
for binding the same one hundred and twenty
dollars @ =
| To enable John c. Rives to pay to the reporters
of the House, for the Congressional Globe, the
same amount Of additional compensation for re-
porting this session as was paid them at the last,
/ the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby ap-
ipropriated, and the clerk of this House is here
| by authorized to pay the same to said Riyes, to
be applied by him for that purpose.
SEC. 2. .dnd be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby.
authorized and directed to cause toIbe construct
ed the following buildings AT Ellsworth,
Maine. for the RECOMMENDATION of the custom