Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-31

employed in the Capitol square, at six
$4,000 90 hundred dollars each ..................
For compensation of two night watchmen,
employed at the Presidents house. at six
hundred dollars EACH.
For compensation Of the doorkeeper at the
10000 90 Presidents house. observation-disclosures.
For compensation of assistant doorkeeper
at the Presidents house .................
For compensation OF four drawkeepers at
the Potomac bridge, and for fuel, oil, and
amps...........
For compensation of two drawkeepers at
1880 90 the two bridges the eastern branch
OF the Potomac and fuel, oil, and lamps
For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard,
fuel, and oil for lamps
5000 90 For support care and medical treatment
of eigheen transient paupers, medical and
surgical patients in Washington lnfrm-
For purchase of manure for the public
1884 90 grounds.
For hire OF carts on the public grounds.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
the public grounds.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to
replace, where necessary, such have
been planted by the United States and
1895 90 the repair of pavements in front OF the
public .........................
2sosl 90 For compensation Of one night watchman,
employed for the better protection of the
buildings lying south of the Capitol, and
used as public stables and carpenters
shop.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water
closets, public stables, water-pipes, pave
ments and other walks within the Capt.
tol square, broken glass, and locks.
fFor annual repairs of the Presidents house,
Improvement OF grounds purchasing
trees and plants for garden, and making
hotbeds therein. .............................:
10000 90 For removing the stone wall which now
forms the southern boundary of the park
at the Presidents, in accordance with
the recommendation and plan submitted
by the Commissioner of Public Build
For removing the old engine-house of the
10000 90 franklin Fire Company from the trangu-
lar space Pennsylvania be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
and enclosing said space with iron
fence, and improving it.....................
For removing the present dome the
central portion of the Capitol, and the
construction of one upon the plan de-
signed by Thomas U. Walter, architect
of the Capitol extension, under the direc-
ton of the President of the United States
1000 90 For public reservation number two and
Lafayette Square. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
For enclosing the circle at the intersection
of Pennsylvania avenue with New Hamp-
shire avenue and and Twenty-third
streets, and improving the space within
SAID circle
For enclosing the triangular space upon
which the western market-house recent
100000 90 ly stood with an iron fence, and improve
ing the same. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
For repairs of Pennsylvania ayenue.........
For footway north front of the Presi-
$4,000 90 dents house. in lieu of the brick pave
ment much broken containing sew
enteen thousand one hundred and seven
ty-sx square feet, at twentyeight cents
5000 90 per foot
south front of Lafayette square. ...........
2592o 90 For purchase Of books for library at the
Executive mansion to be expended un-
der the direction of the President of the
5000 90 United States. ........................
To complete and revise the grades of the
city of Washington and to determine
10000 90 the plans for the drainage and sewerage
thereof per act of August thirty-one,
eighteen hundred and ffty-two........
5000 90 For taking of the grounds south of the
Presidents house, continuing the inn
provemens of the same and keeping
5000 90 them in order...
For the completion of Inc wing or the
Patent Office building and the improve
1000 90 connected therewith................
For lighting the Presidents house and Capt.
toll the public grounds around them, and
around the executive Offices and Penn
100000 90 sylvania avenue, east Capitol to
oeconu sIeet.......... ...................
For fuel for the Presidents house............
5000 90 For furnacekeeper at the Presidents house
To complete the furnishing Of the rooms
of the new wing OF the Patent Office
10000 90 building with furniture and providing
the saloon therein with cases for models
10000 90 For the collection of agricultural statistics
and procuring and distributing cuttings
and seeds.
For continuing the work on the Washing
ington aqueduct.
For completing the engravings and illustra-
Tl,450 90 tons of the Mexican boundary survey.
To meet the expenses of the transportation
1000 90 of certain persons from San Diego to San
1000 90 Francisco, California charged with vi
oation of the neutrality laws of the Uni
ted States, and who surrendered them
1000 90 selves TO the military authorities......
For salaries and incidental expenses of the
commission appointed under the act OF
third March, eighteen hundred and fifty
$4,000 90 one for settling land claims in Califor-
mia, from third March, eighteen hundred
and ffty-fve, to third March, eighteen
hundred and ffty-six, in addition to
expended balance..............................
For compensation of thirty clerks of class
1l,22s 81 one ten of class two, nine Of class three,
and one at two thousand dollars per an
mum, messenger ateght hundred and
forty dollars messenger at six hun
dred dollars twolaborers at FIVE hundred
and seventy-six dollars each, and four
watchmen at six hundred dollars each
ESQ 90 per annum, for temporary service at the
$50 90 discretion of the Secretary of the Int
ror, in the Pension Office on account Of
e,312 so bounty lands.
For contingent expenses, viz:
For rent Of rooms, stationery, engraving
plates for bounty-land warrants, paper
and printing the same, binding books,
blank books for registers, Office furniture,
and miscellaneous items. .................
For expenses of the current fiscal year on
account of military bounty lands.........
For clerk hire patents, records stationery,
and miscellaneous items in the General
Land Office on account of military boun-
ty lands........
For compensation of ten clerks Of class one,
100000 90 to be employed temporarily in the Office
Of the Third Auditor, account OF
military bounty lauds........................