Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-23
EVENING STAR.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

cress for expenditure In this vicinity, will DE
found of interest by our District readers:
Towards the erection Of the north front of
the Patent Office building, for the accommo.
dation of the Department Of the Interior,
To complete the bridge across the Potomac
ssiittle Falls. agreeably to the plan already
adopted, $4,000.
For the alteration and Improvement Of the
courtroom in the City Hall of the city Of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, So,
500.
AT Georgetown, in the District of Columbia,
for the accommodation Of the custom house
and post Office, building of like materials
sixty feet long by forty five deep, and thirty
two'feet high, to cost not more than $50 600
For ventilatng basement-rooms Of the Treas.
ury building, in addition to surplus funds for
yentilating upper rooms of the same building,
SIS 900.
For completing extension Of boiler shop,
Washington navy-yar1) completing CONVEX
sion of old ordnance to machine shop, timber
shed, pavements, drains, and cutters, grazing
and filing, dredging, extension of iron foun-
dry, machinery and tools, and for repairs OF
all kinds, S22l SO.
For completing repairs of brass foundry,
destroyed by fire, S. $50
For continuing the Treasury extension
$500, 900, and that the appropriation for re-
moving the stone wall which now forms the
southern boundary Of the park at the Presi-
dents may be expended in accorda nce with
such plan as may be hereafter approved BY
the President for the purpose of removing
said wall and enclosing said park
For continuing the Capitol extension, $780,
600
For continuing the grading and planting
with trees the unimproved portions of the
mall, SO 900
For paying existing liabilities for the W ash
ingtOn squeduct and preserving the work al
ready done from injury, such sum of money
as shall be necessary, not exceeding $3.50, 900
For continuing the construction of the new
dome Of the Capitol, 500, 900.
For the support, clothing, and me iical treat
ment Of the insane of the District of Columbia
and Of the army and navy, at the asylum in
said District, including FIVE hundred dollars
for books and incidental expenses, S2O, 500.
For the erection of barn and carpenters
shop at the Insane Asylum Of the District of
Columbia, 81 200.
For enclosing the grounds of the Insane
Asylum of the District of Columbia, SI3 S72
For the completion of the centre building
and three other sections of the Insane Asylum
of the District of Columbia, s138, 900 673
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to
purchase FIVE hundred burial lots in the Con-
gressional burying ground, a sum not exceed
ing s., 900: Prorided, That the same be ex-
pended in the construction Of an iron fence on
the DOrlQ slQe OF ealu Ourl8l RrOunQ.
For su port, care, and medical treatment of
transient paupers medical and surgical Ia.
tients in Washington Infrmary, $4,000.
For purchase of manure for the public
grounds, 1000.
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
$1,000.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the
public grounds, $500
For purchase Of trees and tree boxes, to re
planted by the United States, and the repair
Of pavements in front of the public grounds,
$4,000.
For furnishing and ornamenting the CAPITOL
with such works of art as may be ordered and
approved by the Joint Com mittee on the Libra
~, to be placed In either wing of the extension
when ready for their reception, $50 900.
For cnlarging and shelving the law library
room, and new carpet and furniture for the
same, $500.
For annual repairs Of the Capitol, water.
closets, public stables, water-pipes, pavements
and other walks within the Capitol square,
broken glass and locks, s., 0OO
For annual repairs Of the Presidents house
ard furniture, improvement of grounds, pur-
chasing trees and plants for garden and ma
king hOt-beds therein. and contingent exnen
ses incident thereto, $4,000
For fuel In part for the Presidents house.
81 1900
For lighting the Presidents house and Cant.
tol, the public grounds around them and
around the executive Offices, Pennsylvania ay
enue, and Last Capitol street to Second street,
S27, 900.
For grading, graveling and completing the
cplvert across Tiber creek, on Indiana avenue.
So 600 1''
For the payment Of laborers employed in
shoveliing snow from the walks to and around
the capitol, the Presidents house and other
public buildings, $500.
For purchase Of books for library at the Ex
tcutive mansion, to be expended under the
direction Of the President Of the United States,
$3.50.
For repairs of the Potomac, navy-yard, and
upper bridges, Sll 900.
And with view to the construction of a
new and substantial bridge across the Poto-
mac, the secretary OF the Interior be and he
hereby authorized to cause drawings and
estimates for the construction Of an iron sus
pension bridge, and also for a stone arch
bridge TO be prepared and submitted to Con-
gress at Its next session and with q further
view OF enabling Congress to select the most
eligible site for said bridge, the Secretary
Aforesaid is instructed to cause dravings and
estimates to be prepared for q bridge at or
near the site Of the present Potion &C bridge,
anotner al or near place known as the
Three Sisters," and another at such inter-
mediate point as may be deemed most eliei-
bic.
For repairs Of Pennsylvania avenue So, 900
$4,000.
For the purchase Of one dozen settees for
Lafayette square, Sl75.
For repairs of wster-pipes, $500.
Tor repairing heating apparatus, IA sing, re-
pairing passages, painting, reglaIing, and ex-
tending seed-room and green house according
10 plan, $4,000, to be expended under the df
IeclIon Of the Commissioner of Public Build
ings
For public reservation number two and La.
fayette square, $1,000.
FOR rebuilding Franklin engine house, in
GLIDING the purchase of a suita BILE lot, &c.
s. 060 w
For taking care Of the grounds south of the
rleadents house, continuing the improve
$1,000. - 0'O''
That the Secretary Of the Interior be and
ne Is hereby authorised and required to cause
asuitaoie site for new jail to be selected at
or near the penitentiary in thu ci,y of week