The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-16


For drawings to illustrate the mechanical report of the
Commissioner Of Patents for the year eighteen hundred
and ffty-cight, six Thousand dollars ~. % bst s.tf
HOSPITAL yoR The ISsASE " 'AF
For the support clothing and medical treatment of
the insane OF the District Of Columbia, and Of the asy
and at the asylum In said DISTRICT twenty thou
sand Ave hundred dollsrs. atar rla lil5 t.sE glai
For salaries and incidental expenses of the institution
for the instruction of the deaf dumb, and blind n the
District Of Columbia authorized by the act approved
May twenty nne eighteen hundred and fifty eight three
thousand dollars s sisgaa nf5s eilst.LalltgI 40
For extension of stables and erection of sheds in
nexion with the stock yard four thousand dollars. ~
For heating and ventilatng the entire unnished re-
mander of the hospital edfce and for slightly remodel
ling the heating apparatus 0f tho present finished portions
Of the building that the heating and ventilation Of the
whole establishment shall ~ connected and efficient
system, fifteen thousand dollars. li 4ts ta
For support care and medical treatment of forty tran
sient pauper medical and surgical patients In Washing
ton Infrmary, six thousand dollars. t$ H ,t
For purchase of manure for the public grounds one
For hire Of carts the public grounds Thousand
and ninety five dollars and fifty cents
For purchase and repair of tools used in the public
grounds, five hundred dollars. t s4
For purchase of trees and tree boxes to replace where
necessary such have been planted by tho United States
and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds
| five thousand dollars $50 t III 5tl u8t
stables water pipes pavements and other walks within
the Capitol Square, broken glass and locks six thousand
| dollars. aai.ss f3s 4 3Gr
To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to fit
up with shelves the two at the south end of the
library of Congress, for the of library, and for
putting up partition in the passage to them, two hun
| dred and seventy dollars. GE .ml
For annual repairs of the Presidents House and furni
ture, improvement of grounds purchasing trees and
plants for garden and making hotbeds therein and con-
ngent expenses incident thereto twelve thousand dol
| lars. arH4 UF eF fHE ls#.E ,as is ia.l.. iis.l
For fuel, in part of the Presidents House. one thou
- y { = ~
For lighting the Presidents House and Capitol, the
public grounds around them and around the Executive
Offices, and Pennsylvania avenue and Bridge and High
streets in Georgetown forythree Thousand dollars M
For erecting thirty additional lamp posts in Bridge
High Streets in Georgetown eight hundred and ten
| dollars ~ f sf x S E8i3HaA N.sl has
For purchase of books for library at the executive
mansion to be expended under the direction of the Pres
dent of the United States two hundred and fifty dollars
| For repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and upper
bridges, six thousand dollars. sw ~ asEaB ias hr
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, three Thousand
| dollars. ssa f ldt ssf 81 5,4a a ssssifg.,
To pay the residue of the salary due the engineer for
constructing the bridge the Potomac at Little Falls
two thousand five hundred and eighty nine dollars and
sixty cents and for painting the hand rails and
Iron work of said bridge four hundred dollars and the
bridge is hereby placed under protection of Georgetown
with power to regulate the speed of travel and the
Of doyes of cattle over the same but tolls shall
| be charged. ~ fs6at 5.g ahm4 4esQ iE
For public reservation number two Lafayette Square,
| three thousand dollars s lf s&I sl sas1fag 4ls
For taking of the grounds south of the President
House and keeping them In order one thousand dollars
| For the payment of laborers employed In shovelling
snow from the walks to and around the Capitol, the
Presidents House, and tho pavements along the govern
ment reservations on Pennsylvania avenue eight hundred
| dollars. 5s5t g.s ~ a IG
For repairs of water pipes, five hundred dollars
For repairs of the furnaces under the Senate Chamber
and Supreme Court room one thousand dollars. H
For casual repairs of the Patent Office building, three
| thousand dollars al s5i8 Fastsf a N, AIN
For completing the west wing of the Patent Office
building filling up the southwest of the square
setting the curb and raising Ninth street In front of the
building to ts proper grade fifty thousand dollars
For repairing the fence around that portion of the mall
upon which the Smithsonian institution Is situated one
/ thousand dollars. af a9F s3E
For cleaning out the sewer traps on Pennsylvania
For purchasing plants for tho conservatory at the Pres
| ident House, one Thousand dollars.
For tho completion of the Washington Aqueduct eight
hundred thousand dollars and in addition thereto 50
much Of the appropriation of two hundred and y thou
sand dollars for paying existing liabilities for the Wash
ington Aqueduc and preserving the work already done
| from injury contained in the act entitled sAn act
making appropriations for certain civil expenses Of the
government for the year ending the thtcth june egh
| teen hundred and fftyseyen, approved eighteenth
August eighteen hundred and fifty six may not be
required for said purposes For United States Capitol
Extension, hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Propided That of this appropriation shall be
pended in embellishing any part of the Capitol ext
sion with sculpture paintings unless the designs for
ttee Of distinguished artists not to exceed three In
number to be selected by the President and that the
designs which said committee shall accept SHALL also,
receive the subsequent appreciation Of tho Joint Com
mttee the Library of Congress but this provision
shall not be construed to apply to the execution OF
designs heretofore made and accepted from Crawford and
Rogers.
For extension of the General Post Office hundred
thousand dollars.
For binding two thousand four hundred copies of Code
Of the District Of Columbia at seventy five cents per
copy, authorized by act approved third March, eighteen
hundred and fifty five, thousand eight hundred and
| seventy five dollars.
For defaying the expenses of certain party Of Omaha
Indians who visited the city Of Washington during the
months OF February and March, eighteen hundred and
fifty two to be expended under the direction of the Sec
retary Of the neriorbeing the balance of former ap
propraon which carried to the surplus fund the
thirtieth june eighteen hundred and fifty seventhree
! hundred and thirty-fye dollars
For continuing the extension Of the Treasury building,
| five hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the work the custom house at New
Orleans louisiana two hundred and fifty thousand dol
| lars. N. ss ~ - - ,lt ~. 4. g..Ii,5 +.
j For continuing the work the custom house at
Charleston South Carolina two hundred thousand dol
| lars. eel y.. ,,t. NJ
For the completion cf houses at tho following
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty thousand dollars; at
Bristol Rhode Island including fencing and grading, Ave
thousand dollars at New Haven Connecticut sixty thou
sand dollars; at Oswego New York. ten thousand dollars
at Plattsbug New York ten Thousand dollars at Newark,
New Jersey ten Thousand dollars; at Norfolk, Virginia.
twenty thousand dollars at Pensacola Florida, five
thousRnd uoars: sc. IOuis Missouri tWenty thou