The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-07-28
: SURVEY oB THE PUBLIC

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elusive of California, Oregon, Washing
ton, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska,
and Utah } including incidental expenses
and island surveys in tho interior, and
all other special and difficult surveys de-
rnanding augmented rates, to be appor-
toned and applied to the several sur
veying districts, according to the ex-
igencies of the public service, including
expenses of selecting swamp lands and
the compensation and expenses to sur
vey or to locate private land claims in
Louisiana, in addition to the unexpend-
ed balances of all former appropriations,
forty thoucsand dollars. 2A
For correcting erroneous and defec-.
tive lines of public and private surveys
in Illinois and Missouri, at rate not
exceeding six dollars per mile, one thou
sand dollars.
For surveying in Louisiana, at aug.
| mented rates now authorizeD by Law,
three Thousand dollars. as- 49,
| For surveying the public land and
private land claims in California, iuclu-
| ding Office expenses, incident to the sur
vey of claims, and to be disbursed at
the rate prescribed by law for the diff
ferent kinds of work, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For continuing the survey of base,
meridian, standard parallels, township
| and section lines in New Mexico, twen-
| ty five thousand dollars.
For surveying such of the private
claims in New Mexico as shall have been
confirmed by Congress, including expen-
ses incurred by the surveyor general in
adjudicating the same, fifteen thousand
dollars. -
For surveying the necessary base,
meridian, standard parallels, township
and section lines in Kansas aud Nebras-
ka, also outlines of Indian reservations,
one hundred thousand dollars
For preparing the unfinished records
of public and private surveys to be
transferred to the State authorities, un-
der the provisions of the act of twelfth
June, eighteen hundred and forty, in
those districts whore the surveys are
about being completed, ten thousand
dollars.
For resurveys and examinations of
the surveys of the public lands in those
States where the Offices of the survey
ors general have been, or shall be, closed,
under the acts of the twelfth June, eight
cen hundred and forty, and twenty-sec-
ond January, eighteen hundred and fif-
ty three, including two Thousand dollars
for the salary of the clerk detailed to
Office, two thousand dollars.
For collection of agricultural statis-
tics, Investigations for promoting agri-
culture and rural economy, and the pro-
curement of cuttings and seeds, sixty
thousand dollars: Provided, That it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner
of Patents to submit to the Secretary
of the Interior, at the commencement of
each session of Congress, the invoices of
seeds and cuAtings purchased with the
money hereby appropriated aud also
statement of expenses in procuring ag-
ricultural statistics, and incidental ex-
penses in procuring seeds, cuttings, and
information. Lz- ass a-rf
For drawings to illustrate the me-
chanical report of the Commissioners of
Patents for the year eighteen hundred
and fifty eight, six thousand dollars.
HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
For the support, clothing, and medi-
cal treatment of the insane of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and of the army and
navy at the asylum in said District,
twenty four thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
For salaries and incidental expenses
of the institution for the instruction of
the deaf, dumb, and blind in the Dis
trict of Columbia, authorized by the act
approved May twenty nine, eighteen
hundred aud fifty eight, three thousand
dollars. ias ssaSses u ssateo2
For extension of stables and erection
of sheds in connection with the stock
yard, four thousand dollars. pal aa.
For heating and ventilatipg the entire
unfinished remainder of the hospital
edifce, and for slightly remodelling the
heating apparatus of the present finished
portious of the building, SO that the
heating and ventilation of the whole es-
tablishment shall be one connected and
efficient system, fifteen thousand dollars.
For support, care, and medical treat
ment of forty transient paupers, medical
and surgical patients in Washington In.
irmary, six thousand dollars.
For purchase of manure for the pub
lic grounds, one thousand dollars
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
one thousand and ninety five dollars and
fifty cents. .al3 bss
For purchase and repair of tools used
in the public grounds, five hundred dol.
lars. as @ ha7sz --'-
For purchase of trees and tree boxes,
to replace where necessary such as have
been planted blythe United States, and
the repair of pavements in front of the
public grounds, five thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol,
water closets. public stables, water pipes,
payements and othor walks within the
Capitol Square, broken glass and locks,
six thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Public
Buildings to fit up with shelves the two
rooms at the south end of the library of
Congress, for the use of the library, and
for putting up partition in the passage
to them, two hundred and seventy dol
lars. 5ars-
For annual repairs of the Presidents
House and furniture, Improvement of
grounds, purchasing trees and plants for
garden and making hot beds therein, and
contingent expenses incident thereto,
twelve thousand dollars.
For fuel, in part, of the Presidents
House, one Thousand eight hundred dol
lars. ~ z~i ,qSsy sssasz SIT
For lighting TIN Presidents House
and Capitol, the = ilico grounds around
them and around the Executive offices,
and Pennsylvania avenue, and Bridge
aud High streets in Georgetown, forty
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