The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-07-28
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posts IN Bridge and High streets. in
Georgetown, eight hundred and ten d6ls
lars. ~ sas ssss=sss. = 5Fgcasss seg 3
For purchase sof books for library.as
the executive mansion, to be expended,
under the direction of the President of
the United States, two hundred and Fifty
dollars 7 ~ 195.f- @
For repairs of the, Potemac,s Navy
Yard and upper. bridges, six thousand
dollars as.t aszsss sfzssz-ss ssssss
For repairs of PennsylYania avenue,
three thousand dollars.
= To pay the residue Of the salary due
the engineer for constructing the bridge
across the Potomac at Little Falls. two
thousand five, hundred and eighty nine
dollars and sixty seven cents: and for
painting the hand rails, and iron work
of said bridge four hundred dollars and
the bridge is hereby, placed under pro-
lection of Georgetown, with power to
regulate the speed of travel and the
passage of droves of cattle over the
same, but no tolls shall be. charged.
For public reservation number two,
Lafayette Square, three thousand dol
lars.4sg Z q Il .#.if ss- We -ifz.fss
For taking care of the grounds south
of the Presidents House and keeping
them in order, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of laborers employ
ed in shoyelling snow from the walks to
and around the Capitol, the Presidene's
House, and the pavements aleng the
government reservations on Pennsylva.
mia avenue, eight hundred dollars.
For repairs of water pipes, Eve hum
dred dollars. s5ase ~ .sss or
For repairs of the furnaces under the
Senate Chamber and Supreme Court
room, enc thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of the Patent Or.
fee building, three thousand dollars.
For completing the west wing Of the
Patent Office building, filing up the
southwest corner of tie square, setting
the curb, and raising Ninth street in
front of the building to its proper gradeg
fifty Thousand dollars. go
! For repairing the fence around that
portion of the mall upon which thd
Smithsonian institution is situated, one
thousand dollars.
For cleaning out the sewer traps oh
Pennsylvania avenue, three bundled dol!
lar6.ss, ae = ss,as sasa sIeszi sas1ssissI
For purchasing plants for the con.
servatory at the Presidents House, ono
thousand dollars
For The completion Of the Washing.
ton Aqueduet, eight hundred thousand
dollars, and, in addition. thereto, so
much of the appropriation Of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars g for
paying existing liabilities for the Wash
ingtou Aqueduct, and preserving the
work already done from irjury,,n con-
tanned in the act entitled AN act maxi
ing appropriations for certain civil ex4
penses of the government for the year
ending the thirtieth june, eighteen hum
dred and fifty seyen," approved eight
eenth August, eighteen hundred and
fifty six, as may not be required for said
purposes. Fer United States Capitol
Extension, seven hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars: Pro0ided, That none of
this appropriation shall be expended in
embellishing any part of the Capitol ex-
tension with sculpture or paintings un-
less the designs for the same shall have
undergone the examination Of COM
mittee of distinguished artists, mot 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 the Joint Committee on the Library
of Congress-, hut this provision shall not
be so Construed as to apply to the execul
tion of designs heretofore made and ac-
cepted from Crawford and Rogers
For extension of the General Post
Office, one hundred thousand dollars.
For binding two thousand four hun,
dred copies of Code of the District of
Columbia, at seventy Eve cents per copy,
authorized by act approved third March,
eighteen hundred and fifty FIVE, one thou
sand. eight hundred and seventy fvesdol!
lars.r - .ss,sg s,t..s
For defraying the, expenses of q GER
tain party Of Omaha Indians who visi-
ted the city of Washington during the
months of February and March, eight
cen hundred and fifty two, to beexpend-
ed under the direction of the Secretary
of the Interior-being the balance of q
former appropriation, which was carried
to the surplus fund on the thirtieth
june, eighteen hundred and fifty seven
three hundred and thirty five dollars.
For continuing the extension of tho
Treasury building, i've hundred thou
sand dollars.
s. For continuing the work on the. Gus
tom house ct New Orleans, Louisiana,
two hundred and City Thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the GUS
tom house at Charleston, South Caro-
lima, two hundred thousand dollarsL
For completion of oustom-houses at
the following places, yiz:e at Ellsworth,
Maine, two thousand dollars at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, fifty thousand
dollars; at Bristol, Rhode Island, in
Guiding fencing and grading, i've lthou-
sand dollars; at New Haven, Connecti-
cut, sixty thousand dollars; at Oswego,
New York, ten thousand dollars; at
Plattsburg, New York, ten Thousand
dollars; At Newark, New Jersey, ten
thousand dollars at Norfolk, Virginia,
twenty thousand dollars; at Pensacola,
Florida, five thousand dollars; at st.
Louis, Missouri, twenty thousand dol
lars; at Mobile, Alabama, including
fencing and paving, thirty Thousand dol
lars; at Galens, Illinois, ten thousand
dollars; Milwaukee, Wisconsin,, ten thou
sand dollars; and for annual repairs at
custom houses, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the completion of Marine hospitals
at the following places, viz: at Port
land, Maine, three thousand dollars; at
st. Marks Florida, two thousand five
hundred dollars; at New Orleans, Lou
siana, including filing up site grading,
gas and water pipes and fix-
lures, and fencing, eighty ave; at Cin-
Hcinnati, Ohio. fifty thousand dollars at
Galena, Illinois, five thousand dollars
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