The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-13

beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys cha
mois skins, polishing powder, and othel
cleaning materials, transportation, expenses
of keeping lamps and machinery in repair
publishing notices to mariners of changes O.
aids to navigation, seventeen thousand two
hundred and seventy dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses oi
nineteen lighthouses and buildings connect
ed Herewith, ten thousand dollars.
For salaries of forty three keepers and
assistant, keepers of lighthouses, at an aE-
erage not exceeding eight hundred dollars
per annum, twenty-five thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, remooring, and supplying
losses of floating buoys and beacens, and
for chains and sinkers for same, and for
coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten
thousand dollars.
For maintenance of the vessel provided
for by the act of eighteenth August, eigh-
alteen hundred and fifty-six, for Transports
ton OF supplies and materials, and for re-
pairs of lighthouses, and buoys service, and
for inspecting purposes, thirty thousand
For commutation of fuel and quarters
for officers of the army serving on light
| house duty, the payment of which is no
longer provided for by the quartermaster's
department, five thousand two hundred and
thirty-nine dollars and seyenty-nine cents.
For compensation of two inspectors of
customs acting as superintendents for the
Iife-saving stations on the coasts of Long
Island and New Jersey, three thousand dol
lars.
For compensation of fifty -four keepers of
| stations at two hundred dollars each, ten
Thousand eight hundred dollars
For contingent expenses of the life-saFing
stations on the coasts of Long Island and
New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
one thousand and ninety FIVE dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
the public grounds, two hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to
replace, where necessary. such as have been
planted by the United States, to Whitewash
tree-bcxes and fences, and to repair pave
ments in front of the public grounds, three
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water
closets public stables, water-pipes, pave
ments and other walks within the Capitol
square, broken glass, aud locks, and for the
protection of the building, and keeping the
main approaches to it unencumbered, six
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Presidents
House and furniture, improvement of
grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and
contingent expenses incident thereto, five
thousand dollars
For fuel, in part, of the Presidents House,
two thousand and four hundred dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Presidents
House, the public grounds around them,
and around the Executive Offices, and Penn
sylvania avenue, Bridge and High streets
in Georgetown, Four-and-H-half street,
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small, fifty thousand dollars.
For additional fixtures and lighting and
repairing the building and footways of the
custom house and post Office in Georgetown,
in the District eft Columbia, two hundred
and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.
For purchase of books for library at the
Executive Mansion, to be expended under
the direction of the President of the Unit
ed States, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs Of the Potomac, Navy Yard,
and Upper bridges, and the roads appurten-
ant thereto, six thousand dollars.
For repairs OF Pennsylvania avenue, and
watering the same, ten thousand dollars.
For public reservation number two and
Lafayette square, two Thousand dollars
For taking care of the grounds south Of
the Presidents House, and keeping them in
order, one thousand dollars.
For repairs of water-pipes, FIVE hundred
dollars.
For cleaning out the sewer traps on
Pennsylvania avenue, and repairing the
same, three hundred dollars.
For repairs of all the furnaces under the
Capitol, i've hundred dollars
For repairing Delaware avenue, north of
G street north, one thousand dollars
For paying one-half of the expenses of
sewer traps at the intersection of Fourth
street west with E street north, two han
dred dollars.
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
For the support, clothing, and medical
treatment of the insane of the army and
navy and of the revenue service, and of
the District of Columbia, at the asylum in
said District, forty thousand Eve hundred
dollars.
For finishing, furnishing, heating, and
lighting of additional accommodations in
the east wing, five Thousand dollars
For improvements of the grounds about
the hospital and farms, two thousand dol
lars.
PATENT OFFICE.
For collection Of agricultural statistics,
Investigations for promoting agriculture
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propagation, and distribution of cuttings
and seeds, of new and useful varieties, and
for the introduction and protection of in
sectivorous birds, and for Investigations to
test the practicability of preparing fax and
hemp as a substitute for cotton, sixty thou
sand dollars: Provided hosVever, That 10
the expenditure of this appropriation, and
especially in the selection of cuttings and
seeds for distribution, due regard shall be
had to the purposes of general cultivation
and the encouragement of the agricultural
and rural interests of all parts of the United
States
For expenses of receiving, arranging,
and taking care of copyright books, charts,
and other copyright matter, one thousand
six hundred dollars.
EXPLOITING EXPEDITIONS.
For preservation of the collections of the
exploring and surveying expeditions of the
Government, four thousand dollars.
BOTANIC GARDEN.
For grading, draining, procuring manure,