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For compensation of fifty-four keepers of
stations at two hundred dollars each, ten
thousand eight hundred dollars.
Public Buildings and Gr0unds.-For sup
port, care, and medical treatment of forty
transient paupers, medical and surgical pa
tients in some proper medical institute III the
City of Washington, to be selected by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings, six thou
sand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
two thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
the public grounds, two hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxcs, to
replace when necessary such as have been
planted by the United States, to whitewash
tree boxes and fences, and to repair pave
mcnts in front of the public grounds, three
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water.
closets, public stables, water-pipes, pave
mcnts, and other walks within the Capitol
square, broken glass, and locks, and for the
protection of the building, and keeping the
main approaches to it uncncumbercd, eight
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Presidents
House and furniture, and improvement of
grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and
contingent expenses incident thereto, six
thousand dollars.
For fuel, in part, of the Presidents House,
two thousand four hundred dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Presidents
House. the public grounds around them, and
around the executive offices, and Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Bridge and High streets in
Georgetown, -Four -and-a-half street, Seventh
and twelfth streets across the mall, sixty
two-thousand dollars.
TO enable the Commissioner of Public
buildings to erect two new furnaces under
the rotunda of the Capitol, two under the
old Hall of the House, and two under the
Supreme Court room and vestibulc to the
same, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac, navy yard,
and upper bridges, and the roads appurte.
nant thereto. and to repair the house occu-
pied by the bridge-kccpcr at the navy yard,
and to erect wing wall to protect the same,
eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-fivc
dollars.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, six
thousand dollars.
For public reservation number two and
I.afay ettc square, two thousand dollars.
For taking care of the grounds south of
the Presidents House, containing continu-
ing1 the Improvement of the same, and re-
placing trees destroyed last winter and spring
by United States cavalry, repairing fences,
and other injuries, two thousand dollars.
For repairs of watcr-pipcs, five hundred
dollars.
For cleaning out the scwcr-traps on Penn
sylvania avenue and repairing the same, three
thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces un-
der the Capitol five hundred dollars.
For continuing the repairs of Dclcwarc
avenue north Of the Capitol, one thousand
dollars.
For removing back the fence, paving the
footpath on First street between the Capitol
grounds and Botanic garden, and making a
pavement on Third street on tho side of said
garden, one thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars.
For making improvements provided for in
the thirteenth section of the city charter. per
act of May seventeen, eighteen hundred and
forty-cight, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of street south from
Sixth to Seventh street west, Maine avenue
from the canal to Sixth street west, and
Four -and-a-half, east side. from Missouri to
Maine avenue, all bordering on the public
grounds, according to the surveyors csti-
: mate. six thousand nine hundred and forty
dollars.
For repairing and rebuilding fence around
Smithsonian grounds. five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner Of
Public Buildings. as disbursing agent Of the
Patent Office building and the Capitol cx-
tension and dome, for the current fiscal year.
five hundred dollars. n
Government Hospital for Msane.-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 Col
umbia, at the Government Hospital in said
District, including five hundred dollars for
books, stationery, and incidental expenses,
fifty thousand five hundred and twenty dol
lars.
For finishing. furnishing, heating and
lighting of additional accommodations in the
cast wing, fivothousand dollars.
For extension of workshops and machine
ry therefor, to afford additional facilities for
the curative and econimical employment Of
patients, two thousand dollars.
For continuation of the wall enclosing
the grounds Of the hospital, ten thousand
dollars.
Exploring Erpcditiom.-For preservation
of the collections Of the exploring and sur
vcying expedition of the Government, four
thousand dollars.
Botanic Gaydcn.-For grading, draining,
procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs,
purchasing trees and shrubs under the direc-
ton of Library Committee Of Congress,