The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-10-31
For repairs and renovations at Kenosha
light-station, Wisconsin, four thousand dol

buildings, especially southern buildings fifty
thousand dollars.
For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous
items for the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
For continuation of the north wing of the
Treasury extension, two hundred thousand
dollars.
For completion of the Dubuque, Iowa. GUS
tom house, post-office, and United States
courtroom, fifteen thousand dollars.
For completion OF attentions of the Gin
cinnati cusiom-house, twenty 1.-TWO thousand
dollars
For completion of alterations of the Phil
adelphia custom-house, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For payment of claims due for the con-
structing and furnishing the Baltimore court
house, one hundred and nine thousand dol
lars.
For payment of claims due for the repair
of Government warehouses and construction
of wharves, Staten Island, New York, TWEEN
ty-nine thousand dollars
For burglar proof safes, or vaults twenty
thousand dollars.
For heating of old Treasury building, ten
thousand dollars.
For Office furniture and reapairs of furni-
lures and miscellaneous expenses for Treasu-
ry bureaus, Washington, twenty thousand
dollars.
Public Buildings and Grounds.
For error in compensation of employees in
the Interior Department, to wit: one messen-
ger, at one thousand dollars, and two assist
ants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each,
forty dollars.
For compensation of two night watchmen
at the Presidents House, at six hundred dol
lars, each, per annum, one thousand two
hundred dollars.
For additional compensation of twenty
per centum to two night watchmen, at six
hundred dollars each, two hundred and forty
dollars
For deficiency due the Navy Department,
for use of pile-drivcr, men, oil, and engine,
while repairing navy yard bridge, two thou
sand nine hundred and fifty mine dollars and
sixty-six cents.
For deficiency in consequence of relaying
and repaving all the crossings of the streets
intersecting Pennsylvania avenue, on the
north side, from the Capitol to the Treasury
Department, ten thousand dollars
For deficiency in repairing the conservato-
nv at the Presidents House, seven thousand
dollars
To enable the Commissioner of Public
Buildings to properly refurnish and repair
the Presidents House, in conformity with
his estimate, forty-siX thousand dollars. the
old furniture to be disposed of under the di-
rection of the Secretary of the Interior.
For purchase of coal and pay of 6remen to
warm the library of Congress one thousand
five hundred dollars.
For care. support, medical and surgical
treatment for forty transient paupers, medi-
cal and surgical patients, in some proper
medical institution in the city of Washing
ton, to be selected by the Commissioner of
Public Buildings, twelve thousand doll
arS
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
two thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
the public grounds, four hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to
replace, when necessary, such as have been
planted by the United States, to whitewash
tree-boxes 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, waterpipes, pavements
and other walks within the Capitol square,
ton of the building, and keeping the main
approaches to it unencumbered, in addition
to old material sold, eight thousand dol
lars.
For fitting up rooms in the basement. I'M
der the courtroom of the Supreme Court,
for consultation room for the court, six
thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Public
Buildings to pay for sewers and paying in
front of Government property constructed
under the act of May five, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, thirty-twO thousand and sew
enty dollars Provided, That no payment
shall be made on account of any appropria-
lions herein contained to reimburse the city
of Washington for Improvements heretofore
constructed in front of or through the pub
lie grounds, until the items have been prop
erly examined and audited as to legality and
amount by the proper officer of the Treas
ury.
For improvement of grounds, purchase Of
plants for garden, and contingent expenses
incident, thereto, two thousand dollars
For fuel, in part, for the Presidents House,
five thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Presidents
House, the public grounds around them, and
aronnd the executive offices, and Pennsylva-
mia avenue, Bridge and High streets, in
Georgetown. Four-and-a-ha street, Seventh
and Twelfth streets across the Mall, and
Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south
eighty-fve thousand dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac and upper
bridges, six thousand dollars
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and
keeping it clean, and for sprinkling the same,
ten thousand dollars.
For public reservation number two and
Lafayette square, in addition to any sum
heretofore received or that may hereafter be
received for the sale of lay raised on the
grounds, two thousand dollars.
For taking care of the grounds south Of
the Presidents House, and continuing the
improvement Of the same, three thousand
dollars.
For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred
| dollars.
For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on
Pennsylvania avenue, three hundred dol
| lars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under
the Capitol, five hundred dollars
For an additional Waterman in reservation
number two, seven hundred and twenty dol
| lars.
For replacing the present stakes at White
hall Narrows, New York, by approved struc-
lures, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovation at Little Gull
Island light-station, New York, three thous-
and dollars.
For new lighthouse on Hart Island,
New York, or vicinity six thousand six hun
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