The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-15
SEPTEMBER Is, 1866.

For hire of carts on the public grounds, one
thousand any ninety-hve dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the
public grounds, two hundred dollars.
For purchase of tree-boxes to replace where
necessary, srch as have been planted by the Uni
ted States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences,
and to repair pavements in front of the public
grounds, three thousand dollars. - Q.
For annual repairs of the Capitol water-closets
public stables, water pipes, pavements and other
walks within the Capitol square, broken glass,
and locks, and for the protection of the building
and keeping the main approaches to 1t unencum-
bered six thousand dollars.
For annual repairs OF the Presidents house and
furniture, improvement of grounds, purchase of
plants for garden, and contingent expenses Incl
dent thereto, five 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 Pennsylvania avenue,
Bridge and High streets in Georgetown, Four
and-a-half street, Seventh, and Twelfth streets
across the mail, fifty thousand dollars.
For additional fixtures and lighting and repair
ing the building and footways of the custom
trict of Columbia, two hundred and fifty dollars,
or SO much thereof as may be necessary.
For purchase of books for library at the Execu-
tive Manson, to be expended under the direction
of the President of the United States, two hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac Navy Yard, and
Upper bridges, and the roads appurtenant there
to, six thousand dollsrs.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and water
For public reservation number two and La
fayettee 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 Pennsyl-.
vania avenue, and repairing the same, three hun
| dred dollars.
For repairs of all the furnaces under the Capt.
| tol five 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 intersectian of Fourth street west
with E. street north, two hundred 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 five hun
| dred dollars.
For finishing, furnishing, heating, and lighting
of additional accommodations in the east wing,
| tive thousand dollars.
For improvements of the grounds about the
| hospital and farms, two thousand dollars.
Patent Office. For collection of agricultural
statistics, investigations for promoting agricul-
propagation, and distributing of Cuttings and
seeds, of new and useful varieties, and for the in
PRODUCTION and protection of insectivorous birds,
and for Investigations to test the practicabity OF
preparing flax and hemp substitute for cotton,
sixty thousand dollars Provided however, That
in 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 encour
of all parts of the United States.
For expenses of receiving, arranging, and tax
| ing care of copyright books, charts, and other
| copyright matter, one thousand SIX hundred dol
| lars.
Exploring Expeditions. For preservation
the collections Of the exploring and surveying
| peditions of the Government, four thousand dol
| lars.
Botanic Garden. For grading, draining, pro-
| curing manure, TOOLS fuel and REPAIRS purchas-
| ing trees al shrubs for Botanic Garden, to be
expended under the direction of the Library Com
mittee of Congress, three thousand three hun
For pay of horticulture and assistants in the
| Botanic Garden and greenhouses, to be expended
under the direction of the Library Committee of
| Congress, five Thousand one hundred and twenty
one dollars and fifty cents
Survey of the Public Lands. For surveying the
PubSG lands OF
| Utah, Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada including
incidental expenses and island surveys in the in
terror and all other special and difficult surveys
demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned
aud applied ia the several surveying districts
| cording to the exigencies of the public service
| including expenses of selecting swamp lands, in
addition to the unexpended balances of all former
| appropriations for the object which will be
absorbed by work under contract, ten thousand
! dollars.
For surveying the public lands and private land
claims in California to be disbursed at the rates
prescribed by law for the different kinds of work
| ten toousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands and privatela
claims in New Mexico, five thousand dollars.
| Nebraska, also outlines of Iddian reservations,
| ten thousand dollars.
service in the General Land Office to attend to
! the unfinished surveys in the States, where the
offices of the surveyors general have been closed,
| two thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Oregon, to be
disbursed at the rates authorized by law, five
| thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in " ashington
! Territory, at the rates authorized by law, five
| thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Dakota Ter
ritory, five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands and private land
claims confirmed in Colorado Territory, five
thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands and private land
claims confirmed in Nevada Territory, five thous
and dollars.
effect the ret of seventeenth July, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one, and the act of fifth August
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in addition to
the appropriations made by those acts one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For support, care. and medical treatment of
forty transient paupers, medical and surgical pa
tients, in some proper medical institution in the
city OF Washington, to be selected by the Com
missioner of Public Buildings, six thousand dol
lars.
pairs of the Cepitol made by w. 8. Wood, late
Commissioner of Public Buildings, nine hundred
and thirty -four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Build
ings to pay for the purchase and repair of plate,
and repair of gasfttings for the Presidents house,
TWO tlOuSanQ SIX nuQQTeO anu tulTlccu
SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That the
following sums be and the same hereby in
like manner appropriated for the service of the
year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two:
For the necessary expenses in carrying into ef-
feet the act of seventeenth July, eighteenth of
july eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the
act of fifth of August, eighteen hundred and six
ty-one, in addition to the appropriations made
by those acts for those objects, one hunnred
thousand dollars.
For amount required for clerks, messenger,
in the office of the assistant treasurer at Boston,
from frsr January to thirtieth june, eighteen
hundred and sixty two, one thousand five hun
dred dollars. -.c
For amount required for clerks, messenger,
and watchmen, in the office of the assistant treas
urer at New York, from first January to thirtieth
June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, five thou
sand two hundred dollars s. g.. e.
For amount required for clerks and messenger
in the Office of the assistant treasurer at St. Louis
from the first January to the thirtieth June eigh
teen hundred and sixty-two, eighteen hundred
dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Build
ings to pay for painting in the interior of the
Capitol, and for general repairs, three thousand
two hundred dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Build