The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-26
CHAP. CCXVI.-lConcluded.l


| CHAP. CCXVI.-[Concluded.]
| For compensation Of two superintendent for
Island and New Jersey, three thousand dol
| lars.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of sta
! tionS at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For a new lighthouse at Grand Point Aux Sab
les, Lake Michigan, thirty-fve thousand dol
lars.
| For n new lighthouse at the harbor of White
River, Muskegon County, Michigan, ten Thousand
| dollars.
For new lighthouse at the harbor of Manis-
| tee, Manistee County, Michigan, ten thousand
| dollars Provided, That no expenditure shall be
made upon aforesaid works at White River and
Manistee until careful survey shall have been
| made and the character of the structure required
shall have been thus determined, for which pur-
pose the sum of one thousand dollars is hereby
! appropriated.
For completion of pier of protection and repair
| ing Waugoshance light house at Straits of Mac
kinac, ninety thousand dollars.
| For the establishment of beacon-lights to mark
| Brcwerton Channel, Patapsco River, Maryland,
| thirty thousand dollars.
| To enable the lighthouse board to re-establish
| light and other aid to navigation on the southern
coast, two hundred thousand dollar.
To reimburse the appropriation for furnishing
| the Presidents house, the sum Unanswered from
it by the accounting officers of the treasury to
settle another account of the commissioner of
pnblic buildings for annual repairs, four thou
sand dollars; and the aya!s of old furniture which
may be sold shall be applied to the purchase of
new furniture.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings
to put in thorough repair the bridge across the
Potomac at Little Falls, in accordance with the
estimate of the engineer, two thousand four hun
hired and ten dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay
the interest sundry sums loaned for govern
ment purposes by the FIRST National Bank at
Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of
five thousand six hundred and seventy dollars
and twelve cents.
For compensation to the commissioner and
chief clerk Of the general land office Ito be ap-
portioned by the Secretary of the Interior) in
consideration of the increased duties devolvinC
on them from June seventh, eighteen hundred
and siXty-f1e, to December thirty-frst, eighteen
hundred and sixty,ive, in connection with the
census of eighteen hundred and sixty, seventeen
hundred and fifty dollars
For painting iron fences, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For repairing gates to the iron fence enclosing
Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars.
To repair and whitewash the wooden fences
around the several reservations, one thousand
dollars.
For repairing the arch on New Jersey Avenue
below the coast survey building, one thousand
dollars.
To repair or replace the water-pipes which con-
vey the water from the spring in franklin Square
War, and Navy Departments, six thousand dol
lars.
For making the road from the Presidents stable
to the house, fifteen hundred dollars.
For four new pave-washerS on Pennsylvania
Avenue, one thousand dollars.
To pay for drainage by pipes of the waste-water
from the Presidents house, the cow-yard, and
small greenhouse, one thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars.
For an iron fence around the botanic garden,
fifteen thousand dollars.
To cause to be pointed in the square panels of
glass, in the ceiling of the House of Representa-
.AA rf tatn Of GvncfN
ginia and Nevada, the sum of one hundred and
thirty dollars.
For compensation of one additional laborer
hereby authorized to be appainted in the library
hundred and sixty-sx, seven hundred and twenty
dollars.
For purchase of coal and pay of firemen to
warm the library of Congress, two thousand two
hundred and eighty dollars
For care, support, and medical treatment OF
sixty transient paupers, medical and surgical pa
ticnts, in some proper medical institution in the
city of Washington, under contract to be form
ed with such institution by the commissioner OF
puhlic buildings, twelve thousand dollars, or SO
much thereof may be necessary.
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 re-
place, when necessary, such as have been planted
by the United States, to whitewash trce-boxes
the public grounds, three thousand dollars
For annual repairs of the capt. oil water closets,
and to put the proper number of water-cosets
in the upper stories public stables, water-pipes,
paVements, and other walks within the Capitol
Square, broken glass, and locks, and for the pro-
lection of the building, and keeping the main
approaches toit unencumbered, in addition to the
sale of old MATERIAL twelve thousand dollars.
For grading and repairing Virginia Avenue, ten
thousand dollars.
For keeping the spring and water-pipes which
pair, and erecting q substantial wooden fence
around the ground on which the spring at Smiths
farm is, one thousand dollars.
For the capitol extension, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel, in part, for the Presidents house and
public grounds around them, around the execu-
tive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, sixty thou
sand dollars.
For lighting our-and-a-half Street across the
Mall. and Maryland Avenue west, and Sixth
Street south, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided,
That the corporation of Washington city shall
light their street lamps with seven-feet burners,
twenty -one nights in each month, from dark un
til daylight and that no part of this appropriation
shall be disbursed until it is proved to the salts
faction of the commissioner of public buildings
that said corporation have lighted their street
lamps.
For pay of flamp-lighters, gas-ftting, plumbing,
lamp-posts, lanterns, glass, paints, matches, ma
terials and repairs of all sorts, twenty thousand
dollars.
For casual repairs of the Potomac, navy yard,
and upper bridges, six thousand dollars
For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, five thou
sand dollars.
For public reservation number two and Lafay- |
cite Square, in addition to the sale of hay which
may be raised on the former, three thousand dol |
lars.
For purchase of fuel for the centre building of
the capitol fifteen hundred dollars.
For erecting new draw in the navy yard bridge, |
five thousand dollars.
For taking of the grounds south of the |
Presidents house, continuing the improvement !
Of the same, and repairing fences three thousand
dollars.
For repairs of waterpipes, five hundred dol |
ars.
For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Penn |
'ylyania Avenue, three hundred dollars
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the
capitol, five hundred dollars.
For under draining the Presidents garden and |
capitol grounds, one thousand dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings |
20 SO grade portion of North Capitol Street as |
o relay the water-pipcs leading from the govern
nent spring to the capitol, sufficiently below the
grade as to secure from frost, and to relay said |
pipes, eight thousand one hundred and forty dol |
ars.
For hauling manure for top dressing the public
grounds, five hundred dollars.
For the protection and improvement of Frank