St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-02-12


For painting iron fences around the
public squares and reservations, three
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Presidents
House, five thousand dollars.
For flower-pots, glasses, twine, and so
forth, one thousand dollars.
For fuel at the centre building of the
Capitol, one thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For care of the circle, one thousand
dollars.
For laying pavement through the mall
along Sixth street, south, opened by act
cf Congress approved March second,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two
thousand dollars.
For additional repairs of conservatory
at the Presidents House, and for supply
ing the same with a suitable collection of
plants to replace those destroyed by fire,
five thousand dollars.
For completing the culvert through
the botanic garden, thirteen thousand dol
lars.
vi tllC lui iiicl I'M l'Io'Clh'iit VI i<iiSOlh
square, eighteen thousand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds,
three thousand dollars.
For purchase and repairs of tools used
in the public grounds, one thousand dol
lars.
For purchase of trees aud tree-boxes,
to replace, when necessary, such as have
been planted by the United States, to
whiiewash tree-boXes and fences, and to
repair pavements in front Of the public
grounds, three thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Presi-
dents House and public grounds around
them and around the executive offices,
thirty thousand dollars.
For pay of lamp-lighters, gas fitting,
plumbing, lamp-posts, lanterns, glass,
paints, matches, materials and repairs of
all sorts, five thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Capitol grounds,
two thousand dollars.
For continuing the United States
twcnty-lnch water main from its present
terminus in north b street on the east
side of Delaware avenue TO the United
States twclve-inch main on First street
east. ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of stationery, books,
maps, plans, office furniture and con-
tingents Of the office, three thousand dol
lars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior
To pay tor fitting necessary shelving, and
for record books furnished or ordered tor
the office of register of deeds of the Dis
trict of Columbia, during the period when
Edward {. Eddie was such register. five
hundred and fifty dollars
To pay William H. West for services
rendered in taking care of and keeping
safely the bonds held in trust by the Sec
rctarv OF the Treasury for the benefit ot
the Smithsonian Institution, from Marcl
first. eighteen hundred and fifty, TO July
first. eighteen hundred and sixtv-thrcc
two thousand five hundred dollars, to bt
paid out of Smithsonian fund.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate
to complete the alphabetical list OF pri-
waite claims TO the end OF the second scs-
sion of the thirty-ninth Congress, and tc
pay outstanding claims for services rem
dered in the preparation of said work
under n resolution of the Senate of March
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and slXty-slN
two thousand dollars.
That the sum of fifteen thousand dol
lars. or rs much thereof aS may be nee
cSsary. he, and the same is hereby, ap,
propriated, out of any money in tn,
treasury not otherwise appropriated, t'
defray the expenses of the Joint Com
mittee on Ordnance, and that the sam,
shall be drawn from the treasury, upOr
the order of the Secretary OF the Senate
as it shall be required and any portion
of the amount hereby appropriated tina
shall be allowed 10y the said Joint com
mittee to witnesses attending before it, o
other persons employed in It's service
l for per diem travelling or other necessa
~ expenses, and paid by the Secretar
l of the Senate, i'll pursuance of the order
| OF said Joint committee, shall be accord
ingly credited and allowed by the az
l counting officers OF the Treasury ID,
: partment.
+ To enable the Joint Committee on til
: Library to pay Mrs. Sarah +. AmeS a
}, additional compensation for her marbI
bust of President Lincoln. five hundre
h dollars.
For expenses of the trial of ii
e impeachment of Andrew johnson, Pres
!, dent of the United States, six thousan
dollars, or SO much thereof as may
G necessary, to be paid into the contingeI
fund of the Senate.
# For the purchasing of suitable sit
d for the erection of additional Scho
l. houses. and for the maintainance of scLoc
X in the county of Washington, outside {
,e the limits of the cities of Washington al
i Georgetown, the same to be expend,
under the direction of the levy court
the county of Washington, subject to Il
approval of the Secretary of the lnterio
ten thousand dollars.
} SEC. =. And be it further enacte
= That there be, and is hereby, appropri
u ted, out of any money in the treasu
not otherwise appropriated, the sum
~ nine thousand two hundred and slXt
! three dollars and eighty-tive cents, or
much thereof as may be necessary, to p
'e balance due for the survey of lands el
ie II braced in the Usage Indian reservatio
u in the State of Kansas, under contra
dated August fourteenth, eighteen hu
IS drcd and sixtysix, the said sum to
IL returned to the treasury out of the pr
cecds of the sale of said lands, as pl
ve vided by treaties with said Indians.
SEC. 3. And be it further enact,
a. That the sum of seven thousand sey
q hundred and seventy-fiye dollars. or