New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-12

and the maintenance of the benefciaries Of
the United States, forty thousand seven
hundred and seventy five dollars Provided,
That the number of students in the collie
giate department from the several States
authorized by the acts of March two, eight
cen hundred and sixty-se and July
twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight may be increased to forty; but no
student now at said institution, coming
from said States under said acts, shall be
supported therein by the United States,
from and after the thirtieth day of June,
eighteen hundred and seventy-One, and no
student hereafter coming to said institution
from either of said States under said acts
and this act, shall be supported by the
United States during any portion OF the
time he remains therein.
For completion Of the main central build
ing, ninety four thousand and eiShty-seven
dollars.
COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN
AND LYING-IN ASYLUM.
For the support of the institution, over
and above the probable amount which will
be received from pay patients, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For rent of building and necessary re-
pairs, three thousand dollars.
For the support of the National Associa-
ton Of Destitute Colored Women of Wash
ngton, in tie District of Columbia, ten
thousand dollars.
NATIONAL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
ORPHANS HOME.
For the National Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home. of the city of Washington,
District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dol
lars. to be disbursed under direction Of the
Secretary of the Interior.
For care, support, ard medical treatment
of sixty transient paupcrs, medical and
surgical patients, i'll some proper medical
institution in the city of Washington. under
Il contract to he Termed with such institu-
ton. twelve thousand dollars, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary, under the
direction OF the Surgeon General OF the
army.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
For preservation of the collections of the
surveying and exploring expeditions of the
government. ten thousand dollars.
Toward the completion of the hall re-
quired for the government collections, ten
thousand dollars.
BOTANIC GARDEN.
For completing the main walk through
the Botanic Garden, to be expended under
the direction of the Joint Committee on the
Library. one thousand eight hundred and
fifty dollars.
For concreting. three hundred dollars.
For labor and materials for cutters
around the walks, seven hundred dollars.
For putting Mansard story on the western
Office buildings. and for casual repairs. for
iron floor grating. iron screen for ro:unda.
and for glass screens 1--WE thousand and
twenty-five dollars.
For fencing the Botanic Garden on the
Maryland avenue side in the same manner
is it is fenced upon the Pennsylvania ave
nue. side. seven thousand five hundred dol
lars.
PUBLIC TREASURY BUILDINGS IN
DER TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
For inclosing the customhouse building at
Astoria, Oregon. fifteen thousand dollars.
For completing the customhouse building
at Cairo, Illinois. including paving, crlbng,
grading, and fencing, sixty thousand dol
lars.
For completing the crstomhouse building
at Portland, Maine. including paving. grad
ing, CURLING. and fencing. tlirtv-scycn thou
sand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For CONTINUING. the construction of the
customhouse building ut Portland, Oregon,
forty thousand dollars
For completing the customhouSe building
at Saint Paul, Minnesota, one hundred
thousand and tittv-One dollars and thirty
eight cents: provided. that no part Of the
money shall be expended until contract or
contracts shall bc entered into, by the
proper authorities with the lowest response
bic bidder. or bidders. for the completion OF
the entire building al sum. including all
moneys already expended in its constrllc-
tlon, not exceeding three hundred thousand
dollars and the expenditure of any sum of
Inl tr.y NJ s1,.lH lao
deemed unlawful. But this proviso shall
not he construed to prevent the payment of
amounts due or to become due under exist
ing contracts.
For repairs and preservation of the Gus
Toulouse building at New Orleans, Loui>i-
ana. twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvement of the Gus
tomhouse building in San Francisco, Cali
tornIa, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvement Of the Gus
tonhouse building III Chicago. Illinois.
twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvement OF the Gus
tomhouse building at Baltimore. Maryland
twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvement Of custom
house building at Petersburg, Virginia, ten
thousand dollars.
For repairs of the old cuStomhouse at
Charleston. South Carolina 10 tit the same
for a postotfice, twenty thousand dollars.
For completing the customhouse at Wis
caSsett. Maine. and grading and fencing the
grounds surrounding It, four thousand dol
lars.
For completion of the work on the apprais-
ers' stores i'll Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
including paving, grading. and curbing.
forty-siX thousand one hundred and forty
six dollars; and for four tanks. four steam
pumps, hose. and four projecting lifts for
loading and unloading heavy goods. eight
thousand two hundred dollars; and for six
hOisting machines, fifteen thousand dollars:
in all. sixty-ninc thousand three hundred
and forty -slX dollars.
For completing the work on the marine
hospital in Chicago, Illinois. thirtv-one thou
sand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars
and thirty-SiX cents; and the Secretary of
the Treasury is HEREBY authorized to enter
into contracts for the completion of said
building i'll advance OF the appropriation OF
moneys sufficient 10 complete the same in
accordance with the conditions in said act
contained.
For finishing the interior of the court
house building at Madison. Wisconsin, and
for paving. grading. curbing. sewerage and
fencing. forty thousand dollars.
For completing the courthouse building
at Portland. Maine. including paving. curb
ing. anu grazing, twenty-five thousand uOl-
lars.
For completing the interior of the court
house building at Des Moines, Iowa. and for
curling, paving, grading, and sewerage,
sixteen thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of the
courthouse. post Office. and customhousc
building at Omaha. Nebraska, fifty thou
sand dollars; provided, that the total cost
OF the building shall not exceed one hun
dred thousand dollars, and estimates and
plans for the same shall be approved by the
Postmaster General and Secretary Of the
Treasury.
For continuing the construction Of the
building Cor postotiice and courthouse in
N.,y York CITY iiN.. hundred Thousand dol