New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-01


reservation number two, and Lafayette
square, seven Thousand five hundred dol
lars. ~ io' ia"F
For removing snow and ice from pave
| ments and public walks, one thousand dol
lars.
For manure and hauling the same to pub
lie grounds and reservations, three thousand
! dollars ~
| For painting iron fences around Lafayette
square, in front of the War and Navy De-
partments, two thousand dollars.
For Improvement, care and protection of
seats and fountains in Capitol grounds, two
| thousand dollars.
For hire of carts in the public grounds,
three thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
public grounds, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, and
to whitewash tree-bOxes, and fences, five
thousand dollars.
For purchase of flOwer-pots, mats, glasses,
and Irvine, one thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol Executive Man
SION and public grounds, forty thousand
dollars
For pay of lamplighters, plumbing, gas
fitting, lamps, lamppOsts, matches, and re-
pairs of all sorts, ten thousand dollars.
For fuel for centre building of the Capt.
tol, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the Executive Man
sion. five thousand dollars.
For refurnishing the Executive Mansion
five thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of grounds
south of the Executive Mansion, five thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion, three
thousand dollars.
For repair of greenhouse at the Execu-
tive Mansion, and purchase Of plants three
thousand dollars.
For an iron bridge across the canal at
Thirteenth street west and improvementDt
Monumental reservation, five thousand dol
lars.
For repairs of green house at Propagat-
ing Garden, three thousand dollars.
For cOntingents of office of Public Build
ings and Grounds, two thousand dollars
For improving Franklin square, opening
| and crawling walks, and planting trees
| and shrubbery, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of circle at the intersec-
ton of Massachusetts and Vermont avenues,
six thousand dollars.
For paving on Pennsylvania avenue and
Fifteenth street in front of the property OF
the United States, in accordance with the
law making change of grade, fourteen thou
sand seven hundred and ninety-two dol
| lars. ...
Forpaving Pennsylvania avenue in front
| of the Botanic Garden from the northwest
gate of the Capitol grounds to Third street
| NtSt Idly my sluc-Nd
| flag fOotways, resetting curb. paving, and
building sewer, under act of July eight,
| eighteen hundred and seventy, twenty-five
| thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
| dollars.
For cutting street through the Presidents
grounds, as per plan, one thousand one
hundred and ninety-two dollars.
| For construction of circular fence around
and through the Presidents grounds to
Seventeenth street west, including foun-
dalton walls, curling, tagging, aud iron
fencing, forty-fve thousand, five hundred
| dollars.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.
For finishing coping and iron railing on
bridges numbers one, two, three, and four,
ten thousand dollars.
For widening embankments over conduit
and matchmaking roads, ten thousand dol
| lars.
For completing gate-houses at distribut-
| ing reservoir, twenty Thousand four hun
bred and ninety-six dollars
For completing high-service reservoir,
four thousand dollars.
For ventilators over conduit, two thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
For fencing reservoirs, three thousand six
hundred dollars.
For building Office at Rock Creek bridge,
| three thousand three hundred dollars
For engineering, superintendent, and re-
pairs for the fiscal year ending June thirty,
| eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty
| thousand dollars.
For completing earthwork and making
the slOpe-wall of division dam, twenty thou
sand dollars.
For completing slope-wall of distributing
reservoir, twenty thousand dollars.
ARMORIEs AND ARsENALs.
For Springfield armory. Springfield, Mas
| sachusetts Repairs and preservation of
grounds, buildings, and machinery, twenty
thousand dollars; macadamizing public
roads in and around the armory grounds,
two thousand dollars.
For completing the bridge at Rock Island,
| being an unexpended balance covered into
the treasury under the act of July twelve.
eighteen hundred and seventy, five hundred
thousand dollars.
For Rock Island armory and arsenal.
Rock Island Illinois: Containing the devel-
| opment OF water-power, two hundred thou
sand dollars; permanent forging shop, two
hundred thousand dollars; constructing per
manent workshop, two hundred thousand
dollars purchasing and laying pipe, eight
| thousand dollars; two blocks of subaltern
officers quarters, fifty-fve thousand dollars;
matchmaking main avenues and streets,
five thousand dollars; tools and machinery
required for new shops nearly completed,
twenty thousand dollars. s
| IL,
Pennsylvania: For repairs to public
buildings, grounds, and machinery,
one thousand five hundred dollars;
one-half the cost of grading. paw
ing, and curbing on Thirty ninth and For.
tieth streets, from Butler street to Penn
avenue, and ON Penn avenue, between
| Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, eleven
thousand five hundred dollars: under-pin-
ming and boundary wall, five thousand
seven hundred dollars '''
For Augusta arsenal, Augusta. Georgia
| Quarters for married soldiers, one thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For Benlcla arsenal, Benicia California
| Permanent barracks for enlisted men. and
cistern for same, ffty-two thousand eight
hundred and tfty-seven dollars; cistern for
new office, two thousand eight hundred and
hfty-seven dollars; brick reservoir fourteen
thousand two hundred and eighty.six dol
lars; guardhouse and fire enginehouse,
eleven thousand four hundred and twenty
nine dollars; grading and improving
arsenal grounds, five thousand dollars; re-
pairs of public, buildings and machinery,
one thousand dollars.
For Columbus arsenal, Columbus, Ohio:
Cisterns and wells, one thousand dollars;
grading grounds, making roads, and drains,
five thousand dollars; repairs to buildings,
one thousand dollars.
For Charleston arsenal, Charleston, South
Carolina: Repairs of officers quarters. en-
listed mems barracks, and other public
buildings, grounds, fences, and drains, i've
thousand dollars.
For Detroit arsenal, Dearbornville, Mich.
gan: Repairs to public buildings and
grounds, five hundred dollars.
For Fort Monroe arsenal, including gun.
yard, with new fence, three thousand dol
lars; repairing two stOre-houses, one thou
sand five hundred dollars; painting and re-