New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-22

| hose. nine thousand dollars Tor grading
) and improving public grounds, tive thou
sand dollars; for repairs of public buildings,
six thousand dollars; for extending and re
pairing fences, six hundred dollars; in all
| seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
Magazine. Boston: For new house Sof
! shell and powder tlling, twelve thousand
| dollars.
! Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri: For pur-
! chase OF new boiler Eog steam engine at
| waterworhs. one thousand dollars: for gen.
| eral repairs of public buildings and iuciOs-
| ing fences, Jefferson barracks, Missouri, two
I thousand dollars: in all. three thousand
dollars.
San Antonio arsenal, San Antonio. Texas:
! For taking down walls and rebuilding with
| cut stone the building used as an armory
| shop, nine thousand dollars flor erecting d
| frame storeh0use, one hundred by twenty
| five teet, one story, four thousand dollars
| tor building ci8tern to supply the post
with water, two thousand dollars for re
pairing and painting public buildings and
fences, one thousand dollars; in all, sixteen
! thousand dollars.
Vancouver arsenal, Vancouver, Washing
| ton territory: For repairing stOrehou8es,
workshops, quarters, barracks, fences and
| grounds, one thousand dollars.
Washington arsenal, Washington, Dis
trict OF Columbia: For coping for inclosng
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and for entrance gates at the termination
| OF Four and-a-half street. three thousand
dollars.
Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, New York:
| For repairing public buildings, fifteen hun
| bred dollars.
| Watertown arsenal, WATERFOWL, Massa-
| chusetts For repairs Of roofs and painting
! buildings and fences, five thousand dollars;
| for repairing and painting officers quarters
| and furnaces and water cIORpTG
three thousand dollars.
Contingencies Of arsenais: For repairs of
smaller arsenals, and to meet such untOr-
! seen expenditures at arsenals as accidents
or other contingencies during the year may
render necessary, ten thousand dollars;
| provided, that no money appropriated by
this act shall be paid as commissions upon
| any labor or materials furnished the United
! States.
For continuing the surveys Of the northern
and northwestern lakes, one hundred and
seventy-fve thousand dollars. And this
appropriation shall be available from the
| time OF the passage OF this act
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND
WASHIsGTON.
Repairs. care. and Improvement OF public
buildings, grounds. and works in the Dis
| tricS OF Columbia, under the direction OF
the Chief Engineer OF the army, viz:
For fuel for propagating garden and
lodges in public grounds, five hundred dol
lars.
For repairs. fuel, and similar necessafies
for Executive Mansion: For repairs to the
mansion. ten thousand dollars; tor fuel,
five thousand dollars; for refuHnisling the
same, twelve thousand dollars for repairs
and care O$ greenhouse, including new
floor flower stands, and pipes, ten thousand
! dollars: foT constructing six hundred and
f! Ehirty-fOur feet OF seWey $OG drainage three
| thousand dollars.
! FOE lighting the Capitof and Executive
| Mansion and grounds: For lighting Capitol
and Executive Mansion and public grounds.
! f0rtv-fiye thousand dollars; and the officer
! charged with the disbursement OF this ap-
| preparation shall have the entire care and
| Centrot Of she consumption OF the gas used
| for lighting buildings and grounds Gegein
provided tOro
FOR lamps ana iampposSs for centre and
south wake west Capitol grounds, i've hun"
! dred dollars; fog pay OF Iamp-Iighters, gas
| fitting, plumbing, lampse posts and repairs
! of all sorts. fifteen thousand dollars
Improvement and care Of public groends:
| For annual repair of fences around reserva-
Sions. Eve thousand dollars; for manure
| and hauling the same ON public grounds,
five thousand dollars; sOr painting iron
| fences around reservations, and around
SAND dollars; for improvement, care and
! protection OF seats, and for fountains and
fish ponds ia Capitol grounds, three thou-
| sand dollars; tor purchase OF seats tor Cap
itol grounds, one thousand dollars; tor hire
Of carts toS public grounds, tiSe thousand
dollars: Cor purchase and repair OF tools tor
public grounds. two thousand dollars; 10:
purchase OF trees, tree boxes and white
washing fences. five thousand dollars; for
| purchase OF flower pots, mats tWlne and
glasses, one thousand dollars.
Foe care and Improvement %? grounds
south of Executive Mansion, including pur-
chase Of trees, making walks and grading,
ten thousand dollars; for repairs OF green
house at progagacing garden three thou
sand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, intro
ducing water. gas, lodge and urinals. six
thousand five hundred dollars.
For Improvement of Monument grounds,
grading road, walk, draining purchase and
hauling gravel tOr walks and roads, trees
and shrubs, az per plan, fifteen thousand
dollars; and said grounds shall be CON
sidered as a portion of the public grounds
in the cityrOt Washington, and shall be I'M
der the same control as the other pub
lie buildings and grounds in the city of
Washington. i'll conformity with the act Of
March second. eighteen hundred and sixty
seven.
For improving and grading Armory
square. making and grayeling walks, roads,
purchase Of trees, and drainage, ten thou.
sand dollars.
For the Improvement Of Judiciary square,
by introducing water. drainage, purchase OF
trees. and opening and grading walks.
twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For care and Improvement OF the Smith
sonian grounds, two thousand dollars.
For completing improvements and for
care of Lafayette square, three thousand
five hundred dollars.
For Improvement OF EarragUt square. five
thousand dollars.
For grading, opening walks and roads.
and graSeling the same, drainage, purchase
of trees and shrubs, for Improvement OF re-
servation between Third and Sixth streets,
as per plan, ten thousand dollars; tor re-
moving snow and ice from pavements and
walks, one thousand dollars.
For starting a nursery for Improvement Of
public grounds, two thousand dollars.
For Improving Lincoln park, building
pavements, opening walks, and lodge, I'VE
thousand five hundred dollars.
For improving reservation on New York
avenue and Eighteenth street, seven thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For repairs Of government water pipes
and fire plugs, and purchase OF apparatus
for cleaning water pipes, ten thousand dol
lars; for purchase of sparrows, cages, boxes,
and care of the same, five hundred dollars;
for purchase of tree-markers, and marking
the same, one hundred dollars; for abatU,.
nuisances one thousand dollars.
For improving reservations on different
avenues, twenty Thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of Navy Yard bridge
and Upper bridge, three thousand dollars.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCTo