New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-17

Ii docks, drains and grounds, and purchase OF
hose, nine thousand dollars for grading
and improving public grounds, two thou
II sand dollars; for repairs of public buildings.
six thousand dollars; for extending and re,
4 pairing fences, six hundred dollars; in all,
4 seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
n Magazine, Boston: For a new house for
shell and powder filling, twelve thousand
/ dollars
\ Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri For pur-
\ chase of new boiler for steam engine at
Il waterworks, one thousand dollars; for gen
| eral repairs of public buildings and inclos-
| ing fences; Jefferson barracks, Missouri, two
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; for erecting a
| frame stOrehouse, one hundred by twenty
five feet, one story, four thousand dollars :;
| for building cistern 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 storehouses,
| workshops, quarters, barracks, fences and
| grounds, one thousand dollars.
! Washington arsenal, Washington, Dis
! trict of Columbia: For coping for inclosing
| wall on northern front of arsenal grounds,
| and tor entrance gates at the termination
| OF -Four and-a-haf street, three thousand
dollars.
WatervEet arsenal, West Troy, New York:
For repairing public buildings, fifteen hun
| bred dollars.
Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massa-
| chusetts: For repairs of roofs and painting
| buildings and fences, five thousand dollars:
| for repairing and painting officers quarters
| and renewing furnaces aud water closets,
| three thousand dollars.
Contingencies Of arsenals: For repairs of
smaller arsenals, and to meet such unfor-
| seen expenditures at arsenals as accidents
or other contingencies during the year NAV
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
WASHINGTON.
Repairs, care, and improvement of public
buildings, grounds, and works in the Dis
trict OF Columbia, under the direction of
VlC SIIlO1 tlSSL VI JIG dIulys VIZ
For fuel for propagating garden and
lodges in public grounds, five hundred dol
lars.
For repairs, fuel. and similar necessaries,
for Executive Mansion: For repairs to the
mansion, ten thousand dollars; for fuel,
five thousand dollars; for refurnishing the
same, twelve thousand dollars; for repairs
and care of greenhouse, including new
floor, tiower-stands, and pipes, ten thousand
dollars; for constructing six hundred and
thirty-tour feet of sewer for drainage, three
thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Executive
Mansion and grounds: For lighting Capitol
and Executive Mansion and public grounds,
forty-fve thousand dollars; and the officer
charged with the disbursement of this ap-
preparation shall have the entire care and
control of the consumption of the gas used
for lighting buildings and grounds herein
provided for.
For lamps and lampposts for centre and
south walk, west Capitol grounds, five hun
bred dollars; for pay of lamp-ighters, gas
fitting, plumbing, lamps, posts and repairs
of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improvement and care of public groends:
For annual repair of fences around reserva-
tions, two thousand dollars; for manure
and hauling the same on public grounds,
five thousand dollars; for painting iron
fences around reservations, and around
War and Navy Departments, four thou
sand dollars; for Improvement, care and
protection of seats, and for fountains and
fish ponds in Capitol grounds, three thou
sand dollars; for purchase of seats for Cap
itol grounds, one thousand dollars; for hire
Of carts for public grounds, five thousand
dollars; for purchase and repair of tools for
public grounds, two thousand dollars; for
purchase OF trees, tree boxes and white
washing fences, five thousand dollars; for
T111raho nf HayVpr +TriT1o
glasses, one thousand dollars.
For care and improvement Of grounds
south Of Executive Mansion, including pur-
chase of trees, making walks and grading
ten thousand dollars; for repairs Of green
house at propagating 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 for walks and roads, trees
and shrubs, as per plan, fifteen thousand |
dollars; and said grounds shall be CON |
sidered as a portion of the public grounds |
in the city Of Washington, and shall be I'M
der the same control as the other pub
lie buildings and grounds in the city Of |
Washington, in conformity with the act Of |
March second, eighteen hundred and sixty |
seven. -
For improving and grading Armory |
square, making and crawling 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 Farragat square, five |
thousand dollars.
For grading, opening walks and roads, |
and graveling 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 leo 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, five !
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; |
tor purchase Of tree-markers, and marking |
the same, one hundred dollars for abating |
nuisances, one thousand dollars
For improving reservations on different |
avenues, twenty thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of Navy Yard bridge |