New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-29

of steam engines, tanks, fire apparatus
docks, drains and grounds, and purchase OF
| hose, nine thousand dollars for grading
and improving public grounds, two thou.
sand dollars; for repairs of public buildings
six thousand dollars; for extending and re,
pairing fences, six hundred dollars; il all
| seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
Magazine, Boston For q new house for
| shell and powder filing twelve thousand
| dollars.
Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri: For pur-
| chase of new boiler for steam engine at
wateCwoFks, one thousand dollars; Tor gen
| eral repairs of public buildings and incIos-
| 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 q
frame stolehouse, one hundred by twenty
| five feet, one story, four thousand dollars
| for building q 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 stOrebOuses,
| workshops, quarters, barracks, fences and
| grounds, one thousand dollars.
| Washington arsenal, Washington, Dis
| trict of Columbia: For coping for incosing
| wall on northern front OF arsenal grounds,
and for entrance gates ut the termination
! OF Four-anQ -a-haR street, three thousand
| dollars.
Watervlet arsenal, West Troy, New YORK.:
Fer repairing public buildings, fifteen hun
dFed 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 &rsenals, and to meet such unfOP
| 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 she United
| States.
! continuing the surveys Of the northern
and northwestern lakes, one hundred and
| seventy i've thousand dollars. And this
| appropriation shall be av8ila ole from the
I time Of the passage Of this act.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND
| WASHINGTON.
| Repairs, care, and Improvement Of public
| buildings, groundR, and works in the Dis
| tho Chief Engineer of the army, viz:
| For fuel for propagating garden and
| lodges in pabhc grounds, five hundred dol
| lara.
For repairs, fuel, and similar necessaries,
for Executive Mansion: For repairs to the
mansion, ben thousand dollars; for fuel,
| five thousand dollars; for refurnishing tho
same twelve thousand dollars; for repairs
and care Of greenhouse, including new
| floor, flower 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 Mau8io and public grounds,
| forty-fve thousand dollars; and the officer
charged with the disbursement of this ap-
preparation shall have the entire care and
CoutrOl Of the consumption OF the gas used
for Lighting buildings and grounds herein
provided for.
For lamps and lamprOsts for centre and
south walk, west Capitol grounds five hun
Gred dollars; for pay of lamplighters, gas
fitting, plumbing, lamps, posts and repairs
OF al sorts, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improvement and care of public gr0ends:
For annual repair Of fences around reserva-
tons. two thousand dollars; for manure
and hauling the same GA public grounds,
five thousand dollars: for painting iron
fencoe 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
+ho7corA HIl1orC.
purchase Of flower pots, mats, twine and
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 1T propagating garden. three thou
sand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, intro
duoing water, gas lodge and urinaIs, 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 az portion Of the public grounds
in the city of Washington, and shall be IN
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 amt grading Armory
square, making and graveling walks, roads, |
purchase of treeB, 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
Eonisn grounds, two thousand dollars.
For completing improvements and for |
care Of Lafayette square, three thousand |
five hundred dollars.
For improvement OF Farragut square, five |
thousand dollars.
For grading, opening walks and roads, |
and graveling the same, drainage, purchase |
of trees and shrubs, for Improvement of re-
between Third and Sixth streets,
as per plan, ten thousand dollars tor re-
moving snow and ice from payements 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
1--WE hundred dollars.
For improving reservation on New York
avenue and Eighteenth street. seven thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For repairs Of government water pip8s
and fire plugs, and purchase of apparatus
for cleaning water pipes, ten thousand dol
ars; for purchase OF sparrows, cages, boxes,
and care OF the same, five hundred dollars;
tor purchase Of tree-markere, and marking
5he same, one hundred dollars; for abating
luisanOes, one thousand dollars.
For improving reservations on different
lvenues, twenty thousand dollars.
For casual repairs Of Navy Yard bridge |
md CDDpr bridge three fhOusand dollars |