New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-26


Of steam engines, tanks, fire apparatus
| docks, drains and grounds, and purchase oil
/ 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; in all
! seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
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
waterworks, one thousand dollars; for gen.
cral 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 arm0ry
| shop, nine thousand dollars; for erecting a
| frame stOrehOuse, one hundred by twenty
! five feet, one story, four thousand dollars F.;
for building a 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 st0rehOuses,
workshops, quarters, barracks, fences and
| grounds, one thousand dollars.
| Washington arsenal, Washington, Dis
| trict Of Columbia: For coping for inolosing
wall on northern front of arsenal grounds
| and tor entrance gates at the termination
! OF FOur-anda-half street, three thousand
| dollars.
| Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, New York:
| For repairing public buildings, fifteen hun
| dred 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 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 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.
Foreontinuing 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
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 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, hOwer-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-fye 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
dred dollars; for pay Of lamp-hghters, gas
fitting, plumbing, Tampa, posts and repairs
of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improvement and care of public groends:
FOR annual repair CT fences around reserva-
tons, two thousand dollars; for manure
and hauling the same ON public grounds,
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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
Sl1ppH9Ep Dt hnXpS and white
washing fences. five thousand dollars; for
purchase of flower pots, mats Irvine 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: Tor repairs Of green
house at propagating garden, three thou
SAND dollars.
Fox improving franklin square, intro
dueing water gas, lodge and urnais, SIX
thousand five hundred dollars.
For Improvement If 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 portion Of the public grounds
in the city OF Washington, and shall be I'M
der the same control as the other pus-
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 graveling 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 dollare.
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 crawling the same, drainage, purchase
of trees and shrubs, for improvement of re-
servation between Third and Sixth streets,
as per plan, ten thousand dollars; for 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
for purchase Of treemarkers, 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
and Upper bridge, three thousand dollars. |