New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-13

New York harbor, New York: For repair
of steam engines, tanks, fire apparatu
! docks, drains and grounds, and purchase
hose, nine thousand dollars; for gradin
and improving public grounds, two thoI
sand dollars; for repairs of public building
six thousand dollars; for extending and r,
pairing fences, six hundred dollars; in al
seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
Magazine, Boston: For a new house 70
shell and VowdeF filling, twelve thousan
dollars.
Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri BoY phi
chase o. new boiler for steam engine d
WateTworks, one thousand dollars; for ger
eral repairs of public buildings and inclos
! ing fences, Jefferson barracks, Missouri, tw
Thousand dollars; il al, three thousan
dollars.
San Antonio arsenal, San Antonio, Texas
. For taking down walls and rebuilding wit
cut stone the building used as an armor,
shop, nine thousand dollars for erecting
frame stcrcn0use, one hundred by twenty
five feet, one story, four thousand dollars
TOP building ciBt%rn to supply the pos
with water, tive thousand dollars for re
pairing and Uainting public buildings anC
fences, one thousand dolIags; IN all, s5xteer
! thousand dollars.
J Vancouver arsenal, Vancouver, Washing
lOL ttbi4tOI y. j. VA lC p6IIIIiSs bLOituUu5ts
| workshops quarters, barracks, fences ant
grounds. one thousand dollars.
Washington arsenal Washington, bis
! Srict OF Columbia: for coping for inclosing
| wall on northern front Of arsenal grounds
! and tor entrance gates 1t the termination
| OF EoHr&nd-a halt street, fhree thousand
doilars.
WateGvlies arsenal, West Troy, New York:
For repairing public buildings. fifteen hun
bred dollars.
WatertowD arsenal, Watertown, Hfassa-
| 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 arsenais: For repairs OF
| smaller arsenals, and 70 meet such unfor-
! seen expenditures At arsenals as Academia
| 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 tEom che
time OF the passage Of this act.
BUILDISGs AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND
wAsHJNGToN.
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 tor 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 flower stands, and pipes, ten thousand
dollars; for constructing six hundred and
thirty-1our 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
Tor 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-lighters, 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
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 at propagating garden, three thou
sand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, intro
ducing water gas, lodge and urinaIs, six
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 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 !
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 |
-rees. and opening and grading walks, |
5welye thousand five hundred dollars.
For care and Improvement of the Smith
3Onian grounds, two thousand dollars.
For completing improvements and for
care OF Lafayette square. three thousand |
i've hundred dollars.
For improvement of Farragut square, five
thousand dollars.
For grading. opening walks and roads,
md gravelng the same, drainage, purchase
# trees and shrubs, for Improvement of re-
eryation between Third and Sixth streets,
IS 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
,ubIic grounds, two thousand dollars.
For Improving Lincoln park, building
,ayements opening walks, and lodge, five
thousand five hundred dollars,
For improving reservation on New York
venue and Eighteenth street, seven thou
and FIVE hundred dollars.
For repairs Of government water pipes
nd fire plugs, and purchase Of apparatus
or cleaning water pipes, ten thousand dol
ars; for purchase Of sparrOws, cages, boxes,
nd care Of the same, five hundred dollars
or purchase of tree-markers, and marking
be same, one hundred dollars; for abating
one thousand dollars.
For iInnrnEinor reservations On 6iffarenf