New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-30

! 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 ge
| pairing fences, six hundred dollars in ALL
| seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
Magazine, Boston For 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
eral repairs of public buildings and ipclos-
| iEg 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
| frame storehouse, one hundred by twenty
| five feet, one story, four thousand dollars
for building o cstern 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
| wall on northern front of arsenal grounds,
| and for entrance gates st the termination
| Of Four-and-a-half street, three thousand
Watervlet ar9 lal, West Troy, New.York;
| For repairing public buildings, fifteen bun
| dred dollars.
WATERFOWL arsenal, Watertown, Massa-
| cbusetts 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 arsenalB, 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.
| Forcontinuing the surveys0f the northern
| and northW western 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 AsD 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, i've 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 refurniBhing the
same, twelve thousand dollars; for repairs
| and care of greenhouse, including new
| floor, Rower-stands, and pipes, ten thousand
Il n
| thirty-to 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 -tye thousand dollars; and the officer
| charged with the disbursement of this APP
| preparation shall have the entire care and
! ceBtrol 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-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
| it0l grounds, one thousand dollars; for hire
| of carts for public grounds, five thousand
| dollars; for purchase and repair OF tools Tor
| public grounds, two thousand dollars; for
| purchase Of trees, tree boxes and white
| washing fences, five thousand dollars; for
| purchase of flower pots, MACS, 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; for repairs Of green
house at propagating garden, three thou
sand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, intro
dlcing water, gas, lodge and urinalse 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 % 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 8rmory
square, making and gravelng walks, roads,
purchase of trees, and drainage ten thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement Of Judiciary square,
nv 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
eare Of Lafayette square, three thousand
i've hundred dollars.
SoE Improvement 0S EaSrague square, five
thousand dollars.
SOr grading, opening ~alkp and roads,
and crawling the same, drainage, purchase
0f trees and shrubs, for Improvement of re
seqvation between Third and Sixth streets,
as per plan, ten thousand dollars tor re-
moving snow and ice from pagements and
walks, one thousand dollars
For starting nursery for improvements of
public grounds, two thousand dollars.
For improving Lincoln park, building
pavements, opening walks, and lodge, tive
thousand five hundred dollars.
For improving reservation OF 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 treem markers, and marking
tho same, one hundred dollars; for abating
nuisancea, one thousand dollars.
For improving reservations oP different
avenues, twenty thousand dollars
For casual repairs Of Navy Yard bridge
and Upper bridge, Shree thousand dollars.