New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-23

| seventy ne, requiring the Commissioner nf
| Patents to keep on hand for sale comics NJ
all specifications and drawings of patents.
| ten thousand dollars.
| That forty thousand dollars of the apDro-
| priation for lithographing, engraving, and
| SO forth, for the public printing during tha
| fiscal wear ending June thirtieth eighteen
| hundred and seventy-three, be, and the
| same are hereby, transferred to the appro-
priation for the Patent Office, for photo
Iithographing, printing ana paper Tor the
| drawings of patents authorized by tho
| Joint resolution approved January eleventh,
| eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled
...Joint resolution providing for publishing
| specifications and drawings of Patent
| Office"
| METROPOLITAN POLICE.
| For salaries and other necessary expel~
| ses of the Metropolitan police for the Dr." 8
| trict of Columbia, two hundred and seven
| thousand eight hundred and ninety doII2Ts:
provided, that further sum, amounting 10
one hundred and three thousand nine hug
bred and forty-tiye dollars, shall be paid 10
defray the expenses of the said Metropoli-
tan police force by the cities of WashingtOn
and Georgetown, and the county Of Wash
ington, beyond the limits of said cities, IN
the District OF Columbia in the proportion
corresponding to the number of privates
allotted severally to said precincts and the
corporate authorities of said cities, and
proper authorities of the District of Colum-
bia, are hereby authorized and required TO
levy a special tax, not exceeding one-third
of one per centunl, which shall be specially
deposited once in each week, as such coltec-
tions are made, to be appropriated and eX-
pended for said purpose only, for the ser
vice of the fiscal year ending June thlrtleth,
eighteen hundred and seyenty-three.
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
b. al, Y
moral treatment of the insane of the army
and navy, revenue cutter and volunteer SER
wee, who may have become insane since
their entry into tho service of the United
States, and Of the INDECENT insane of the
District Of Columbia, in the Government
Hospital for the Insane, including five hun
dr6d dollars for books, stationery and INCL
dental expenses, one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For the erection, furnishing and fitting
up of an extension Of the hospital sufficient
to accommodate ffty-four patients of the
excited class, thirty-seVen thousand eight
hundred dollars
For purchasing and setting four heating
boilers, six thousand dollars.
For the purchase by the Secretary of the
Interior for the agricultural and economical
uses of the hospital, twenty nine and forty
one-hundredths acres of land and its APP
purtenances, including cost of survey, ex~
y
United States. ten thousand dollars.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND
DUMB.
For the support Of the institution, includ.
ing salaries and incidental expenses, the
maintenance of the benefciaries of the
United States, and i've hundred dollars Tor
books and illustrative apparatus, forty-eight
thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the inclosure,
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Of the institution, six thousand dollars.
To provide for payments due and unpaid
on July first eighteen hundred and seventy 9
two, on the purchase by the institution Of
the estate known as kenall Green, seventy
thousand dollars provided, that before The
expenditure of any part of this apprOpTia-
ton. by proper deeds of conveyance, to be
approved by the Attorney General of the
United States. all the real estate now owned
by the said Columbia Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb shall be vested in the
United States as trustee, for the sole use
and purpose provided in the act entitled
g An act to incorporate the Columbia I1Sti-
tuition for the Instruction of the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind, +" approved February SIX
teenth, eighteen hundred and ftty-seyen,
and the several acts amendatory thereof;
provided, that whenever Congress shall so
determine, any part Of said estate may be
sold and SO much Of the proceeds thereof
as shall be needful for the purpose shall be
applied TO reimburse the United States for
the expenditure herein provided.
COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING
IN ASYLUM, AND OTHER CHARITIES.
Fer the support Of the Columbia Hospital
for Women and Lying-in Asylum, over and
above the probable amount which will be
received from pay patients, eighteen thou
sand three hundred dollars.
For purchase of the building now occu.
pied by said hospital, with forty thousand
feet of ground, twenty-five thousand dol
lars; provided, that the title to said real
estate shall be vested in the United States
for the use OF said hospital, and that no
part OF the real or personal property now
held or TO be hereafter acquired by said IN
stitution shall be devoted to any other pur-
pose than hospital for women and lying.
IN asylum without the consent of the United
States; and that in addition to the direct
ors, whose appointments are now provided
tor by law, there shall be three other direct
ors appointed in the following manner: One
Senator by the President of the Senate, and
two Representatives by the Speaker Of the
Houses. these directors shall hold their Office
tor the term OF q single Congress, and ba
eligible TO re-appontment.
tor alteration and repairs of said build
ing hYe thousand dollars, to be expended
under the direction of the board OF diTec-
tors of said institution.
hor repairs 10 roof and Outbuildiugs, al p
teratIons IN wards and repairs to heating
apparatus, two thousand dollars.
For the National Soldiers and Sailors Or.
phans' Home of the city Of Washington,
District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dol
lars, to be discussed under the direction Of
the Secretary of the Interior.
For custody and repair of government
hospitals On Judiciary square, three thou,
sand dollars.
For care, support and medical treatment
OF sixty transient paupers, medical and sur
glcal patients, in some proper medical in.
stitution in the city Of Washington, undera
contract to be formed with such institution,
twelve thousand dollars, or so much Thereof
as may be necessary, under the direction Of
the Secretary of War.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
For the preservation of the collections Of
the surveying and exploring expeditions
OF the government, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
For the completion of the hall required
for the government collections, ten th0u-
sand dollars. 7
CAPITOL EXTENSION. Il
For finishing and repairing the work on
the Capitol extension, and for completing
the tagging of the upper terraces, fifty Il
thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the old portion Of i
the Capitol building, for painting, glazing, i
keeping roofs in order, water pipes pave
ments and approaches to the h1iIdinG ten iE