New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-18

| nose, nine tnOusanu collars; Tor 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 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 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 armory
| shop, nine thousand dollars; for erecting a
! frame storehouse, one hundred by twenty
| five feet, one story, four thousand dollars !;
! tor building 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 storehouses,
workshops, quarters, barracks, fences and
! grounds, one thousand dollars.
| Washington arsenal, Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia: For coping for inclosing
wall on northern front OF arsenal grounds,
and Tor entrance gates at the termination
! ct Four-and-a-half street, three thousand
dollars.
Waterviet arsenal, West Troy, New York:
| For repairing public buildings, fifteen hun
| bred 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
s1uaI10I 511s so.. els; 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.
| For continuing the surveys of the northern
| and northwestern lakes, one hundred and
| seventy five 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:
! pUL 1dC1 4O1 JLVlG@7nLAAi3 SdAuC4 tNL4SS
! 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, fower-stands, and pipes, ten thousand
| dollars; for constructing six hundred and
/ faef of 90 VnT tn7, dCainaTa. thTpn
| thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and Executive
| Mansion and grounds: For lighting Capitol
| and Executive Mansion and public grounds,
forty-fiye thousand dollars; and the officer
| charged with the disbursement of this APP
! 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
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-
tons, 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, 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
] duCing water, gas. lodge and urinals, 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 Armory
square, making and grayeling 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 tive hundred dollars.
For care and improvement Of the Smith
sonian 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 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 ice 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 sparr0Ws, cages, boxes,
| and care Of the same, five hundred dollars; ;
| for purchase of tree-markers, 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.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.