The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-06

| forty-tive dollars. ' -'' 'A""S"n" "i'u
For the construction of Representatives. ;rc,ud;r,
shops, offices, and commissary and o,,art t,
store-rooms, at San Antonio, Texas, one hmn1red
thousand dollars. ~ S
For necessary repairs and preservation of nil, otho
arsenals fifty thousand dollars: Provided That the
same shall not be expended at one arsenal but shall
be distributed to the various arsenas not herein nam
ed as the same shall be in need of such preservation
| and repairs.
| BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASH
| INGToN.
Improvement and care of public grounds: For re-
| pair, care, and improvement of public buildings
! grounds and works in the District Of Columbia uno
der the direction of the Chief of Engineers: Com
| pleting improvement of reservations VIZ:
| For Monumental grounds, five thousand dollars,
For Smithsonian GROUNDS, zen thousand dollars.
| For Armory square, tive thousand six hundred
| dollars.
| five thousand dollars
For grounds south OF the Executive Mansion, ten
| thousand dollars.
| For improvement of Lincoln square, six thousand
| dollars.
For continuing improvement of Judiciary square,
| ten thousand dollars.
For improving reservations ON various avenues,
twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs of Propagating house. including its re-
moval from Third street to Monumental grounds,
three thousand dollars.
| For ordinary care and protection Of Lafayette
square, two thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of fences, two thousand dollars
For manure, and hauling the same on public
| grounds, five thousand dollars.
reservations, four thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of seats in the Iublic
grounds, one thousand dollars
Fer hire of horses and CARTS five thousand dollars
| For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand
| dollars.
washing, five thousand dollars
For flowers, hower-pots, mats, twine and wire,
| one thousand dollars.
For removing snow and ice from paycments one
thousand dollars
For purchase of young trees and plants for nursery
| two thousand dollars.
For ree-marke1s and markinp-trees opa hundred
dollars
Fsr purchase of cages and boxes for sparrows five
For abating nuisances, one thousand dollars; and
for the expenses of the board health of the District
| of Columbia, thirty thousand dollars.
For nclosng, drainage and for grading reservation
numbered seventeen, five thousand dollars
For reconstructing walks, and for water and drain
pipes, and laying the same in the Washington circle
| one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For constructing walks and fountain bowl and for
| ton of Rhode Island and Vermont avenues. two
thousand three hundred dollars
For improving reservations on Massachusetts, and
new YorK avenues, and reservation lately occupied
by the Northern Liberties market draining water
pipes and IRON posts and chain, three thousand five
For improving four triangular reservations on
Pennsyyana avenue, east of the Capitol, by inclos-
ing DRAINING and introducing water, ard for trees
| dollars. 'A-e " '--ou''A"
For improving two reservations on Massachusetts
anu ooe Island avenues east side of site select
ed for the Scott statue seven thousand dollars.
For repairing fountain-bowls in various reserya-
lions, nve hundred dollars.
10 reimburse the late corporation Of Washington
ior work done around government reservations, one
hundred and lightweight thousand two dollars and
seyenty-fve cents.
| 10 reimburse the board of public works for work
done around government reservations heretofore
thirty-three dollars.
| To complete improvements of streets and avenues
now m progress opposite and around government
property, nine hundred and thirteen thousand four
| hundred rnd ninety-seven dollars snd twenty-six
cents: Provided, That all payments made under
this and the two preceding appropriations shall be
made only upon vouchers, approved by the officer in
charge of the public buildings and grounds of the
nfisttct, after Iu examination and measurement of
tne sad improvements, and the approval of the
prices claimed therefor.
To reimburse the city Of Washington for improve
en OF the avenues OF said city, and for work done
thereon not charigeable against owners of private
property nor INCLUDED in appropriations heretofore
shall be available and after the passppe Of this
act and shall be subject to the draft Of the boord Of
public works. upon the certificate of the engineer in
charge of public buildings and grounds as to the
| amount Of work done and prices paid.
For lighting the Capitol, Executive Mansion. and
| For gas, forty-fve thousand dollars
For pay OF lanp-lighters, gas-ftting, plumbing
lamps posts and repairs of all sorts, fifteen thou
! For fuel for Propagating garden and watchmen's
For annual repairs of the Navy Yard and Upper
| bridge, seven thousand dollars.
| For annual repairs of the Executive Mansion, ff-
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thousand dollars; for fuel forsamc five thousand dol
| lars
| For care, protection, and continuing permanent
! Improvement of greenhouse at Executive Mansion,
| ten thousand dollars.
For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase
of necessary apparatus to clean them and for clean
ing the spring supplying the Capitol Executive Man
sion, War and Navy Departments ten thousand dol
| lars.
Washington aqueduct:
For finishing the wooden fence at the distributing
| reservoir, one thousand five hundred dollars.
6uya1l fnr 20 taa,,a
hundred dollars
For completing stone bridges, eight thousand six
l hundred dollars.
For completing the macadamzing of tie conduit
| road sixteen thousand dollars.
For engineering maintenance, and general repairs,
fifteen thousand dollars.
Modification and repairs Of building at corner of
Fo. cutting out windows in basement and fitting
fourteen cellar-rooms for office or file rooms three
thousand five hundred dollars.
For removing mastic from fronts on Seventeenth
and Streets cleaning face and pointing and flush
ing up joints of underlying brick wall and painting
and sanding same and other portions of each 'front.'
ana OF WOODWORK of rear and ENDS of the building
| six thousand dollars.
For removing marble from basement from and in
Guiding present upper course, and refacing with
BILE from present ground line up to present upper
course OF MARBLE and building marble steps to each
OF the front entrances, ten thousand dollars
For renewing tin root and painting same repairs OF
steam warming apparatus, and painting. white
building, five thousand dollars.
For Contingencies, five thousand dollars
WAR DEPARTMENT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Signa-Ofce: For observation and report of storms
by telegraph and signals for the benefit of commerce
and agriculture throughout the United States two
hundred and ninety-sx thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five dollars: ProUided, That the Chief Sig
publications of the Signal Office the money received
therefor to bs applied towards defraying the ex-
be rendered in each annual report of the chief of the
signal service.
For expenses of the War Department in the colec-
ton and payment Of bounty prize-money, and other
legitimate claims OF coored soldiers and sailors fty
thousand dollars
For support Of the Freedmens Hospital and Asy-
lum at Washington, District of Columbia viz: Paw
Of medical officers and attendants medicines medi-
cal supplies and raions; clothing, rent of hospital
buildings; mel and lights; repairs; and Transports
For payment Of costs and charges Of State penten-
tiaries for the care clothing maintenance, and med
confined in them sixty-fve thousand dollars
To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by
s dppq sfs
insurrection, three hundred thousand dollars; ten
be necessary shall be appropriated to reimburse the
State of Nebraska for expenses incurred in the SUD-
preston of Indian hostiities in eighteen hundred and
slxty-1our TO pc paid by warrant in favor of tho
treasurer of said State. ~
To proysde for the payment under existing laws,
military service of the United States fifty thousand
dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury he and
ne neieoy ueCteu 10 pay TO the takers OF
eighteen hundred and sixty, or their ASSIGNS The
sums set to their credit in the treasury OK the
United States, any provision of existing laws 70 the
contrary Notwithstanding WV
For the construction of military tclegranb from
san Diego, California; via Fort Yuma and Moricon,
Wells, to Prescott and Tucson Arizona afty thou
sand three hundred and eleven dollars and eighty
cents. ~ Eighty
For continuation of the survey of the northern and
northwestern lakes determination of points in the
interior of Michigan, and construction of mans one
hundred and seventy-fve thousand dollars.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAVY-YARDS.
For the navy-yard at Kittery, Maine: For repairs
of all kinds, ninety-ttree Thousand five hundred
dollars.
For the navy-yard at Boston, Massachusetts: For
repairs of all kinds, hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars.
For the navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York; For
repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For the navy-yard at Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA:
For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dollars
For work at the naval station at League island two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and not less than
fifty thousand dollars of this shall be expended in tho
removal of property and materials from the Phade-
phia yard to League island
For the navy yard at Washington District of Co
lumbia For repairs of all kinds, seventy-fye thou
sand dollars.
For the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia: For re-
pairs of all kinds SEVENTH five Thousand dollars