The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-06-05

approved by the officer in charge of the public
buildings and grounds of the District, after full
examination and measurement of the said i'm
provements. and the approval Of the prices
claimed therefor.
To reimburse the city Of Washington for i'm.
provement of the avenues of said city, and for
work done thereon not chargeable against own
ers of private property. nor included in appro
prations heretofore made. one million dolals
and this appropriation shall be available on and
after the passage Of this act and shall be subec!
70 the draft of the board of public works, upon
the certificate Of the engineer in charge of pub
lie buildings and grounds as to the amount oil
work done and prices paid.
For lighting the Capitol, Executive Mansion,
and grounds:
For gas forty-f thousand dollars
For pay Of lamp lighters. gas fitting. plumb
ing lamps posts, and repairs of all sorts, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For fuel for Propagating garden and watch
mems lodges, eight hundred dollars
For annual repairs of the Navy Yard and Up
per bridge, seven thousand dollars
For annual repairs of the Executive Mansion,
fifteen thou 'and dollars; for refurnishing same
ten Thousand dollars; for, fuel for same, five
thousand dollars.
For care. protection, and continuing perma
nent Improvement of green house at Executive
Fer repairing and extending water pipes, pur-
chase of necessary apparatus to clean them, and
for cleansing spring supplying the Capitol, Ex-
ecutive Mansion, War and Navy Departments,
ten thousand dollars
Washington aqueduct,
For finishing the wooden feree at the distribu
ting reservoir one thousand five hundred dollars.
For dwelling for gate keeper, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
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SIX hundred dollars.
For completing the macadamizng Of the con-
duit ro d, sixteen thousand dollars.
For engineering maintenance. and general re.
pairs, fifteen thousand dollars.
Modification and repairs of building at corner
of Seven, eenth and F streets:
For cutting out windows in basement, and fit
ting fourteen cellar for Office file rooms,
three thousand five hundred dollars.
For removing massic from fronts en- Seventeenth
and streets. cleaning face and pointing and
flushing up joints Of underlying b,ick wall, and
painting and sanding same and other portions of
each front, and of wood of rear and ends
Of the building. six thousand dollars.
For removing marble from basement from and
including present upper course, and refacing
with marble from present groundlne up to pres
ent upper course of marble, and building marb lie
steps 10 each Of the fl ont entrances, ten thou
sand dollars.
For renewing tim roof and painting same, re-
pairs of steam warming apparatus and painting.
whitewashing. and general renovation of interl-
or of the building. five thousand dollars.
For contingencies, FIVE hundred dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Signal Office: For observation and report OFF
storms by telegraph and signals for the benht of
commerce and agriculture throughout the United
States, two hundred and ninety six thousand
eight hundrel, and twenty Eve dollars: Pro0ides:
That the Chief Signal Officer may cause to- be
sold any surplus maps CT publications OF the Big
nal Otsice. the money received therefor 10 ne ap-
piled towards defraying the expenses OF the slg-
nal service, an account OF the same to he render
ed in each annual report of the chiefof the sig
nal service.
For expenses of the War DepaI tment in the
collection and payment Of bounty. prize money.
and other legitimate claims of colored soldiers
and sailors, fifty thousand dollars.
For support of the Freedmens Hospital and
ASYLUM at Washington District OF Columbia,
viz; Pay OF medical officers and attendants; med
ieines medical supplies. and ration, clothing, tent
| OF hospital buildings, fuel and lights; repairs ;
and transportaiion sixty thousand dollars.
For payment Of costs and charges Of State
peni,eniiares for the care, hing maintens noe
and medical attendance of the United States milf
tary convicts confined in them, sixty five thous-
and dollars.
To idemnify the States for expenses incurred
by them ia earollney equippng and transport
ing t.oops for the defense OF the United States
during the late insurrection. three hundred
thousand dollars; ten Thousand dollars OF which
or SO much thereof as may lie necessary, shall.
be approprated to, reimburse the State of Ne
braska for expenses incurre'i ia the suppression
of Indian hostilities in eighteen hundred and six
ty four, to be paid py warrant in favor of the
treasurer Of So STATE.
/ To provide for the payment. uuder existing
laws for horses sud ether property lost or destroy
ed in the military service of the United States,
fifty thousand dollars And he Secretary Of til .
Treasury be- aud he is hereby directed to pay
20 the census takers of ghteen hundred and sixty
or their assigns, the sums set to their credit
now in the treasury of the United States, envy
provision Of existing laws to the contrary not,
wi,hstanding.
For the construction Of a military telegraph
from San Diego. California, via Fort Yuma aud
Maricopa Wells. to Prescott and Tucson. Arizona,
fifty thousand three hundred and eleven dollars
and eighty cents.
For continuation of the survey Of the northern
and north western lakes. determination of points
in the interior of Michigan. and construction Of
maps. one hundred aud seventyfve thousand
dollars.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAVY YARDS.
For the nayy-yard at Kittery, Maine For re-
pairs of ali kinds, ninety three thousand FIVE
hundred dollars.
For the navy-yard at Boston, Massachusetts
For repairs OF all kinds, one hundred and twenty
Eve 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, Pennsylva
MIA: Fer repairs OF all kinds, forty thousand
dol as.
For work at Che naval station at Leaugue is
land. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
and not less than fifty thousand dollars OF this
shall he expended in the removal of property and
materials from the Philadelphia yard To League
island.
For the navy-yard at Washington, District of
Columbia: For repairs of all kinds, seventy five
thousand dollars -.
For the navy yard at Norfolk. Virginia For
repairs of ali kinds, seventy five thousand dol.
lars.
For the navy yard at Pensacola, Florida For
repairs OF all kinds, twenty I'VE thousand dol
lars.
For the navy yard at Mare island California:
For repairs Of ali kinds, ninety seven thousand
seven hundred and sixty dollars; for continue
ton Of stone dry dock, four hundred thousand
dollars for dredging twenty thousand dollars;
for continuation OF rail track, fifteen thousand
dollars for iron plating shap, fifty thousand
DOH IRIS in all FIVE hundred and eighty two
thousand seven hundred aud sixty dollars
For naval station ct New London. Connecticut:
~. ,an.;r. If all kinds five thousand dollars