Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-10-22

For removing snow and Ice, one thou.
sand dollars. 80. -
For purchase Of young trees and plants
for nursery, two Thousand dollars,
For tree markers and marking trees,
one hundred dollars, for making Gsges
and boxes for sparroWs, two hundred and
fifty dollars, for abating nuisance, one
thousand dollars, folfconstructing . fou, :.
tain and for asphalt ii the circIe at the
intersection Of Vermont and Rhode Is
land avenues, five thousand dollars, for
inclosing and improving the tffengular
reservation on Pennsylvania avenue and
Twenty first street, two thousand dollars:
Fer continuing the improvement OF
reservation numbered three, ten thots-
and.
For improving the grounds of the old
camel, ten thousand dollars.
Repairs and fuel for the Executive
Mansion: For annual repairs Of the E1.
ecutive Mansion, ten thousand dollars,
for care Of, and refurhishing the Execu.
tive Mansion, ten thousand dollars, for
fuel for the Executive Mansion and
green houses, five thousand dollars, and
for care OF, and necessary repairs to the
greenhouse, tile unexpended balance Of
appropriation heretofore made is hereby
rendered available. -
For lighting the Capitol and Executive
Mansion as follows: For gas thirty-fivc
thousand, dollars, for pay oflamp-lightcrs
gas fitting, plumbing, lamps, 1amp-posts,
and for repairs of all sorts, fifteen thous-
and dollars, for fuel for watchman's lodg-
es and for the greenhouses at the propa-
eating gardens, one thousand dollars.
For annual repairs at The navy yard
and upper bridges, seven thousand dol.
lars; OF repairing AMI extending wa
ter pipes. purchase Of apparatus to
clean them, and fer cleaning the
springs for supplying the Capitol, tho
Executive Mansion and War ard Ma.
w Departments, ten thousand dollars.
For additional work and materials
for completing superstructurc Of Chaue
Bridge, including railing, lighting, and
painting, four thousand nine hundrd
and sixty dollars.
Washington aqueduct: For enst
neering, maintenance, and general re-
pairs, fifteen thousand dollars; for bull
ding wooden fence around Govern
ment land at the Great Falls, one thou
sand five hundred dollars; for building
dwelling and office at Great Falls, three
thousand dollars; for paving the road
way over Griffith Park bridge aud over
Cabin John bridge with asphalt pave
ment, Eve thousand eight hundred dol
lars; tor furnishing and setting four
masneto-dial instruments in connectlu
with the telegraph liaa from GreA.
Falls to Georgetown, one thousand one
hundred dollars.
For continuing nacadamizing Of con-
duit-road, five thousand dollars.
For widening embankments along the
line of the Washington Aqueduct, five
thousand dollars.
For continuing the work On the new
Jail in the District of Columbia, fifty thou
sand dollars.
To enable the Joint Committee on the
Libray of Congress to procure plans tor
the accommodation Of the Library, two
thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
For bounty to seamen, to pay certifi.
cate issued to State OF New Hampshire,
seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars
and fifty cents.
NAvY-YARDs AND STATIONS.
For the navy-yard at League Island -
For the continuation Of work and remov-
al of property from the Philadelphia ma
Wy yard, three hundred thousand dollars
For labor, materials, and erections, fifty
thousand dollars.
For the navy yard at Pensacola, Fla ::
For commencing the rebuilding Of the
repairing dock, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia
For iron.plating shops, fifty thousand
dollars.
For the removal Of powder magazine
from Norfolk, Firginia, to be expended
under the direction of the Secretary OF
the Navy, and to pfovide for the'construc
place near Norfolk, forty thousand dol
lars.
For the navy yard at Mare Island, Cali
fornia: For continuation of begun work,
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For repairs at the different navy yards
and preservation of the same, five hund-
red thousand dollars: Provided, That the
Secretary Of the Navy be- and he is here
by, authorized and directed to make, out
of any money at his disposal available
for that purpose, sufficient and appropri-
ate compensation and acknowledgment
| to the owners, officers, md sailors of the
British whaling and sealing steamers
which contributed to the rescue of the sur
, vivors of the Polaris, for such rescue, and
any loss sustained by reason thereof, and
for their humane and hospital reception,
entertainment, and transportation until
they were all finally and safely landed in
Newfoundland and Scotland: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Navy
be authorized to use, during the ensuing
gscal year, the balance of appropriation
heretofore made to the Navy Department
for the construction of floating iron
dock, remaining unexpended, for the pur
pose of completing the repairs on such
doublc-turreted monitors as the Secretary
of the Navy may deem necessary for the
public service.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Improvement of grounds Department
of Agriculture: For labor, eight thou
sand dollars; for repairing concrete
roads and walks, five hundred dollars !;
for tools, wagons, lawn mowers, carts and
general repairs of the same, six hundred
dollars flor improving new grounds gain
ed by filling canal, draining, .surtacing,
sodding, and for two cart horses, seven
thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand
one hundred dollars.
For the museum, to be expended un-
Ger the direction of Professor Glover, fit-
| teen hundred dollars.
For the purchase of Duby's cryptogam
ic herbarium, as much as may be neces-
sary, not exceeding one thousand dollars
For publishing the report Of the Com
missioner of Agriculture for the years
eighteen hundred and seventy-two and
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, tif-
ty thousand dollars.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER THE
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT OF
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Post-office and subtreasury, Boston,
Massachusetts: For completion of build
ing, three hundred and fifty two thousand
and twenty seven dollars.
Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts,,