Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-20
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Oh DistrIct ln' crest.
The District of Columbia gets the tollowing
in the sundry civil appropria
ton bill
81 10000. Reform school,, ,aea C Conmbia'
Hospital and Lying-ln ASy' nm 40 OO0 lam.
dry for do, 3, 800. Chill ,tea's 6osDital, saNa.
For PaSS Gsnta Of SO dsngs erected for Chill
fire engines and h" Ok and ladders. $4,000 st.
Ann. lnIans nj AS hann, 5000. Industrial Home
School, s2WO: Sational Association for Re-
1 r Oh COloTt;t Women and Children, 5000.
10 pay Wor kingmen under late board of pub
nc WORKS, 5000. For building for Bureau of
engraving and Printing, at corner of l4th and
streets southwest, not TO exceed 100000, and
W ,2Sf5O for the site. For two clerks, class 4,
In First Auditors office, and one in Office of
FIRST Controller, under act providing perma
LeR FORM OF government in District OF Column
Bank OF Washington for expense in collecting
claims against Bayne company. s3,09645
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND
WASHINGTON.
Filling in grounds south of Executive man.
sion. $500. For ordinary care of greenhouses
and the nursery. 81 go. For ordinary care of
Lafayette Square, $1,000. For care and i'm
ument grOunds), 81 600. For annual repair of
iron fences, $500 For manure, and hauling
the same, $500. For painting iron fences,
chase and repair of seats, 900 For purchase
and repair of tools, 500. For trees, tree
stakes, lime, white washing, and stock for
nursery, 5000 For removing snow and ice,
$1,000 Fer flowers, pots, Irvine, baskets, and
lycopOdium, $50. For abating nuiSanceS, $500.
For care and repair of fountains in the public
grounds slG0. For improving various reser-
of and repairs, refurniShing, and fuel for the
Executive Mansion, and care of and necessary
repair to the greenhouses, and fuel for the
slL00. Lighting the Executive Mansion and
DI b ic grounds: For gas. pay OF lamplighterS,
gas filters, Plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lamp
posts, matches, and repairs of all kinds lamps
for Anacostia bridge fuel for the Office, watch
mems lodges, and for the greenhouse in the
nursery, $l5,OO0: PrOuided, That no more than
$25 shall be paid per street lamp for gas; and
in case contract cannot be made at that
rate, the engineer in charge is authorized to
substitute other illuminating material, and
to use so much of the sum hereby appTC-
priated as may be necessary for that purpose.
Repair of water pipes and fire plugs: For re-
pairing and extending water pipes purchase
of apparatus TO clean them, and for clean
ing the springs and repairing and re-
neWing the pipes of the same that supply
the Capitol, the Executive mansion, 5000.
Telegraph TO connect the Capitol with the de-
PAL tmentS and the government printing office:
For repair and care of the same, $1,000. Wash
ingtOn aqueduct: For engineering, mainte-
nance, and generalrepairs OF the same, $1,000
Building for State, War, and Navy depart
ments (eaSt wing: To complete the east wing
and its approaches, TO be expended for plaS-
teling and stucco, glazing, painting, carpenter
and joiner work, thing floors, mantelS and
CRATES, elevators, baluSters for winding stair
ways, iron fence, lamp posts and lanterns for
the approaches, office rent, and contingencies.
S350,CuO. For continuing the construction of
the north wing, to be expended for cut-stOne,
excavations and foundations $4,000. That
the uneXpended BALANCE of the apprOpri-
alton for the statue Of General George I'll.
Thomas, made by the act of July 3lst, 1876,
amounting to $2,465.15, be, and the same
is hereby, real prOpriated, and made avail
able to finish the pedestal and statue.
To continue the roadway and foOtwalk the
proper width at Pennsylvania and Maryland
avenues, around the circle of said avenues at
lSt street. the Secretary OF the Interior is to
purchase the land, after commission of five
money in the Treasury not otherwise apprO-
priated. Hospital for the Insane, $l5005n.
For drainage. and laundry of the hospital, ard
for the erection, furnishing and fitting up OF
an enlarged and improved bake-hOuse and
oven, including StOre-rOOm for flour and lOdg-
ing for bakers, $4,000 For general repairs
and improvements. $7cO. For erection of
and valves for extinguishing fires, ST, 500.
Current expenses Columbia Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb: For support of the inStitu-
ton, including salaries and incidental eX-
penSes, and 500 for books and illustrative ap-
paratus, So, Geo; for furniture and repairs OF
d1ately available. Support of Freedmen's
Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of
Columbia: For subsistence, $4,000; for sala-
aries and compensation, as follows: For sur
geOn- in-chief, 5000; medical assistant,
81. $50; for engineer, s720; matrOn, $2l6; nurses
and cooks and labor, $500; fuel and light
$500; clothing and bedding, $3.50; rent of
hospital buildings. $1,000; medicines and med
zeal supplies, Sl,5G0; and miscellaneous ex-
penSe, 81 l64: in all, SiO.5OO