Chapter CCXI. *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 25, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,
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Chap. CCXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 25, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, viz.:
Coast survey. *Survey of the Coast.—*For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United States, (including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed on the work,) two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed on the work,) forty thousand dollars. For running a line to connect the triangulation on the Atlantic coast with that on the Gulf of Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, five thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, five thousand dollars. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 211. 1860. 105 For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, ten thousand dollars. For fuel and quarters, and for mileage or transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army serving in die coast survey, in cases no longer provided for by the quartermaster’s department, five thousand dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for seven steamers, used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. To supply deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, Deficiency for seamen.one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided Miscellaneous claims.for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars.
For preserving the unfinished work upon the Charleston custom-house, Custom-houses at Charleston and New Orleansfive thousand dollars, and to pay for the marble already delivered at the Charleston custom-house, to be used in continuing the work on that building, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed Secretary of Treasury to report to Congress amounts required to finish these works, &c.to report to Congress in his next annual report on the finances the amount of further appropriations that may be required to finish, respectively, this custom-house and the one at New Orleans, and the time necessary to complete the same, and whether any changes can be made, consistently with the purposes for which the building is intended, which will reduce the cost of completion, and in the mean time no further materials No further materials to be delivered.shall be delivered for said custom-house.
For preserving the unfinished work upon the New Orleans custom-house, five thousand dollars, and to pay for marble already delivered at the New Orleans custom-house, to be used in continuing the work on that building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and in the mean time no further materials shall be delivered for said custom-house. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fit up ready for the occupancy Post-Office at New Orleans.of the postmaster and his force, the necessary rooms in the custom-house building at New Orleans, that is one half of the first floor of the old levee front (designed for the Post-Office Department) according to the original design, twenty thousand dollars.
For the extension of the Treasury building, three hundred and fifty Extension of Treasury building.thousand dollars. For furnishing rooms in the Treasury building for the office of the Attorney General’s office.Attorney General, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay for labor on, and materials furnished for, the Capitol extension, Capitol Extension.one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and one dollars and seventy-four cents; and to enable the superintendent to take care of the marble which has been delivered, and of the shops occupied, and to lay the marble flooring of the porticos and to pay for the bronze doors, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, and for contingencies of the Capitol extension, twenty-three hundred dollars, making two hundred and four thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-four cents.
For the prosecution of the work on the Capitol extension during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the No part to be expended for works of illustrated art.sum of three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended in the decoration and embellishment of the Capitol extension by sculpture or painting, or other works of illustrated art. To enable the superintendent of the Capitol extension to purchase Marble columns for Capitol Extension.from Rice and Heebner thirty-four monolithic columns of American marble at the price specified in their supplemental contract of March thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the marble for said columns to be approved by the said superintendent, the sum of forty-seven thousand six 106 Proviso.hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the aforesaid sum of three hundred thousand dollars appropriated for the prosecution of the work shall be applied to the purchase of marble columns.
Contingent expenses of Senate. For Contingent Expenses of the Senate, viz.: For fixtures for gas, and furniture, for the committee, office, and other rooms and apartments, in the north wing of the Capitol, as directed by the resolution of the Senate of thirtieth March, eighteen hundred and sixty, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate. Washington Aqueduct. *Post,* p. 619.
Engineer of Potomac water works abolished. For the completion of the Washington aqueduct, five hundred thousand dollars, to be expended according to the plans and estimates of Captain Meigs, and under his superintendence: *Provided,* That the office of engineer of the Potomac water works is hereby abolished, and its duties shall hereafter be discharged by the chief engineer of the Washington Aqueduct. Custom-house and post-office at Wheeling, Va. For furniture required for the new custom-house, post-office, and United States court-rooms at Wheeling, Virginia, one thousand four hundred and eleven dollars.
Custom-house at Baltimore. For the repair of the custom-house in the city of Baltimore, fifteen thousand dollars. Light-house establishment. *Light-house Establishment—For Atlantic, Gulf and Lake Coasts, viz.:* Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts. For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting and other cleaning materials, transportation and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improving all the light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and fourteen cents. For salaries of five hundred and sixty-eight keepers of light-houses and light-beacons, and their assistants, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-seven cents. For salaries of forty-nine keepers of light-vessels, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For seaman’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-eight light-vessels, one hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and five dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day-beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, one thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-one cents.
For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents 1851, ch. 32. Vol. ix. p. 608.as are entitled to the same under the proviso to act third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, on the amount that may be disbursed by them, in addition to available balance, six thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-one cents. California, Oregon, and Washington. *For the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.—*For supplying fifteen light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, and other cleaning materials, transportation, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in order, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.
For salaries of thirty-five keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, four thousand dollars. 107 For expenses of raising,, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day-beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, three thousand dollars. For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of eighteenth 1856, ch. 160. Vol. xi. p. 100.August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for inspection and transportation purposes, thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of the light-house at Minot’s Ledge, Minot’s Ledge light-house.one of the Cohasset rocks, Boston Bay, Massachusetts, being the amount remaining to be appropriated to complete the work according to the original estimate, forty-seven thousand and ninety dollars and thirty-six cents. For completion and protection of way to light-house at Huron, Ohio, Light-houses, &c., in Ohio.six thousand dollars; and for the protection of the piers and beacon-light on the pier at Cleveland, Ohio, eight thousand dollars; and for the protection of the piers and beacon-light on the piers at Fairport, Ohio, five thousand dollars.
For commutation of fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving Army officers on light-house duty.on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the Quartermaster’s Department, three thousand two hundred and two dollars and twenty-nine cents. For compensation of two superintendents for the life-saving stations on Life stations and boats.the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars. For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For support, care, and medical treatment of forty transient paupers, Transient paupers in Washington Infirmary.medical and surgical patients in Washington Infirmary, six thousand dollars. For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars. Public grounds. For hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand and ninety-five dollars. For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, two hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace where necessary such as have been planted by the United States, and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, waterpipes, Repairs of Capitol, &c.pavements, and other walks within the Capitol Square, broken glass and locks, five thousand dollars. For annual repairs of the President’s house and furniture, improvement President’s house.of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingent expenses incident thereto, six thousand dollars. For fuel, in part, of the President’s house, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For lighting the Capitol and President’s house, the public grounds Lighting Capitol, &c.around them and around the Executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, Bridge and High Streets in Georgetown, Four-and-a-half, Seventh, and Twelfth Streets across the Mall, forty-two thousand dollars.
And the act 1848, ch. 99. Vol. ix. p. 722.incorporating the “Washington Gas Light Company” is hereby so amended as to prohibit said company from receiving, after the thirty-first Price of gas limited.day of December next, more than thirty-five cents per hundred cubic feet of gas, furnished by it to any consumer, subject to a discount of not less than ten per centum on all bills for gas, if paid at the office of said company within five days from the rendition thereof, provided all arrears shall have been previously paid.
For purchase of books for library at the Executive mansion, to be Library of Executive mansion.expended under the direction of the President of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and upper bridges, six thousand Bridges.dollars. 108 For taking down and rebuilding the southernmost span of the bridge across the Potomac, known as “The Long Bridge,” three thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents. Pennsylvania Avenue.
For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, three thousand dollars. For grading and gravelling B Street south, from Seventh to Fourteenth Streets.Streets west, setting curb and paving gutter with stone, and footway with brick on the north side of the same, next to the public reservation, seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents. For enclosing the circle at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, and New Hampshire Avenue and K and Twenty-third streets with a wrought-iron railing five feet high, nine thousand and eighteen dollars and forty-seven cents.
Reservations. For public reservation number two, and Lafayette Square, two thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and keeping them in order, five hundred dollars. For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars. For cleaning out the sewer-traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars. Smithsonian grounds. For repairing the fence around that portion of the mall upon which the Smithsonian building is situated, five hundred dollars.
For curbing, paving foot walk and gutter, laying stone footway and Missouri Avenue.grading on the south side of Missouri Avenue from Third to Sixth Streets, west, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. For seats of wood in the Smithsonian grounds, one hundred dollars. Land Surveys. *Survey of the Public Lands.—*For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah,) including incidental expenses and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands and the compensation and expenses to survey or to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations, fifty thousand dollars.
California. For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California, to be disbursed at the rates prescribed by law for the different kinds of work, twenty thousand dollars. New Mexico. For surveying the public lands and private land claims in New Mexico, ten thousand dollars. Kansas and Nebraska. For surveying tire public lands in Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian reservations, twenty thousand dollars. Clerk on special service. For salary of the clerk detailed for the special service in the General Land Office to attend to the unfinished surveys in the States, when the offices of the surveyors general have been closed, two thousand dollars.
Oregon. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, to be disbursed at the rates now authorized by law, fifteen thousand dollars. Washington Territory. For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at the rates now authorized by law, fifteen thousand dollars. Patent office. Drawings. *Patent Office.—*For drawings to illustrate the report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year eighteen hundred and sixty, six thousand dollars. Agricultural statistics. For collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agricultural and rural economy, and the procurement of cuttings and seeds, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That in the expenditure Rules of distribution of seeds, &c.of this appropriation, and especially in the selection of cuttings and seeds for distribution, due regard shall be had to the purposes of general cultivation and the encouragement of the agricultural and rural interests of 109all parts of the United States: *Provided,* That no part of this amount Proviso.shall be expended as a commission, exchange, gift, dividend or loan, or as compensation for extra services to any clerk, messenger, watchman or No part to be expended as commissions, &cother person already receiving a salary or wages under the government of the United States, nor to any partner, employee or member of the family of any such clerk, messenger, watchman or other person so employed by the United States as aforesaid; and should the provisions of this section be violated, or any such employee of the United States be detected, or be known to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any cuttings, seeds or other property arising from this or any previous agricultural appropriation by Congress, every such clerk, messenger, watchman, Penalty.or other person receiving a salary or wages, as aforesaid, shall be dismissed from office.
For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care of copyright Caro of copyrights, &c.books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand four hundred dollars. *Government Hospital for the Insane.—*For the support, clothing, and Hospital for the insane.medical treatment of the insane of the District of Columbia, and of the army and navy, at the asylum in said district, thirty thousand dollars. For books and incidental expenses of the asylum, five hundred dollars. For completion of the four eastern sections of the east wing of the hospital edifice, thirty-six thousand one hundred and eleven dollars.
For furnishing the four eastern sections of the east wing of the hospital edifice, five thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars. For extending the heating apparatus into the four eastern sections of the hospital edifice, five thousand dollars. For erecting, furnishing, lighting, and heating a. lodge for colored women, corresponding to that already erected and occupied by colored men, ten thousand dollars. For a gas-holder, to be placed in a position in the rear of the east wing of the hospital, corresponding to that occupied by the present gas-holder in the rear of the west wing, one thousand dollars. *Exploring Expedition.—*For preservation of the collections of the Exploring expedition.exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, four thousand dollars. *Institution of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.—*For salaries and incidental Deaf, dumb, and blind.expenses of the Institution of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, in the District if Columbia, three thousand dollars.
For expenses to be incurred in taking the eighth census of the inhabitants Eighth census.of the United States, one million dollars. For extension of the General Post-Office, seventy thousand dollars. General Post-Office extension. Botanic garden. *Botanic Garden.—*For grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and shrubs for botanic garden, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For pay of horticulturist and assistants in the botanic garden and greenhouses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, five thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to supply such newly created Statutes at Large. 1846, ch. 100, Vol. ix. p. 75.offices as are entitled thereto by the act of eighth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, with full sets of the Statutes at Large, and to replace those once furnished to old officers, which have since been unavoidably cost or destroyed, one thousand dollars.
For completing the printing, binding, and publishing one thousand Madison paperscopies of the papers of James Madison, under the direction and control of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, two thousand dollars; and the said committee are hereby authorized to contract for the printing and binding of the same with such person or persons as they may think proper to employ. 110 Capitol in New Mexico. Proviso. For the completion of the capitol in the Territory of New Mexico, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended till detailed plans and estimates for the entire completion of the building for the public service for the sum hereby appropriated shall have been prepared, submitted, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Light-house at Oswego, New York. 1859, ch. 82, Vol. xi. p. 425. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of thirty thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated by act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, for the purpose of repairs and incidental expenses to the light-house at Oswego and buildings connected therewith, and which remains unexpended, may be used and applied for repairing and securing and protecting the pier connected with the light-house at Oswego, New York, so as to prevent the destruction of said light-house and pier.
Court-room and how library at the Capitol. For converting the old senate chamber into a court room, the old court room into a law library, and for fitting up the rooms in connexion with them, for the use of the Supreme Court and its officers, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* The work can be finished for that sum, How appropriation expended.to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. Survey of eastern boundary of California.
Capitol in Nebraska. For the survey of the eastern boundary of California, in pursuance of a law passed during the present session of Congress for that purpose, fifty-five thousand dollars; and for the repair of the capitol building in Nebraska, five thousand dollars. Survey of part of boundary between Oregon and Washington. For the survey of the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude, so far as it constitutes a common boundary between Oregon and Washington Territory, four thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the Chickasaw Interest to the Chickasaws.Indians interest on one hundred thousand dollars, part of their national fund which was paid into the treasury in January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on account of the redemption of that amount of the state stock of Ohio previously held by that department in trust for that fund, twenty-one thousand dollars. Finishing maps &c. of Atrato route. For the purpose of paying existing liabilities, and to finish the maps and calculations of the survey of the Atrato route of the interoceanic canal, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Rooms in the Capitol for the Court of Claims. For fitting up the rooms in the centre building of the Capitol, formerly occupied by the Senate committees on naval, military, and Indian affairs, for the use of the Court of Claims, under the superintendence of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, three thousand dollars. Act 1869, ch. 80, § 2, Vol. xi. p. 422, relating to payment of cents from mint, repealed. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the second section of the act “making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty,” approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Art commission abolished. 1868, ch. 164, Vol. xi. p. 323. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That all existing laws creating an art commission be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Pay of examiners &c. in Patent-Office. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized to pay those employed in the Patent-Office from April first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, until April first, eighteen hundred and sixty, as examiners and assistant examiners of patents, at the rates Proviso.fixed by law for these respective grades: *Provided,* That the same be paid out of the Patent-Office fund, and that the compensation thus paid shall not exceed that received by those duly enrolled as examiners and assistant examiners of patents for the same period.
Contract with Gales & Seaton, as to American State Papera, to be modified. 1858, ch. 154, § 12, Vol xi. p. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the contract made with Gales and Seaton, under the nineteenth section of the “Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,” approved the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the publication of a continu-111ation of the “American State Papers,” be so modified as to require the publishers to defray all the expenses of selecting, compiling and arranging the documents proper to be included in that work; also the expenses of binding, and of all engraving on copper, steel and wood, and for lithographing, which may be considered necessary by the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, together with the expenses of preparing full and proper indexes for each volume, and a general index of the whole work, including the volumes contained in the first series, and all other contingent or incidental expenses whatsoever attending such publication.
And, moreover, that the price to be allowed to the Price. 1831, ch. 85. Vol. iv. p. 471. Vol. iv. p. 669. Distribution.publishers for said work shall be fifteen per centum less per volume than the average price per volume paid for the first series of the same, printed under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. And the said volumes shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior as the same may be completed, who shall place three hundred copies in the Department of State for its use, and for exchange with foreign governments, and seven hundred copies in his own department for distribution to public libraries in the several States and Territories, and hold the residue of the copies in his custody, subject to the further order of Congress.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay the publishers of the Pay of publishers.said work, at the rate per volume above mentioned, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as the same may be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior, and on his certificate of delivery; and so much Portions of act of 1858, inconsistent herewith, repealed. Size of volume. Whole expense.of the aforesaid nineteenth section of the act of June twelve, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as is inconsistent with this act, be, and the same, is hereby repealed: *Provided,* That the volumes shall average not less than one thousand pages: *Provided further,* That the whole amount expended in the publication of these volumes shall not exceed three hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Accounts of contractor to build customhouse &c. at San Francisco to be adjusted.be, and he is, hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of the contractor for the erection of the United States custom-house and post-office at San Francisco, California, and to pay to said con-tractor, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount that may be found to be justly due to him under the contracts made between said contractor and the proper officers of the government for erecting said building, and, also, such sum as may be found due for furnishing the same.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the District Attorney of the Value of certain land in the city of Washington be ascertain andUnited States for the District of Columbia, under the direction of the President of the United States, shall ascertain the fair cash value of the real estate hereinafter mentioned; also, at what price the same can be purchased, and the condition of the titles, and report the result to Congress at its next session, to wit: the following described squares and parts of squares in the city of Washington, namely: so much of square five hundred and seventy-five as is included within the following described lines: beginning on the west side of First Street, west, at a point sixty-seven feet north of the southeast corner of said square, and running thence south with the line of First Street west to the southeast corner of said square; thence with the line of Pennsylvania Avenue along the boundary of said square in said avenue one hundred and eighty feet; thence in a straight line to the point of beginning; also so much of square five hundred and seventy-six as is included within the following described lines: beginning on the west side of First Street west, at a point sixty-seven feet south of the northeast corner of said square, and running thence north with the line of First Street west, to the northeast corner of said square; thence, with the line of Maryland Avenue along the boundary of said square on said avenue, one hundred and eighty feet; thence in a straight 112line to the point of beginning; also, the whole of squares six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred and eighty-eight.
Approved, June 25, 1860.