Chapter 175.
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Chap. 175. 1846.93vey the water to the Capitol and public offices, and gardener’s salary, nine thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars. For constructing seven furnaces for warming and drying the lower story, halls, and passages of the north wing, of the Capitol, three thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For constructing six water closets for the Senate and two for the Supreme Court, on the same floors, respectively, three thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For enlarging the law library, constructing a new stairway, and other work, and the materials therefor, according to the plan of John Skirving, dated July twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand four hundred and twelve dollars.
ToOil destroyed by fire at Nantucket. replace the oil intended for the use of the government, which was destroyed by the recent fire at Nantucket, fourteen thousand dollars. ForContingencies for the President’s house and grounds. annual repairs of President’s house, gardener’s salary, laborers and cartage, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure and straw for garden and plants, trees for President’s grounds, Fountain Square, Lafayette Square, and Pennsylvania Avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain Square Lafayette Square, and President’s garden, three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
For replacing platforms on the dome, and repairing balusters, (including materials and work,) repairing hatchway, door, and frame, (including steps and plastering in dome,) furnishing and repairing step-ladders and platforms on the different roofs, furnishing two double window frames and sash (including painting and glazing) in open courts, white-washing walls in the open courts, containing about twenty-five hundred square yards, four hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents.
AndStatue of Washington. for the removal of the building over the statue of Washington, and erecting an iron fence around the same, one thousand dollars. For repairs to Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the late freshet, five hundred dollars. ForCongressional burying ground. repairs to the road leading from the Capitol Square to the Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the late heavy rains, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings, one thousand five hundred dollars.
AndBalance of an appropriation to be distributed among the captors of certain Algerine vessels 1816, ch. 119. the sum of two hundred dollars, being a portion of the unexpended balance of an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars, made on the twenty-seventh of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, to be distributed among the captors of certain Algerine vessels which were restored to the Dey of Algiers, which balance has been carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, for the benefit of such of the captors as have not yet received their shares of the said fund, or their representatives.
ToF. Gardner, for balance due him pay F. Gardner, late actiug United States naval store-keeper to the African squadron, from the twenty-fourth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-four, when Floyd Waggaman ceased to receive a salary, until December ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, when Francis Alexander proceeded to the post, three months and fifteen days, at fifteen hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. ToThomas H. Storm, for balance due him. pay the legal representatives of Thomas II.
Storm, for a balance due to him as agent for prisoners at Barbadoes, two thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-six cents. ForPenitentiary of the District of Columbia. the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and forty-six cents. For support, clothing, and medical treatment, of insane persons of94TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 94. theInsane paupers in the District of Columbia. District of Columbia, including four additional insane paupers ordered by the court to be sent to the hospital, five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and forty-five cents.
ForPublication of works of exploring expedition. continuing the publication of the works of the exploring expedition, including the printing of charts, the pay of the scientific corps, and the salary of the horticulturist, thirty thousand dollars. For4th and 5th instalments of Mexican indemnity. paying the principal and interest of the fourth and fifth instalments of the Mexican indemnities due in April and July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, the sum of three hundred and twenty thousand dollars:Proviso, as to mode of payment. *Provided,* The claimants, each for himself, shall relinquish to the United States his right to said instalments: *Provided further,* That each of the claimants shall agree to take in payment the scrip of a stock bearing interest at five per cent., payable in five years.
ForRefunding to British consul money disbursed by him. refunding to James Buchanan, late her Britannic Majesty’s consul at the city of New York, moneys disbursed by him, and for compensating him for services performed in respect to the slaver Catharine, condemned and sold at the suit of the United States, the sum of two thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. ForPreparing for publication plans and drawings. reducing and preparing for publication,under a resolution of the Senate, plans and drawings, made by the officers of the topographical bureau, for the improvement of harbors, rivers, &c., four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. *Patent Office.*—ForPatent Office. the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the patent office, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; to be paid for out of the patent fund. *Lighthouse Establishment.*—ForLighthouses.Supplies. supplying lighthouses, containing two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth, expenses of transportation, and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-four cents.
ForRepairs. repairs, incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of lighthouses, and buildings connected therewith, sixty-seven thousand seventy-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents. ForKeepers. salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers and sixteen assistant keepers of lighthouses, (seventeen of them charged with double and two with triple lights,) one hundred thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. ForFloating lights salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand dollars.
For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-two cents. ForBeacons, buoys, &c. weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-pine cents. For procuring, locating, and mooring buoys at such places as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and where he shall deem them to be necessary for the safety of navigation, five thousand dollars.
ForRebuilding lighthouses. expenses of rebuilding the Cape Florida Lighthouse, Florida, thirteen thousand dollars. For expenses of rebuilding Martinicus Rock Lighthouse, Maine, eleven thousand dollars. For the maintenance of the light on the Delaware Breakwater, including four hundred dollars for the salary of keeper, eight hundred dollars. TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I.