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.Li f Cbnctudrd from first page, i eral of Nevada, fuel, books, station- That the sum of ten thousand dol laxs, or fo much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable . i'rofessor J. v. Powell to prepare his materials, and to pre sent to Congress at its next session a report of the survey of the Colora do of the West and its tributaries. For continuing the inquiry Into the causes of the decrease of the food-Ashes of the coast and the lakes of the Lnited States, five thousand ery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand seven hundred dol- larsi For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Orejron, fuel, books, station ery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other inci dental exK?nses, two thousand dollars. eighteen hundred and severity one, providing for the sale of -useless military reservations, twenty thou- j sana dollars. - For survey of exterior boundaries ! of Indian reservations, and sub-di-f vidiner portions of the same, two I hundred thousand dollars. j EXPENSES OF THE COLLKCflOX - OF BEVEM'E FROM SALES OF TUBLIC i LANDS. . . $ I For salaried and com missions of resr- ! isters of land offices and receiver of For the introduction of shad into j Gulf States, and of the Mississippi dentsU exmnses, two thousand five " iil,V r Mmnn n-hitA fish, s hundred dollar. veu-y aiiu va cvo v For rent of office of surveyor gen- j public moneys at ninety two land oftl eral "of Nebraska and Iowa, fuel, books, stationery, and other inci- and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United States to which they are best adapted, seven teen thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction or the Cniteti states com mission r 01 1 isn ana r isnenes. j For preparation of illustrations : for the reiortofthe UnitLStaU-s j Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, I one thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor jren eral of Montana Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other inci dental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor cen- j eral of Utah Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor pron eral t Wyoming Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other "aU'C . " i. 41 1 on the Library to purchase ana i , , , ' ",UUMI,U "c . print a series of unpublished histori- j u" J$Vh ats relating to meeany - cal documents French discoveries in the North west fcnd on the 3Iissisippi, ten j thousand dollars, or so much thereof J as may be necessary, the printing or the Kiine to te unuer me uirrruun of paid committee; and of the fifteen tlion-ind dollars appropriated by act of June tenth, eighteen hundred 4 and seventy two, to enable said committee to purchase works ofart, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby declared to have been propriated and shall be expended for t lie purjrfne of providing for a statueof the late I Id ward Dickinson .JlakeiL For a plan for a new building for a Library of l mare4, live thousand dollars; and the M-ltvtioii of a plan, together with the location and su pervision of said building, shall be in charge of a commission to con sist of the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, the chairman of the Committee on Pub lic IJaildings and i rounds of the Senate, and the librarian of Congress.- To enable the Clerk of the IHhw of Representatives to pay tlie tiiir teen crippled and disabled soldiers now in the employment of the Jkxirkeeper of the House, from March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy three, to iX-cember ' ' first, eighteen hundrel ami seventy three,; twelve thousand six hundred dollars. For furniture, and reiirs of the same, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury iJepart mi'iit, one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars. For fuel, lights, and water, and miscellaneous items for public build . ings under the control of the Treas ury Department, two hundred and . twenty five thousand dollars. For heating upparutu: for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings under the control of thoi Treasury Department, seven ty live thousand dollars. ror photographing, engraving, and printing plans of public build ings under control of the Treasury Department, five thousand dollars. lor construction ami verification of standard weights and measures for the custom houses of the United States, and for the several SUiU-, nnd of metric standards for the States, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of custodians anil janitors of public buildings under the con trol ot the Treasury Dejartment, one hundred and tueutv live thou sand dollars. ice of surveyor gen eral of Arizona Territory, luc ioofcs, stationery, and other inci dental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. the To enable Treasury to p-.v Sommcrs a Mini ufiiint to make his salary from June first, eighteen hundred and t-lxty nine, to 'March first, eighteen lumdrcd ami seventy, that of a fourth cla-s clerk in the Fifth Auditor's office, one hundred and fifty dollars, or o much thereof j as may bo necessary."' To enable the Secrclitry of the Treasury to coIIt otiduntl and abandoned States, ami SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. For surveying the public lands in Louisiana, at rates not exceeding ten dollars er linear mrJefor town ship and ciirht dollars for suction lines, eighteen thousand dollars. I'or survying the public lands in in Florida, at rates not exceeding ten dollars ier linear mile for standard, seven dollars for town ship, and six - dollars for section lines, twelve thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, at rates not exceeding fourteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifty thousand ."dollars: Pro vided, That thereshall first le paid, out of said fifty thousand dollars, to the Saint Paul and Sioux City 1 Lai I road Company, the sum of one thousand three hundred and sev enty dollars for surveys already made by said company of the pub lic lauds-In the State. For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, at rates not ex ceeding, twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, nine dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, eighty thousand dol lars. For surveying the public lands in Montana Territory, at raU$ not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dol lars for township, and ten dollars for "section lines, sixty thousand dollars. . For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding twelve dollars jier linear mile for standard lines, ninedollars for town ship, and eight dollars for section lines, sixty thousand dollars, to take effect uion tho passage of this act. For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ninedollars for town ship, and eight dollars for section lines, sixiy thousand dollars, said amount to le available from and after the passage of this act. lor surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dol lars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, eighty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Idahtf Territory, at rates not ex ceeding fifteen dollars ikt linear mile for standard lint s, twelve dol- ces. lour nuncireu ami innuiy eiiim ' thousand seven hundred dollars. I For incidental expenses ofths land J offices, including rents, lifty five thou sand and forty dollars. f- l or expenses or depositing moneys received from Kales of nubile lands thirteen thousand dollars. To meet the expenses of suppressing depredations uoon the timber on the nuhlic lands, eiirbt thousand dollars. f or tn is amount, or so mucti wiereoi i as may be necessary, to defraji the ex I nense connected wilh the arPCaisal and Kale of the tracts or land in 119? Mate 01 Nebraska, belnhiK to tlif Omaha, Pawnee, Otoe and Missouri and the Sac and Fox of Missouri trilp. of In dians, in accordance with Hit! provis ions of an act entitled An 40t for the reiief of certain tribes of Indiahs in the j Northern huixMintendeiicy,".. approved 1, ! June tenth, eighteen hundred iord sev enty two. twenty thousand tio.l us, said amount to bo reimbursed fr iu the pro ceeds of the salo 1 k.tid lands, i METROPOLITAN POLICB i For salaries and other necessary tx nenses of the metropolitan plice for the District of Columbia, two hundred and seven thuusand live hundred and thirty dollars : Provided, 'That u further sum, amounting to one hundred and throu thousand seven hundred and six ty live fHars, shall bo paid to defray the excuses of the said metropolitan plicu force by the cities of NVashinjton and ""rwtovn, and the county ol Washington, beyond tho limits of said cities, i.i iho District of Columbia, in the pr ;or:ioii corresponding to the number of privates allotted severally to said prerincts ; and the corporate au thorities of said cities, and proper au thorities of tho District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and required to levy a special tax, not exceeding one third of one per centum, which shall be specially deposited once in each week, as such collections are made, to be ap propriated and expended for said pur pose only, for the service of tho tiscai year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four: Provided further. That the annual report of the board of metropolitan police commis sioners shall hereafter be made to the Attorney General of the United States, who shall also be charged w ith theois- bursemcntof this appropriation ror the support. and moral treatment of the army and navy, revenue cutter, and volunteer service, who may have be come insane since their entry into the tervice of the United States, and of the indigent insane of tho District of Col umbia, in the Govern intmt Hospital for the Insane, including live hundred dol lars for books, stationery, and inciden tal expenses, one hundred and twenty live thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements of tho hospital buildings, twenty thousand dollars. For iie erection of a slock barn on one of the outlaying farms of the insti Union, and a hay but n on the oilier out lying farm, and of a poultry house within the hospital iuclosure, nine thou sand dollars. For the erection, lighting, heating, and furnishing of a detached building to contain toilors', shoe iiMtkers', and mattress makers' shops and store rooms, and dormitories for lm-chanics and farm laborers, without families, ten thuusand ' dollars. 1 For moving, repairing, and building ! cottages for Uie occupatiuh of tlie cm j ployees of the hospital having families, ! live thousand seven h tailored and twelve j dollars and twenty two cents. I Fer completion of tiic roads and walks ' in tlie exercise grounds of the patients, i two thousand dollar.-. clothing, medical the insane 01 For the construction of a brick wall and iron fence along First street between Pennsylvania and Maryland avenues, and for gateways lon same line, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For takingdown and rebuilding fence along Maryland avanue and Third street, to conform- tb new grade, four thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, improve ments to heating apparatus, and walks, and for grading and-inclosing square on Maryland avenue opposite the Botanieal garden, bounded by Second, Third, and li streets, and for erecting thereon houses for storing pots, soil, coal, and plants, six thousand rive hundred dol lars. For completing the new conservatory by erecting an octagon at the eastern end to conform to that at the western end, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ; and the several amounts here by appropriated for the Botanical gar dens hail be available f:oni the pas sage of this act. SURVEY OF THt COAST. For continuing the survey of the At lantic and Gull coasts of the United States, and Lake Champlain, including compensation of civiliai s engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emol uments of ofQcers of tho army and na vy, aud petty otUVers and men of the navy employed in the work, four hun dred and ten thousand dollars. For continuing trie survey of tho wes tern coast of the United States, includ ing compensation of civilians, and pa' and rations' of engineers of steamers mgaged in the work, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For extending the triangulation of the Coast Survey, so as to form a geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacitie coasts of the United States, and assisting in the State surveys, including compensation of civilians enaaged in the work, thirty six thousand dollars. For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Surve3', 0ly thousand dollars. For continuing the publication of the observations made in the progress of Coast Survey, including compensation for civilians" engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Govern ment Printing ofiice, ten thousand dol- ; lars. . j LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. For salaries of eight hundred and i ninety three light house keepers and j light beacon keepers, and their assis tants, rive hundred and thirtv live thousand eight hundred dollars. For repajrs and incidental expenses in refitting and improving light houses, and buildings connected thecwith, two huudred and twenty live thousand dol lars. For supplying tho light houses and beacon ligh'is on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake and Pacific coasts, with oil, wicks, glass chimnej's, chamois skins, spirits of wine, whiting, polishing powder. towels, brushes, soap, paints, and other cleaning materials, auu ior expenses 01 repairing and keeping in repair illu minating j.paia.usand machinery, and 01 uauurmi:. les'.in. transportation, de livery of oil and other supplies for liht houses, ;uid other incidental ne cessary .expenes, tiiree Hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and thir ty seven dollars. ror expenses 01 visiting and inspect ing lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. For seaman's wages, rations, repairs. salaries, supplier, and incidental ex penses of twenty two light ships and seven relief light vessels, two hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty two dollars and lifty cents. For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, refitting, and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, lifty thousand dollars. Fur expenses of raising cleaning, painting, repairing, renewing, and sup plying losses of ouoys, spin. lies, and day beacons, aud lor chains, .sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred thousand dollars. Sand island, off Mobile barbou, Ala bama, twenty thousand dollars. For a screw pile light house at Horn Island pass, Gulf of Mexico, I weuty two thousand dollars. For protecting the light house depot at the head of the Passes, river Missis sippi, from the erosion of the shore, ten thousand dollars. " For completion of the Gulf coast iron light bouse at Timbalier island, coast of Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs of, the screw pile light house at Southwest reef, Louisiana, damaged by a hurricane, five thousand dollars. , For 00 m nletion of the first order iron lio-ht. bouse at Trinity slrv.1 Gulf of Mexico, forty thousand dollars. For completion of a co:,t light at Matagorda island, Tex s, twelve thou sand dollars. Fora lake coast light, at or near Thirty Mile point. Lake Ontario, New York, thirty thousand dollars. For rebuilding the light house at Ashtabula, Ohio, three thousand four hundred dollars. For pier head lights on the lakes, twenty thousand dollars. For completion of Spectacle Reef light house. Lake Huron, twenty thousand dollars. For completion of a second order light house at Gross- point, Lake Michi gan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. j tor a Iignt nouso at l Anse, jjaxe 1 Superior, ten thousand dollars. I For surveys; examinations to deter ' mine the practicability of building a j light house 011 Stannard's rock. Lake : Superior, ten thousand dollars; and the j Light House board may, in their discre- tio'n, expend for a light house at the en j trance to Portage Lake ship canal the appropriation heretofore made for Fagle ' river. Lake Superior. Por a light house on Islo Roval, Lake ; Superior, twenty thousand dollars, j For a lake coast light on Outer island, ; Lake Superior, forty thousand dollars. ' Fora light bnnse'on Poverty island, ' Lake Michigan, eighteen thousand dol i lars. ! For a lake coast light at Twin River I point, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, forty thousand dollars. I For a fog signal at Marquette, Lake i Superior, four thousand dollars. : For building a light house . at Port : Austin, Saginaw bay, ten thousand dol ; lars. For a light house at Point Hueneme, 1 Santa Barbara channel, California. twenty thousand dollars; and the 1 amount heretofore appropriated fora fog signal at said point shall revert to 1 the treasury. j For completing the light house at ' Point San Pablo, California, thirty thousand dollars ; and the light house may be built at Point San Pablo, or at such point if the near vicinity as the Light House board may select. For building a small light and fog signal at the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon, thirty thousand dollars. For building a log signal at New Dun genness. Straits of Fuca, Washington Territory, eight thousand dollars. For a light house at Pcint-No-Point, Puget sound, Washington Territory, or at such other point in Puget sound as the Light House board may elect, twen ty five thousand dollars. For building a steam tender for en gineers' constructions and repairs, and for inspection in the tenth 'district. Lakes Krie and Ontario and river Saint Lawrence, ninety thousand dollars. For building a relief ship for general service, thirty five thousand dollars. For a steam log signal at or near Point Montara, coast of California, fifteen j thousand dollars. ! For a steam fog signal at the entrance to Humboldt bay. California, ten thou sand dollars; and the light bouse appro priations made in this act lor special available immediately apon the appro val or this act. . . For machinery for the new branch mint building, San Francisco, Califor nia, two huwdred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars, including such part of the appropriation for the same object made tor the present fiscal year as shall be expended prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy For the mints of the United States : For wages of workmen, from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred aud seventy three, thirty one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For ordinary expenses for same period bfteen thousand dollars. For wages of workmen for fiscal year ending J une thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordinary expenses, repairs, and replacing machinery, oil, dies, acids, coal, wood, and other miscellaneous items for same period, fifty thousand dollars, to be available immediately upon the passage of this act. For repairs and preservation of all the public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars. .; For the annual repairs arid improve ments of ihe Treasury building, Wash ington, District of Columbia, twenty five thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. Springfield armory, Springfield, Mas sachusetts: For repairs and preserva tion of grounds, buildings, and machin ery, twenty thousand dollars ; and for macadamizing the hill portion of Pearl street and curbing one side of its entire length, three thousand five hundred dollars ; in all, twenty three thousand five hundred dollars. Rock Island arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois : For a new wood working and gun carriage shop, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For the completion of new finishing shop for armory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and forone set of sub altern officers' quarters, twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty dol lars : in an, one nundred and seventy three thousand seven hundred and lilty 1 lars and Upper bridge, seven thousand dolt lars. For annual repairs of the Executive Mansion, fifteen thousand dollars ; for refurnishing same, ten thousand dol lars; for-fuel for same, five thousand dollars. i For care, protection, and continuing permanent improuementof green house at Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars. For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of necessary apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the spring supplying the Capitol, Execu tiue Mansion, War and Navy Depart ments, ten thousand dollars. Washington aqueduct ; ' For finishing the wooden fence at the distributing reservoir, one thousand five hundred dollars. For dwelling for gate keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars. For completing stone bridges, eight. thousand six hundred dollars. For completing the macadamizing of the conduit road, sixteen thousand dol lars. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dol lars. Modification and repairs of building at corner of Seventeenth and F streets : For cutting out windows in basement and fitting fourteen cellar rooms for office or file rooms, three thousand five hundred dollars. For removing mastic from fronts on Seventeenth and F streets, cleaning face and pointing and flushing up joints of underlying brick, wall, and painting and and sanding same and other portions of each front, and of wood work 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 ground line up to present upper course of marble, and building marble steps to each of the front entrances, ten thousand dollars. For renewing tin roof and painting same, repairs of steam warming appa ratus, aud painting, whitewashing, and general renovation of interior of the building, five thousand dollars. For contingencies, five hundred dol- dollars, For forges, foundery, chimneys, ma chinery, and shop fixtures, for forge shop, fifty thousand dollars. For machinery and skop fixtures for shop C, as laid down on the plan adopt ed by the War Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For improvement of grounds, build ing of ne v, -roads, and care and preser vation of the Fame, eight thousand dollars. For pav ing the basements' of shops B and C, as laid down in the plan adopted by the War Department, twenty one thousand eight hundred and fifty dol lars. For a new guard house, lire engine house, and quartermaster's and com-misj-arj' store house, twenty seven thou sand five hundred dollars. For machinery for transmitting power from the water power to shops, eighteen thousand dollars. For painting of buildings and fences, and for care and preservation of water power and public buildings, ten thous and dollars. Benicia arsenal, Beuicia, California : For 0110 set of officers' quarters, twenty six thousand five hundred and seventy one dollars; for repairing roads, build ing sewers and drains, four thousand eight hundred and seventy six dollars; for grading grounds, seven thousand eight hundred and sixty four dollars; for permanent repairs of post, machin ery lor shops, and fences, five thousand nine hundred and five dollars; for arte sian well, four thousand eight hundred objects shall.-be available Irom the date 1 and twenty nine dollars; in all, lifty thousand and forty five dollars. , 1-or the construction of deoot bu ror. LIGHT HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS. i or rebuilding the upper ot this aet. UNDERTHE TREASURY DEPART MENT. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. For completion of the building for the custom house and post office at Rock- S-vn-tury of the j lars for township, anil ten dollars to W arrimrton ' for section lines, ihirtv thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in New Mexico Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars ier linear mile for standard Jims, twelve dol lars, for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in .Arizona Territory, at rail's not ex- property of the I nited ! cecdmg fifteen dollars ier linear to collet t. procure, and I mile for standard lines, twelve dol- CoLUMHIA 'INSTITUTION FOR T1IK PEAK AND DUMB. For the support of the institution, in cluding salaries and i: idental expen ses, the maintenance of the benetici trles of the United States, and live hundred dollars for books and illustrative appa ratus, forty eight thousand dollars. COLUMBIA HOSPITAL Foil WOMEN AND preserve all vouchers, paers, ree- j lars for township, and ten dollai . ords, and evitfentv, and to take tes- timony as to claims against the United States, t be aid only upon the certificate of the commissioners of claims, seventy thousand dollars. To enable the JSocretary of the Navy to organize parties to observe the transit of Venus in December, eighteen hundred and seventy four, one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the commission creat ed by the act of June tenth, eigh teen hundred and seventv two: Provided, Tlf.it no art of this ap propriation shall bo covered into the treasury until the objects for which it is made shall have been accomplished: And provided fur ther. That the -cretary of the Navy Is hereby authorial! to detail two vessels of the navy, from the Asiatic or Pacific stations, to con vey parties to the joints selected for observation with which there is no regular communication. i'o enable the Secretary of the j dollars Un town for section lines, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars i.-r linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, ami twelve dollars for section lines, and for heavily tim bered mountain lauds, at augment ed rates," not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear, mile for standard, sixteen dollars for township, and fourteen dollars for section lines. ninoty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding fif teen dollars x-r linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines, forty thousaud dollars, i For surveying the public lands in j Oregon, densely covered with for ests of thick undergrowth, at rates j not exceeding eighteen dollars per j mar nine ior standard, sixteen .Navy to dcMtsit with the assistant Treasurer or the L nited States, at Washington city, District of Colum bia, the sum of one hundred thou sand dollars, subjecf to the order of the United States dhtriet court for District of Columbia, in the case of the United States against the rebel steamer Sumter, in prize, said sum is hereby appropriated. To purchase land Hlioiniu' the w " . . .avai cii(iemv . 1 n. and fourteen d.d.ars for section i. thirty thou sand dollars; one third of said ! amount to be expended east of the ; Cascade mountains. ' For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars jh t linear mile. for standard lines, fourteen dolhirs for township, and twelve dollars for section lines, and for heavily timltered lands at augment ed rates, not excei-elns? eiirhtcen at AiiiiaiMilis. WW I - - i ' - Jiarymna, ana Ior uimrovincr thi , dollars tier lnu-ir mi i u.r vt n.il ir,i same, for the purKise of extending j sixteen dollars for township, and tho area and creating additional i fourteen dollars for section lines, convenience for quarters, forty five ! seventy thousand dollars, thousand dollars, or so much thereof- For surveying the public lands in as may be necessary ; but no money j Utah Territory," at rates not exit o I Rhall be paid for said land until the inir fifteen dollars oer linoor n.i! State of Maryland has ceded juris-j for standard lines, twelve dollars lor township, and, ten dollars for section lines, twenty five thousand dollars. diction over the same to the United States. For the exenses of the Joint Select Committee ou Alleged Out rages in the Southern Slates, the sum of onb thousand and eighty seven dollars and twenty cents, the said sum to be carried for the pur pose to the contingent fund of the fc'enate- I For surveying the public lands in DEPARTMENT OF HIE INTE- Wyoming Territory, at rates not ex- AXI LYING-IX .ASYLUM, OTIIEIt CIIAKITIIIS. For the support of theCohinilii i Hos pital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which wilt l; received Irom pay pa j tients, twenty eight thousand five huu I dri ll dollars. 1 To, aid io the support of the Children Hospital of Vafiini:ton, District of : Columbia, live thou.-stnd dollars. For care, support, nnd medical treat j ment of seventy live transient paupers, I medical and surgical patid.ts, in some r.roer medical institution in the city of Washington, under a contract to be formed with such institution, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ! may bo necessary, under the direction i of the Secretary of War. For the Soldiers and Sailors' Or phans' Home, Washington city, Dis trict of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of tiie In terior, fifteen thousand dollars : Pro vided, That hereafter no child orchil-- j dren shall be admitted into tsaid home j except " the destitute orphans of s d- j j diers and sailors who have died in tho I late war on behalf of the Union of these I j States," as provided for in section three J of the act entitled " An act to incorpor ate the National Soldiers and Sailors ! ; Orphans' Home." approved July turn 1 tv lifih, eighteen hundred and sixtv ! six : And provided further, Th .t no I child not an invalid s!i id remain in said home alter h iving atluiuHd tno ag of sixteen years. To aid in tho ere tiou f a ' l liMi i;r ! for a hospital in tl eeitv of Washington, under the charge and c ntrol of ari in corporated ass'H-iatio.'i in sail city, ! known as tha Sisterhood of Saint John, : twenty tire thousand dollars are hereby i appropriated out of uny money in tint ! treasury not otherwise, appropriated, to I be paid to toe said association. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.. For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expedi tions of tho governiii'-i;:, lif.ecn thou sand dollars. 1 For titling up the new hull: required for the government collections, fifteen thousand dollars. 1 ; For steam heating nparatns for the same, twelve thousand dollars". CAPITOL KXTENSIOX. ' For continuing the work on the Cap--itol, and for general care and repairs '. thereof, sixty live thousand dollars. For extending the inlets to the Senate chain ber Tor fresh air to the lower ter-'j race near the western nark, ten thou. sand dollars. For construe; in g coal vaults with'n the open space at the east front of the I Mpttol, between th- Nevada, at rates not exeeedinir fif teen dollars per linear mile fori standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifty thousand dollars RIOR. PUBLIC LANDH. For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Louisiana, fuel, books, sta tionery, and other incidental ex penses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of su rvey or gen eral of Florida, fuel, books, station ery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. x ui 1 en b 01 umce 01 surveyor gen eral of Minnesota, fuel, books, sta tionery, and other incidental ex penses, two thousand two hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Dakota Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental ex penses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Kansas, fuel, books, station ery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen eral of Colorado Territory, fuel, books! stationery, and other inci dental expenses, two thousand dollars.- i ' For rent of ofiice of surveyor gen eral of New Mexico Territory, fuel, books stationery, and other inci dental expenses, two thousand dobi lars. For rent of office of surveyor iren- eral of California, fuel, books, sta-r! the public surveys in the several sur tionery, and other Incidental ex-j veying districts, in order to test tht nenses. seven thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen end o( Idaho Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental ex jsnses, three thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor gen- . 1 ceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines; fifty thousand dollars. For survey of western boundary of Wyoming Territory, at a rate not exceeding fifty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance two hun dred and seventy miles, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For survey of so much of the south boundary of Colorado Terri tory as lie between the twenty fifth and twenty sixth meridian, west of Washington, at a rate not exceed ing forty dollars per linear mile, es timated distance sixty miles, two thousand four hundred dollars. For survey of so much of the cis tern boundary of New Mexico as lies between the northwest corner of Texas and the thirty seventh parallel of north latitude, at a rate not exceeding forty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance thirty- five miles, one thousand four hundred dollars. For survey of the boundary be tween the Territories of Idaho and Washington, at a rate not exceed ing sixty dollars per linear mile, es timated distance one hundred and eighty miles, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. lor occasional examinations of . n...t . 1 ..1. ror surveying tho public lands in , building, sixteen thousand dollars ; and ior connecting me Capitol by telegraph, to be used solely for public business, with all the Departments of government and the Wovernmeiit Printim office in tlie city of Washington, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof us" maybe necessary, to be expended under the di rection of the otxi. cr in charge of die public buildings and ground : Provi ded, That the immediate connection of the wires with any of ihj public build ings shall tie made under ground, or in such manner as not f, injure the ap pearance of thu Capitol or other public Fur grading and paving the streets and loot way around the Capitol, run 11 in- from IVnnsylvauU avenue to ii streets north and s nth, to the line of on. .1, mo a,iioi, ana lor 1111 j proving the rounds within that urea, in hundred and twentv five thousand dollars : Provided, Tnat in tho im provements of street i.bout the Capilolj ihe Secretary or the interior shall as sess and collect the cost of all improve ments made in front of all private pro It-ny in luesauie proportion as charged by the District authorities lor .'similar improvements. - For ten thousand eight hundred and f srty-four square feet of land on South Capitol and South 11 afreets, with the buildings ntandinj; thereon, the sum of bfteen thousand dollars, to la tuiri m the trustees of the Israel African Meth-' oaisi episcopal Church, whenever they shall, in due and legal form, transfer to the United State a good and sufficient title to said land and premises : , Provi ded, That Mid trustee may have the right to remove the building thereon as the parsonage and the seats and benches belonging to the church, any tima with in thirty daya after being notified to re move the same by the Architect of the Capitol. or alteration and refitting tlie hall of tha House of Kepresentatatives for ac commodation of the increased number of members and the better ventilation and lighting thereof, to be expended un der the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol Extension, according to a plan to be established by resolution ol" the lioue, forty thousand dollars ; and th amouuts hereby appropriated for work on and arouud the Capitol shall b avaiabla from tha passage of this act. the accuracy of the work in the field, ten thousand dollars. For expense's of survey, appraise ment, and other con tingeu t ex penses forcaryying out the provisions of the act of February twenty fourth, part of the Iignt house tower at .Vishs island, coast of Maine, three thousand dollars. For rebuilding the upper part of the light house lower at fep-uiii island, coast of Maine, live thousand dollars. For rebuilding the west light house at Cape Klizabeih, co.t..t of Maine, thirty thousand dollars. For replacing day beacons destroyed by the ice 011 tho coast of Maine and Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. For a. steam fog signal at the High lands, Cape Co.lj Massachusetts, l.ve thousand dollars. For a steam fog signal (to guide into a harbor of refuge) at Itace jint, l ajie tuu, .Massachusetts, five thousand I dollars. i For a steam fog signal at the mouth of I tho Aichaialaya river, Louisiana lilieen j thousand dollars. i For placiug a light on Muxcle lied j beacon, Narragansett buy, ithodc Is i land, ttiree thousand dollars. I For new dwelling at Conimicut liht : ! house, Narragansett bay, Rhode Island, tiiteen tnousaiul dollars: 1'rovided, ; That upon the completion of said dwel- j lintf the Secretary of tho Treasury is ' authoiized and directed to sell, at public auction, alter due notice, and - either in one parcel or divided into lots, the land constituting the si'.e of the old light station at S'ayat point. For "wharf and boat house at lim ham rock. Providence river, Rh-ido Is- 1 land, one thousand two hundred dollars, j For a fog signal at New London, Con J ncciieut, four thousand five hundred j dollars. . . j For completing the light house at I Race rock, Iong Island . sound, seventy j lie thousand dollars. For a day beacon, at IIlacK Ledge, en trance to Xew London, Connecticut, live thousand live hundred dollars, j For protecting the foundations of the! j liyht houses at Calves island, lirock- j I way's beach, and Devil's wharf. Con- ; ; necticut river, two thousand live iiuii- i j lire I dollars. ! I l'or commencing a light house on ' , Southwest Ledge, entrance to Xww j i Haven harbor, Connecticut, lifty thou- : 1 sand dollars. For the construction of a light houso ! to lake tha place of t!io light shin at i Stratford shoais, Long Island sound, j iif y thousand dollars'. 1 For protecting the site of east beacon I an i signal ai tsanay Hook, .Now York harbor, twenty thousand dollars; , an. 1 tno log iu sm. horizon; by act ap proved Juno wntli, eighteen "hundred ' and seventy two, to be placed at Fort ! ' Hamilton, New York harbor, niy be j pla-etl at any point in the Narrows! which the Light Houso board may j select. j For cisterns, coping of exterior walls, ! an I the completion of other works of i improvement at tho light house supply depot, Staten iIaiid, New York, live thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a light house to replace the light ship at Cross Ledge shoal, Delaware bay, fifty thousaud dollars. For commencing the construction of a light house at Hulk Head should, Del aware river, fifty thousand dollars. For a light house on or near the south end of IVa Patch island, Delevvare 1 i ver, eig;tii inoiisaiKi dollars. For completing tho raiv.e lights for Craighilt channel, Chesapeake b.iv, twenty thousand dollars. For re-establishing the light at Ixive ! p-.uit, Chesapeake bav, ten thousand i uoikirs. For commencing the construction of a light house at Ship John shoal, Dela ware bay, fifty thousand dollars. For completing the buoy depot at Christiana, Delaware, ten thousand dollars. For building a screw pi!o light house on Thomas's Point shoal, to take the place of the old light h -use on Thomas's point, Maryland, twenty thousand dol lars. ' For three day beacons in the Potomac river, fifteen thousand dollars; and the light house authorized at Shipping point mar be placed at anv ioiiit in the n?ar vicinity that thi Light House board may dciermine upon. For building light ho u ,- at Dutch Gap canal, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. r For a screw pile light house to mark the entrance to the sounds, of North Carolina by Hatteras, inlet, eighteen thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a nrst order light house at or near Poy ner's hill, a point midwav between Cape Henry aud liody's island,- North Caro lina, fifty thousand dollars. For commencing tlie rebuildingof the first order sea coast light on Morris is land, South Carolina, destroved during the war, sixty thousand dollars. . For completing the ea coast light at nunuog isiano, South Carolina, tiftv I land, Maine, seventy live thousand dol lars. For alterations and repairs of the building for the custom house at Bos ton, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase of site and construction of a building foi the custom house at Fall River, Massachusetts, two hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the new State, War, and Navy Departments building, 0110 million' live hundred thousand dollars. For continuation of the building for the court house and post ofiice at New York city, fencing, grading, sewers, and similar necessaries, one million nine hundred thousand dollars. For the pnrchaso (in part of a site for a building lor purposes of the general government, at Albany, New York, one inincirea ami liny thousand dollars: niviiinil Tint tlio i.i.wirnti'nii .. city of Albany, or the citizens thereof. 1 make tlie purchase of the balance of the .' ; ground necessary for saiil site, to the ! satisfaction of the S cretary ef the Treas- j ; urv, For pu rcha.se of site and to commence the erection ot a building at Philadel ( phia, Pennsylvania, lor a post ofiice and I United States courts, re million five j hundred thousand dollars: Provided, ! That the aggregate cost of such site and I building shall not exceed three million i diil lars. ! For completion of the building for a , custom house at Charleston, South Caro ; lina, including the sum of twenty three ; thousand two hundred and twenty six 1 dollars and six cents for construction of j and repair of wharves, one hundred and , seventy two thousand a d eighty one j dollars aud fifty two cents. I For continuation of construction of the building for courthouse and post j office at Columbia, South Carolina, one ' hundred thousand dollars, i For completion of the building for the ; custom house at New Orleans, Louisia j j 11a, one .hundred and seventy thousand i i 001 :.;rs. For purchase of the siteand commnic j nig construction of the building for the custom house and past ofiice at Port : Huron, Michigan, one hundred thou sand dollars. For purchase of site for the building for custom house ami post office 'at Cin cinnati, Ohio, seven hundred and fil'tv thousand dollars. For completion of the building far the custom bousA at Knoxville, Tennessee, one hundred and sixty six thousand seven hundred and forty .-even dollars. for erection of building for use of custom house, post ofiice, and court house at Nashville, Tennessee, one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuation of construction of tho building for the custom house and sub-treasury at Chicago, Illinois, eight hundred thousand dollars. For the marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois, for engine, coal house, laundry) machinery, water works, engine, tanks, and similar necessaries, twenty three thousand eight hundred and twentv rive dollars and forty four cents. For completion of the building for the courthouse and post ofiice at Omaha. Nebraska, seventy one thousand dollars. For building lor appraiser's stores, and other purposes, at San Francisco, Calitoruia, four hundred and eight thousand dollars. For completion of the building for the custom ' house at Portland, Oregon, seventy six thousand five hundred dol lars. For continuation of construction of the building for the custom house, court house, and post ofiice at Saint Louis, M issouri.one million dollars : Provided. That the total cost of the building and site shall not exceed four million dol lars. . . ' For completion of a building for post ofiice and court house in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, ono hundred thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasu ry to obtain by purciiase, or to obtain by condemnation in the -courts of the State of Massachusetts, the several lots or parcels of land lying easterly of the present site of the" new post ofiice in Boston, and bounded by said site. Water street, Congress street, and Milk street, upon the lines of said streets as tney are now established or may hereafter be' established by due process of law. and repairing the injuries to the post ld- ; mjg.s, including snops, onices, ana com j missary and quartermaster's I store j rooms, at San Antonio, Texas, one luin j dred thousand dollars. b or necessary repairs and preserva tion of all other arsenals, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the same .'shall not bo expended at one arsenal, but su;ill be distributed to the various arse nals not herein named, as the same shall be in need of such preservation and repai rs. BOLPINOS AM) OROUXDS IN: AND I AROUND WASHINGTON'. i Improvement and care of public grounds : For repair, care, and improve ment ol public buildings, grounds, and ' works in the District of Columbia, under the' direction of the Chief of Knginee.s : Completing improvement of reserva tions, viz: ! i For Monumental grounds, five thous- ( and dol lars. I For .Smithsonian and dollars. For Armory square. six hundred dollars. For reservation between Third and Sixth streets, five thousand dollars. 1-or grounds south of the Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Lincoln .-quare, six thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Ju diciary square, ten thousand dollars. For, .--improving reservations on va rious' avenues, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs of Propagating house, in cluding its removal from Third street to Monumental grounds, three thou sand dollars. For ordinary care and protection of Lafayette square, two thousand dollars. For annual repairs of fences, two thousand dollars. 1 For manure, and hauling same' on rounds, five thousand dollars. tinting iron fences around the ent reservations, lour thousand WAR DEPARTMENT. MISCELLANEOUS. Signal Office: For observation and report of storms by telegraph and sig nals for tho benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States, two hundred and ninety six thousand eight hundred and twenty five dollars : Provided, That the Chief Signal Officer may csuse to be sold any sur plus maps or publications of the Signal OtEcer, the money received therefor to be applied towards defraying the ex penses ol the signal service, an account ol 'the same to be rendered in each an nual report of the chief of the signal service. For expenses of tho War Department in the collection and payment of boun ty, prize-money, and other legitimate claims of colored soldiers and sailors, fifty thousand dollars. For support of the Freedmen's Hos pital and Asylum at Washington, Dis trict of Columbia, viz: Pay of medical officers and attendants; medicines, medical supplies, and rations; clothing, rent of hospital buildings; fuel and lights; repairs; and transportation, sixty thousand dollars. For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, cloth ing, maintenance, and medical atten dance ol United States military convicts confined in them, sixty, five thousand dollars. To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transporting troops lor the defense of the United States during the late insurrection, three hundred thousand dollars; ton thousand. dollars of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be appropriated to reinburse the State of Nebraska for ex penses incurred in t-e suppression of Indian hostilities in eighteen hundred and sixty four, to be paid by warrant in favor of the treasurer of said State1 To provide for the payment, under ex isting laws, for horses and other pro perty lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States, fifty thou sand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed j to pay to tho census takers of eighteen ; hundred and sixty, or their assigns, the j sums set to their credit, now in the : treasury of the United States, any pro vision ol" existing laws to the contrary ' notwithstanding , " For the construction of a military ; telegraph from San Diego, California, ! via Fort Yuma and Maricopa Wells, to Prescott and Tucson, Arizona, fifty : thousand three hundred and eleven ; out ornamental trees, fifteen thousand dollars. STATE DEPARTMENT. For expenses of the commission ap pointed under act approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sev enth two, for the purpose of surveying and" making the boundary between tlie territory of the United States and tho possessions of Great Britain, from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky mountains, ne hundred and twenty five thousand dollars; and this amount shall be available from the pas sage of this act. ; Any unexpended balance of the ap-. propriations made by the act approved December twenty first, eighteen hun dred and seventy oue, for the expenses that may be incurred under articles one to nine of the treaty with Great Britain, concluded May eighth, eighteen hun dred and seventy one, or so much thereof as may bo necessary, may be expended under the direction of the Secretary ol State, with the approva of the President of the United States, to enable the Pres ident to fulfill the stipulations contained in tho twentieth, twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth, and twentv liith articles of the said treaty in relation to the 1 creation of commissioners, and proceedings before the same, and to the appointment of agents. For a lithographic press and necessary materials, not to exceed one thousand dollars, and for a lithographic pressman and laborers, uot to exceed two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. That the compensation of .Henry Douglas, employed under the Door keeper of the House, be fixed at two dollars and fifty cents per diem, and a sum sufficient to pay the same until tl e next fiscal year is hereby appropriated out 'of an" money in tho treasury not otherwise appropriated. To enable the President of the. United States to perfect and put in force such rules regulating the civil service as may from time to time be adopted by him, there is hereby reappropriated any bal ance of the appropriation for the same object, for the current fiscal year re-, maining unexpended at the close of said fiscal year. . 1 That section ono of an aet entitled "An act to extend the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation- over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to estab lish a collection district therein, and for other purposes," approved July twenty seventh, eighteen huihired and sixiy eigh , be so amended as to read as fol lows: "That the laws of tho United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation, and sections twenty and twenty ono of 'An act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hun dred and thirty four,, bo and the same afre hereby, extended to and overall the mainland, islands, and waters of the ter itory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia, by treaty con cluded at Washington on the twentieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen huhdrej and sixty seven, so .far as '.ho same nlay be applicable therelV" Approved, March Ik 1S73. 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Our beautiful Chromo of " morning: ou tlie Alps,"' is acknowledged by the Press anil the people as the finest work of the kind. The original has been admirably repro duced in the Chromo. The picture ! represents a beautiful landscape Vccnc. In tlie centre background we seo the glassy lake, as Claude Melnotte says: "reflecting softest skies," while its sun ny borders mirror-its soft green shores, tiii picturesque cottage in tho shadow of Spreading trees, while in the- distance are the verdure clad vales and nioTrrt tains of the Alps, till we exclaim with the poet : Kver char.ming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view. We pajd the enormous sum of Eigh teen Hundred Dollars to have it paint ed ; it is printed iii eighteen oilYolors and it is a gem of -irt. " The American I.ilcrnr will be published the same " Waverly, Magazine'' about tlie 20th of March. It will also bo beautifully il lustrated. Stories from the best authors wiirbTTfound in itscolums. A splendid serial story by Mrs. KIr.a Kv Parker willl commence with the first number of Bts enlargement, entitled "Stan wood Grange," a very exciting love storv.- e intend to make the American Lit erary Journal tiie LEADING LITER A KY PAPER OF AMERICA. We havo a' beautiful new engraved Head ing, new type, ike, for the Journal, rounds, ten thous- j dollars and eighty cents. live thousand pnbiic jl ! or p; govern 11 dollars For lblic grounds, one thousand dol carts, five two for thousand dollars. For a screw pile lighthouse to replace the light ship at Tybee, Knoll river. oa van nan, ueorgia, eighteen thousand dollars. For day beacons In the river Savan nah. Georgia, two thousand five hun dred dollars: Provided, That the ap propriation of last year for Oyster rock shall revert to the treasury. For completing the sea coast light at Saint Augustine, Florida, twenty five thousand dollars. For completing tha first order sea coast light bouse t Alligator reef, Flor ida reef, twenty live thousand dollars. For a acrew pile light house at tha en trance to Saint Andrew's bay, Florida, twenty two thousand dollars. ; For completing the Gulr coast light at onice uuuuing, caused by h re, and to exteiul the building over said site, eight hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no money appropriated for this pnrjKjsc suaii De usea or expended 111 the purchase ot the several lots or par eels of land for said site until a valid title thereto shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Massacha setts shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and shall duly release and relin quish to the united States the right to tax or in anv way assess said site and the property of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof : And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall make no purchase of land under this provision, until the city of Boston shall cause the triangular space between Con gross. Pearl, Milk, and Water streets to be opened to the public, and graded and paved at the ex ense of the city, and shall widen Milk and Water streets, where the buildings have been destroy ed byfire, to a width of at least sixtv feet. And the sums hereby appropriated for the construction of public buildings under the Treasury Department, In eluding the building for th new State, War, and Navy Department, shall be i rclia.se and repair of seats in the lars. For hire of horses and thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools thousand dollars. For trees and tree boxes, atid for lime I and whitewashing, live thousand dol ! lars. For flowers, flower pots, mats, twine, and wire, one thousand dollars. For removing snow 'and ice from pavement's, one thousand dollars. For purchase of young trees and plants for nursery, two thousand dol lars. For tree markers and marking trees, one hundred dollars. For purchase of cages and boxes for sparrows, five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances,' one thousand dollars; and for the expenses of the board of h alth of the District of Col umbia, thirty thousand dollars. For inclosing, drainage, and for gra ding reservation numbered seventeen, five thousand dollars. For reconstructing walks, and for water and drain pipes, and laying the same, in the Washington circle, one thousand 1 ight hundred dollars. For constructing walks and fountain bowl, and for purchase of trees and shrubs, for circle at intersection of Rhode Island and Vermont avenues, two thousand three hundred dollars. For improving reservations on Mass achusetts and New York avenue-, and reservation lately occupied by the Northern Liberties' market, draining, water pipes, and iron posts and chain, hree thousand five hundred dollars. tor improving four triangular reser vations on Pennsylvania avenue, east of the Capitol, by inclosing, draining, and introducing water, and for trees and shrubs, and for setting out same, three thousand dollars. For improving two reservations on M assachusetts and Rhode Island ave nues, on east side of site s lected for the Scott statue, seven thousand dollars. For repairing fountain bowls in va rious reservations, five hundred dollars. To reimburse the late corporation of Washington for work done around gov ernment reservations, one hundred and eighty eight thousand two dollars and seventy five cents.. lo reimburse the board of public works for work done around govern ment reservations not heretofore paid, one hundred and six thousand five hun dred and thirty three dollars. To complete improvements of streets and avenues now in progress opposite and around government property, nine hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety seven dollars and twenty six cents : Provided, That all payments made under this and the two precediug appropriations shall be made only upon vouchers, approved by the othcer in charge of the public buildings and grounds of the District, after full examination and measurement of the said improvements, and the- approval nf the prices claimed therefor. To reimburse the city of Washington for improvement of the avenues of said city, and for work done thereon not chargeable against owners of private property, . nor included in appropria tions heretofore made, ne million dol lars; and this appropriation shall be available on and after the passage of this act, and shall be subject to the draft f the board of public works, upon the certificate of th engineer it charge of public buildings and grounds as to the amount of work done and prices paid. For lighting the Capitol, Executive Mansion, and grounds : For gas, forty five thousand dollars. For pay of lamp lighters, cas fitting:. plumbing, lamps, posts, and repairs of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars, for fuel for Propa&ratine earden and watchmen's lodges, eight hundred dol lars, i For annual repairs of the Xary Yard For continuation of tho survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, de ; termination of points in the interior of ! Michigan, anil construction of maps, j one hundred and seventy five thousand : dollars. j UNDER THE NAT Y DEPART I , MENT. 5AVY-YARDS. For the navy yard at Kittcry, Maine : ; For repairs of all kinds, ninety three thousand five hundred dollars. I For the navy yard at Boston, Massa chusetts: For repairs 0 all kinds, one hundred and twenty live thousand dol lars. J For the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York : For repairs of all kinds, oue hundred and twenty five thousand dol lars. For the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dollars. For work at the. naval station at League island, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and not less than fifty thousand dollars of this shall be ex pended in tho removal of property and materials from the Philadelphia yard to ljeHgue isianu. For the navy yard at Washington, I District of Colum bia : For repairs of ail 1 kinds, seventy-live thousand dollars. : j For the navy yard at Norfolk, Virgin- i ia: For repairs of all kinds, seventy ! five thousand dollars. ; ' I For the navy yard at PensacoJa, j. Florida: For repairs of all kinds, twen- ! ty five thousand dollars. ; For the navy yard at Mare Island, ! California: - For repairs of all kinds, i ninety seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; for continuation of stone dry dock, four hundred thousand dollars ; for dredging, twenty thousand dollars; for continuation of ra 1 track, fifteen thousand dollars ; for iron platiilig shop, fifty thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and eighty two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For naval station at New London, Connecticut : For repairs of all kinds, five thousand dollars. : For naval station at Key West, Flori da : For repairs of all kinds, five thou sand dollars. best and cheiipcM h, ention paid to School Catalogue ! ToiJArro L.m:hs. Orders by mail promptly 1 and work shipped ..by M'.rrt or 1 to ail3' portion of the State. " v', Age ills for S. COM. INS ; i ' ' ' News, Book and Job Cm IiKS at manufacturers prices, freight iull.,1. Orders solicited. j EDWARDS it RROniHTON ! J. Box 17M, Kalcigh, N.'c, Sept. 1, 1871. .'I!i tf. Journal size of the - Agents Wanted t- canvass for the Journal; we will allow our agents One Dollar on every subscriber that they obtain, which is a very liberal cash commission. Allot' our Agents are making money, some get as high as forty or fifty subscribers each day. An Agent can average,4rom U to 20 per day. 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Journal, oil hii Bridgewater,' oun. .o Prnon run lako thrift Itlllrr a rorlin)r to. directions, and ri'limm lmjr iiniri-' . provided tttrir bono are not l!ruii in nuin' ral poison oriotlicr meunx, JikI u.il iiijjm wasted beyond the point of repair, l)l'inriia or liMllxrotinn, II' !. i--.. Fain 111 the Sliouldm-s, Couti. Tiirlitn- i Chest, Dizziness, Sour Knu tniinrn of tin: m mncli. Had Taste tu the. .Mouth, IHIIoih Ann m. ' Palpitation of tho Heart. Inflammation oft Lull?. Pain Iti the region ot fin- Knltiev. hi, I a hundred other piiiniul yniptniin. n"iino'. springs of DvKpepsiu. One liot tie will prmc bi-tier Ruardnlce of its inertia. than al'ti;"v tt-lvertisenient, T . For Keiiml''oiiiplnll, In Totini r.r c - !, married or single, nt the dawn ol woniinifii;,, or the turn of ife, thexe Tonic lliiti i.iNi!.n w ' decided tin Influence that tiiipioveiiii-tit ii wu perceptible. I- , For Inflitiiimntory nnd Clin.iil Ilheutun t imii and Hunt. l.i,i"u-- i: nm:. and Intermittent fevers, Plseas. k.i 't: I ,,. i. Liver, Kidney and Madder, llie.' r.itti r-4: i. no equal. Sudli bisu&su are came.! i-vWutoi Ulood, ( " , Thf ynieapnille Pm-gntlir n u-ll -na a Tonic, poxsessmsr tlie merit n Mi l' a a powerful agent In relieving roirji--tn.ii ui? (lamination of the l.iver mil Yiv i;ai oiji,,-, and in Hillmis Diseases. for Skin Ijiweu , KniptioiH, T' - ' ' ' Rheum, Motches, pots, I'impiiw, rntui, Uoils, Carbuncles, King-worms. sraM-ll'M-i, Sore Eyes, Krvfiipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Iii- :i -. tions of the SW11, liuinsir.4 and hi-ravs or '. Skla of whatever name or uaiuie, are lit. r . ally dug up 1 and carried out of tin lu tein In a Rliort time by 'the use nf thinr l:n r-. Orate fill Thousand proclaim VhKMi: Bittkks the most wonderful tuviouut 'ii . t tvur sustained the sinking nvstem. It. 11. .ficiM)Ai.i rihr Dniggists and Cen. Agts., ,xan Krajii',i. A e.or. of Washington and Cl.nrllou Sis.. N.l SOLD JJV ALL DKCUUIST A. IiDI.U;-i- May 1H, 187-'. I SSest iaoer !.-IJest Premium ! SOW Is A g 5 IMPROVEMENTS AT NAVY-YABDS UNDER DIRECTION OF TH E BUREAU OF ORD- SANC& For the magazine, at Boston, Massa chusetts, five hundred dollars. For the navy yard, Washington, Dis triet of Columbia: For removal of the present and establishment of a new magazine and ordnance buildinyss, one hundred thousand dollars. For the magazine at Mare Island, California: For fitting up racks in new magazine, two thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars ; for doors, locks, shutters, and lightning rods for new magHzine, four thousand dollars ; for fery-e inclosure of new magazine, one thousand s-ix hundred dollars : for grading, graveling, and brick drains, two thoiis;jhd live hundred and fifty eight dollars ; in all, ten thousand four hundred and thirty three dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT Ol AGRICULTURE. For improvement of tlie grounds of the Department of Agriculture : For labor, twelve thousand dollars; for cast iron labels for trees and shrubs, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for tools, wagons, lawn mowers, carts, and gener al repairs of the same, one thousand dollars ; for boiler for heating apparatus, three hundred dollars: for building furnaces and chimneys, two hundred and fifty dollars for repairing fence on iourteentu street, lour Hundred dollars; for repairing concrete roads and walks, seven' hundred and fifty dollars ; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. THE TIME TO SECURE pictuke rKEi:r JJY PAYING ONLY Z M FOR MOORK'M IEUHAL. NKW-YOKKEIt, THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED ilur, ,1 Literary: and Weekly. Family REFORM SCHOOL OF DISTPvICT OF COLUMBIA. For superntendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant superin tendents, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each ; matron, six hundred dol lars: two teachers, at six hundred dol lars each; physician, five hundred dollars; superintendent of work shop, six hundred dollars; laborer, one hun dred and forty four dollars; seamstress, laundress, and servants, five hundred and forty dollars; fuel, clothing, and incidentals, two thousand four hundred and fifty six dollars ; in all, nine thou sand seven hundred aud sixty dollars. To provide a steam heating apparatus ior toe main ana tamiiv uuildinir: plumbing, and painting brick walls of said building; introducing water and erecting a water tank forty leet high, and means to force water into it, as a reservoir in case of fire; erecting an apparatus to manufacture gas for the use of the buildings; grading down the old Fort Lincoln, (the Bite selected for the school ;) making a road in front of and around the buildings, and setting This titi.ioiift fiirm niiil firt-.-ite favorite has for nearly a I'iuirter of a Century been the most MiceesM'uI and popular paper In its sphere ami is now reeoniilzeil as the standard americaii authority on rural and domestic all'airs, ami a first-class, high toned literary and family Journal. It long ao attained an immense Contincnln.1 Circulation I Having ardent friend's and admirers In ev ery State and Territory in the Union, tin anr.ilas, fcc, it. has more Kditors, mor departments, and gives more and better Il lustrations, than any other journal ot it eiass, but Its issues for lHTi will be bettci than ever before, in both contents and styh . It will don a new dress of boafitiful copper- i;.--u 1 ie, alio preseiij, oilier (H-CKK U lin- pioveiiniiis. 1 -Moore s Hural is national in character and objects, and adapted to lth town and country. .'Sixteen Quarto Paes Weekly with title pngej Index, & at end of June una uecfcmljer maJiliiif two large ami liaiKlsome yolumnes aryenr. Next to your local paper n is me one lor yourself, taniliy DR. CROOK'S WINE OF TK. Tn yenmof n nub ile lt Ims proveri It. Crook's H ine of Tnr t'i have more merit llmn any similar prepurHtlnu ever ollerej to tlin pub lic. It Is rich In Urn medicinal qualitM of. Tar, and nneiiiil''l for diseases of tho Hi rout and I.unga, perform iti tlie MOSt KtMAtlKAHI-K CUrC8. It FKFKCTl'Al.IT J cures all touch and Coldn. It tiie cured many cases of Anlhmv and ilroiichUU, Unit it has been pronouiu'ed Bpeciflo for theso com plulntH. Kr Fnlnn In y&lJHytyM, Hack. Vrnvrl or MM' 1 m ney Iliwnir, !)ismi.Hc Of the Urinary Ortrana, Jaundice, or. any Liver Complaint It. has uu dual. Ii la also a superior Tonic, , lie tore ih Appetite, Rtreng-then the Nyafrm. Restore (he Weak and Webilitnletl. ( snsci the Food, 10 lUceC, Removes Dyspepsia and lndlre.iin, ' Prevents nalariotis t'evcr. Cirea (one to yoor bysteui. . . IS Ala V A diet WWT is cbancred to one of SIckly-Lociirz Si:a freshnH and Iipultn. Those Disease or the Nkln. I'lmpl-'. Pustules, ItloK-hes and Krnpllons nro . removed. NoroTn !, rofnloo llec of the Kves. White Swell In. I'lrer. Old Mores or any kind of Humor rapl-i y dwindle and disappear under 11 innm-n".. In faet it will do you more good, nnd cure von more speedily than nny and all othT . preparations combined. Wlt ia It t It l na ture's own restorer I A solnblooxyd f Iron combined with the medicinal propertied 'r Poke Boot divested of aH dlRasrreeulljUMi- itlea It will cure any Chronic or l-n Standing Disease whose real or llr- t cause Is bad bloot. Hhenmnl lm,Psin In Limbs or Bones, Const! (11 1 ion I" Ken aown dv Mercurial or other poi-'"-" are all cured by it. ForSyphllls,or Kyp" llltie taint, there ia nothing eqnnl '"it. A trial will prove It. ASK FOR crook's conroiiXD wvmr - XOJUL BOOT. ......... oi. ' ('IS -'11' - S7.50 t'OK i.30l All who pay S2."M wil 1 receive the Itural Xew-Yorker for one year, and, as a premi um, a post-paid copy of the superb steel- piure engraving entitled "until Uay -Morning, or The Gardener's rreseuf a beautiful and pleasing picture, woita 80. In fact we iurnisti everybody THE BEST PAPKIt, ' ' ' AMD IiKST PREMIUM.! KOUTHK LKST PAY Terms, In advance: S2.50 a year, (with premium eiiKravintr, post-paid.); In clubs of ten or more, oiify iii per yearly eoovl ieuL premium 10 inose iorminj; clubs. Specimens, premium lists, &c.,sent fres and post-paid, brafts, P. O. Orders and ltej;is- tereu ueitersat our risR. AddrenH D. I). T. MOOKE, w York Cify. W T. ADAMS. T. IV. T. AIA3IS : SO.V, Manufacturers and Dealers in !S,T K M irj IV (5 , rv V. f 1 SAW A ."YD ; It I.ST MII.I.S "OTICKl j At a rneetingr; of the Board of Com missioners. aDoointed bv the General Assembly, held in Kaieih on the ad of rVprit.lbd, the following resoluti&n was adopted, to-wit Resolved, That the Chairman of this Board, Hive notice In one or more news paters of the State of the time of our next meeting, and that he invite propo sitions at that time. -from anv party or parties tot the purciiase and completion of the Western North Carolina Railroad, or other proposals, con wectcd. with the objects of the General Assembly in constituting this Board." : The time of next meeting of the Board is TUESDAY, 13th MAYt 1873. Place, the Executive Office, in Raleigh, N. C. Propositions are respectfully solicited. T . TOD It. CALDWELL, " " Chairman. Raleigh, 7th April, 1873. 43 3t . PloWjii, Ilarros-i, Cultivators, , I Ilokitlng- yiuchles, and all1 kind of CASTINGK. All work neatly and nionmtlv "exe cuted, by skilful workmen, on the most reasonable terms. fao senior partner has had over " years experience in the business. n-. feels justified "in sayinsr tli.it ho can .vp entire satisfaction. ' WANTED 100.000 nonodsof old O-t Iron, for which the hiuhe market ir" will be paid, In casli or jxchanyo '"r work. Work one Square A est of Con" i House. Raleigh, Aug. 13, 1872. , f w! PITTSI JOUO IIOTKL, Iittboio. ' Clint' am Co.. X II ir. UVltK, l'ruprictor.
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 1, 1873, edition 1
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