THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 97. 1853. 207 I For the purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars ; , For cart hire on the public grounds, one thousand dollars ; For the purchase and repair of tools upon the public grounds, five hundred dollars; For the purchase of trees and tree-boxes to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, and for repairs of pavements in front of the public grounds, two thousand three hundred dollars : Provided, That no more alanthus trees be purchased or planted; A1amh“Sh`°°S' For annual repairs of the Capitol, watenclosets, public stables, water- Capitol. pipes, pavements, and other walks within and around the Capitol Square, painting the interior of all the committee-rooms, cleaning out and paving the vaults under the crypt, extending gas pipes through the vaults, cleaning and whitewashing the ceiling of the rotundo, replacing broken glass, locks, &.c., six thousand eight hundred dollars; For annual repairs of the President’s House, furniture, improvement of Pr¢Sid¤¤i¤’¤ grounds, painting and repairing roof; cleaning, painting, and whitewash- h°“°°‘ ing inside of the house; extending east wing of offices for carriage-house, blinds for the west front of the house, ilooring large room in basement, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and for making hot-beds therein, wire fence, &c., six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For refurnishing the President’s House, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of such of the furniture and equipage of the said house as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; For painting the exterior of the President’s House below the cornice, one thousand and fifty dollars; For heating and ventilating the Executive Mansion, painting the exterior thereof, and painting the walls, ceilings, &c. of the rooms on the first floor, and making other improvements and repairs, and for the purchase of books for the President’s library, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars ; For erecting lamp posts and lamps on both sides of Pennsylvania Lamp posts and Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Georgetown, and from the Capitol to lampsthe Navy Yard, three thousand seven hundred dollars; For completing the grading and paving of the carriage-way of Penn- Pennsylvania Sylvania Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Rock Creek, and for setting A”°u°' the curbstone and paving the footway six feet wide on each side of said Avenue, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, That the sum re- Pr<>viS0· quired for paving said footway shall not be expended unless the owners of property opposite thereto be required, under the direction of the authorities of the city of Washington, to pave at least ten feet in width of the space allotted for a sidewalk, in continuation and adjoining the same; For enclosing with an iron fence and otherwise improving the triangular space on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the Markethouse, and between Seventh and Eighth streets, four thousand five hundred dollars ; For a deficiency for surveying, levelling, and measuring the triangular square on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, forty-two dollars; For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation made March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for completing the room under the Senate Post-Ofiice, four hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-one cents; For lighting the Capitol and President’s House, the public grounds around them and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars;
