THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. 569 For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars ; For hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand dollars; For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, five hundred 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, five thousand dollars ; , For the Capitol extension, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Capitol exten- Provided, That any otiioer of the army or navy who has been or may Simbe appointed hereafter to disburse the money which is now or may hereafter be appropriated for the erection, alteration, or repair of any of the edinces, structures, or works for which appropriations are made in this act, shall be subject to all the pains, penalties, and liabilities contained in the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the better or- The disbursing ganization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe—keeping, transfer, °H})9“i?)b°t f and disbursement of the public revenue,” approved sixth of August, ?i4i;??,h_ gg? 0 eighteen hundred and forty-six ; For completing the bridge over the Potomac River, near the Little Bridges. Falls, fifteen thousand dollars ; For compensation of one night watchman, employed for the better protection of the buildings lying south of the Capitol, and used as public stables and carpenter’s shop, five hundred dollars; For permanent repair of the roof of the Capitol, with copper, two thousand dollars ; For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, waterpipes, pavements and other walks within the Capitol Square, broken glass, and locks, five thousand dollars; For annual repairs of the President’s house, improvement of grounds, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and making hotbeds therein, six thousand dollars ; For lighting the President’s house and Capitol, the public grounds Avenues_ around them, and around the executive oiitices and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars; For completing the improvement of Maryland Avenue, from Seventh Street to the Potomac River, two thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing lamps and lamp—posts from Sixteenth to Seventeenth Streets, on Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars; For completing the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, west of Seventeenth Street, nine thousand dollars ; To reimburse the expenditure made by the Commissioner of Public Buildings for the repair of the Potomac bridge when injured by fire, four thousand five hundred dollars ; For continuing the repairs of the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, four thousand dollars ; For completing the west wing of the patent office building, two hundred thousand dollars ; For altering the streets and repairing in front of the east wing of the Patent Office, putting up iron railings, iiagging, footway, putting in order yards, painting new saloons of the Patent Oiiioe in fresco, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; For iron railing and flagging in front of the old portion of the Patent Oihce building, for altering the windows in the rear and dressing of the granite to make it conform to the front, and for private stairway in the building, five thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; For enlarging the culverts, and openings into the same, across Pennsylvania Avenue, to prevent overflow of the avenue, four thousand dollars ; For repairing or renewing the water-fixtures at the Presidents house, including the bath-room, two thousand dollars ; vox,. x. Pm:.-72
