THIRTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 129. 1856. 89 For grading, gravelling, and completing the culvert across Tiber Culvert. creek on Indiana avenue six thousand dollars. For the payment of laborers employed in shovelling snow from the Shcvcllingsnow. walks to and around the Capitol, the President’s house and other public buildings, five hundred dollars. For the purchase of books for library at the Executive mansion, to be Executive Iiexpended under the direction of the President of the United States, two b““Y‘ hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs of the Potomac navy yard and upper bridges, eleven thou- Bridges. sand dollars. _ And, with a view to the construction of a new and substantial bridge Plans and estiacross the Potomac, the Secretary of the Interior be and he is hereby glbgff M °·¤§]“' authorized to cause drawings and estimates for the construction of an plgtoigggross ° iron suspension bridge and also for a stone-arched bridge to be prepared and submitted to Congress at its next session: and with a further view of enabling Congress to select the most eligible site for said bridge, the Secretary aforesaid is instructed to cause drawings and estimates to be prepared for a bridge at or near the site of the present Potomac bridge, another at or near a place known as the “Three Sisters " and another at such intermediate point as may be deemed most eligible. For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, three thousand dollars. Public grounds. For filling up ravine in Judiciary square, three thousand dollars. For the purchase of one dozen settees for Lafayette square, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. _ For repairs of water pipes, five hundred dollars. M‘S°°u““°°“s· For repairing heating apparatus, raising, repairing passages, painting, reglazing and extending seed-room and green-house according to plan, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. For public reservation number two, and Lafayette Square, three thousand dollars. For rebuilding Franklin-engine house, including the purchase of a suitable lot, &c., &c., five thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvements of the same, and keeping them in order, three thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby authorized and _ site for new required to cause a suitable site for a new jail to be selected at or near .1**1- the Penitentiary, in the city of Washington, and that he cause to be prepared drawings and specifications for said jail to be submitted to Congress on or before the tenth day of December next, together with estimates of the cost of building said jail. For the collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agncultursl agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement and distribution of S“r*;“**°$- Be cuttings and seeds seventy-tive thousand dollars, to be expended under p° the direction of the Commissioner of Patents: Provided, That the Commissioner shall report to Congress the varies [various] kinds, and amounts of saids [seeds] purchased, and to be purchased under this appropriation, from whom, and where obtained and the cost of the same. Towards the erection of the north front of the Patent-Oliice building, _Ppt<>nt-cdice for the accommodation of the Department of the Interior, two hundred l""m“‘g‘ thousand dollars. To complete the bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, agreeably _ Little Falls to the plan already adopted, seventy-tive thousand dollars. l’"d€°· To ID.€€li Il€C€SSH.I'y BXPCDSCS 3tl€Il(ll.3.HlZ upon the CXBCUPIOH of the DCU' Expenses of trality act of the twelfth (twentieth) April, one thousand eight hundred ¤¤¤9¤¢i¤¤g Muand eighteen, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction °*¥§;{,_”§ll; 8s_ of the President, pursuant to the third section of the act of Congress of Vol.lii. p. 447. the first May, one thousand eight hundred and ten, entitled "An aut l,?l,°i,$>h- 4* v01.. x1. Pun.-—12 °’ "'p' 60S'
