Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 12.djvu/777

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THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 79. 1863. 747 half, east side, from Missouri to Maine avenue, all bordering on the public grounds, according to the surveyor’s estimate, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. For repairs and rebuilding fence around Smithsonian grounds, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the Commissioner of Public Buildings, as dis- by ¤> Cmbursing agent of the Patent-Oiiice building and the Capitol extension and f.‘,:if’f§,“§fuf,£ugB_ dome, for the current fiscal year, five hundred dollars. Government Ibspital for the Insane. — For the support, clothing, and Hospital for medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and of the revenue *l‘° “"“"‘°· service, and of the District of Columbia, at the Government hospital in said District, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, dfty thousand five hundred dollars. For finishing, furnishing, heating, and lighting of additional accommodations in the east wing, five thousand dollars. For extension of workshops and machinery therefor, to afford additional facilities for the curative and econimical employment of patients, two thousand dollars. For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars. Exploring Ezpeditimz.— For preservation of the collections of the E?¢Pl°*'i¤S °*· exploring and surveying expeditions of the Government, four thousand P°dm°u' dollars. Botanic G'arden.——For grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, Botanic gardenfuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and shrubs under the direction of 1I;ibrary Committee of Congress, three thousand three hundred dolrs. For pay of horticulturist and assistants in the botanic garden and greenhouses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, Eve thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. Columbia Institution for the Deaf; and Dumb, and the Blind.-—For 1),,,,;,,,,,,,,,, salaries and incidental expenses of said institution, four thousand four and blind. hundred dollars. For supplying the institution buildings with gas—making apparatus and fixtures, one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. For supplying the institution buildings with steam-heating apparatus, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Patent-Ojicc. —- For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care Patent-offico. of copyright books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For preparing illustrations and descriptions for report, five thousand dollars. For finishing the saloon in the north wing of the Patent-Ofiice building, and for furnishing the same with suitabel cases and accommodations for the reception and convenient exhibition of models, fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and painting the saloon in the old portion of the Patent- Otlice building, and for furnishing the same with suitable cases and accommodations for the inception [reception] and convenient exhibition of models, twenty-five thousand dollars. Survey of the Public Lands.-—For surveying the public lands, (cx- _ Survey of pubclusive of California, Oregon, Washingtora, New Mexico, Kansas, Nc- l*°l°¤d°· braska, Utah, Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada,) including incidental expenses and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and ditheult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations for the same objects, ten thousand dollars.