THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 210. 1864. 347 For annual repairs of the PIBSld8D[’S house and furniture, improve- Presidente ment of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingent expenses h°“S"’· &°‘ incident thereto, six thousand dollars. For fuel, in part, of the Presidents house, two thousand four hundred dollars. For repairs, refitting, and furnishing the President’s summer residence at the Soldiers’ Home, three thousand dollars. For lighting the capitol and President’s house, the public grounds Lighting Cppi- . around them, and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue, ;°¥0s§gS_p°bh° Bridge and High streets in Georgetown, Four-and-a-Half street, Seventh and Twelfth streets across the mall, and Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south, sixty-three thousand Eve hundred dollars. For repairs of the Potomac and upper bridges, six thousand dollars. Bridges, aven- For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and aiding in keeping it clean and “°s» &°· free from dust, six thousand dollars. For public reservation number two and Lafayette Square, two thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and replacing trees destroyed, repairing fences, and other injuries, five thousand dollars. For repairs of water·pipes, five hundred dollars. For cleaning out the sewer-traps on Pennsylvania avenue, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars. For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the capitol, five hundred dollars. For deficiency in tiling the floor of the library of congress, one thousand two hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a marble floor, similar to that Marble {loci- in of the congressional library or the Senate vestibule, shall be constructed ;’,Eul;;lL?§,;h°;_c_ in the old hall of the House of Representatives, using such marble as may senmgves P be now on hand and not otherwise required, and that suitable structures S*F¤¤Y¤F€S»&¤·» and railings shall be therein erected for the reception and protection of fa Smumy statuary, and the same shall be under the supervision and direction of the commissioner of public buildings; and so much of the moneys now or heretofore appropriated for the capitol extension as may be necessary, not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, is hereby set apart and shall be disbursed for the parses [purposes] hereinbefore mentioned. And the President is hereby authorized to invite each and all the states to pro- _ States to by vide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in.number ;1gQ;°£_t° mush for each state, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or from distinguished civic or military services, such as each state shall determine to be worthy of this national commemoration; and when so furnished the same shall be placed in the old hall of the House of Representatives, in the capitol of the United States, which is hereby set apart, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as a national statuary hall, for the purposes herein indicated. To reimburse the commissioner of public buildings for money expended lron panel in in replacing one of the iron panels in the ceiling of the library of con- g‘ti‘£;1i;’;s;‘b”"Y gress, and to enable the commissioner to secure all the panels by fastening ` them with iron shackles to the root, five hundred dollars. For repairs of the basement of the President’s house, three thousand dollars. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to remove the water- Water-pipes to pipes which conduct the water from the spring at Franklin Square to the Eggigem S Presidents house, rendered necessary by the grading around the treasury extension, and to lay them down in another place, five hundred dollars. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to enclose Franklin Enclosjug Square with a wooden fence, and to guard the same and plant it with trees F¤¤¤kli¤ $<1¤¤f¤· and shrubbery, three thousand dollars.
