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518 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. CB. 227. 1873. Patients. the District of Columbia, in the government hospital for the insane, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery,.and incidental expenses, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. buqlpspital For repairs and improvements of the hospital—buildings, twenty thoum€·`“* sand dollars. For the erection of a stock-barn on one of the outlying farms of the institution, and a hay-barn on the other outlying farm, and of a poultry- house within the hospital inclosure, nine thousand dollars. For the erection, lighting, heating, and furnishing of a detached building to contain tailors’, shoemakers’, and mattress-makers' shops and storerooms, and dormitories for mechanics and farm·laborers, without families, ten thousand dollars. For moving, repairing, and building cottages for the occupation of the employees of the hospital having families, five thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-two cents. Roads and For completion of the roads and walks in the exercise-grounds of the '"*““· patients, two thousand dollars. _Co1_nmbia In- Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. —For the support of the

£;;*:n’:1fg;f!:‘,f_ institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the maintenance of

the beneficiaries of the United States, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fbrty-eight thousand dollars. _Ccl¤mbi¤ Has- Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, and other Chari- K:'3l,;;;;?;"°" ties.- For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lyinggzlum, mpi in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received 0 ¤¤‘ ¢h¤¤¤°¤· from pay patients, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Childreu'¤ To aid in the support of the Children’s Hospital of Washington, Dis- H°sp’t°l' trict of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Seventy-ive For care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient pau-

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c*l°’° pers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in

` the city of Washiiigton, under a contract to be formed with such institution, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, under the direction of the Secretary of War. Soldiers' and For the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Washington city, Disg’::;*" O*'P’“‘“*’ trict of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of What chudm, the Interior, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no child only to be admit or children shall be admitted into said home except " the destitute orphans lggg b 249 of soldiers and sailors who have died in the late war on behalf of the » C · 1 § 3* . . . . . Vol. xiv. P,247. Union of these States," as provided for in section three of the act entitled ‘* An act to incorporate the National Soldiers’ and Sailors' Orphans' IIome," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: And not to r¤m¤i¤ provided further, That no child not an invalid shall remain in said home “&°'* &°’ after having attained the age of sixteerf years. Sisterhood or To aid in the erection of a building for a hospital in the city of Wash- S·“l“*· J°h“· ington, under the charge and control of an incorporated association in said city, known as the Sisterhood of Saint John, twenty-five thousand dollars are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said association. Sininisonian Smithsonian Institution.—For preservation of the collections of the l“*’“*“"°“· suryeying and exploring expeditions of the government, fifteen thousand dollars. For llitting uyé tihe new halls required for the government collections, fifteen thousand olars. For steam-heating apparatus for the same, twelve thousand dollars. Capitol exten. Oapitol Extension.-- For continuing the work on the capitol, and for sion- general care and repairs thereoh sixty-five thousand dollars. Ventilation of For extending the inlets to the Senate chamber for fresh air to the Sum °h¤ml*°\’· lower terrace near the western park, ten thousand dollars. For constructing coal-vaults within the open space at the east front of the capitol, between the wings and the old building, sixteen thousand