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the centre footway, according to the plan already in part executed, underthe provisions of an act of the last Congress, twenty-three thousand onehundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents;

For attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, five hundred andforty-seven dollars and fifty cents ;

For salary of the principal gardener, one thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, and for super-intendence of the grounds around the same, four thousand eight hun-dred and fifteen dollars;

For flag footways across Pennsylvania avenue at Third, Four-and-a-half, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,Fourteenth, and Fifteenth streets, and across First street, east of Capi-tol square, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars;

For repairing the Marine Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina , twothousand dollars;

For the second payment to Luigi Persico, according to the contractmade with him, for a group of statues for the Capitol, four thousanddollars ;

For the second payment to the artists engaged in executing paintingsfor the rotundo of the Capitol, under the joint resolution of the twoHouses, eight thousand dollars ;

For purchasing eighty thousand pieces of parchment, and theexpense of printing the same, thirteen thousand six hundred dol-lars ;

For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteenhundred and thirty-eight, in conformity to the act of second July, eigh-teen hundred and thirty-six, four million six hundred and ninety-fourthousand dollars, viz :

For transportation of mails, three million four hundred thousanddollars;

For compensation of postmasters, nine hundred and thirty-five thou-sand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, thirty-one thousand dollars ;

For wrapping paper, twenty thousand dollars;

For office furniture, six thousand dollars;

For advertising, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For mail bags, forty thousand dollars;

For blanks, thirty-six thousand dollars ;

For mail locks and keys and stamps, nine thousand dollars ;

For mail depredations and special agents, twelve thousand dollars;

For clerks for offices, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous, forty thousand dollars.

Provided, That there shall exist in the President and in the Post-master General, the same power to transfer funds from one to anotherhead of appropriation, between the appropriations above made for theservice of the General Post Office, as exists in the President and anyother head of an executive department to transfer funds appropriatedunder one head to the service of another, in any other branch of thepublic service.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the money arising from thesale of the old furniture in the President’s house shall be applied to thepurchase of new furniture for the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balancesof appropriations for compensation to the clerks in the offices of thesurveyors general of public lands be, and the same are hereby, appro-priated, in addition to the sums appropriated by this act for the samepurpose.

Approved, April 6, 1838.

Improving theCapitol square.

Attendance atwestern gates.

Principal Gar-dener.

Alterations,&c., of Presi-dent’s house,&c.

Flag footwayson Pa. avenue,&c.

Marine Hospi-tal at Charles-ton .

Second pay-ment to L. Per-sico.

Second pay-ment to artistsexecuting paint-ings for the ro-tundo.

Purchasingand printingparchment.

General PostOffice.

1836, ch. 270.

Transporta-tion of mails.

Compensationof postmasters.

Ship, steam-boat, and way-letters.

Wrapping pa-per.

Off furniture.

Advertising

Mail bags.

Blanks.

Mail locks,&e.

Mail depreda-tionsand specialagents.

Clerks.

Miscellaneous.

Proviso.

F urniture forthe President’shouse.

Unexpendedbalances forclerks in officesof surveyorsgen’l. appro-priated.