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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Skss. II. Ch. 202. 1842.
Branch mintat N. Orleans.
Repairs of thecapitol, &c.
Proviso, gar-dener’s salarylimited.
Repairs of thePresident’shouse, &c.
Repairing
fences.
Alterations,&c. north wingof capitol.
Repairs, &c.of President’shouse.
Completing P.O. building.
Repairing foot-ways and lamp-posts.
Negotiation oftreaty with Wy-andots.
For house expenses, including repairs, lighting, and cleaning at thesame, two hundred dollars.
For office expenses, including stationery and postage at the same, onehundred dollars.
No. 35. For coinage expenses, including materials and implements,fuel, repairs, and wastage of gold and silver, at the New Orleans branchmint, eleven thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For house expenses, including water-rent and taxes, repairs, lighting,cleaning, and watching, three thousand five hundred and ninety-eightdollars.
For office expenses, including stationery and postage, three hundredand fifty dollars.
No. 36. For annual repairs of the Capitol , attending furnaces andwater-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on Capitol grounds, tools,keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the westerngates, gardener’s salary, and top-dressing for plants, seven thousandfour hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That thesalary of the public gardener shall not exceed the sum of one thousandtwo hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the President’s house, gardener’s salary, horseand cart, laborers, tools, and top-dressing for plants, two thousand fivehundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of fence on Pennsylvania avenue, fronting the War andState Departments, and fence of President’s garden, two hundred dollars.
For taking down and removing the two furnaces beneath the Hall ofthe House of Representatives , and building three new ones on the floorbelow the crypt, excavating a coal vault, constructing additional fluesfor hot and cold air for the better ventilation of the Hall and passages,nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For purchase of ground north of the General Post Office, betweenseventh and eighth streets, or so much thereof as the Postmaster Gene-ral may deem expedient, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the bridge across Pennsylvania avenue, at Secondstreet, and extending the same over the present stone abutments on saidSecond street, and reimbursing the corporation of Washington the sumof seven hundred and fifty dollars, expended in erecting the presentwooden structure, twelve thousand dollars.
For altering the two passages and doorways of the roof, new steps,new doors, covering the wood with copper, removing the circular hori-zontal sash, over the Hall of the House of Representatives , and substi-tuting a permanent roof covered with copper, and repairing the copperwork of the roof, six hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs, and fixtures of the north wing of theCapitol , one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-fivecents.
For new floor in the basement story of the President’s house, forwooden partition and glass door, and for new caps to the chimneys,five hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the Post Office building, and fixtures and furniturefor the same, twenty-seven thousand and ninety-one dollars and seventy-one cents.
For repairing the stone work which secures the iron pipes where theycross the Tiber, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairing the flag footways at the Capitol and President’s house,and for repairing lamp posts and lamps at the Capitol , two hundreddollars.
For expenses attending the negotiation of a treaty with the WyandotIndians of Ohio , in addition to former appropriations, one thousanddollars.