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 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108. 1852. 93 lamps of the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac River, nine hundred dollars. For repairs of the two bridges over the eastern branch of the Potomac River, four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars; and that the bridges across the Potomac and eastern branch thereof be surrendered to the authorities of the District of Columbia. For lighting Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol grounds to the Light. Presidents House, the Capitol grounds, the Presidents House and grppnds, and the streets around the executive offices, sixteen thousand o ars. For inclosing Lafayette Square with an iron fence, including four Lmyms gates, twelve thousand dollars. S¤1¤¤¤>· For defraying the expense incurred in the improvement of Lafayette Square, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office building, one _Patent Omcc hundred and three thousand dollars: Provided, That the work and ma.- Buéglutgch terials furnished by contract for said building, and likewise the materials for the extension of the Capitol, be measured agreeable to the original contracts, and that no further payments be made until the measurement is made and reported. The contracts and the proposals to be put in the Directions. hands of the measurer, and he or they to be sworn, before entering on duty, to examine and measure and report every part of the work and materials without deviation from the contracts and proposals; and if it be shown that any extra materials are used, they to be rated at the pro mm price for materials only, and entered in a separate column of the account. And the same rule of measurement to be applied to all other buildings and other public works and contracts in this District. And it shall be the duty of the Comptroller- of the Treasury to arrest and stop any voucher not made in form and in accordance with the terms of the contract against which it is drawn. And it is hereby made a penal Penalty for offence for every measurer and inspector of work, or disbursing officer, :}**5** "‘;‘°h°*‘$ to make, or present, or to pass, or attempt to pass, any falsely made or M Wm ‘ fictitious voucher to draw money from the Treasury on any contract or accounts whatever; and that all contracts shall hereafter be advertised Nome 0,. com at least sixty days before letting; and that all contracts now existing in mms, relation to building the additions to the Capitol, as well as the Patent Oflice, not made according to law, are hereby cancelled, at the end of sixty days, and notice of the same shall be given in all the newspapers in the city of Wasliington; and that all contracts of every description which have been made without public notice having been given, where notice was required, shall be cancelled after sixty days’ notice having been given in the newspapers of this city: Provided, ako, That good _Sccui·itytcb¤ and sufficient security shall be given for twice the amount of money at €“’°”· any time to be advanced to the contractor, under any contract; and that bids shall be opened in presence of the bidders, if they, or any one of Opmng of them, should be present, and that notice to that effect shall be given in bidsthe advertisement for proposals, to be published agreeably to this proviso. And all contracts made without an appropriation of money for Contracts withergigbjeet, the subject of a contract, are hereby cancelled and declared - voi. For finishing the front of the basement of the centre building of the Patent Office and making it conform to the design of the wings, three thousand two hundred dollars. For the erection of the west wing of the Patent Office building, and completing the drains for said building and of the Post-Oilice building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For taking up, repairing, and relaying the steps of the east portico of Capitolthe Capitol, and for taking up, dressing, supplying new flagging, and relaying the same in the arcade under the portico, one thousand. five hundred dollars.