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 206 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1853. For sectioning one hundred townships, equal to six thousand miles of surveying, in California, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, seventy-two thousand dollars. _ Public build- Public Buildings. - For compensation of the Commissioner of Public ""g°' Buildings, two thousand dollars; For compensation of the clerk in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, one thousand dollars; capitol. For the extension of the United States Capitol, six hundred thousand dollars; For compensation, in part, of the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; For compensation of the public Gardener, one thousand two hundred dollars ;——and the management of the grounds attached to the Capitol, and surrounding the Executive Mansion, shall be under his control, iubject only to the supervision and control of the Secretary of the nterior ; For compensation of sixteen laborers employed in the public grounds and President’s garden, at the rate of forty dollars per month each, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and the hire of laborers on the improvements of reservation number two, or public mall, between Seventh and Twelfth streets west, five thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-two cents ; For compensation of the keeper of the western gate of the Capitol Square, seven hundred and thirty dollars ; For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol Square, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars ; For compensation of the door-keeper at the Presidents House, at five hundred dollars, and of assistant door—keeper at the same, at three hunihed and sixty-tive dollars per annum, eight hundred and sixty-Eve dol- 1*8 ; For compensation of two night watchmen at the President’s House, one thousand dollars; mia;. Mm; For a bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, to be expended under W P°°°¤¤¤· tlhql direction of the President of the United States, thirty thousand 0 ars; , S¤PPl£Y°fW¤*°1'· To be expended under the direction of the President of the United States for the purpose of bringing water into the city of Washington, upon such plans and from such places as he may approve, one hundred Provlso. thousand dollars: Provided, That if the plan adopted by the President of the United States should require water to be drawn from any source within the limits of Maryland, the assent of the legislature of that State should first be obtained ; For compensation of two draw·keepers and a watchman at the Potomac Bridge, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for repairing the Long Bridge across the Potomac River, twenty thousand dollars; For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand dollars; A¤¤m¤'YE¤*¤`d For compensation of auxiliary guard, and for fuel and oil for lamps, P?£67 ch_ z3_ sixteen thousand four hundred dollars; and each of the auxiliary guards shall hereafter receive the same annual compensation, to wit, five hundred dollars per annum; P°“P°"- For the support, care, and medical treatment, in the Washington Infirmary, of twelve transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, two thousand dollars;