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 226 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 108. 1857. Mall- For continuing the grading and planting with trees the unimproved rtion of the mall ten thousand dollars. P0 9 Furnaces. For repairs of the furnaces under the Senate Chamber and Supreme Court rooms five hundred dollars. _Capitol exten- For United States Capitol extension, nine hundred thousand dollars. "°"· Dome For continuing the work of the new dome of the Capitol, five hundred ' thousand dollars. General P. 0. For extension of the General Post-Oilice, two hundred thousand dolextension. ]_m.S_ B Y§¤il<li¤g¤ M For enlarging the building for a custom-house, post-otiice, and court- ° ‘* °‘ room at Bufalo, New York, one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, including the ten per cent. for incidentals, and for the like purpose at Chicago, Illinois, two hundred thousand dollars, with the ten per cent. for incidental expenses. Cairo. For the construction of a custom-house, United States court-rooms, and post-oflice at Cairo, Illinois, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of warehouses at Quarantine Station on the Mis- Warehouse, at sissippi River, below New Orleans, fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That quarantine sta- no part of said sum shall be expended, until the State of Louisiana shall “°“· L°· pass a law ceding jurisdiction over the site of such warehouse to the ,y,,,i,,d;ct;9¤ to United States, and shall grant to the United States the use of so much b¤ HM <>l>¤¤¤¤d· land as may be necessary for the construction of such warehouse, with water front and privilege of the wharf now built or hereafter to be built at said station. For the continuation and completion of the custom-house, post-office, Buildings at &c., at Dubuque, Iowa, twenty thousand dollars, with ten per cent. for D¤l>¤<i¤¤· contingencies; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to take possession and pay for the land and prosecute the work conditioned upon the city of Dubuque entering into a bond in- its corporate capacity, with good and sufficient individual security for twice the amount of the appropriations, that the legislature of Iowa will, at its next session, pass an act ceding exclusive jurisdiction over the site to the United States, and forever exempting the property from all taxation. Congressional For {lagging footway in the congressional burying-ground, from the b“’Y"'K‘8"°“”d· entrance of the same to the government vault, two thousand two hundred dollars. A mmm, For the collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting statgics; cut. agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement and distribution of tings and seeds. editing and seeds, sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of patents · and to enable the commissioner of Report on een- patents to collect and re rt information in relation to the consum tion of sum tion of cot- · P0 · P bn_P cotton in the several countries of the world, three thousand five hundred dollars. Superintendent To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the superintendent of ggglglgngdgf the building occupied by said Secretary and his department from the lirst mem P day of J3nu(pr5lg_ eighteoielp, hlpndiipd thirty-Ev: to tlhe thirtiith June, eiggteen un re t irty-cig the a owance to e ma e to suc superinten - ent with his salary as clerk not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, the sum of seven hundred dollars. 30;,,,;,, G,m;,,,,_ For flagging the main avenue in the Botanic Garden, and for stone gutter for same, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Mum ,m,m,e_ For the construction of a wooden bridge with a double track across the canal in the line of Maine avenue, fifteen hundred dollars. viugsglwl tit For amount due the contractors on the construction of the marine hos- ° ° mg' pital at Vicksburg, Mississippi, seventeen hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. dB¤Udiqz¤ ¤¤ In- For the continuation and completion of the United States court-house “°°p°h°' and ost-office at Indiana olis, Indiana, sixt -seven thousand dollars, wi en per cen. or con ingencies. ( 'thpt t f rp) y