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 216 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 84. 1861. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents 1851 Cb_ 3Q_ as are entitled to the same under the proviso to act third March, eighteen Vol. i£. p. 608. hundred and fifty-one, on the amount that may be disbursed by them, seven thousand dollars. California, Ore- For the Coasts of Oalwmia, Oregon, and Waskington.—For supply- mfd W“‘h' ing nineteen lighthouses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, ° chamois skins, polishing powder, and other cleaning materials, transportation, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in order, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, seventeen thousand two hundred and sevent dollars. For repairs and incidlental expenses of nineteen lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For salaries of forty-three keepers and assistant keepers of lighthouses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating buoys and day-beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten thousand dollars. For inspection and transportation purposes, five thousand dollars. For commission, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents 18§1,ch. 32. as are entitled to the same under the proviso to the act of March third, v°l· ‘*·P· 6°8· eighteen hundred and fifty-one, one thousand five hundred dollars. Army omcers For commutation of fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving g?J*Sh’>h°“¤€ on lighthouse duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by y` the quartermastefs department, five thousand two hundred and thirty- nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. Lifgqtgljgng For compensation of two superintendents for the life-saving stations on md b<>¤¤¤· the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars. For compensation of fifty-tour keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Tyansppnthpsu- For support, care, andmedical treatment of forty transient paupers, pggslglmmefr énsppppl and surgical patients in Washington Infirmary, six thousand Public grounds. For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars. . d {for hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand and ninety-tive 0 ars. d 1303 pprchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, five hunre dollars. For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, where necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences, and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. _ Repairs otcap. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water·closets, public stables, water- 'Wl- pipes, pavements, and other walks within the Capitol square, broken gloips, and locks, and for the protection of the building, five thousand 0 ars. H£;e:idsnt’s For annual repairs of the President’s House and furniture, improvement of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingent expenses incident thereto, six thousand dollars. 60;; fuel, in part, of the Presidents House, one thousand eight hundred mplgptiug Capt- For lighting the Capitol and Presidentfs House, the public grounds gound them, and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue, ridge and High streets, in Georgetown, Four-and-a-halt, Seventh, and Twelfth streets, across the mall, forty-two thousand dollars.