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 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 84. 1861. 217 For purchase of books for library at the Executive Mansion, to be Libra of Em expended under the direction of the President of the United States, two °°¤U‘·’€ ‘§**¤8i°¤· hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and upper bridges, and the Repairs of roads appurtenant thereto owned by the United States, six thousand l"ld8°$» ¤‘·'°¤¤°¤· dollars. squares, &c. For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, three thousand dollars. For public reservation number two and Lafayette square, two thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s House, con— tinuiug the improvement of the same, and keeping them in order, three thousand dollars. For repairs of watenpipes, five hundred dollars. For cleaning out the sewer traps on Pennsylvania avenue, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars. For repairs of furnaces under the Senate chamber and Supreme Court rooms, five hundred dollars. Government Hospital for the ]nsane.— For the support, clothing, and Hospgmi for medical and moral treatment of the insane of the District of Columbia, ¤¤¤i¤S¤¤¢· and of the army and navy and of the revenue service, at the asylum in said District, including books and incidental expenses of the asylum, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and painting of four western or first erected sections of the hospital edifice, including additions to the furniture and gardenefs houses, and out-buildings and fences ; ice·h0uses, including preserving cellar, extension of stable for storage of hay and other fodder, and shelter of farm wagons and carts; and enclosing two sides of farm-yard with brick wall; improvement of grounds, including pavement surrounding all the buildings; grading and planting trees, paving gutters, and placing seats in the pleasure grounds of the patients ; forcing and green-houses, including apparatus; fitting up two bowling-alleys, one in basement of each wing, eight thousand dollars. Patent O_j'Ece.·-—For constructing the cellar of the north front of the Patent Omoo. Patent Oiiioe building into offices and store-rooms, and for putting iron railing around the areas in the court-yard of said building, and for flagging the same, twelve thousand dollars. For collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting Agricultural agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement, propagation, and dis- Swfigifics, Seeds, tribution of cuttings and seeds, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, however, °um”gS* &°' That in the expenditure of this appropriation, and especially in the selec- Disfribyytiog gf tion of cuttings and seeds for distribution, due regard shall be had to the $92*5 and ¢¤°· purposes of general cultivation, and the encouragement of the agricultural m°S‘ and rural interests of all parts of the United States. For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care of copyright Copyrights. books, charts, and other wpyright matter, two thousand dollars; so much thereof as may be necessary to be applied to the deficiency in that fund for the present fiscal year. ExpZ0#r€vzg Ezpeditim.—For preservation of the collections of the ex- Exploring exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, four thousand dol- P“d·m°“S‘ lars. For the distribution of the collections of the exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, and the construction of additional cases to receive such part of said collections as may be retained by the government, six thousand dollars; such distribution to be only to institutions willing to receive the same, and at their own expense. Bsslitution of the Deaf, Dumb, and BZind.—-—For salaries and incidental m]g$?¤g“mb• expenses of the institution of the deaf, dumb, and blind, in the District of ` Columbia, three thousand dollars. VOL. xxx. Pon.-28