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 176 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 233. 1868. For the first district, ninety-three thousand dollars ; For the second district, fifteen thousand dollars; For the third district, fifteen thousand dollars; For the fourth district, seventy-five thousand dollars; For the fifth district, eighty thousand dollars. Public bugid. Public Buildings and Grounds. —T0 supply deficiencies in appropriings Md ations for public buildings and grounds, viz. gr°“°d“‘ For additional labor cleaning the centre building of the Capitol, repair. ing the Washington statue on the east grounds of the Capitol, cleaning and repairing columns in the building, laying a new brick pavement on the west front, and repairing fountains, fifteen hundred dollars. For continuing the filling and grading of the Capitol grounds, under the direction of the architect of the Capitol extension, ten thousand dollars. For taking care and improvement of reservation number two and Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars. For care and improvement of grounds south of the Presidents House, one thousand dollars. For continuing the grading of Virginia Avenue, to pay cart hire — labor having been furnished by the commissioner of the freedmen’s bureau, when the original appropriation was exhausted, to continue the work — the hire of carts to be paid by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand dollars. For cleaning sewer traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, five hundred dollars. For repairs of water pipes, three hundred dollars. For removing snow and ice from pavementfs] and public walks, two hundred dollars. For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, and keeping it clean and free from dirt, two thousand five hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the Presidents House, including the payment of bills approved by the joint committee of Congress appointed to audit the bills for repairing and refurnisliiug the executive mansion, ten thousand dollars. For removal of foot-bridge from Maine Avenue to Third Street west, seventy-five dollars. For improvement and taking care of the Circle, on Pennsylvania Avenue and Twentythird Street west, one hundred and fifty dollars. To supply deficiency in payment for material for gates for Judiciary Square Hospital, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Feeding dem- For deficiencies in appropriations for feeding destitute friendly Indians, §;‘*:uf*¤°**<llY l¤· under act of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in accord- ' ance with recommendations of the Indian peace commission, one hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars and eleven cents: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated for this purpose shall be paid until the accounts for feeding such destitute Indians Ccmmimonto shall be fully investigated by a commission to consist of Lieutenant—Gen- Investigate ac- eral William T. Sherman, Major-General P. H. Sheridan, and MHj01‘- °°H:gc;h°§§’2f General C. C. Augur; and the said commission is hereby authorized, for commission, the purpose of such investigation, to call and examine witnesses in this behalf, and only the amount that said commission shall certify to be equitably and justly due shall be paid. And said commission shall sit at Cmp Leavenworth, Kansas, and shall have power to appoint a clerk at a salary of fivc dollars per day for the time actually employed; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for clerk hire, travelling and incidental expenses of the commission, is hereby appropriated. CITY or WASHINGTON. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the chief engineer of the