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 F ORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 292. 1870. 301 For purchase of trees and tree boxes, to whitewash tree boxes, and S0 T'°°“» &°· forth, two thousand dollars. For annual repairs of fences around reservations, two thousand dollars. F°¤°°°· d for cleaning out sewer traps along Pennsylvania Avenue, five hundred o ars. Smfloggllglxlllg P!‘€Slde¤t’S house, Capitol, and public grounds, forty thou- inlégggtgig b¤Ud· I For pay of lamplighters, plumbing, and gas-fitting, five thousand dol- gmmdsl ars. For contingencies of office of public buildings, one thousand dollars, For expenses to be incurred in the improvements of streets, avenues, lmpr¤v¢!¤¢¤f—¤ and alleys, passing by or through the property of the United States, and °f °°r°°°°* &'°’ to abate nuisances, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement and care of seats and fountains in the Capitol grounds, one thousand dollars. For construction of circular fence around and through the President’s grounds to Seventeenth Street, including foundation walls, curbing, flagging, and iron fencing, ten thousand dollars. For additional repairs to the greenhouse at the Presidenfs house, two Greenhouses. thousand five hundred dollars. 130; replairsiofdtgelgreenhouses at the propagating garden, one thousan ve un re dollars. For taking out private stairway leading from law library to Supreme Law library. Court room, and fitting up the rooms thus made with shelving for library, two thousand dollars. Washhzgton Aqueduct. —— For the completion of the Washington aque- Washingvm duct, except coping and covering of bridges ; for rent and purchase of five “q“°d“°°' and forty-four one hundre[d]ths acres of land, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For purchase of roadway from Great Falls to conduit road, two and three tenths miles, eighteen and four tenths acres, one thousand and twelve dollars. For purchase of roadway across land owned by William Brooke, five hundred and fifty dollars. . For rent and purchase of land at High Service reservoir, m Georgetown, three thousand three hundred dollars. For rent and purchase of land at bridge number six, in Georgetown, two thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For clearing out obstructions near the dam to give free access in low water to the head of the aqueduct, five thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs in tunnel number one, and removing fallen stones, one thousand five hundred dollars. For preserving the new or Dalecarlia tunnel from falling in, and protecting bank of connecting conduit, twenty thousand dollars. For completing the distributing reservoir according to the original plan: First, slope wall for protection of banks, thirty thousand dollars; second, repairing earthen banks, and completing dividing bank and setting iron valve gate therein, five thousand dollars; third, completing the two gate-houses of this reservoir, twenty thousand dollars. For arrears of superintendence and repairs to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, four thousand dollars. _ For completing work at arch over High Service reservoir, and placing rail round the same, four thousand dollars. For superintendency and general repairs, twelve thousand dollars. For macadamizing the top of the conduit now used as the mam road h Apprtipriation, to Washington, ten thousand dollars,--in all one hundred and twenty p;;'df° °“P‘ thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars: Provided, That the money hereby appropriated for the Washington aqueduct shall be applied to the objects named herein, and to no others: Proveded further, That all