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 362 FORTY—SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 415. 1872. Wm-ks of crt. For an additional appropriation, to be expended under the direction of $$36;**- 12;; the joint committee on the library, to decorate the Capitol with such 8e8pm,; K51g_ works of art as may be ordered and approved by said committee, as provided by act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, Joint cornniit- fifteen thousand dollars; and said committee, whenever, in their judgm °*:ch_f l'b”">' ment, it shall be expedient, are authorized to accept any work of the tins w,,,?;,, of 5,,, 6,,,, arts on behalf of Congress, which may be offered, and to assign the same ¤¤·¤» &¤· such place in the Capitol as they may deem suitable, and shall have the supervision of all works of art that may be placed in the Capitol. Wilkes’s Ex- For the publication of three volumes of Wilkes’s Exploring Expedigloflns E>=P€di· tion, agreeably to act of May twenty-eigl1th, eighteen hundred and seven- °§-[2, ,,h_ my ty-two, nine thousand dollars. Ante, p. 1ii4- To enable the joint committee on the library to purchase Moran’s large ("*“‘ painting of the Canyon of the Yellowstone, ten thousanddollars. {·°;;°ws•,,,,,,_ Survey of the Coast.- For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and C¤¤¤¤ =§¤¥V¢y· Gulf coasts of the United States, and Lake Champlain, including comw£2:°¤°’ &°'* pensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emo]- uments of officers of the army and navy, and petty-officers and men of the navy employed in the work, three hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars. Western coast. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. P9}'. &c.,of For pay and ration of engineers for the steamers used in the coast °“gm°°"' survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars. Publication or For continuing the publication of the observations made in the progress °l>¤¤¤'¤*i°¤¤· of coast survey, including compensation for civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the government printing office, ten thousand dollars. °fl;;l;:£’· &°·• For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the ` coast survey, forty-five thousand dollars. _Extending For extending the triangulation of the coast survey so as to form a g‘;‘“€“l““°“¤ geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United ` States, and assisting in the State surveys, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, thirty-six thousand dollars. u;;;¤1‘d¤P¤ff•- UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Armories and Armories and ArsvnaZs.— Springfield armory, Springfield, Massachu- “"§;;kéf,8,d setts z For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery; ` and for curbstone for armory grounds fronting on State street, twenty- two thousand dollars. Bvck iSl¤¤d· Rock Island armory and arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois : For new forging-shop of same dimensions and architecture as shops already built, except that it will be only one story high, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; for new finishing-shop for armory, two hundred thousand dollars; for new fire~proof barracks for enlisted men, including messbuilding, bakery, and laundry-building, ninety-five thousand dollars; for new powder-magazine, fifteen thousand dollars; for completing development of the water-power, one hundred and ten thousand dollars ; for the construction of avenues and roads to the Rock Island wagon-bridge, and to the new bridge across the Mississippi river, to the city of Davenport, and for building a railroad to connect the present arsenal railroad with the Chicago and Rock Island railroad, when changed to its new location at the lower end of the island, and for building two entrances to the island from the two bridges, and an iron fence connecting the two entrances, and between the railroad and the public wagon-road on one side and the arsenal on the other side, twenty-eight thousand dollars : for new machin-