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 364 FORTY—-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 415. 1872. Magazine at Magazine, Boston: For a new house for shell and powder filling B°“°“9 twelve thousand dollars. Arsenal at Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri: For purchase of new boiler for steam- Smi LMS? engine at water-works, one thousand dollars; for general repairs of public buildings and inclosing fences, Jefferson barracks, Missouri, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. San Antonio; San Antonio arsenal, San Antonia, Texas: For taking down walls and rebuilding with cut stone the building used as an armory—shop, nine thousand dollars; for erecting a frame storehouse, one hundred by twenty-five feet, one story, four thousand dollars; for building a cistern to supply the post with water, two thousand dollars; for repairing and painting public buildings and fences, one thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars. V”“°°“"°"€ Vancouver arsenal, Vanconver, WVashington Territory: For repairing storehouscs, workshops, quarters, barracks, fences, and grounds, one thousand dollars. Washington; ¥Vashington arsenal, Washington, District of Columbia: For coping for inclosing-wall on northern front of arsenal grounds, and For entrancegates at the termination of Four-and—a-half street, three thousand dollars. l·V¤¤¤¤'li¤*; W'atervlict arsenal, West Troy, New York: For repairing public buildinrrs, fifteen hundred dollars. W¤¤¤¤'¤>W¤$ fWatertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For repairs of roofs and painting 'buildings and fences, five thousand dollars ; for repairing and painting 0llicers’ quarters and renewing furnaces and water-closets, three thousand dollars. ¢¢>¤¤¤s¤¤¢i¢¤- Contingencies of arsenals: For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during tl1c year may render necessary, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid as commissions upon any labor or materials furnished the United States. Continuing For continuing the surveys of the northern and northwestern lakes,
 * "£:_°{nE':;*‘ one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. And this appropriation

g,pl;mpri;ifim;' ’ shall be available from the time of the passage of this act. w1¤c¤¤_¤~j¤i1¤bIc· ./3ail<lz'n_qs and Grounds in and around Washington.—Repairs, care, and improvement of public buildings, grounds, and works in the District i\‘a~1u¤,q¢¤n, of Columbia, under the direction of the chief engineer of the army, viz.:—- For fuel for propagating garden and lodges in public grounds, five hunnum drcd dollars. Fuel, &c., For repairs, fuel, and similar necessaries, for executive mansion: For ’°P*“'s· &°·i repairs to the mansion, ten thousand dollars; for fuel, five thousand dollars; for refurnishing the same, twelve thousand dollars; for repairs and care of greenhouse, including new door, flower-stands, and pipes, ten thousand dollars; for constructing six hundred and thirty-four feet of sewer for drainage, three thousand dollars. lighting; For lighting the Capitol and executive mansion and grounds: For lighting Capitol and executive mansion and public grounds, forty-five thousand dollars; and the officer charged with the disbursement of this appropriation shall have the entire care and control of the consumption of the gas used for lighting buildings and grounds herein provided for. lamps and For lamps and lamp-posts for centre and south walk, west Capitol POM? grounds, five hundred dollars; for pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitting, plumb- _ ing, lamps, posts, and repairs of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars. P“bl“’ €"°“'"l$· Improvement and care of public grounds: For annual repair of fences around reservations, two thousand dollars; for manure, and hauling the same on public grounds, five thousand dollars; for painting iron fences around reservations, and around War and Navy Departments, four thousand dollars; for improvement, care, and protection of seats, and for fountains and iish·ponds in Capitol grounds, three thousand dollars; for purchase of seats for Capitol grounds, one thousand dollars; for hire of carts for public grounds, five thousand dollars; for purchase and repair