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 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 130. 1875. 393 For lighting the Capitol and the Executive Mansion, namely: For Liqlltingcnpitcl gas, thirty five thousand dollars; for pay of lamp-lighters, gas-litters, gpl *?°X“°““’-"° plumbers, plumbing lamps, lamp-posts, matches, material for the electri- mm u' oai battery, and repairs of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars. For new chandeliers for the corridors and passages of the House of Chandeliers for Representatives to correspond with those in the Senate, five thousand H°‘é°°. °*` R°P'°‘ d0II8!‘B. sen atxves. For fuel for watcl1n.1en’s lodges, and for the green-house at the propa- FW 1*:]* "°*°hd gating-garden, one thousand dollars £';‘;';_h;’uS·'ff” ““ For 1‘<>D¤»l1"i¤§ and Bxwnding water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to Wm:-pipes. clean them, an for cleaning the springs that supply the Capitol, Executive Mansion, and War and Navy Departments, ten thousand dollars. For annual repairs of bridges, such amount is hereby appropriated as Bridges. _ may be turned into the Treasury from the sale of the old Anacostia bridge, on the completion of the new bridge. Washington aqueduet: For engineering, maintenance, and general Washington repairs, fifteen thousand dollars; for building an iron truss-roof and for ¤<1¤¤d¤¢¤· ‘ furnishing and setting galvanized-iron comice on the gate—house at Great Falls, three thousand dollars: Provided, That the lands belonging Proviso. to the United States and lying around the receiving-reservoir shall hereafter be controlled in connection with the Washington Aqueduct, and shall be under the charge and control of the officer in charge of said aqueduct: And provided further, That the chief engineer is hereby promo, directed to notify the Washington and Georgetown Railway Company to remove their railway track from the Washington aqueduct bridge over Rock Creek, within one year from the date of said notice; and said company shall make uch removal within the year aforesaid, and Have the right to lay their tracks along Twenty-sixth street from Pennsylvania. avenue to M street north, and thence along M street into Georgetown, to connect with their tracks on Bridge street; and said chief engineer may establish and publish regulations prohibiting the passage of heavily loaded wagons and carriages over said bridge. For removing embankment and opening an alley along the west end _S•>v¤¤¢¤<¤¤t|¤ wd pf the building, corner of Seventeenth and F streets, nine hundred dol- L “*"’°"“· ars. . N AVY-YARDSAND STATIONS For the naval station at New London: For labor, materials, and erec- Now L¤¤·1¤¤· tions, forty thousand dollars For the navy-yard at Pensacola, Florida: For continuing the rebuild- Pensacola. ing of the repairing-dock, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the navy-yard at More Island, California: For continuation of M¤·rcI¤1¤·¤<1- begun work, two hundred thousand dollars. For the navvyard at League Island: For the continuation of work Lmgu., Islam], and removal of property from the Philadelphia navy—yard, two hundred thousand dollars; which sum shall be available from and after the passage of this act. Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy, the Secro· Proviso. tary of the Treasury, the Chief Engineer of the Army, and the chairman of the board of revision of taxes of the city and county of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, are hereby created a commission Commission to for the purpose of making sale and conveyance of all the lands, docks, in lfjllljil wharves, real property and appurtenances, rights, interests, and privi- phf,;u'Qm,_y;m ' leges of the United States included within the limits oi, and known as ' the navy-yard in, the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania; , that for the purpose aforesaid, they shall, if they think best for the publie interest, have the said property divided into lots or plots, and laid out into blocks and streets, conforming, as far as the interests of the Government will permit, to the blocks and streets of the said city in the vicinity of the said navy-yard; and they shall have the said property _ fairly appraised in such lots or portions as they think best, and shall APP"““"1· have power to sell the same, or any portion thereof; at public anction,