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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 615. 1888. 28] required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, two thousand five hundred dollars. For Contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus; Ccntingentexpensw. expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; purchase of professional and scientific books, card-catalogues, blankooks. pamphlets, newspapers, maps, furniture, and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oil-cloth, file-cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the Adjutant-Generals Office, the Surgeon-General’s Ofiice, the Signal Office, and the office of Records of the Rebellion; freight and express charges; and for other absolutely necessary expenses, fifty-five thousand dollars. For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, Swtionew. twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent of buildings for use of the War De artment, as follows: neun. For the Signal Office, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and any part of this sum not necessary to pay rent may be used in defraying the expense of moving the Signal Office to another building; for medical dispensary, Surgeon—General’s Office, one thousand dollars; for the Rebellion Record Office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred dollars. PUBLIC BU1L1>1Nes AND Gnonnns. griguuggg buildingszmd For clerk in the office of Public Buildings and Grounds, one thou- Clerk, messenger. sand six hundred dollars; and for messenger in the same office, eight hundred and forty dollars. For the public gardener, one thousand eight hundred dollars, Gerdwvr- For overseers, drauglhtsman, foremen, mechanics, gardeners, and 0v•¤r¤¤<>rs. etc. laborers employed in the lpublic grounds, thirty thousand dollars. For watchman in Fran tlin Square, six hundred and sixty dollars. Watchman. For watchman in Lafayette Square, six hundred and sixty dollars. For two da -watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds, at six hundred and sixty dolitrs each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For two night-watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds. at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For one watchman for Judiciary Square, and one for Lincoln Square and adjacent reservations, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For one watchman for Iowa Circle; one watchman for Thomas Circle and neighborin reservations; one for Rawlins Square and Was}1- ington Circle; one for Du ont Circle and neighborinp reservations; one for McPherson and Rarragut Squares; one for tanton Square and neighboring reservations; two for Henry Square, Seaton Square, and reservations east to Botanic Garden; one for Mount Vernon Square and ad 'acent reservations; one for greenhouse at the nursery; one for grounds south of Executive Mansion; eleven in all, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For one night-watchman for Henry Square, Seaton Square, and reservations east to Botanic Garden, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. For contingent and incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Contingentexpeuses, STATE, NVAR, Ayn NAVY Dnrxnrirnxr Bcrrnnvc. D§;gl<3£u‘Egg¤;$§;*g Office of the supermtendent: One clerk class one, one chief en- Oguperinwndeufs at one thousand two hundred dollars; eight assistant engi- °°` neers, at one thousand dollars each; one captain of the watch. one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at