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For house expenses, including repairs, lighting, and cleaning at the same, two hundred dollars.

For office expenses, including stationery and postage at the same, one hundred dollars.

No. 35. For coinage expenses, including materials and implements, fuel, repairs, and wastage of gold and silver, at the New Orleans branch mint, eleven thousand and fifty-two dollars.

For house expenses, including water-rent and taxes, repairs, lighting, cleaning, and watching, three thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

For office expenses, including stationery and postage, three hundred and fifty dollars.

No. 36. For annual repairs of the Capitol, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on Capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, gardener’s salary, and top-dressing for plants, seven thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That the salary of the public gardener shall not exceed the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars.

For annual repairs of the President’s house, gardener’s salary, horse and cart, laborers, tools, and top-dressing for plants, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairs of fence on Pennsylvania avenue, fronting the War and State Departments, and fence of President’s garden, two hundred dollars.

For taking down and removing the two furnaces beneath the Hall of the House of Representatives, and building three new ones on the floor below the crypt, excavating a coal vault, constructing additional flues for hot and cold air for the better ventilation of the Hall and passages, nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars.

For purchase of ground north of the General Post Office, between seventh and eighth streets, or so much thereof as the Postmaster General may deem expedient, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the bridge across Pennsylvania avenue, at Second street, and extending the same over the present stone abutments on said Second street, and reimbursing the corporation of Washington the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, expended in erecting the present wooden structure, twelve thousand dollars.

For altering the two passages and doorways of the roof, new steps, new doors, covering the wood with copper, removing the circular horizontal sash, over the Hall of the House of Representatives, and substituting a permanent roof covered with copper, and repairing the copper work of the roof, six hundred dollars.

For alterations and repairs, and fixtures of the north wing of the Capitol, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-five cents.

For new floor in the basement story of the President’s house, for wooden partition and glass door, and for new caps to the chimneys, five hundred and fifty dollars.

For completing the Post Office building, and fixtures and furniture for the same, twenty-seven thousand and ninety-one dollars and seventy-one cents.

For repairing the stone work which secures the iron pipes where they cross the Tiber, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairing the flag footways at the Capitol and President’s house, and for repairing lamp posts and lamps at the Capitol, two hundred dollars.

For expenses attending the negotiation of a treaty with the Wyandot Indians of Ohio, in addition to former appropriations, one thousand dollars.