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paving points and whitewashing lower story under the north wing of the capitol, cutting out additional windows for drying and improving the Supreme Court room and passages, constructing a fuel vault pursuant to the proposition of John Skirving, under date June third, eighteen hundred and forty-four, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairs of the President’s house, gardeners’ salary, laborers, cartage, tools, manure and straw for top-dressing, for repairs of copper roof, new floor in basement story, chimney tops, trees for fountain square and Pennsylvania Avenue, and for repairs of fence at Lafayette square, fountain square, and President’s garden, three thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars;

For salary of the public gardener, twelve thousand dollars;

For repairing damage done to iron pipes by freshet and fixing jet d’eau, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For repairing the figure in the tympanum of the capitol, two hundred dollars;

For removing Persico’s statues from the Navy Yard to the capitol, preparing the pedestal, erecting the statues and enclosing the same with an iron railing, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For painting, glazing, and whitewashing in the post office, three hundred and eighty-six dollars.

Department of State.―For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his department, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, viz:

For publishing the laws, and packing and distributing the laws and documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and transportation, nine thousand dollars;

For stationery, blank books, and binding, two thousand dollars;

For labor, and attendance, twelve hundred dollars;

For furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, twelve hundred dollars;

For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars;

For printing, letter-press and copperplate, and advertising, one thousand dollars;

For newspapers, two hundred dollars;

For books and maps, one thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, viz:

For labor, one thousand dollars;

For fuel and light, twelve hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, eleven hundred dollars.

Treasury Department.―For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasusry, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-six thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-five thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.