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 164 TWENTY·NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 47. 1847. shovelling snow, and wooden spades; gardeners salary; ten thousand three hundred eighty-one dollars and fifty cents. F1¤¤>r ¤f$¤¤=¤¤ For taking up and relaying the floor of the Senate chamber, to Ch““‘b°'*&°‘ increase the number of seats, making flues, building fire·proo£ and ventilating apparatus, and other work, the sum of four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. John Skirving, For payment of bill of John Skirving, for extra work done in the and twenty-one dollars and eighty-two cents. _ Repairs, con- For annual repairs of President’s house; gardener's salary; labor-
 * `°' °”'“ “’°'k· Capitol during the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, three hundred
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g,.,.,,., my plants, and oil for lamps; manure for garden and grounds at La Fay. sf<>¤¤d¤- ette Square; repairs for fence at Fountain Square, La Fayette Square and President’s garden, three thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-five cents. M¤ri¤¢ b¤¤1>i¢¤l For the completion of the new marine hospital of the United States "N' O'I°°“s’ now building in New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, to be expended under the superintendence of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars. C¤¤¢°¤¤·h¤¤¤¤ For the construction of a custom-house in the city of New Orleans, at Nw Od°°“°‘ to be erected on a square of ground on which stands the building now used as a custom-house in said city, or the land in front of the custom-house square embraced within the public road, Custom-house, Canal, and Genois Streets, on condition that the emrporate authorities of said city relinquish and convey to the United States an absolute and unconditional title in and to such portion of said ground as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be necessary and convenient for the erection and use of such custom-house; and, so soon as said relinquishment and conveyance is made, as stated, that then, and in that case, the United States release to the said city of New Orleans all claim on their part to the residue of the ground included within said square; one hundred thousand dollars. _ lfenitentiary For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the Dis- £f‘"°‘ C°1““‘“ trict of Columbia, seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-six cents. For completing the paving and improvement of Pennsylvania Avecme_ nue, agreeably to the estimate of the Topographical Engineer, made at the last session of Congress, sixteen thousand ·dollars. °,I¤;9;¤§_P?¤I§*f For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of ,,,mb,Q,_ *° ° the D1StI1Gt of Columbia, five thousand seven hundred dollars. _Historicalpaint- For the execution of an historical painting for the rotundo of the
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Pwith Henry Inman, deceased, under the joint resolution of the twenty- v01_5,P_1s3_ third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, six thousand dollars; and the Library Committee are hereby directed to contract with the said William H. Powell, to execute the said painting on the same terms as were made with the aid Inman. ,.£,'$;£"£§:§; To pay Swan and Palmer for work executed by them at “Twin ohio mm-, Island," on the River Ohio, above the falls, six thousand four hundred Proviso. and seventy-nine dollars, and twenty-five cents: Provided, The acppunt be first settled by the proper accounting officer of the Treasury _ _ epartment. ,,:3 _To make good a deficiency in the hind for the relief of sick and ,;,,,,;,,,,,1 ,,,,,,m,,,,_ disabled seamen, twelve thousand dollars. vmandethvoi- For payment for one thousand copies of the seventh and eighth ¤¤°° L3'" U- S- Eolpmes of the Statutes at Large of the United States, seven thousand o ars. wgagtgbuégglgi EQ! Girutinuing the publication of the works of the explori¤g’_6X’ ing expedition. pedntion, including the printing of the chartsythe pay of the S01C1l-