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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 166. 1848. 293 manure, and trees for grounds; attendance at the western gate of the Capitol; repairs of public stables; flagging, enclosures, &c.; keeping in order the iron pipes that convey water to the Capitol and public ofhccs, and repairing damage by freshets; brooms, brushes, wooden spades, and shovelling snow; erecting a suitable building for the keeper of the western gates; repairing western front of the Capitol; repairing abutments of Tiber Creek bridge, and building protecting walls; painting exterior wood work of the Capitol and iron fences around the same; altering and enclosing wooden stairway from the roof of the Capitol to the opening in the dome; erecting iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue, enclosing a part of the public grounds at the President’s House; for enclosing public grounds at the north and south of the Capitol, at the western front of the Capitol, and the public grounds at the south front of the President’s House, with wooden fences; grading said grounds; for suitable trees for planting nursery, seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. For lighting Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol Square to the Lighting Penn- Treasury Department, and compensation for one lamp-lighter for the f-£;’,'Q,“ AVE':;, same, and for lighting Capitol and Capitol grounds and President’s groundéand Pre- House, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the °*d°¤*" H°“”· Commissioner of Public Buildings. For annual repairs and painting of President’s House ; gardener and Contingencies laborers, manure, leather, nails, tools, cartage, &.c., for the grounds §gg,,,,P*“*jg‘g,*S about the same; repairs of the fence at Lafayette Square, Fountain grounds. Square, President’s garden, and repairs of gardener’s house, eight thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents. For grading, draining, planting, and enclosing with wooden fence the grounds south of the President’s House, and extending to the canal, six thousand dollars. For sprinkling Pennsylvania Avenue during the session of Congress, one thousand dollars. For painting the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars. Cpeinflng UW For compensation to James Crutchet for extra work done in mak- agi;:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ing the necessary fixtures for lighting the Capitol with gas, two thou- to James Crutchsaud eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eighteen cents. °t· For pay for removing the mast and lantern above the dome of the Remuvingmut Capitol, three hundred and twenty-three dollars; and for the purchase ¤¤di¤¤¢¤r¤ alms and erection of lamps and lamp-posts of iron, and for the laying of gas glsp£gK`° °f um pipes, and for other necessary fixtures for lighting the Capitol grounds with gas, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Gas PiP¤=, &c. Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars. For laying gas pipes hom the main gas pipe at the Capitol to the Lamps, lampfoot of Fifteenth Street, on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, and for PSM? ‘*“d S" one hundred lamp-posts and lamps and other necessary fixtures, and for Mm ' work and materials rendered and supplied in establishing the same, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty ol` the Commissioner of Public Buildings to have the pipes fully and sufficiently tested and proved before they are received. For laying eight hundred feet of gas pipe from the foot of Fifteenth Street to the President’s House; and sixteen hundred feet of branch pipe through the house, thirty single bumers, pendants, and brackets in the kitchen and passages below, twenty brackets in the bed-rooms, fifty double brackets in the other rooms, five four-light chandeliers, four six-light do., six eight-light do., two twelve-light do., altering chandeliers in the east room, and for all other necessary fixtures for completing the same, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.