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An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes.

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That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated tion of pneumatic for the purpose of constructing a pneumatic tube, operated by hollow spheres or otherwise, from the Capitol along North Capitol street to the Government Printing Office.

Government Print

ing Oflice.

$15,000 for repairs

of Treasury building.

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Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia-For annual repairs and improvements, fifteen thou$9,000 for repairs sand dollars; for improvements and repairs of heating-apparatus, nine thousand dollars.

of heating-apparatus.

tinuing construc

Department building.

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$800,000 for con- For continuation of the construction of the building for tion of new State the Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia, eight hundred thousand dollars; for the east wing $100,000 for east of the State, War, and Navy Departments, four hundred and Navy Depart thousand dollars.

wing of State, War,

ments.

$15,000 for National

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For the National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Soldiers and of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, fifteen

ors' Orphans' Home of District of Columbia.

$3,000 for repairs,

&c., of Government

thousand dollars.

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For custody and repairs of Government hospitals on

hospitals on Judici- Judiciary square, three thousand dollars.

ary square.

$12,000 for care

For care, support, and medical treatment of sixty transient paupers in the sient paupers, medical and surgical patients in some proper city of Washington, medical institution in the city of Washington, under a contract to be formed with such institution, twelve thousand dollars.

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For preservation of the collection of the surveying

at Smithsonian fa- and exploring expeditions of the Government, fifteen

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$10,000 for comple- For the completion of the hall required for the Governfor Government col- ment collections, ten thousand dollars.

tion of hall required

lections.

$50,000 for repairs,

CAPITOL EXTENSION.

For finishing and repairing the work on the Capitol &c., on Capitol ex- extension, and for completing the flagging of the upper

tension.

terraces, fifty thousand dollars.

For annual repairs of the old portion of the Capitol $10,000 for repairs building, ten thousand dollars. *

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of old portion of Capitol building.

&c., on new dome.

For finishing and repairing the work on the new dome $1,000 for repairs, of the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

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$35,000 for grading, filling, and * planting grounds.

For continuing the work of grading and filling and for planting the grounds around the Capitol, thirty-five thousand dollars.

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BOTANICAL GARDEN.

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ments in Botanical

For reconstructing the eastern parallelogram of the $13.000 for improveconservatory in the Botanical Garden, thirteen thousand dollars.

For extending the propagating-houses,

four thousand five hundred dollars.

* Garden.

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For the construction of a sewer and trap across Third $500 for the purstreet, to convey the drainage of the Botanical Garden to the main sewer, five hundred dollars.

For continuing fence and erecting gateways on Third street, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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Washington Arsenal, Washington, District of Columbia-For coping for inclosing wall on northern front of Arsenal grounds, and for entrance-gates at the termination of Four-and-a-half street, three thousand dollars.

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Repairs, care, and improvement of public buildings, grounds, and works in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the chief engineer of the army, viz: total, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.

apparatus for the Libary of Congress.

$3,000 for improve

ments of Wa-bing

ton Arsenal grounds

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and seventy thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars. ington Aqueduct,

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

$5,000 for pedestal for statue of General Winfield Scott.

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For pedestal for the equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott, authorized by act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, five thousand dollars.

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$75,000 for repairs,

&c., at navy-yard, Washington.

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Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia-For repairs of all kinds, seventy-five thousand dollars.

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$192,620 to defray expenses of paving,

ted States property.

Columbia.

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ROADWAYS AND SIDEWALKS IN FRONT OF
UNITED STATES PROPERTY.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay only the &c., in front of Uni- reasonable expenses heretofore incurred for paving roadin the District of way and curbing and paving sidewalks in front of the property of the United States in the District of Columbia, one hundred and ninety-two thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Railroads prohib- and all railroads are hereby prohibited on the I street and No further street K street fronts of Farragut, Scott, and Franklin squares; railroads to be laid and no further street railroads shall be laid down in the city of Washington without the consent of Congress.

ited on certain sts.

in Washington without the cousent of Congress.

$58,365 appropri

ated to pay propor payable by the Uni

of canal, and for cost

PROPORTION PAYABLE BY UNITED STATES
FOR FILLING CANAL.

To pay the Board of Public Works of the District of tion of cost properly Columbia the proportion of the cost properly payable by ted States for filling the United States Government for the filling of the canal of sewer along canal from Seventh street west to Seventeenth street west, and adjoining United States property. of the cost of the intercepting sewer along the canal adjoining the property of the United States Government, said work being under the direction of the Board of Pub

lic Works, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-
five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Pro-
vided, That all payments made under this and the preced- Proviso.
ing appropriation shall be made only upon vouchers ap-
proved by the officer in charge of the public buildings and
grounds of the District; and no portion of the money
herewith appropriated shall be used by the Board of Pub-
lic Works for any other purpose whatever than the pur-
pose that is named in the said two last paragraphs. And
the land made by the filling up of the said canal is hereby
declared to be the property of the United States. And
the said appropriations shall not be construed to create or
imply any obligation on the part of the United States in
any respect whatever in future.

METROPOLITAN POLICE.

$207,890 appropri

ated to pay salaries,

&e of the Metro.

politan Police for

lumbia.

For salaries and other necessary expenses of the Metropolitan Police for the District of Columbia, two hundred and seven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars: the District of CoProvided, That a further sum, amounting to one hundred Proviso. and three thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars, shall be paid to defray the expenses of the said Metropolitan Police force by the cities of Washington and Georgetown and the county of Washington.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

$125,000 for sup

Government Hospi

For the support, clothing, medical, and moral treatment of the insane of the army and navy, revenue-cutter, and port of innates of volunteer service, who may have become insane since their tal for the Insane. entry into the service of the United States, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

$37,800 for fitting hospital building.

For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of an extension of the hospital sufficient to accommodate fifty-four up and extension of patients of the excited class, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For purchasing and setting four heating-boilers, six thousand dollars.

For the purchase, by the Secretary of the Interior, for the agricultural and economical use of the hospital, twenty

$5,000 for purchas. ing heating-boilers.

$10,000 for purfor use of hospital.

chase of land, &c.,

$48,000 for support

of Columbia Institu

Dumb.

nine and forty one-hundredths acres of land and its appurtenances, including cost of survey, examination of title, and conveyance to the United States, ten thousand dol lars.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

For the support of the institution, including salaries tion for the Deaf and and incidental expenses, the maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, forty-eight thousand dollars.

$6,000 for grading grounds, &c.

$70,000 for payments due on purchase of the estate known as Kendall Green.

$18,300 for support

of Columbia Hospi

For continuing the work on the inclosure, improvements and grading of the grounds of the institution, six thousand dollars.

To provide for payments due and unpaid on July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, on the purchase by the institution of the estate known as Kendall Green, seventy thousand dollars.

COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING IN-ASYLUM.

For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women tal for Women and and Lying-in-Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from pay-patients, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars.

Lying-in-Asylum.

$25,000 for pur

chase of building

For purchase of the building now occupied by said hosand grounds occu- pital, with forty thousand feet of ground, twenty-five

pied by said hospi

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thousand dollars.

For alteration and repairs of said building, five thousand dollars.

For repairs to roof and out-buildings, alterations in wards, &c., two thousand dollars.

June 19, 1872.

An Act appropriating ten thousand dollars for a statue of General John A.
Rawlins.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That $10,000 appropri- the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appro

ated to procure a

life-sized statue of

Raw

tien. John A. How priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise lins, to be placed in appropriated, to procure a life-sized statue of General John A. Rawlins, late Secretary of War, to be placed as a center-piece of a fountain in Franklin square, the design

Franklin square.

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