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FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Ssss. II. Ch. 415. 1872. 365 of tools for public grounds, two thousand dollars; for purchase of trees, Buildings and tree-boxes, and whitewashing fences, five thousand dollars; for purchase €;°“¤}l¤ a’°¤¤d of flower-pots, mats, twine, and glasses, one thousand dollars. °Shmgt°“` For care and improvement of grounds south of executive mansion, including purchase of trees, making walks, and grading, ten thousand dollars; for repairs of greenhouse at propagating garden, three thousand dollars. For improving Franklin square, introducing water, gas, lodge, and uri- Franklin nals, six thousand five hundred dollars. ¤<l¤¤¥€· For improvement of Monument grounds, grading road, walk, draining, Mommmt purchase and hauling gravel for walks and roads, trees, and shrubs, as per g¤>¤¤dS: plan, fifteen thousand dollars; and said grounds shall be considered as a m be coma_ portion of the public grounds in the city of Washington, and shall be ered; portion of under the same control as the other public buildings and grounds in the §;b1’° g"°““ds¤ city of \Vashington, in conformity with the act of March second, eighteen 1867, eh. 167, § 2. hundred and sixty-seven. V<>1·><iv- P· 466- For improving and grading Armory square, making and gravelling walks, roads, purchase of trees, and drainage, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of Judiciary square, by introducing water, drainage, purchase of trees, and opening and grading walks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For care and improvement of the Smithsonian grounds, two thousand dollars. For completing improvements and for care of Lafayette square, three thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement of Farragut square, five thousand dollars. For grading, opening walks and roads, and gravelling the same, drainage, purchase of trees and shrubs, for improvement of reservation between Third and Sixth streets, as per plan, ten thousand dollars; for removing snow and ice from pavements and walks, one thousand dollars. For starting a nursery for improvement of public grounds, two thousand dollars. For improving Lincoln park, building pavements, opening walks, and lodge, five thousand five hundred dollars. For improving reservation on New York avenue and Eighteenth street, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of government water—pipes and fire-plugs, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning water—pipes, ten thousand dollars; for purchase of sparrows, cages, boxes, and care of the same, five hundred dollars; for purchase of tree-markers, and marking the same, one hundred dollars; for abating nuisanees, one thousand dollars. For improving reservations on different avenues, twenty thousand dollars. For casual repairs of Navy Yard bridge and upper bridge, three thou- Repairs of sand dollars. bridges-' Wus/zington Aqueduct.-For repairs of dwellings for keepers of the yvasmngum water gates, one thousand five hundred dollars. Aqueduct- For completing the parapets of Cabin John bridge and other bridges on the line of the aqueduct, thirteen thousand nine hundred and thirty- four dollars. For a dial telegraph connecting the great falls of the Potomac with the reservoirs and with the office in Vllasllington, two thousand five hundred dollars. For maintenance, including superintendence, salaries of gate-keepers, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing the necessary excavation of distributing reservoir, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For furnishing and laying a cast-iron pipe four feet in diameter from the central gate—house to the effluent gate-house, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars. For purchase of land for road from the great falls to conduit road,