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FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 433. 1882. 33] COLUMBIA HOSPITAL Fon WOMEN AND LYDNG~Dl' ASYLUM. To provide for the enlargement of the west wing of the Columbia Columbia Hos- Hospxtal for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For the erection of suitable Pit?]- fire-escapes to the building; for the placing in of an elevator to trans- v:3,;°`§f§°p°s’°l° mit patients to the different wards; and to furnish such accommoda· ’ ` tions as the outdoor service demands, the same to be completed under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, as per plans and estimates submitted, ten thousand dollars. · For the erection of suitable iireescapes and stand-pipes and other G°"?'¤m°¤* facilities for extinguishin g fire in the Government Printing Office and £,Q"E:;§m2,m;: the Government Hospital for the Insane, ten thousand dollars, or so Hospital for jonmuch thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction sane, me-escapes of the Architect of the Treasury, General M. C. Meigs, and the Archi- f°’- tect of the Capitol. HOWARD UNIVEBSHY. · For maintenance of the Howard University: To be used in payment _ Hvwird U¤i'¤f· — of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, a portion my' of which will be paid irom donations and other sources, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs of buildings of the Howard University: To be used in repairing the main university building, Miner Hall and wings, and Clarke Hall(· dormitories, and professors dwellings and rooms), includ- • ing outbuildings, to wit: The wood work doors, windows, porches, steps, and outbuildings, fences, basement-iloors, heating-apparatus plumbing and drainage; to paint all the wood-work, including wings, and _ to build new fence; and for water-supply, to be used in•the construction of a windmill, with reservoir, laying pipes, putting in pump, and all necessary attachments, ten thousand dollars. . , FBEEDEN’S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of _Fr¤¢dm¤¤’¤ Hw- Columbia, as follows: · r C P“*‘r , For subsistence, twenty-four thousand dollars; for salaries and wmpensation of the surgeon-in chief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, matron, nurses, and cooks, nine thousand five hundred dollars; for fuel and light, three thousand dollars; for clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, six thousand dollars; for rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; for medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; lor repairs and furniture, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. TENTH CENSUS. ‘ For the completion of the work of taking the tenth census and closing Tenth Census. the bureau, including the salary of the Superintendent and of all clerks and other employees, two hundredtand forty-tive thousand dollars, UNDER THE comlnssroztmc OF FISH AND msumzms. For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by the 1·`<>¤d—¤¤h¤¤· · United States Fish Commission of shad and freshwater herring into ` the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and Great Lake states, and of salmon, white Hsh, carp, guorami, and other useful food-fishes into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, Spanish mackerel, and other sea-fishes, and for the purchase of one or more stemnlannches or lightdraught stcamers adapted for the purpose; for experiments in regard to the artihcial propagation of oysters and other shell-ilslv and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease ci" the food iishes of the United States, including salaries or