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612 THIR.TY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32. 1851. sular of Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For survey of the Menomonee cession, Wisconsin, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, twenty-five thousand dollars. _ For surveys in the southern part of Missouri, east of the meridian, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, five thousand dollars. For correction of erroneous and defective lines of the public and private surveys in Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, two thousand dollars. For retracing and re-surveying fraudulent and erroneous work in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, fifteen thousand dollars. For correcting detached erroneous surveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, one thousand Eve hundred and sixty dollars. For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates, twenty thousand dollars. ` For the survey of private claims in Florida, under the act of twenty- eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work 1848, eh. 83. now under contract, ten thousand dollars. For completing certain surveys in Florida, including scrap work, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the diniculties attending the execution of the same, ten thousand dollars. For running and marking the base and meridian lines in Oregon, as required by the third section of the act of twenty-seventh September, 1850, ch. 76, eighteen hundred and fifty, nine thousand dollars. For surveying in Oregon of township lines and subdivisions of townships at a rate not to exceed twelve dollars per mile, nfty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That this rate of compensation shall cease on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. _ Public build- Public Buildings.—For the purchase of tree boxes, leather, wire, ‘“$°· and twine, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the hire of two carts at two dollars per day each, for two hundred and fifty days, one thousand dollars. For manure for the public grounds, six hundred dollars. For the purchase of trees for the mall and other public grounds, one thousand dollars. For expense of enclosing and prepairing public public grounds, for nursery, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the casual repairs of the Capitol, repairs of water closets, cleaning furnaces, Sec., repairing stables, and various other appendages to the Capitol, four thousand five hundred dollars. cF1¥'1t¤¤¤ i¤ To enable the clerk of the House to cause to be erected in the W °basement under the east entrance of the Capitol nearest the House of Representatives, a suitable fumace for warming and excluding the dampness from that part of the building, the sum of five hundred dollars. For. improving public grounds, north, south, and west of the Capitol, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the western gate-keeper, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation of two additional watchmen at the park, three hundred and sixty-five dollars each, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation of the messenger attendant in part on the main furnace, three hundred and nity dollars. For compensation of the laborer employed by the commissioner of public buildings, for cleaning rotunda, water closets, &,c., three hundred and sixty-tive dollars. d E`or compensation of the public gardner, one thousand two hundred o ars.