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For continuing the grading and repairing of Virginia avenue, ten thousand dollars.

For the necessary expenses to be incurred in consequence of opening Sixth street west across the Mall, and in making fences, two thousand dollars.

For renewing the heating apparatus at the President's House, eight thousand dollars.

For laying a new pipe from the K street main to the Capitol, in order to supply the building at all times with a full flow of water, five thousand dollars.

To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to put in thorough repair the conservatory recently injured by fire at the President's Mansion, ten thousand dollars.

For the construction of a new green-house, with central dome, and a wing to correspond in size with the present green-house in the Botanic Garden, to be built of iron and glass according to a plan prepared by the architect of the Capitol extension, and approved by the Joint Committee on the Library, thirty-five thousand dollars; the same to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress. For enabling the Commissioner to cause the old and useless lightningrods on the President's House to be removed, and Hawley's improved patented conductors substituted for them, two hundred and fifty dollars. For enabling the Commissioner to employ a suitable electrician to take care of and operate the lighting apparatus of the dome of the Capitol, twelve hundred dollars.

For repairing in front of the War Department on Pennsylvania avenue, and on Seventeenth street, with stone flagging, sixteen thousand dollars. For annual repairs of the President's House, six thousand dollars. For top-dressing for public grounds and cartage for same, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase of tools for public grounds, five hundred dollars.

For purchase of flower-pots, mats, glasses, putty, wire, twine, and so forth, for use on the green-houses, one hundred dollars.

For the removal of the foot-bridge on Maine avenue, now of no further use at that point, to Third street west, which the Commissioner of Public Buildings is hereby directed to have done, three hundred dollars.

To complete the culvert through the Botanic Garden, fifteen thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice from pavements and public walks, three hundred dollars.

For manure and cartage of the same for Smithsonian grounds and public reservations, one thousand dollars.

For completing the improvement of Franklin square, gravelling walks and deepening the same, and purchasing and planting trees and shrubbery, five thousand dollars.

For improvement of reservations on New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maryland avenues, the same being now enclosed, manure, trenching, the purchase of trees and shrubbery, four thousand dollars. For further improvement of the Circle on Pennsylvania avenue, six hundred dollars.

For purchase and planting of trees and boxes for the same, replacing those that have been destroyed on the streets, heretofore planted by the government, two thousand dollars.

For painting the iron fences around Lafayette square, in front of the War and Navy Departments, in front of the Executive Mansion, and the government portion of the fence around Judiciary square, five thousand dollars.

For new crossings on Pennsylvania avenue, five thousand dollars.

For annual repairs of fences around the public reservations, one thousand dollars.

For lighting the rotunda of the Capitol with gas, by a branch from the electric battery which lights the dome, three thousand dollars.

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WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.

For the payment of employés in the management, engineering, and repairs of the Washington aqueduct, twenty thousand dollars.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings is hereby abolished; and the Chief Engineer of the army shall perform all the duties now required by law of said Commissioner, and shall also have the superintendence of the Washington aqueduct and all the public works and improvements of the government of the United States in the District of Columbia, unless otherwise provided by law; and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives shall hereafter appoint the members of the Capitol police.

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SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War is hereby

authorized, at his discretion, to increase the pay of the clerks of the United States armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, to twelve hundred dollars per annum, instead of eight hundred dollars, as now fixed by law.

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GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

No. 33.

Washington, March 28, 1867.

The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned :

[PUBLIC-No. 6.]

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and to facilitate restoration.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the commanding general in each district defined by an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall cause a registration to be made of the male citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upwards, resident in each county or parish in the State or States included in his district, which registration shall include only those persons who are qualified to vote for delegates by the act aforesaid, and who shall have taken and subscribed the following oath or affirmation: "I, do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a citizen of the State of -; that I have resided in said State for next preceding this day, and now reside in the county of parish of in said State, (as the case may be;) that I am twentyone years old; that I have not been disfranchised for participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States, nor for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United States; that I have never been a member of any State legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath as a member of Congress of the United States, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will faithfully support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and will, to the best of

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