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Amount paid Thomas Wisedell, draughtsman

Amount paid O. C. Bullard, (on trees, &c.)

Amount paid on pay-roll for mechanics and laborers

To balance.....

2,728 00

244 00

884 34

2,000 00

1,204 35

1,069 00

54,064 85

145,303 06

119, 696 94

265, 000 00

To balance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877..
To expend tures for same.

$119,696 94
145, 303 06

By appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876....
By appropriation for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1877, made available on passage of act for
general improvements..

125,000 00

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As the improvements of these grounds advance, the necessity of erecting more imposing stairways of entrance to the building at the western front becomes more apparent. The rustic terraces at that front have a plain and unfinished appearance, and show clearly the necessity of the proposed terrace-wall, in order to connect the grounds with the building in a harmonious mauner.

Mr. Olmsted says, on this subject, "that attention should be called to the great defects of the present arrangement for entering the Capitol from the west. The present stairway was designed with reference to an original small central building, and was architecturally inadequate even for that. It now serves as the only direct means of access to the Capitol from all the western part of the city, and is not only awkward and mean in appearance, but exceedingly inconvenient, and rapidly approaching a dangerous condition."

The obliteration of the central walk and the completion of the entrance to the approach of the Capitol from Pennsylvania avenue, which is designed on a scale corresponding to that of the enlarged Capitol, will make its defects more conspicuous. The immediate construction of the new stairways, upon the plan favorably reported by the Committees of Public Buildings and Grounds in 1875, is much to be desired.

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4,500 00

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2,511 71

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1,119 48

689 40

889 04

536 80

329 15

201 22

199 96

197 78

Amount paid for care and repair of clocks, &c., in central building

100 00

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60 00

Amount paid for silver and nickel plating

54 00

Amount paid for stationery.

26 00

Amount paid for miscellaneous, such as lime, bricks, cement, sand, &c...

1,075 07

78,000 00

Amount appropriated June 30, 1876

78,000 00

COURT HOUSE.

Owing to leaks in the roof, caused in a measure by the injudicious use of iron shovels in clearing ice from the gutters, the ceilings of the courtrooms became much damaged. These have been repaired, and the ceiling of the criminal court repainted.

By direction of Chief Justice Cartter, new sash were put in all the windows of court-rooms, on a plan devised by him, which arrangement will greatly improve the ventilation of those rooms.

The rooms occupied by the register of deeds have been painted and papered, and an additional room fitted up and assigned to accommodate the records and increased work of that officer.

The entire building has been kept in good repair. I renew my recommendation for heating the court-rooms and corridors with a steam apparatus. At present the former is heated with ordinary hot-air furnaces, and the latter are not heated at all.

BOTANICAL GARDEN AND BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN.

The Bartholdi fountain, purchased by virtue of the act approved March 3, 1877, has been removed from the Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and placed in the Botanical Garden, as directed by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and that of the Library.

These grounds being so low, and subject to overflow during hard rains and high tides, the fountain has been set sufficiently high to admit of the grounds around it to be filled to a proper grade to prevent such overflow.

It is proposed to raise and increase in size the marble rim around the basin of the fountain to correspond to the new grade.

No funds being available for putting the fountain in place, the labor necessary has been performed by persons employed on the Capitol grounds.

A small appropriation will be necessary for the water and gas supply to it, and for the rock-work around it.

A new heating apparatus has been put in one of the houses, and the buildings generally kept in good condition.

NAVAL MONUMENT.

Work on the foundation of the Naval Monument began in November, 1876.

An excavation of six feet disclosed the presence of an old gravel marsh, which was entirely too soft to bear the weight designed to be put upon it. The excavation was continued for 10 feet with no better result, and piling was resorted to. Twenty-seven white-oak piles were driven 18 feet, or until they did not sink more than 1 inch under a blow of an ,800-pound hammer falling 20 feet. These were then sawed off at the bottom of the excavation, large stone laid over the top to act as caps, and the whole excavation filled in solid with concrete to a level with the surface. Upon this the masonry which serves as the base of the monument rests.

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There has been no perceptible sinking of the mass, as a whole, or in any part.

The monument proper was commenced in May and finished in July. The granite base and approaches are now in process of construction. Very respectfully submitted.

Hon. CARL SCHURZ,

Secretary of the Interior.

EDWARD CLARK, Architect United States Capitol.

INDEX.

Abandoned military reservations, 43.
Abandonment and relocation of mining c'aims, 144.
Abiquiu agency, annual report of Agent Russell
to the Commissioner, 549; location of agency,
519; number of Ute Indians, 549; number of
Apaches, 550; trouble between Utes and Apaches
at supply-issue, 550; dissatisfaction at change
of agency, 550; desire of Apaches for improve.
ment, 550; appearance of small-pox, 550.
Abstract of operations under the surveying sys-
tem in Idaho Territory, 56; Washington Terri-
tory, 57; Arizona Territory, 57; Dakota Terri-
tory, 58; Nebraska, 58; California, 59; Nevada,
60; Florida, 60; Louisiana, 61; Minnesota, 62;
Utah Territory, 62; Wyoming Territory, 62;
Oregon, 64; Montana Territory, 65; Colorado, 65;
New Mexico Territory, 66.

Accountant's division of General Land Office,
work performed in, 108.

Acres of public lands disposed of, surveyed, and
remaining unsurveyed, up to June 30, 1877, 1
Act of March 3, 1875, legislation recommended to
correct error in, 7; respecting the limits of res-
ervations for town-sites upon the public domain,
95; providing for the sale of saline lands, 108;
to promote the development of the mining re-
sources of the United States, 115; to amend sec-
tion 2324 of Revised Statutes, relating to the de-
velopment of the mining resources of the United
States, 116; to exclude the States of Missouri
and Kansas from the provisions of act of May 10,
1872, 116.

Additional homestead entries, 50.

Additional rules governing pre-emption entries,

101.

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Apache Indians, vi, vii; raids by the, vii; surren
der of, vii.

Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, act making
appropriation for subsistence of, 616, 622; act
making appropriation for subsistence of, at South-
ern agency, New Mexico, 616.

Apaches, Southern, removal and outbreak of, 416.
Appendix to report of Columbia Hospital for
Women, 872: charter, 872; by-laws and regula
tions, 873; directors, 873; presidents and vice-
presidents, 873; treasurer, 874; secretary, 874;
Committee on Expenditure, 874; visiting com
mittee, 874; resident physician and surgeon in
charge, 874; consulting physicians, 875; the mat-
ron, 876; nurses and employés, 76; patients, 877;
visitors, 877.

Applegate, L., act making appropriations for
amount due, 616.

Application for patent in mining cases, 129.
Applications on file for patents to land within the
Virginia military district of Ohio, 106.
Arapahoes and Northern Cheyennes, removal of,

415.

Area of public lands surveyed in 1877, 68.
Architect of the Capitol, lii.

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Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, xxvii.
Authority to issue commissions to take testimony
in certain cases, 8.

Bagley, W., Indian agent, annual report of, Siletz
agency, Oregon, 573.

Baptists, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
Baptists, Free will, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
Barnes, A. J., Indian agent, annual report of, Ne-
vada agency, Nevada, 546.
Bartholdi fountain, 906.

Basins, Green River, 756; Salt Lake, 759; Jack-
son's, 772.

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Codification and revision of land-laws, 4.

Colburn, J. E., Indian agent, annual report of, Mis-
sion agency, California, 431.

Colorado, legislation recommended in regard to
settlement of private land-claims in the State
of, 26; extension of public surveys in, 65; reser-
vations of public lands for town-site purposes
in, 70; school-sections containing deposits of
coal do not pass to, 138.

Colorado River Indian agency, Arizona, annual
report of Agent Morford to Commissioner, 427;
number of Indians, 427; suggestions, 427; build-
ings, 427.

Colorado River reserve, Arizona, executive order
defining the boundaries of, 632.
Columbia Hospital for Women, xlix, 865.
Colville Indian agency, Washington Territory,
annual report of Agent Simms to the Commis
sioner, 582; council, 582; assignment of the
Coeur d'Aléne Indians, 582; school, 582; relig.
ious interests, 582; buildings, 583.
Commission to visit Sitting Bull, iv.
Commissions, special, 421.

Congregationalists, Indian agencies assigned to,

714.

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