$2,107,748 61

13,740 00

Amount brought forward,
1834. Paving foot-way and making a
gravel carriage-way north
front of the President's
house
Constructing ornamental hy-
drant of marble at the west
fountain of the capitol
Alterations and repairs of the
capitol, including the new
covering of the centre dome

$2,127,800 94

Expenditures up to 1814,

1,214,292 98

$3,342,093 92

322 424

1835. Repairing culvert at the west
front of the capitol
Completing the work of re-
pairing and putting in order
the Congressional burying
ground
Improving Lafayette square
Lighting lamps, and keeping
the grounds and walks in
order, including cost of
trees and shrubs

Laying a line of water pipes
from the State to the Navy

Department

600 00

229 61

4,433 62

Alterations and repairs of the

$3,349,216 46

&c.

12,361 38

Amount brought forward,

capitol, including domes,

1835. Preparing niches for the re-
ception of the statues at the
east front of the capitol
Alterations and repairs of the
President's house, for the
gardener's salary and for
keeping the grounds and
walks in order

Protection of the waste water-
pipes and repairing pipes,
&c.

460 00

4,115 70

521 55

Annual expense of two fire

engines

200 00

1836. Alterations and repairs of the capitol, including the domes

&c.

7,752 90

Amount brought forward,

keeping the grounds and
walks in order, &c.

$3,379,578 68

2,995 59

200 00.

1,907 09 144 81

1836. Annual expense of two fire

engines

Graveling the yard east of the
capitol
Repairing culverts

Purchase of Smith's spring,
including one acre of land
and for enclosing the same,
for building culverts, and
keeping the water pipes in
order
Attendant on the furnaces of
the Rotundo during the

recess

Replanting trees and keep-
ing boxes in order on Penn-
sylvania Avenue, purchase
of trees and planting in
Fountain square, Lafayette
square and across the pub-
lic reservation at Seventh
street

Building a workshop
Conveying the surplus water
of the capitol to the Botanic
garden, making a basin, and
purchasing a fountain of
Hiram Powers

5,115 72

150 00

476 63 1,207 67

628 85

$3,392,345 07

$3,392,345 07

Amount brought forward,
1836. Enclosing the garden and
grounds of the Magazine
and Marine Hospital near
the Eastern Branch

A dwarf wall and fence be-
tween the Executive build-
ings and the President's
house
Extending the Capitol square
and improving the grounds
within and adjacent to the
same, as far west as First
street, intersecting the
Pennsylvania Avenue, from
the east

Enlarging the folding room
of the House

Improving Maryland Avenue,

east

Do do

500 00

942 72

15,513 024

347 46

2,309 08

do., west

1,870 56

45,404 602

22,580 04

Erecting a Treasury building
Erecting a Patent office build-

ing

$3,481,812 59

In the vicinity of the city are many valuable improvements; the most conspicuous of which is the Columbian College "incorporated by an act of congress, February 9, 1821." The land for the building was purchased in December 1819; the edifice began in April, 1820, and was completed

in September, 1821. The premises contain about forty-seven acres, occupying one of the most beautiful eminences in America. It is situated north of the city, and according to Mr. Lambert, is seven thousand nine hundred and seventy feet west longitude, or one and a half miles and fifty feet from the capitol, and about one and a half miles north of the President's house, commanding a view of the city, the surrounding country, the Potomac, Alexandria, Fort Washington, fifteen miles down the Potomac, and the heights of Mount Vernon. The southern boundary of the college lot is the northern boundary of the city; and Fourteenth street, west, runs in a right south line from the college to the east end of the Potomac bridge. A more beautiful, a more convenient, or a more healthy spot, is not to be found in the Union. Last autumn was the most sickly season ever known in these regions, and though about twenty persons then inhabited this building, not one case of sickness occurred among them. The college edifice fronting the south is so constructed, that a free circulation of air will at all times be admitted into every part of the building during the warm season of the year. There is a

never-failing well of pure water near the door. The building is three stories high, besides a basement and attic stories-both the interior and division walls are brick, and the building is one hundred and seventeen feet long and forty-seven wide. Besides this, two substantial and convenient houses are erected for the professors.