THE SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
Mr. SHIVELY from the Committee on Ways and Means reported the specific appropriation bill [H. R. 400], which was read the first time, 200 copies ordered printed, and made the special order for Friday at 2 o'clock p. m. [Among the principal items of the bill are the following: John B. Conner, money advanced for the State Bureau of Statistics, $2,800; new heating apparatus at Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $2,500; Baker, Smith & Co., for register for new Insane Hospital, $3,518; John Martin, for brick works in New Insane Hospital, $46,786; Penn, Staff & Co., for work connected with the reconstruction of the Southern Prison buildings destroyed by fire, $5,860; Teresa and Chas, Bechtel, for damages sustained by the death of their father, through the negligence of the State, $1,000; State Prison North, for new books for library, $500; for new heating apparatus, $[?],000; for new work house, bath house, drying room, etc., $15,000; for new insane wards at Prison, $5,000; State Prison South, to furnish new cell-house, $5,000; to furnish new hospital building at Prison, $15,000; for purchase of 1,000 feet of new hose, $1,000; for making connection between new cell-house and office, $5,000; to purchase ground for cemetery, $333; to build a wall around the same, $35,000; State Board of Agriculture for the two years, $5,000. Carlon & Hollenbeck, for binding the Drapier Brevier Reports in 1881, ordered by the Governor and Secretary of State $7,013.13. Reuben P. Mann & Co., for supplies to the Southern Prison, $1,974 12. Messrs. Talbot, for State's share of the cost of paving North Meridian street, $4,489.70. For clerk hire in Adjutant General's office for two years, $1,200. For deficiency in cost of public printing-years 1881-82, $14,000. The total amount of the appropriations provided for in the bill is $184,000.
