FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. On. 546. 1898. 627 For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. d For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand o ars. d For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, three thousand o ars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and 01d ¤¤¤¤1.¤t¤. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: Provided, £~·#·<>·_ That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property xp°°°'m°' belonging to the United States. For repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, con. structing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, go? fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, two thousand five hundred o lars. For manure and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice, live thousand two hundred dollars. · For purchase and repair of seats and tools, three thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary ot War may determine, three thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand nve hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, six hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the concrete or asphalt pavement of E street . northwest through said park, from Fourth street to Fifth street northwest, two thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made tidmit M •;¤¤¤r¤¤·. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington ° °" p"°"‘°° °‘ City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July iirst, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For a steam road roller, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars. EXECUTIVE MANSION: F O1' 081*9, I°0p8lI‘, {tI1d 1’Bf\11`IliSl1lI1g' the Exact]- Executive Mansion. tive Mansion, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or _ otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three Rapursrusi, sw. thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. LIGHTING THE EXEGUTNE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For Ligh=i¤g·>fM•m¤i¤¤ gas, pay of lamplighters, gas litters, and laborers; purchase, erection, '“‘° "°‘“‘d°‘ and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand dollars: Pro- rama. vided, That for each live-foot burner not connected with a meter in the M“‘“°“”‘P°"‘*“‘*’· lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said ,,,;,3 b'"" °"°" lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty·ilve minutes
