FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sass; I. C11. 2. 1897. 41 For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting watch men’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp—posts, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For ilowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. ‘ For care, construction, and .repair of fountains, one thousand ive hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five 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. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be Limit for emma, made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Wash- °*°·· "'°"‘°"“‘ ington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per imuaam. square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Colum- ‘ bia prior to July first, 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 cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, one hundred dollars. EXECUTIVE Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing the Exec- m:“k§Qj,:{*;§°”- utive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or ‘ ’ ' otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. . Lmncrrno ran Exncurxvm Mansion Ann runmc cnonnns: For fi*s¤¤j;;ls_,g¢¤·¤·¤¤¤ gas, pay of lamplighters, gas litters, aud laborers; purchase, erection, ° gm ' and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for oiizice, omce stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, thirteen thousand dollars: Pro- pmt.", vided, That for each nre-foot burner not connected with a meter in the mximum ¥·°'““"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 lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty-five minutes rebumm-ymgm. after sunset to forty-ilve minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas com- _ pany shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so .Sr;{"’°¤“““"g "“"" combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour. Electric lights: For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five E*°°°"° **¤‘“°· °“°· nights from seven posts, at twenty cents per light per night, on grounds south of the Executive Mansion, five hundred and eleven dollars. For lighting thirty-two are electric lights in Lafayette, Franklin, P"k“‘ Judiciary, and Lincoln parks three hundred and sixty-five nights, at twenty-tive cents per light per night, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said parks, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Until Congress shall provide for a conduit system it shall be 0¤¤¢1¤l¤•.v·¢·¤¤-
