42 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2. 1897. unlawful to lay conduits or erect overhead wires for electric lighting purposes in any road, street, avenue, highway, park, or reservation, rmm. _ except as hereafter specifically-authorized by law: Provided, however, m°f,",:;°:‘],.‘f‘},',,,‘_[_Q,§j‘ That the Commissioners of the District, of Columbia are hereby author- ` ized to issue permits for house connections with conduits and overhead wires now existing adjacent to the premises with which such connection is to be made; and also permits for public lighting connections with conduits already in the portion of the street proposed to be lighted. And nothing herein contained shall be construed to atfect in any way M{’•¤¢¤¤g ¤¤s·¤•>¤ any pending litigation involving the validity or invalidity or legality '°°°°°' °'°' of the construction of any conduits made since June eighteenth, eighteen _ hundred and ninety-six, nor to prevent the United States Electric mff°,;'j,‘:j:_fQuf°'““‘ Lighting Company from extending conduits into Columbia Heights, V L 1 Washington Heights, and Mount Pleasant within the iire limits as spe- ° °°""°' cilically provided in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, making appropriations for the expenses of the government dg¤;•gr_**;¤*¤ of the District of Columbia; and the existing overhead wires of the ' Potomac Electric Power Company west of Rock Creek and outside the tire limits are hereby authorized to be maintained for a period of one year from the passage of this Act and no longer. w.e¤pu>••.r¤1>·¤¤, Hmmm or wsrma 1>I1=·ns: For repairing and extending water pipes, °"’· purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for _ gh?] State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand ilve hundred o ars. ·r¤1•»:n1>h. 0·1¤i¢¤l. TELEGRAPH T0 CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH Tmc DEPARTMENTS {,’,‘}},’,{;;'{,‘;,§°E‘· ‘“‘ AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: For care and repair of existingéines, one thoglsand five hungred dollars. wanagum mum- ASHINGTON 0NU1m1<T: or the care and maintenance of the mdiaasmu. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one iireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant iireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at eventy-five dollar per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top lioor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchimené $::1 sixlty dolgrs per month each; in all, eight thousand five un an wen o lars. nxpmm. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope,nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower tloors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for_keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electriclight plant m good order, three thousand dollars. mnsmy mu. MILITARY Posrs. cmaemmsn. Por the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement ot, such military posts as in the Judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of which not less than fifty thousand dollars hall be expended at the military post sptnue, wah. at Spokane, Washington. And the Secretary of War may, in his discre- Fm Ammmm tion, use not to exceed twenty thousand dollars of said sum to purchase mm · the former post traders’ buildings at Fort Assinniboine, in Montana. ”:,,,;:;.£.r·»g::, Tsizenr naman, Jmrrnnson Bnmucxs, Missouri: That the approsoim. " pnation of eighteen thousand dollars made for the purchase of land tor a target range for the use of troops stationed at JeH'erson Barracks, Missouri, IS hereby made ayailahle for expenditure during the Eagle. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: Provided, That any land ¤ ¤· purchased thereunder shall be unencumbered by any private or public ways or roads.
