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 444 FORTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 133. 1881. BUILDINGS AND eB.0UNDs IN AND AJz.0UND WASHINGTON AND THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. Improvement Improvement and care of publicgrounds: For illlin g in and improving wd 0**** °f P“bH° grounds south of Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars, !“’"-“‘l°· For ordinary care of greenhouses and the nursery, one thousand live hundred dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. _ For care and improvement of reservation number three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For construction and repair of iron fences, fnve hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, one thousand five hundred dollars. · For purchase and repair of seats, hve hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, five hundred dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care and construction and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving variou reservations, twelve thousand dollars For ordinary care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand dollars. For asph altum foot-walks through Smithsonian Grounds from Seventh to Twelfth streets, one thousand five hundred dollars. Exemnave Man- Executive Mansion: For care of and repairs to the Executive Man- ¤l¤¤· sion, and for furniture, thirty thousand dollars; for constructing elevator in the Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars, to be available immediately; fuel for the Executive Mansion and the greenhouses, two thousand dollars; care and necessary repairs of the greenhouses, five thougaifld five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred o ars. Lights, em. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gasditters, plumbers, plumbing, lamp-posts, matches and repairs of all kinds; fuel for office, for the watchmen’s lodges, and rama. lor the green-houses in the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That for each burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-five dollars shall be paid per lamp lor gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and in case a contract cannot be made at that rate the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substimte other illuminating material in the lamps on the public grounds, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may he necessary for that purpose. WMGP PiP6¤· GM- Repair of water-pipes and fire-plugs: For repairing and extendiilg water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, 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 the State, War, and Navy Lepartments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph. Telegraph  connect the Capitol with the departments and the GOV- mirmnent Printing Oince: For repair and care of the same, one thousand c dollars. S B ¤ i l Q uu f or Building for State, War, and Navy Departments; For continuing H10 D tj']-, _,Q_'f construction of the building; to cover inside iron.work ; plumbing Mid m,,,,,,,_ gas-fitting; granite stairs; heating apparatus; plastering and SWG00- work; materials for approaches; lumber for doors, sash, and ilooring ; labor and contingencies, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mwashingten Continuation of the Washington Monument: Earth embankments, °“°m°“l’• Hl3·I‘b]6, granlbe, iron frame-work, machinery, tools, labor, and offsco 6x' penses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.