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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 360. 1885. 503 Bmrnrncs Ann ononnns in Ann Anonnn wasnrneron. sad For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: t°{2{,E[,€ém6Dta¤d For improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south of the Ex- care of public ecutive Mansion, six thousand dollars. gr¤¤¤d¤- For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. I“"”‘s· For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue, between Fourth and Sixth streets east, one thousand five hundred dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp posts two thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For tlower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. . For care construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving, care, and maintenance of various reservations twelve · thousand dollars. For im proveuwnt, maintenance and care of Smithsonian Grounds, tive thousand dollars. _ · v_~-» To complete improvement of Washington Circle including removal of fence, two thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. For repairs and 1'uel at the Executive Mansion, as follows: Executive Msn- For care and repair of and reiurnishing the Executive Mansion, in- ¤i°¤· cluding four thousand dollars for new roof, sixteen thousand dollars. For iuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. Fon LIGHTING run Exncurrvn Mansion Ann runmo enounns: _Li$¤i¤gE¤¤¤¤· For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gasiitters plumbers, gas fifting and tmfuc "““;’d·_“° plumbing, purchase and erection of lamps and lamp posts, purchase of P gm matches, and for repairs of all kinds; iuel and lights for office, stables, watch1nen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars : Provided, That for each six·ioot burner not connected with P¤‘· a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall he paid per lamp lor gas, including lighting, cleaning, und keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; 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. F on REPAIR OF WATER-PIPES AND MRE-PLUGS: For repairing and B¤P¤i¤‘°Y Y*’¤*•¤¤”· extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and clean- Pix? °];::‘“‘ °f ing the springs, and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that sp gs' ' supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, \Var and Navy Departments. two thousand five hundred dollars. Fon TIALEGRAPH T0 conNEoT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPART: T¤l¤§8¤‘¤Pb <?¤¤· unnrs Ann Govnnnunnr Pnrnrrne Omuon: For care and repair of :,;f,§;”j,g:l;‘,F:* the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. P