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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 4.11. isse. 965 Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior tc; .l)uly first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth o ase. Exmeurrrvn Mxxsxox. nxeeuuvenausm. For care. repair, repainting. and refurnishing the Executive Man- R¤r>¤i¤·¤. f¤=>1.¤¤¤· sion, sixteen t iousant dollars. to be expended by contract or otherwise. as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stables, three thousand dollars. I For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC Gnounnsz For Mvghtinz {>i¤¤<=¤¤·r¤ gas, pay of lamp-lighters. gas-fitters. and laborers; purchase, erec- grlgiiii an Pumm tion, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office. office stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand ollars: Provided, That for each six—foot burner not con- Pr<¤:f·¤¢>- , nected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more i,g{°f"m°m°"°°’" than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lightmg. cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum; and authority is . hereby given to substitute other illuminatin material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum thereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose. For erecting seven iron posts, each twenty-five feet high, and con- Electric Hzhrine necting them with underground wires for electric lights, one thousand dollars. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights, from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. _REPAIR OF lVATER~PIPES: For repairing and extending water- “'“*°*"P‘¥’°‘·"’·"— pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them. purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pi es of the same that supply the Capitol. the Executive Mansion. andpthe building for the State, WVar, and Navy Departments, two thousand tive hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH T0 coxxncr THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS m_‘;Q;°“*m°¤° *°'¤· AND Govummnxr Pmxrmo Ormem: For care and repair of existingI ' lines. one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. _ _ §VASHINGT0N Moxoymxr; For the care and maintenance of the m}f,‘Qf“'““‘°” ”°““‘ W ashington Monument and the o eration of the elevator and ma- can and mainte- Phlnery connected therewith, namely; For one custodian, at one hun- “‘“‘°°‘ dred dollars per month; one steam engineer. at eighty dollars per month: one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month: one fireman. at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-Eve dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car. at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor. at forty-tive dollars per month; one attendant at top, at forty-five dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month ; in all, eight thousand one lnxnvlred and sixty dollars._ Fo? fuel, lights, oil,' waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, Expensesbrushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric ights, apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floornrgpairs to en 'nes. boilers, dynamos, elevator,_and repairs of all kin s connectcxll with the monument and machinery, and purfhgtse of all necessary articles for maintaining the monument. machmerv. elevator, and electric light plant in good order, two thousand three hundred and forty ollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.