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 532 rirrinrn CONGRESS. sms. 1. on. 1069. ness. For construction and repair of post—and-chain fences. removal and repair of high iron fences around reservations, one thousand tive hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, lampposts, and settees, seven hundred and fifty 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, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flower-pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, 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 improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twelve thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, ten thousand dollars. For improvement and care of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building, and asphalt walks leading to City Hall, five thousand dollars. com-mpavemeues. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in 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 to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. Executive Mansion For repairs and fuel of the Executive Mansion as follows: R°P°“”· ‘“°‘· °‘°· For care, re air, re ainting, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, sixteen 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 renewing entire superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. mpizptinx  LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MZANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS; For for repairs of all kim s; fuel an lights for office, office-stables, watchmeifs lodges, and for the greenlhouses at the nursery, four- €~>w=¤· mcg T teen thousand dollars : Prvriclcd, That for each six-foot burner not I,;,,§?”“"°° p° connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, 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 diereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose. pljfewr-vip¤¤¤d¤¤· REPAIR OF WATER-PIPES AND FIRE-PLUGS: For repairing and ex- uc. tending water—pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and re airin and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitolé the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
 * 5,,}§.,‘,}§§_““ P gas, pay of lamp-lighters. gasiitters. and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamphposts: purchase o matches, and