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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 370. 1889. 799 _SURvEYs or run Disrmcrz For completion of surveys of the Dis- smeye. 1ér1<€{lofDCo£lun;lpa with igferenceltp pipe extension of various avenues o e is ric ine, en iousanc dollars. Sunymrs ox Accocxr or Scnmvrsions or LAND: To pay the ex- sebeivieieee. penses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine if plats of subdivisions of land within the District offered for record have been made in conformity to the ‘_‘Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of ‘“‘“~P·“1· Col}ptmb1_a'kta]i¥>ro;*§d Augpgt fiventy-seventh, eighteen hundred and eig y-exg, ve ousant dollars. CASE OF BRIDGES: For ordinary care of bridges, including keep- B’idg€S· ers, oil, lamps, and matches, three thousand four hundred dollars; _ for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. SEVVERS. sewers. d {or cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirty-five thousand o ars. gor replacing obstructed sewers, fifteen thousand dollars. or main and pipe sewers ninety thousand dollars. ` For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. _ _ The appropriations made in this act for the erection of school m‘Q§,§]"$’,§’,",{{‘,§{,‘j§~;,) Qjlf buildings an for additions to school buildings, shall be immediately medlmly ¤Vv-i18b10· availab e. The President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint mS§§§;,`P0°f§{g‘§?i“*°" three competent sanitary engineers who shall examine and report ggtieg upon the system of sewerage existing in the District of Columbia, p° together with such suggestions and recommendations as may to them seem necessary or desirable for the modincation and extension of the same, and such report shall be transmitted to Congress by the President at its next session. And for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such examination and report the sum of fifteen thousand ollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. CIIRRENT EXPENSES, STREETS, AY'ENDES, AND ALLEYS. SPRINKLING, STVEEPING, AND CLEANING; : For sprinkling, sweeping, SW¤¢1>i¤z- and cleaning streets, avenues, and alleys, eighty-five thousand do lars: And the payments for such work for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine shall be at the rate and according to terms of the contracts now existing under which the same is being done, and for Contracts this purpose a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated, to be immediate y available. Fon run PARKING COMMISSION: For contingent expenses, including Pllrklng Commission. laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting, and care of trees, on city and suburban streets, whitewas ling, care of parks and miscellaneous items eighteen thousand dollars, _ _ Lrolirrxcz For illuminating hlaterial, lighting, extinguishing, re- Lightwepairing. anrl cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, roads. and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lamp~posts and replacing such lamps and lam ·posts as may be damaged or unfit for service. one hundred and iigteen thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twent lollars er annum for each street-lamp shal be paid for gas, lightidg, extingguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure rovided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum: and the Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to substitute other illuminating material at the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby a ropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided further, qlhat the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall