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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 380. 1892. 375 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, five thousand dollars. For improvement, care and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, three thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made Limit at concrete for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington P°“’°“‘°“"‘ City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty five cents 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. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows; Exwuuve mmm. For care, repair, and refurnishing) the Executive Mansion, twenty R¤pairs,fuel,etc. thousand dollars, to be expended y 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, five thousand dollars. For renewing the superstructures of two greenhouses connected with the Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Licnrme THE EXECUTIVE MANSION mn Pnnmc Gnomms: For M1-*ug}°§*_¤§g;*£ gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas iitters and laborers; purchase, erection, gamma. P 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 dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot biuner not connected with a Proqinrmeter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-one "”“"““" ’°’ l“”"‘ dollars and fifty cents 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 three thousand hours per annum; 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: Provided, That before any expenditures are made from the BMW8- appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a. seltiregulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-tive nights from seven ammo ngm. poiits, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two o lars. Rnmin or WATER Pirns: For repairing and extendingwater pipes, ,,,},‘_,§§,2,§_’ °" '"‘°°' purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and 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 Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS Defgggeg C**1fjf’_; END GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFF10E: For cure and repair of exist- Government rrmung mg lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. °m°°‘ _ WASHINGTON MoNUmENr; For the care and maintenance of the mQX§‘f"“”g’°“ "‘°‘“" Wrnshiiigton Monument, namely; For one custodian, at one hundred cm and mms. tl0ll&l‘S 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 iireman, at forty-five dollars per mouth; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-fave dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top iloor, at sixty dollars per month ; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. I