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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 208. 1893. 597 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND YVASHINGTON. Buildings and grounds, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: Improvement and For improvement of grounds north and south of the Executive Man- °””°‘ sion, four thousand dollars; For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. d For care and improvement of Monument grounds, two thousand ollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: Provided, ggmgbn That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belong- ' ing to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, five hundred 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, labels, lime, whitewashing and stock for nursery, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For ilowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand live hundred dollars. For abatin g nuisances, five hundred dollars. For impovement, care and maintinance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, three thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be aggggngf ¤>¤¤¤>*· made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Wash- P “ ington 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: E¤¤¤¤¢iv¤ M¤¤¤i¤¤· For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, eighteen R·>i>¤ir¤.f¤¤L¤w- 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 the superstructures of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars. I For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars. LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For Lighting Ervcutiv gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, g2§$f§§ "`1 ’“°b° 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 dol- ,,m,,m_ lars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-one dollars Mmmmpmmp. and nfty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided