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 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 301. 1894. 40] BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND XVASHINGTON. B¤i1di¤··¤ wd grounds, D. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows; Imimvement und For improvement of grounds north and south of Executive Mansion, °°"°` five thousand dollars. · . · For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of  Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lincoln Square, one thousand dollars. I For care and improvement of Monument grounds, two thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and om tamu, sa. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: Provided, zmwm. That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property C,,,,,,,,,,,,,_ belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and·chain fences, repair of high iron fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand 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 ior nursery, trees and stock for nursery to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, 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 five hundred dollars. . For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, two thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made Limit m concrete for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in \Vashington l""'°"‘°"“· 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 replacing the old flagging pavement of the sidewalks in the grounds north of the Executive Mansion by a granolitliic pavement, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows: ummm umiim. For care, repair, and refurnishiug the Executive Mansion, twenty- R¤v==ir¤.f¤¤1.¤¤=· five 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 superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to conservatory Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. _ For portrait and frame for Same of Honorable Benjamin Harrison, d6Eg*,§°¤iF‘<;_fi¤·;j£; ex-President of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars. um. °° LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIG GROUNDS: For Mggahinigswgpgg gas, pay of lamphghters, gashtters, and laborers; purchase, erection, g,,,,,,,;,, P STAT-VOL XXVIII--26