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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. 935 which may be then in force: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treas- §*¢m*s>·,. ury may use not exceeding nine hundred dollars of such nnexpended tic: Pu m°°°°` balance for the experimental investigation of the treatment and prevention of smallpox in the laboratory of the Marine-Hospital Service, to be immediately available. D1sTmcT OF COLUMBIA: For the salaries of the surveyor and ggyveyvr. 110- assistant surveyor of the District of Columbia and for such employees m°°’°°°' as may be required in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Ame. pres Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, including for surveying instruments and implements for the surveyor’s office, drawing material, stationery, copying and binding plats and records, and necessary transportation, in all, ten thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Invmoroeparzmene PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Public buildings. Rmums on BUILDINGS, Inrnmon DEPARTMENT: For repairs of “°P°*’°- Interior Department and Pension buildings, `five thousand dollars. · FOB. THE CAPITOL: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs C¤Pi¤>l· thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, twenty-five thousand dollars. , ° To provide Bags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, one thousand five hun- ‘ dred dollars. SENATE WING or THE CAPITOL: For repaving sub-basement iloor, S°¤**° mgrebuilding horizontal smoke ilue from boilers to stack, and repairing and rearran gin g the Senate legislative electric bells service, repairing and enlarging hot well under boiler room and other work appertaining to same, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. _ _ IMPROVING THE Cxriror. GROUND8i For continuing the work of °“P"°'g’°““‘* the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artihcial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam nre engine house and Senate and House stables, five hundred dollars. LIGHTING THE CA1>rroL AND GROUNDSZ For purchase of the elec- I·g=£¤¤°¤P**°**¤** tric lighting plant in the Senate wing, ten thousand dollars; for repairs gt1°i¤¤»i»»¤s,m.,¤r and extension of the same and of the electric lighting plant in the House °*°°"'*° “¤"° P"“"· wing. to meet the present requirements of the service, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to have the electric plant, wiring, and fixtures put in place during the ensuing recess of Congress, under the direction of the Committee on Rules, in accordance with the plan adopted by said committee; for lighting the Capitol and grounds about Lisb¤¤s·¤¢¢· the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas iitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-ibnr thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand dollars. The Architect of the Capitol, with the Arrangement nn approval of the Committee on Rules of the Senate and House of Repre— ?;,f’_,‘f"° gm f°' °“° sentatives, is hereby authorized and directed to arrange, for not exceeding one year, with any existing electric lighting company in the city of Washington to furnish electric current for the Capitol building at a rate not to exceed one-half a cent per hour of burning of a nominal sixteen—candle-power incandescent lamp, or an equivalent thereof; and the Architect of the Capitol is also authorized to grant permission to said