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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ci!. 387. 1897. 673 purchasing and expense of erecting new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp—posts and lantems; replacing and repairing lamp·posts and lanterns damaged or uniit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty dollars per annum P*¤·¤•¤•· for each street lamp shall be paid for gas or oil, lighting, extinguishing, mum` repairing, painting, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for 1n this Act: Provided, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, T°l·¤¤¤*·*!¤isM· on the average, from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: Provided further, That before any expenditures R°¤'*°°¤· are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour. . . For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, in those ¤¤¢¤'i¤¤sh*·l¤s- streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of Washington, fifty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than twenty-five cents per night shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from " forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly bymeans of underground wires ; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candle power, and no part of this °"°'**°*‘ '**••· appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that ` may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington. Until Congress shall provide for a conduit system it shall be Further qtpnsicu unlawful to lay conduits or erect overhead wires for electric lighting °h""° "°h‘°"’°°‘ purposes in any road, street, avenue, highway, park, or reservation _ except as hereafter specifically authorized by law: Provided, however, {Q;?;; for Mm That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby author- cimmctioun. aw. ized to issue permits for house connections with conduits and overhead wires now existing adjacent to the premises with which such connection is to be made; and also permits for public lighting connections with conduits already in the portion of the street proposed to be lighted. And nothing herein contained shall be construed to ailect in any way _,,}é;g,z·¤i·¤ ¤¤* any pending litigation involving the validity or invalidity or legality of ` the construction of any conduits made since June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nor to prevent the United States Electric Lighting Company from extending conduits into Columbia Heights, Washington Heights, and Mount Pleasant within the tire limits as specifically provided in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ·*""· ¥’· ““- making appropriations for the expenses of the Government of the his- _ trict of Columbia; and the existing overhead wires of the Potomac Elec- ,,,°Q,§"LE',l§,FQT{;`;,}Q‘f,“,$i2j tric Power Company west of Rock Creek and outside the fire limits are wm vfkwk CMR- hereby authorized to be maintained for a period of one year from the passage of this act and no longer. llannon Asn mvnn ruonrrz For the improvement and protection ,r_f{yl>°* ¤¤·l ¤‘**¤¤ of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, ` construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, two thousand six hundred dollars. To provide for new hull and necessary repairs for harbor boat, one ***P¤*¤*°l*°=*- thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available. _ Bsrmrm BEACH: For the care and repair of the public bathing B*¤=i¤B l>•¤=l·· beach on the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Fon PUBLIC scares: For repair and replacement of public scales, S°“‘°f*· two hundred dollars: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District 3:]*;;-0,,mt,°¤_ of Columbia may change the location of any public hay scale in said District whenever they may deem such change in the public interest. Fon PUBLIC rumrs: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of *’“'”P“· public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, and drilling deep wells. seven thousand live hundred dollars, to be immediately available. scur L-—voL 29-43