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 532 FIFT Y-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 540. 1898. K•1¤r•¤¤·¤*¤¤¤·· For grading and regulating Kalorama avenue between Eighteenth street and Columbia road, five hundred dollars; Bmokland- For grading and regulating Providence, Lansing, Hartfbrd, Tenth and Twelfth streets, Brookland, and completing improvement, and improving the connection between Twelfth street and Brentwood road, eleven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dolg¤¤i•··— mm dlarsz Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia sue:::?:} °° shall hereafter have the power and authority to change the name of any street, road, avenue, or other highway whenever any two of such highways have the same name. Sprinkiiug. ¤w¤¤1>- SPRINKLING, SWEEPING, AND CLEANING: For sprinkling, sweeping, ' “‘“*"*°"“"°°"" and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hun- dred and forty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding °u{*{g:“tf;g"§w_““‘ the sum of fifteen thousand dollars of the amount so provided may be ' expended under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without · contract; and said fifteen thousand dollars shall be so expended and the accounts thereof so kept as to show the comparative cost of hand sweeping by day labor and under contract. Cleaning snow wi For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, and so forth, i°°i'n»1.2s,p.ax•. under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety- five, one thousand dollars. smug comm,. Fon run PARKING commission: For contingent expenses, including ¤*°¤- · laborers, cart hire,‘trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting - and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of pailks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-two thousand ive hundred o ars. mgm;. LIGHTING: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designation s, lantern s, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting 1amp·posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for storage and cartage of material, grwxvgrlm one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That no more ““ P p` than twenty dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas or oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning, no tum every under any expenditure provided for in this Act: Provided, That all of ’“g"‘· said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from forty-tive b§;g—;:1sr;=¤=*i¤s minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: Provided “ P' jvrther, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided tor, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a selfregulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and Exiwrimvvtnllnmns- density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour: A nd provided further, That not more than one thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of an experimental character, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph excepting as to the time of burning. Electric Imran;. For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, in those streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of \\'ashington, and for extensions of such service along the lines of lawful conduits now existing, including conduits authorized by this Act, Connecticut avenue between Farragut square and Florida avenue; Indiana avenue and C street from Fourth street northwest to Delaware avenue northeast; and East Capitol street from First to Eleventh streets, not exceedmoe:". ing sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than twenty-five L*"*"- 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 by means of underground wire; and each arc light Overhead wires. shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, 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.