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 1166 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C1-I. 853. 1901. watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purc ase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, iiower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For iiplprovegaelnth care, and maintenance of various reservations, twent thousand dollars. Foirimprolyemerilt, igainitginapce, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five un re dollars. For im rovement, care, and maintenance of J udiciar · Park, two thousand {Live hundred dollars. ‘ l ' For laying asphalt walks in Various reservations, two thousand dollars. m§:1fgggg1er{m;;g¤;g One-half of the foregoing sums under "Buildings and grounds in nuts. C and around Washington " shall be paid from the revenues of the Disiérict of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United tates. - Of the whole amount appropriated in the legislative, executive, and jucgciallppprpprialficgi Arg; fggl the fiscal year ngpetein hundred and two, un ertetite u ic ui `n san rouni tesumo twenteight thousand three hundred angd ninet§ dollars; shall be aid from the riievenues of p1heé)istr§c§ of Columbia and the remainder from the reasury o the United States. Limit for concrete, That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made °°°"p"°m°m' for makin or repairing concrete or asphalt avements in Washington City at aiigher price than one dollar and) eighty 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. DFor improvement; care, (pnldlpiaintenance of grounds of Executive e artments, one thousand dollars. ( lspplr improgemept and linainteéialneip of Executive Mansion grounds wit in iron ence, one thousand dollars. Igor takirpg down, Elepayiiiigaarfd resetting the Lincoln statue in front of ourt- ouse, six un re o lars. For placing inscriptions on the unmarked statues of Lafayette and Hancock, one hundred dollars. For construction of a brick building for shops, for carpenter, plumber, blacksmith, painter, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, for the entire system of parks under Office of Public Buildings and Frrpunds, eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately avai ab e. For construction of a plant house at propagating gardens, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. Executive Man- EXECUTIVE MANSION: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Execu- ’“°“· five Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. hFor fiéeé fplr the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. d ger repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand o ars. Lighting. LIGHTING THE'EXECU'1`IVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDSZ For as, pay of lamplighters, gas iitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, ind repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of