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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 853. 1901. 1167 all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmenis lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That for each five-foot burner not con- f{%‘§;um vcr nected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than lamptwenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for as, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the of b“"""’°‘Y‘“g*“· average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before l sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided _ further, That three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoin gggolggtnggygégze sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and nw. the remainder from the Treasury of the United States. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds El°°"*°“gh'·”· within the iron fence three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light er annum, which shall COVB1' the entire cost to the United States of liglliting and maintaining in good grgller each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and thirty-two o ars. . For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For ··i¤ P”·'k*‘— seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sums shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, three thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. REPAIR or WATER 1>11¤Es: For repairing and extending Water pipes, p,§,;P’**' °‘ W*“°' purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for ` cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the (pi es of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, an the building for gheil State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred o ars. . TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS AND Dgggggllgé g;Pi*°‘· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFE1cE: For care and repair of existing lines, P ’ ` one thousand five hundred dollars. _ WASHINGTON MoNUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the mg,*`$“‘“g‘°“ M°““` Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred M¤i¤¢€¤¤¤¤¤- dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant Hreman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator ca1·, at seventy-Eve dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. ‘ For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Fmt Bm brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower iioors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. _ _ That the appro riation of six thousand five hundred dollars for h(§§‘§g‘“°“ °° b°u°‘ addition to boiler liouse of the Washington Monument, made by sundry civil Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, is hereby also Amelp-623-