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 F IFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1301. 1902. 459 For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dolla.rs. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. d gor improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand o ars. - d por care and improvement of Monument grounds, five thousand o lars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, 0141 cmu!. and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand ive hundred dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other {omg than property belonging to the United States. xpm mm' For construction and repair of post-and·chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron ences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and relpair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, w itcwashing, and stock for nurse, ilowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to the purchased by contract or other- · wise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisauoes, cleaning statues, and regziring pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. or improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand hve hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. Eur laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For grading, resetting street curb, providing park curb, park walks, planting, and for each and every ob]ect necessary for improving the grounds of Mount Vernon square around the Free Public Library building, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buiidings and rounds, ten thousand dollars. Igor improvement of tgat rt of Potomac Park west of and adjacent "°*°““° *’°"‘- to Monument Park from th; intersection of Virginia avenue and B street, northwest, to Maryland avenue, southwest, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, in accordance with existing plans made by him, who is authorized to appoint the necessary employees in connection therewith, to be immediately available, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That the faggfgémchtou authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by mmtmu. Act approved Se tember twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, V°l·°°· P·*°°· "To construct a beach and dressing houses upon the east shore of the tidal reservoir against the Washington Monument Grounds," is hereby revoked; and they are directed to remove immediately said bath houses, iloats, wharves, pipes, and so forth, either to such other point as may be agreed upon between them and the Secretary of Wa1·, or to barges constructed to carry dressing rooms, which may be anchored at such point around an inclosed water space, or along the shore, as may be agreed on between the Secretary of War and the said Commissioners. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. d For curbing and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand ollars. For the improvement of Iowa Circle, two thousand five hundred dollars. · One-half of the fore oin sums under "Buildin and rounds in 9¤¤·h¤'f mm W- and around Washingmri(" slgall be paid from the religenues bf the Dis- mlm8mm' trict of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United Shités. I