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 488 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3553. 1906. each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, nine hundred dollars; fireman, five hundred and forty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dcglars each; five charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollarseach; _ in all, twenty-eight thousand and sixty dollars. S“¤‘l*Y°P°°*¤¢· For keeping 5m library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’elock stmeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (eight hours), hve holidays fifbm ten o’clock antemeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (twelve hours), and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons durin July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Misc¤11¤¤¤¤¤¤. · Ediscmnmumous, FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: For purchase of books, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For binding, three thousand dollars; _ · For fuel, lightin, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand dohars; In all, seventeen thousand Eve hundred dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. 0¤¤¤¤s·m•¤1>•¤¤¤¤- For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For rinting, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; indin, rebinding, re iring, and preservation of records; maintaining andglreeping in goodxbrder the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; hvery, purchase, and care of orses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; fuel, ice, gas, repairs, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bicilycles bv inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed five hun red dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, board of charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health de rtment, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, pofige court, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of as halt and cement, forty thousand do lars; and the Commissioners shrill so povtgoh apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: Pmvided, That .,;;,°Z§°,,e§_§’€,_ °“ “°° horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall not be used by the Commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act negssaryttofthp administration of its aifairs. himk on ervendi- 4. o r o the money appropriated by this Act except appropriamm M hm"' m` tions El the militia, shall bd) used for the purchase; liverly, ol·)pmai)nte— nance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the a propriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. mgirtgdfmmce vw- No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. ¤*=•¥>¤¤¤— _ For_ contingent expenses of stables of the engineer de rtment, including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicllzs, purchase and repair of harnes, lankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, ' whips, oils, rushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, iacks, rubber boots, and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles