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 734 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3914. 1906. public buildings and ounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of thlit office, sixty thousand dollars. _ 0¤¤ hnlf hmm One half of the foregoing sums under "Bui1dings and grounds in _ Mmmm and around Washington " shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other ha f from the Treasury of the United States. - Limit mz mmm. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made °g°" °"°m°°°’ for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and .sixty-five-cents per square yard for a guality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to J u first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. _ For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive De rtments, one thousand dollars.. Ebir such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be reréuested by the supermtendent of the Library building, one thousand ollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the em loyment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings andp grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of s ops and storehouse, one thonsan dollars. For new steam roller, three thousand dollars. ` §{m°°°°'{c{• ¥*P'¥°”· Exncurrvn Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing ' of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be ex nded by contract grlptherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand 0 ars. “°""·"· °*° For extraordinary repairs of the Executive Mansion, to be expended pg contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five ousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. · For care and maintenance of conservatory and greenhouses, nine thousand dollars. d 501* repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand o ars. uguusg zxmuva Lronrme run Exscurivm MaNs10N AND PUBLIC onommsc For M°°“i°°‘°d"°""°" pay of lamplighters, gas iitters, and laborers; purchase, erection,$.hSd relpaxr of lamps and lam(p-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of al kinds; stoves, fuel, an lights for office and office stable, watchmerfs lodges, and for the lgzetenhouses at the nursery, nineteen thousand five nm". hundred dollars: {ded, That for each tive—foot burner not con- M"°’“""‘ ’°""""‘ nected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby apgropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Prom§g;fmf,f°m D*¤¤"°* wded_ji¢rt er, hat four thousand dollars of the foregoin sum shall _ be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 5ie remainder from the Treasury of the United States: And p1·0v5dedjin·¢/wr, P°${,{};fP_f*¤dl°· That not more than six thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing and painting