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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 198. 1908. 287 For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, S“PPli°¤- _ telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars. For placing wires of iire—alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and tele- de*;;f£*I§d Wim *¤¤· phone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of ` cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand—ho es, posts for hre-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new m;°“°€·P’m°l *5** boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insu- ` lators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars. _ _ LIGHTING: Forilluminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repair- L‘g“"“g· ing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and al eys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp—posts and lanterns damaged or unht for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and sixty- five thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars: Provided, That  Term? hereafter the Washington Terminal Company, its successors, or trans- nal Company. ferees shall payto the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys and grounds over and under which its right of way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys and grounds bordering on its right of way, under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills., actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said terminal company or its successors, or transferees therefor: Provided, That no more than eighteen dollars per annum shall be lam? X l ‘“ ““‘ p" paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating {lat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less _ than sixty cant lepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred _,h’}dQ,_ °"”"““` ‘“‘ and nine the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and Hxtures: Prwided, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, M1-mgm ¤¤¤*i¤¤· on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: And pr·0#vided_fln·t/zm·, That the Commissioners of the Street ¢¤¤iz¤¤¤<>¤ District of Columbia ma purchase, erect, light, and maintain such Wm' posts, lanterns, signs, andy fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this para- _ ggaph except as to the time of burning: And p¢·m>vIded_further, That §f3,‘{Q,§‘;fo§,°’{,‘}‘ ugh, t e Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, {ns www m Di¤¤*¢¢ in their discretion, to extend the street-lightin system, by incandes- me' cent forty-candlepower lamps, on and along the Conduit road, from its intersection with the Canal road to the District line and to use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for maintaining the