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 SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27. 1917. 133 For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of “°”°"°"°¥’°*"‘·°"°· high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodgle-Ls, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and exten g water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, an hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree an plant stakes, labels, lime, whrtewashing, stock for nursery flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased, by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountams; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, I'“P'°'°‘“°”‘s·°*°· including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horsedrawn and two motor—propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grormds $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. ger broken-stone road céogering f<}r parks; $3,3800. d · or cur, co ing, an or ar roa an , $2,000. ger care lsilngd mldintenance oi P(§30IiZ18£P8»1'1l§; $15,000. f P P°°°m°° H"' or grading, so1hng', $6041111. g, an anting at portion o otomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constr·uct1ng paths, $25,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. For care and im rovement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embarscment, $50,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in con- °“‘d°°"*‘°"“· dition or outdoor sports, $10,000. To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian “°""“‘“‘ Hm P°'*· Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $50,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For improving- the site of the old hfh-service reservoir, at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue an R Street northwest, $5,000. For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of west QQ ‘”‘“· l°°°°‘“°° Potomac Park, $22,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For continuing a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the a>;iidp..,il°°°°' P° railroad embankment, $50,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. For constructing and erecting a wagon shed at the propagating gardens, $7,000. In To provide for an increase of fifteen per centum in the pay of park boreginsed my °° 1°` laborers, $15,000. J dy For new road (pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks on the E ° °"’P°']“ and F Street roa ways through Judiciary Park, $15,000. For improving small triang cs, $2,500. For dplanting the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Secon and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $5,000. For new public comfort station in Willow Tree Park, $3,500. Ti P 'ljmar. Basu: narmzm nmcn: The Chief of Engineers of the mm$°i·..,¥?'”' °' UHlt8d_ States Army is authorized and directed to establish and mP§, ‘:L°" mamtam at a suita le place, upon the shore of the Tidal Basin, in Potomac Park, a public bathhouse, with the necessary equipment,