FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 227. 1873. 527 To reimbmse the city of Washiligton for improvement of the avenues Reimbursement of said city, and for work done thereon not chargeable against owners °*` W¤*'·hl¤8`*°¤· of private property, nor included in appropriations heretofore made, one million dollars; and this appropriation shall be available on and after the passage of this act, and shall be subject to the draft of the board of public works, upon the certincate of the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds as to the amount of work done and prices paid. For lighting the capitol, executive mansion, and grounds: Lighting For gas, forty-five thousand dollars. ¢¤Pi¤<>l. &<=· For pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitting, plumbing, lamps, posts, and repairs of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel for propagating garden and watohmen’s lodges, eight hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the navy yard and upper bridge, seven thousand Navy yard dollars. {*)**.5 “PP" For annual repairs of the executive mansion, fifteen thousand dollars; rg:;.,,,,,,, for refurnishing same, ten thousand dollars; for fhel for same, five thou- m¤¤¤i<>¤- sand dollars. For care, protection, and continuing permanent improvement of greenhouse at executive mansion, ten thousand dollars. For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of necessary apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the spring supplying the capitol, executive mansion, War and Navy Departments, ten thousand dollars. Washington aquednct: Washington For finishing the wooden fence at the distributing reservoir, one thou- °q“°du°°' sand Eve hundred dollars. For dwelling for gate-keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars. For completing stone bridges, eight thousand six hundred dollars. For completing the macadamizing of the conduit-road, sixteen thousand dollars. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. Modification and repairs of building at corner of Seventeenth and F Building amstreets : l1€!é»$f?\r'1?`llll.(.£t;!li.l1 For cutting out windows in basement, and fitting fourteen cellar-rooms an S `°° ' for office or file rooms, three thousand five hundred dollars. For removing mastic from fronts on Seventeenth and F streets, cleaning face and pointing and flushing up joints of underlying brick wall, and painting and sanding same and other portions of each front, and of woodwork of rear and ends of the building, six thousand dollars. For removing marble from basement from and including present upper course, and refacing with marble from present groimd line up to present upper course of marble, and building marble steps to each of the front entrances, ten thousand dollars. For renewing tin roof and painting same, repairs of steam-warming apparatus, and painting, whitcwashing, and general renovation of interior of the building, five thousand dollars. For contingencies, five hundred dollars. wan nnrnizrmnur. mxé? D¤l>¤¤· 1Wsoellaneous.—Signal-office: For observation and report of storms Miscellaneous. by telegraph and signals for the benefit of commerce and agriculture S'€”I‘°m°°· throughout the United States, two hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars: Provided, That the chief signal officer Surplus maps, may cause to be sold any surplus maps or publications of the signal- &°·· m“Y b° °°m’ office, the money received therefor to be applied towards defraying the expenses of the signal service, an account of the same to be rendered in each annual report of the chief of the signal service.
