FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1007. 1903. 1123 One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in m§;1,fwf,’°’“ mmm and around l/Vashington " shall be paid from the reyenues of the Dis-. · grict of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United it lSH»l'»GS. i Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made W@;n§g’ °°¤°*°*° for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington ` City at a higher price than one dollar and seventy cents er square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District ofp Columbia prior to Julv iirst, 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 Deipartments, one thousand dollars. or such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be re uested by the supermtendent of the Library building, one thousand (dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as maybe requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, three thousand dollars; For improvemeut and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, two thousand dollars. Exncurrvri MANs1oN: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Execu- §§§°,}‘,fi§§f‘““°"· tive Mansion, sixt thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the Igresident may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, eight thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, seven thousand dollars. For repairs to and reerection of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. To procure for the Executive Mansion an oil portrait of the President, two thousand five hundred dollars. _ _ Lroirrmc rim Exnourrviu Mansion AND runuo onoimns: For gas M{,‘{,‘§}‘§§,“€,,{E§‘“f,‘Q§f}§ pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and ¤"°““d*· re air of lamps and lamp- sts; purchase of matches, and repairs of ‘ allp kinds; stoves, fuel, and)0 lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lod es, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twenty thousand dollars: Igmvided, That for each five-foot burner not connected with §'[§§',§‘f,,Q’{';,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,_ a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be lpaid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the am s in repair, un er any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said) lamps shall burn every night, on the average, , from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-tive minutes before sunriseand authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby ap ro- _ priated as may be necessary for that purpose: Prom`cZeeZfaerthe1·, That ,,$§§tu§°“‘ ms"" three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States. _ _ For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds H°°m°hgm”‘ within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty dollars per light per annum. which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and eighty dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, four hundred and eighty dollars.
