1342 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2918. 1907. direction of the officer in charge of that office, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available, eighty thousand dollars. For completing improvement of that part of Potomac Park between the causewa of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Virginia channel of the Pybtomac River, and the tidal reservoir, due to changes in street car tracks and the erection of bridge across the outlet of the tidal reservoir into the Washington channel of the Potomac River, _ eight thousand dollars. M"' ‘“'"°‘ For changing about eight hundred linear feet of the river drive in Monument Park annex &’otomac Park) from Fourteenth street to the Fifteenth street roadway, due to proposed change of grade on Fourteenth street and the opening up of Water street at that point, five _ thousand dollars. , ,,,§,§j{,§°m m"“‘" One half of the foregoing sums under "Buildings and grounds in and around Washington" shall be aid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. et}:·i¤$,fv;g{eg*{;*"°¤· Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for "making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-tive cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to Ju 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 Departments, one thousand dollars. , For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be reqluested 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 employment of an en ineer by the officer in charge of puhlic buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at \1l1l`S- ery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. E’*°°“""°M°"°’°¤· Exncurrvn Maxsioxz 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 grupltherwise, as the President may determine, thiirty-five thousand o rs. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, nine thousand dollars. d or repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand o ars. ,_,T;;rg§;gdg;g¢¤* For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certiiicate solely, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mgégtggglgggxgme LIGHTING Tum Exmctzzrrvn Mansion AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For gas ' pay of lamplighters, gas fifters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and relpair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of al kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the gyeenhouses at the nursery, nineteen thou-
pump sand five hundred dollars: rovided, That for each tive—foot burner not
` connected with a meter in the lam s on the public grounds not more , than eighteen dollars shall be per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the mm in repair, under any expenditure
