FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. OH. 105. 1877. 359
painting iron fences two thousand dollars.
For repair of seats five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of tools five hundred dollars. For trees, tree stakes, lime and whitewashing two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice one thousand dollars. For flowers, pots, twine and Italian lycopodium five hundred dollars For abating nuisances five hundred dollars. For care of and repairs to fountains in the public grounds five hundred dollars For improving various reservations four thousand dollars. _ Provided, That no sum of money heroin appropriated shall be ex· Nv <>XP$>¤¤iP¤F¢ pended by the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds to take £g;c;‘;"*°““g “`°“ down or remove any iron fence around any square or reservation in the ' city of Washington. For ordinary repairs to Bennings and the Anacostia and Chain Benniugs, Anabridges one thousand dollars. f°§g‘#M Md 0l·=~¤¤ For pedestal for the statue of General George H. Thomas, the unex- "QX St al for pended balance of the sum appropriated for this purpose in the act of Bmw, of gcnm,] July thirty first eighteen hundred and seventy six is hereby reappro- G. H. Thomas. priaied and rendered available. }487f·<¥;·4246» For second installment for the colossal statue of Admiral Farragut, F;'r:;Lgm,‘StMuB_ tivo thousand dollars. For the Naval Monument, the unexpended balance of the sum appro-. Naval monupriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy **1*****- ior the purpose of completing the statue of "Peace," platform, steps and circular basin of the naval monument contracted for by the officers of the Navy with Franklin Simmons, by act of July thirty-tirst, eight- 1876, en. 246, een hundred and seventy six, is hereby re-appropriated and rendered 4****% U4- available. For repairs of the Executive Mansion, refurnisliiiig the same, and Executive Man- Iuel for the same and for care and necessary repairs of the greenhouses, Smtwenty thousand dollars. , For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds, namely, for Lighting Execugas, pay of lamp-ligliters, gas litters, plumbers and plumbing, lamps, i¤iV¤ M¤·¤¤i<>¤· ¢>i¤<=· lamp-posts, matches and repairs of all kinds, fuel ior watchmen’s lodges and for greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, State of meters That the superintendent of meters at the Capitol shall hereafter take in D<¤i3¤¤‘f·¤¤¤<·>¤¢ the statement of the meters of the several Department buildings in ;’]T}ld‘xl‘_=‘¥“ *°b° the city of Washington and render to the proper accounting officers l `°"""°` of the Treasury Department the consumption of gas each month in said buildings respectively For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus to Water-pipes,ete. clean them and for cleaning the springs that supply the Capitol, Executive Mansion and War and Navy Departments, tour thousand dollars Washington aqucdnct: For engineering, maintenance and general Washi n gte n repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. —’=\<1¤<>d¤<>¤· - For repairs and care of the telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departmentmie- Departments and the Public Printing Office, five hundred dollars. s¤‘=¤·Pl¤· SIGNAL Orme1c: For expenses of the observation and report of Observation and storms by telegraph and signal for the beueiit of commerce and agri- ¤=1><>*f°f¤*°¤‘¤¤¤- culture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments for telegraphing reports, for expenses of storm signals, announcing probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at lite saving stations and light houses; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports; for books, periodicals, newspapers and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided tor, three hundred thousand dollars. Construction, maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines: For MWFMY i5*>l¤· the construction and continuing the construction maintenance and use gmph l‘“°°‘ of military telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers for the
