FORTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 143. 1883. C15 Sand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with PM**••· a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and kepping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this ac . For repair of water-pipes and iire-plugs: For repairing and extending Water-pipes,etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars; and all officers in charge of public buildiugsin the District of Columbia shall cause the ilow of water in the buildings under their charge to be shut off from ave o’clock post meridian to eight o’clock ante meridian: Provided, mm. That the water in said public buildings is not necessarily in use for public business. For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Gov- _ Telegmrh, Carernment Printing Onice: For care and repair of the same, one thousand ‘*°l· dPl"P`*”‘°“*°» dollars. Md Pming °m°°‘ For the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments: For SW6. WM, Md clearing the site, laying foundations, building walls of the lower stories, 1,?:j‘,g,nD°P“*m”° and continuing the preparation of cut granite for the west and center g' wings, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, five hundred thousand dollars. And so much of the appropriation for furniture, carpets, iilccases, and shelving for the north wing of said building contained in the sundry P M t d. civil appropriation act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and ,,0,,°'}'fwB°1 Q,,,,,;' eighty-two, as shall remain nncxpended June thirtieth, eighteen hun- 47:1; cmg., ms. ’ drcd and eighty-three, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose. _ . · Forcompletion of the Washington Monument: For marble, granite, iron MW '* ° h Lu 8 t ° " framework, machinery, tools, labor, office expenses, including the rent °°°m°° of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with . the completion of the monument, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ _ For the enlargement and construction of such military posts as in the 1m‘*"’¥ P°““· judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred thousand dollars. sion:. muon. ¤is¤¤1 ¤¢¤i¤•- I ` Tobeexpendedby the Secretaryof War: _ For the obwrvation and report of storms: For expenses of the ob- °‘;°0*;•*‘°¤*¤* servation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit '°I'° '°°""" of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments, ilve thousand five hundred dollars ; for telegraphin g reports, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; for expenses of stormsignals announcing the probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand dollars; for cotton-belt mports, seven thousand dollars; for continuing the establishment and connections of stations at life-saving sta- - tions and light-houses including operators, repair-men, materials, and general service, five thousand five hundred dollars; and a portion of said sum shall be expended in establishing telegraphic connection be— tween the lifesaving station at Brigantine Beach, New Jersey, and the main land and the stations above and below said Brigantine Beach Sta- ’ tion: Provided, That such connection, in the opinion of the Superin- P•‘°°‘•°· tendent of the Life-Saving Service, shall be deemed necessary; for mstrument-shelters, five hundred dollars; for rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; office furniture, in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, ive thousand dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty~ five thousand dollars; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and station-
