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252 F1FTY—THIB.D CONGRESS. Sess. I I. Ch. 232. 1894. ¤z¤¤¤z· LIGHTING: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys, for purchasing and expense of erecting new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; movin_g lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp posts and lanterns damaged or uniit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one hunmum. dred and forty-two thousand four hundred dollars: Provided, That no "“*"‘“"‘°°'*· more than twenty dollar and fifty cents per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas or oil, lighting, extinguishing, repa1r1ug,and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum: Pro- R¤¢¤1=·*¤¤- vided, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a selfregulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and · density, a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour. _ _ ¤¤¤¤¤i¤¤zMi¤z- _ For electric lighting, including necessary expenses of inspection, on one or more of the principal streets in the cities of Washington_and Georgetown, maintaining existing service, and necessary extensions, ]*"*°°‘*°,,&m um fortyseven thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That_ not more

  • than forty cents per night shall be paid for any electric arc hght burning every night from sunset to sunrise, and operated wholly by means

of underground wires; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candle power, and no part·of this appropriation shall Ovcrlnndvhu- be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the cities of Washington and ' Georgetown. ,mI:t_¤l·•¤ M ¤*¤¤ Humor. AND Rrvmt Fnour: For the improvement and protection of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, two thousand six hundred dollars. B·¤¤i¤z ¥¤>¤<=¤· BATHING Bn1A0n: For the care, repair, and extension of the public bathing beach on the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. $¤¤l¤¤· Fon PUBLIG SCALES: For repair and replacement of public scales, two hundred dollars. ’“”‘¤"· Fon PUBLIC PUMPS: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, and illling abandoned or condemned public wells, four thousand dollars. ¤¤·· ·¤¤*·¤s··- Crum or Bmncms : For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, and matches, tivo thousand dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. ?";°_j,':{};'*_g:, fj; And hereafter one-half the cost of the maintenance and repair of any Eager um. bridge across Rock Creek occupied by the tracks of a street railway or railways shall be borne by the said railway company or companies, and shall be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways as provided for in sec- "°l·°°·P·l°°· tion five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. The amounts thus collected shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the tiscal year in which they are collected. kquuiuue mage. For the repair of the Aqueduct bridge, fifty-one thousand and seventy dollars, said sum to be expended by, and the work to be done under the dujection ot, the Chief of Engineers of the Army, by contract or otherwise, and by the purchase of material in open market in order to prevent delay in the prosecution of the work. Rock cmr rm. Rock CREEK PARK: That the authorities in joint control of Bock vui.2o,p.4¤5 Creek Park, as provided in section seven of the Act of September nm of Mmmm ;¥:n;y£§;?;1;{h,t¢:ightgeu hundreid andninety, establishing said park, ,,,_,,,,,m.,m,_ an Omg tim th [reader ease, or periods not exceeding one year at Y e, e ui ings and arable ground therein, for such rental