944 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. _ _ For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, two thousand five hundred dollars. Limit i•ii ·>·>¤¤¤i¤ That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made °"°m°°t°' for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-tive cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand five hundred dollars. For cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, two hundred dollars. For expenses, including advertising, of sale of old condemned and useless property, one hundred dollars. 1¤xecg¤¤iv¤M¤¤¤i¤¤. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows: R°’""°‘ f"°l’ m` For care, repair, and refurnishin g the Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. mgmug Emutm For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Mansion and purine LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For 5'°"¤d¤· gas, pay of lamnlighters, gas-iitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel, and lights for office, office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dol· Qrwjglgn mm lars: Provided, That for each six-toot burner not connected with a meter °” P p' in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars and iiity cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other 1lluminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the _ sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary lor that purpose: Pro- """°""""· vided, That betore any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating 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. ‘ F|¤¤¢¤·i¤iiziii¤· For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven posts, at thirty cents per light per night, seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents. _Rep¤ir or vnu REPAIR or WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending water pipes. ’“’°'·"°‘ purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for Shea State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand fave hundred o ars. For changing route of pipe line that supplies the Capitol, incasing a portion of it in concrete, and uncovering and examining the entire line, ten thousand dollars. DZ?¤:g;;gi;é Cegigoii TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS Priiiting ctnés. AND Govmmmnur PRINTING Orman: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. mgrmwe mee- WASHINGTON MoNU1mNT: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer. at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one tireman,
