F IFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 791. 1900. 621 SANDY Hoox Paov1NG GROUND, NEw J EESEY: For building and mj¤g§(g{m§,°gkJ”°v· repairing roads and walks, and for general re airs of shops, store- ’` houses, and quarters, two thousand five hundredp dollars. . For necessarz plant for heating by steam the barracks occupied by ordnance detac ment at this post, two thousand seven hundred dollars. SPRINGFIELD ARSENAL, SPRINGFIELD, MASSAGRUSEITS: For general Sv¤¤s¤e1<1.M¤¤¤. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. ‘ For curbingland macadamizingUMagazine street from State to Lincoln streets, the pro rty of the nited States, forming a highway of the city of Springfield, six thousand dollars. For addition to water shops, ninety·’1ive thousand five hundred and . ninety-eight dollars and seventy-one cents; additional machinery for water shops, ninety thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents; ad itional machinegy for hill sholps one hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred an thirty-eight ollars and sixty cents; in all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and one cent, to be available until expended. - WATERTOWN ARSENAL, WA·rER·rowN, MASSACHUSETTS} For the erec- W¤¢¤r¤>w¤.M¤¤¤- tion of a new fence around the Watertown Arsenal, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as ma be necessary. TESTING MACHINES, WATERTOWN ARSENAL: Por labor and material in caring for, preserving and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown rsenal, Includiplg such new tools and appli- “ ances as may be required, fifteen thousan dollars. SCHUYLKILL ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For roofing Schuylkill. Pu. overand pptting iioors in the courtyard of the present Number Three ` iireproof uilding to provide storage and boxing and shipping space, sixteen thousand dollars. For rearrangement of the inspecting and issuing department, six thousand dollars. REPAIRS OF ARSENALS: For repairs and improvements at arsenals Repairs. and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, · eighty thousand dollars. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN` AND ARoUND WASHINGTON. W¤hi¤s¤>¤.D-¤- For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: Glwggdiuss and For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive .i°mp¤i€·eme¤¤ and Mansion, four thousand dollars. °’"°· 13For ordinary carae of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dolrs. . For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. · d For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, Eve thousand ollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, Reservation N¤.11. and site of old canal northwest of Same, three thousand dollars: Pm- ammo. vided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than prop- Expenditure. ert belonging to the United States. _ _ lyor construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repa1r of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the Same, and removing Snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree an plant_stakcs, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, iiower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherg wise, as the Secretary of \Var may determine; care, construction,
