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216 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 332. 1884. Pnbiic buildings nurmnnves Ann Gaounns m Arm nown wssmivcrou. and grounds, w§l;':§5°gdEgtEj For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a for monument to statue of the late President James A. Garfield, thirty thousand dollars; inte President Gar- said site to be selected by and said pedestal to be erected under the su- “°*‘r pervision of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the chairman of the Garfield Monumental Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Unveiling status To defray the expenses attending the unveiling of the statue of the °{ 1*;*,*; R°'*;‘Ad‘ late R.ear·Admiral Du Pont, to be erected in Du Pont Circle, in the city of mm ° P°°Washington, District of Columbia, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, to be expended under the direction of the Secretar of War. Improvement For thi improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: °”d °¥ °f P“bh° For improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south of the Execug'§’Qf;,s_ five Mansion, six thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue between Fourth and Sixth streets east, two thousand dollars. For improving reservation on North Carolina avenue between Second and Third streets east, two thousand dollars. · For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. d For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, two thousand ollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. I For ilower-pots, twine, baskets and lycopodimn, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving, care, and maintenance of various reservations five thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, tive thousand dollars. For improvement of Washington Circle, two thousand dollars. _Executivo mm- For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows: ¤°¤· For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. . For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, two thousand tive hundred dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-litters, plumbers, gas-fitting and plumbing, purchase and erection of lamps and lamp—posts, purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand Pmem. dollars: Provided, That for each six·foot burner not connected with 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