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976 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 542. 1891. cents er square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of) Columbia. prior to July nrst, eighteen and eighty-six, and with a base not less than six inches in thickness. ‘ E*°°°“'°'¤”*¤'°"- For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows: R¤r·*¤· ¤‘¤¤¤¤¤**¤- For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, thirty- h°g’°t°' . five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the President may determine. Fw- For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. Ughrins Executive LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For mm ’"°"° gas, pay of lamp lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of amips and lamp posts; purchase of matches, and ` for repairs of all kin s; fuel an ights for office, office stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen Pr<wk¢¤· thousand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not con- . nected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more h:¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ v¤<=¤v¢¤‘ than twenty-one dollars and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for · p' gas, including lighting, cleanipg, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expengliture provid for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereb given to substitute other illuminating material for the ‘ same or Kass price, and to use so much of the sum heregy apptxtpri- 0•¤¢¤¤¤¤¤D¤¢>¤· ated as may e necessary for that purpose: Provided, hat ore any expen itures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies sh equip each lamp with a selfregulating burner and ti_p, 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. hdaiclkhh. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-six nights from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents, wmumm. REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairin and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus, for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairirig and renewing the pipes of the same that sugp y the Capitol, the xecutive Mansion, and the building for the tate, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. ¤¤*¤·¤¤¤¤¢ ¤¤|¤- TELEGRAPII T0 CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS ""' AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFIcE: For care and repair of existin lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. _ JQNM ¤¤¤¤- EVASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the cab me malnte- Washingtoii 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 ger month; one fireman, at Efty dollars per month; one assistant reman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendent on floor, at sixty dollars er month; one attendent on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; tlliree night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty do lars. ¤P°¤¤· For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packmg, tools, matches, plaints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric ights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, an purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machiner , elevator, . and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. ¤¤‘•¤•¤¤¤ d For an extra set of cables for elevator, one thousand three hundred ollars.