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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. 397 watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars; Provided, That for each six-foot burner not con- name. nected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, Maximum price pei cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure Imp' provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand Six hundred hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose. For introducing electric lamps and wires into the Executive Man- Electric Hghtina sion and connecting the same by under-ground cable with the source of electricity, seven thousand seven hundred dollars; and the sum appropriated for the purchase of gas may be applied to the purchase o as or electric light. Fgor electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. _ REPAIR OF WATER-PIPES: For repairing and extending water- Water-pipes, ctc. pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that su ply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. _ TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS Govemment mia AND GovnnNMEN·r PRINTING Ormcnz For care and repair of exist- mph- ·in lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. TVASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the wnnmngtnn Monu- VVashington Monument, namely: For one custodian at one hundred “‘}§’,§§,, md mmm dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; ¤¤¤¢e· one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars _ per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expensesbrooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric ights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper an lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, two thousand six hundred dollars. · BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Library Building. For continuing the construction of the building for the Library of stccnpsnning cnn. Congress, and for each and every puxipose connected with the same, “‘°"°“· eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. MILITARY POSTS. Military rom. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such €<>¤¤¤‘¤¤*i¤¤· ¤¤= military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, six hundred and ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That zwmn. the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to construct a hos- nospam, Columbus pital at Columbus Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, at a cost not to exceed gg{f*°k*· C°*““**’“°· twenty-five thousand dollars, out of the appropriation for construction and repairs of hospitals h9I'€l50fOI'8 made in the act approved Ante, p. 154. June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. O