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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. . Ch. 546. 1898. 617 Atlantic, Brunswick, Gulf, Tortugas, San Diego, San Francisco and Port Townsend, one hundred and iitty thousand dollars. PREVENTION OF EPIDEMICS. · d P¤*¤¤¤<>¤ •>f ¤ri— emics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and Mwv-31- ninety-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the ame; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. _ UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. ,,,§}§§°"*°' D°I’"*· . . PUBLIC BUILDINGS. rubnc unsung., Bmums or nnrmamcs, Inrnnion Dnrancriuznrrrz For repairs of Repairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, seven thousand dollars. Fon rim Csrxror.: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Cnrmn ghereoq including wages of mechanics and laborers, thirty thousand ollars. ` For repairs to the plant cases, including coating same on the interior P""°°°°¤ with asphaltic cement mastic, two thousand five hundred dollars For taking up the present Limmer asphalt roof over the committee m§,¤r1¤¤i¤·z ¤¤rh•1¤ rooms and corridors adjacent, and replacing same with Val de Travers ‘ asphalt mastic from the mines at N euchatel, Switzerland, eight thousand dollars. To provide ilags for the east and west fronts of the center of the F¤·¤s¤· Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars,.0r so much thereof as may be necessary. ‘ For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Cleaning works or Nw Capitol, ilwludiug the repairing of frames, under the direction of ‘"‘· the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary repairs and improvements to the steam heating and S¤¤>m> heating sp ventilating apparatus of the Senate, including increased boiler-flue p“'“"“‘ service, kitchen ventilation, and all machinery pertaining thereto in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the Supreme Court, under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, four thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars. That the unexpended balance, amounting to two thousand one hun- vnoxpeniien nai. cred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-four cents, of the appropriation {?L‘§;’p,fJ}f,i§}‘L'2{*§‘{§T°“ of fifty-five thousand dollars for the improvement of the ventilation of the Senate wing of the Capitol made by the sundry civil appropriation · Act for the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby V·>l.29.p.•w. made available, and may be used for a ventilating exhaust fan for the attic story near the Supreme Court and the ventilation of the public closet in the basement story of the north wing. and for such other purposes in connection with the work as the Architect of the Capitol may deem necessary. ~ lmrnovme run Cnurox. Gnounns: For continuing the work of ¤·ri¤>1sr¤¤¤¤¤ the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, for repairs to prtiiicial stone pavementywalls, and driveways, twelve thousand dollars. For resurfacing the roadway in the southwestern portion of the Capltol grounds and resetting the curbing, eight thousand dollars. _ Lmnrrme run Cnxroi. Ann enomvns: For lighting the Capitol “g"‘“‘¤· and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden,Senate and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of