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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2918. 1907. 1343 provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-Eve minutes before sunrise; 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 pur se: Pro- ·v·ided_feu·ther,hat four thousand two hundred dollars of tI1lb forego- mggfuegmm District ing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia ` and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: And prooidedfurtfeer, That not more than six thousand dollars of said appro- *§,L§h°* °¤¤'“* priation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, P0 ` repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixt candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty dollars andyeighty-five cents per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. ‘F or lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds ¤°°'¤‘l°li¤¤'$· within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per l1 ht r annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of ligllding and maintaining in ood order each electric light in said grounds, five hundred and ten dollars. _ For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating rdens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, whichasum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in ounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in I4afayette§`ranklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, and twenty-seven in Potomac Park driveway, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lightmg and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; m , six thousand eight hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be m¤;}fm;¤‘<>¤ ¤¤¤’¤¤¢ paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half ` from the Treasury of the United States. TELEGBAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE Dnranrmmvrs AND grfIQK€mm€¤* ***1** Govnnsumvr Pauvrme Ormcn: For care and repair of existing lines, ` one thousand five hundred dollars. Wasmxorox NIONUMENTZ For the care and maintenance of the mQ§',°;“”i“¤'°“ "°““· Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at seventy dollars per mont i; one tireman, at fifty-tive dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at fifty- five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car at seventy-tive dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three nightand day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. lI·`or fuel, lights, oil, waste packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope. nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and· upper and lower iioors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and relpairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; an purchase of all necessary articles for kegping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good or er, three thousand dollars. _ _ Rnrnms or aumbmc WHERE ABRAHAM Lixcomv 1>1r·:1>: For paint- A,$rg;;g,‘“{,‘,f§j{: in and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars. mm. · TANCOLN MEMORIAL SHAF! OR TABLET: To aid in the construction of Lincoln memcrivl the Abraham Lincoln memorial shaft or tablet, at Hodgenville, Ken- °°f{.la§L‘§v-n;.,, Ky, tucky, to be paid to the chairman of the commission appointed by the governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under an act of the