For general repairs to buildings, bridges, inclosing walls, fences, roads, grounds, and so forth, five thousand dollars.

REPAIR OF ARSENALS: For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at Arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year, may render necessary, fifty thousand dol

lars.

For building one brick hospital building, uniform in architecture with the other buildings on the post at the United States Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until a contract is made for finishing said building complete including heating apparatus and approaches within the limit of this appropriation.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of green-houses and nursery, 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 Monument Grounds, five thousand dollars.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: Prorided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.

For construction and repair of post-and chain fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars.

For painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars.

For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For flower-pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars.

For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twelve thousand dollars.

For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, eight thousand dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, five thousand dollars.

That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base.

EXECUTIVE MANSION.

For care, repair, repainting, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, sixteen thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine.

For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stables, three thousand dollars.

For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars.

LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thou sand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting. cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure 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 erecting seven iron posts, each twenty-five feet high, and connecting them with underground wires for electric lights, one thousand dollars.

For 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 waterpipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply 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 AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument and the operation of the elevator and machinery connected therewith, 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 per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at fortyfive dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at forty-five dollars per month; one attendant at top, at forty-five dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; in all, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, 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, and purchase of all necessary articles for maintaining the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric light plant in good order, two thousand three hundred and forty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

BUILDING FOR ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY: For laying asphalt pavement between the center building and wings of the Army Medical Museum and Library of the Surgeon-Generald's Office,

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corner of Seventh and B streets southwest, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

For the building for the Library of Congress, as authorized by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, except as herein modified, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, five hundred thousand dollars. And said building shall be constructed in accordance with the plans marked "D," submitted by the Chief of Engineers with his annual report to Congress, being Miscellaneous Document Number Twelve, Fiftieth Congress, second session, and at a total cost therefor not exceeding five million five hundred thousand dollars exclusive of appropriations heretofore made, and no changes or modifications shall be made that will increase the cost above the limitation herein prescribed: Provided, That contracts may be entered into for all the stone required for the exterior walls of said building to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law.

MILITARY POSTS.

For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, four hundred thousand dollars.

Cavalry and artillery school, Fort Riley, Kansas: For continuing the work of buildings for the cavalry and artillery school, one hundred thousand dollars.

Infantry and cavalry school, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For textbooks, books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska: The appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for completing the work of constructing necessary buildings at the military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, made by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, may be expended for continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings at said post.

Military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska: The appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for completing the work of constructing necessary buildings at the military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, made by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, may be expended for continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings at said post.

Fort Monroe, Virginia: For construction complete of a sewerage system, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Road through military reservation at Plattsburgh, New York: For constructing a macadamized road leading from the village of Plattsburgh, New York, through and along the military reservation in said village, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Military post at the presidio of San Francisco: For continuing the construction and repair of the roads and walks leading to the United States national cemetery on the reservation of the presidio of San Francisco, planting trees and shrubs, and for the protection and fencing of said roads and reservation in which the cemetery is situated, and also for the preservation of the same and its springs of water used for irrigating the post and cemetery from drifting sand, and for the construction of a roadway connecting the Fort Mason reservation with said reservation and cemetery, thirty-eight thousand dollars.

PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: For the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within the Park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose, fifty thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

OBSERVATION AND REPORT OF STORMS.

To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorological observation and the report, by telegraph, signal or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of the commerce and the agriculture of the United States, as follows:

For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instruments and instrument shelters, and expenses in connection therewith; and the Secretary of War, as he may think proper, may cause to be issued such meteorological instruments (not exceeding one set valued at fifteen dollars to any one county) to voluntary unpaid observers, in order to secure meteorological data from such observers, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, nine thousand dollars.

For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological information in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars.