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herein appropriated shall be applied TO the
construction Of buildings for special classes
OF patients on the present grounds of the
hospital, suitable for the extension as
herein proposed; for clearing fencing,
building roadways and grading the pro-
posed site of the extension as herein de-
scribed, $4,000.
For Deaf and Dumb.
For the support of the Columbia Institu-
ton for the Deaf and Dumb, including sal
aries and incidental expenses, for books
and illustrative apparatus and for general
repairs and improvements $54 500: for re-
pairs to the buildings of the institution, in
Guiding plumbing and steam heating ap-
paratus. and for repairs to pavements with
In the grounds, 5000.
Howard University.
For maintenance Of the Howard Jniver-
slty' to be used in payment Of part Of the
salaries of the officers, professors. teachers
and other regular employees of the univer-
sisy' the balance of which will be paid from
donations and other sources, of which sum
not less than 81, 80" shall be used for normal
instruction. S29tD0; for tools materials
luei' wages OF instructors and other neces-
sd saiy expenses OF the industrial department,
$'No: for Improvement of grounds and re-
pairs Of buildings, $1,000; for books. shelly
ing furniture and fixtures for the law and
general libraries $500; for material and an
history studies and use in laboratories in
c'ua'hs cases and shelving, 500.
maintenance of Parks,
for Improvement and maintenance of
GROUNDS south of Executive Mansion 81 600.
LOT ordinary care of green houses and
nursery 5000; for Lafayette Park, $1,000;
1or FRANKLIN Park, 81 600; for Lincoln Park
S-'ooo' Tor monument grounds, 5000 Gn-
creased s2,ooo); for continuing improve
ment of reservation numbered seventeen.
and site of old canal northwest of same
5000: Provided that no money shall be
expended upon other than property belong
ing 10 the United States; for construction
ana repair or post and chain fences, repair
or nigh iron fences, constructing stone
coping about reservations. painting watch
men looses, iron fences. vases, lamps
anu lamp posts, etc, S15,s50; for improve
ment, care and maintenance of various
reservations, 10000; for Smithsonian
grounds, 5000; for Judiciary Park, $500;
Tor laying asphalt walks in various reser-
Fdtiohs' $2,ooo; for improvement, care and
iiialhlehahce or grounds of executive de-
partments, $1,000.
No contract can be made for making or
repairing concrete Or asphalt pavements in
washington city at a higher price than
si.oo per square yard for quality equal to
the :" Id In the District of Columbia
-dly 1, 1856, and with a base of
not less than six INCHES in thickness For
i've Mansion grounds (Within iron fencel
$l,ouo' Tor construction of an iron and
orlck storehouse at the, nursery, and for
uath .s;th anu an every purpose, connected there
The White House.
For care, repair and refurnishng of Ex-
ecutive Mansion, $4,000, to be expended by
contract or otherwise as the President may
determine; reduced, s16seoo. For fuel for
the Executive Mahsion., greenhouses and
s'apie' $4,000. For careoand necessary re-
pair OF greenhouses, 50 600. For repairs to
conservatory, Executive. Mansion, $1,000
I-ishtlng the Executive Mansion and public
sIounds-for gas, pay of lamplighters. gas
n.ters, etc, $4,000: 3,4OO of the foregoing
sum IS 10 be paid from the revenues of the
Dlstrlct or Columbia and the remainder
rom the treasury of the United States
for ighting Six arc electric lights in Exec
uli'e MANSION grounds within the iron
It renee 'oo nights. at not exceeding $72 per
light per annum, 1892
Electric Lights in Parks.
FOR lighting arc electric lights in public
grounds as follows: For seven in grounds
south OF the Executive Mansion, thirty two
IN Lafayette. Franklin, Judiciary and Lin
com parks, and fourteen in grounds south
oI Executive Mansion and in Monument
fark, at not exceeding $T2 per light per
ahnun. which sums shall cover the entire
cost OF ilghung and maintaining in good
@ oaueI each or said arc electric lights: in all,
9oslo, one-half of which sum shall be paid
from the revenues of the District Of Colupn-