etc. Electric lights: For electric lights for three hundred and Electric lights, sixty-five nights from seven posts, at twenty cents per light per night, on grounds south of the Executive Mansion, five hundred and eleven dollars. tem. sys For lighting thirty-two arc electric lights in Lafayette, Parks. Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks three hundred and sixty-five nights, at twenty-five cents per light per night, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said parks, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Until Congress shall provide for a conduit system it shall be Conduit unlawful to lay conduits or erect overhead wires for electric lighting purposes in any road, street, avenue, highway, park, or reservation, except as hereafter specifically authorized by law: Provided, however, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to Connections issue permits for house connections with conduits and over- conduits, etc. with existing head wires now existing adjacent to the premises with which such connection is to be made; and also permits for public lighting connections with conduits already in the portion of the street proposed to be lighted. And nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect in any way Proviso. etc. lumbia Heights, any pending litigation involving the validity or invalidity Pending litigaor legality of the construction of any conduits made since tion not affected, June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nor to prevent the United States Electric Lighting Company from extending conduits into Columbia Heights, Washington Conduits in CoHeights, and Mount Pleasant within the fire limits as spe- lum cifically provided in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen Vol. 29, p. 401. hundred and ninety-six, making appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia; and the existing overhead wires of the Potomac Electric Overhead wires Power Company west of Rock Creek and outside the fire west of Rock limits are hereby authorized to be maintained for a period of one year from the passage of this Act and no longer. REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending Water pipes, water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, pur- repairs, etc. chase of hose, and for 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. Creek. TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE Telegraph, DEPARTMENTS AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: ments, and PrintCapitol, DepartFor care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five ing Office. hundred dollars. WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and mainte-Washington Monument. nance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one Maintenance. 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 forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventyfive dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dol Expenses. Engineer De partment. River and har lars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty 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 floors, 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, three thousand dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers bor improve under contracts or otherwise and within the limits authorized by law, namely: ments. Philadelphia, Pa. Galveston, Tex. Hudson River, N. Y. Great Lakes. Point Judith, R. I. For completing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Completing improvement, removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, six hundred and ninetyfour thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Completing improvement, including repairs to jetties, and dredging, five hundred thousand dollars, of which amount ten thousand dollars may be expended for making a resurvey and chart for Galveston Bay and Harbor. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For completing improvement of channel connecting the waters of the Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, including necessary observations and investigations in connection with the preservation of such channel depth, one million and ninety thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Completing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. Humboldt, Cal. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. N. Y. Savannah, Ga. Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For improving Bay Ridge Channel, the triangular area between Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, and Red Hook and Buttermilk channels in the harbor of New York, New York: Continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Cumberland Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sound, Ga. and Fla. Creek, N. Y. Newtown Improving Newtown Creek, New York: For completing improvement, one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. Portland, Me Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: For continuing Rockland, Me. improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Boston, Mass. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing Buffalo, N. Y. improvement, four hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: For completing improvement, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. Dunkirk, N.Y. Del. Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continu- Delaware Bay, ing construction, three hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars. S. C. Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing Winyah Bay, improvement of harbor at Winyah Bay, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improve-Sabine Pass, ment of harbor at Sabine Pass, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Maumee River and Bay. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing Cleveland, Ohio. improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be made a survey and estimate of cost of deepening and widening the straight channel in Maumee River and Bay, with a view to obtaining and permanently securing a channel of a uniform width of four hundred feet and twenty feet deep at low water, the cost of said survey to be paid out of money already appropriated for the improvement of said channel. Harbor of refuge at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin: For completing improvement, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. Milwaukee Bay, Wis. Duluth, Minn., Superior, Wis. Vol. 29, p. 213. harbor improve Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, four hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing Oakland, Cal. improvement under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. And the provision of the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to improving harbor at Oakland, California, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing Continuing improvement under existing project, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred and Limit. sixty-six thousand dollars: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, be-Limit for fiscal ginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount hereby authorized to be expended." ment. Provisos. year. lowance to mem ber of. The officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey detailed to Board to locate serve on the Board to locate a deep-water harbor for comdeep-water har bor at Port Los merce and of refuge at Port Los Angeles, in Santa Monica Angeles, etc., al- Bay, California, or at San Pedro, in said State, which Board was created by an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other Vol. 29, p. 213. purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, United States Statutes at Large, page two hundred and thirteen, shall receive from the appropriation in said Act provided with relation to said harbor, in addition R. S., sec. 1566, to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes, and notwithstanding its provisions, such a per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper. p. 269. Grays Harbor, Wash. Providence River and Narra Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement of harbor and bar entrance, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, gansett Bay, R.I. Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Allegheny River, Pa. Great Kanawha River, W. Va. Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the Great Kanawha River, West Virginia: Completing improvement, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars. Monongahela Improving upper Monongahela River, West Virginia: River, W. Va. For continuing improvement by the construction of six locks and dams, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ohio River. Dams Nos. 2, 4, and 5. Vol. 29, p. 225, amended. Provisos. Limit. Improving the Ohio River: For continuing construction 3, of Dams Numbered Two, Three, and Four, between Davis Island Dam and Dam Numbered Six, four hundred thousand dollars; and the provision in the river and harbor appropriation Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, authorizing contracts to be made for improving Ohio River by the construction of Dams Numbered Two, Three, Four, and Five is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for the whole or any part of the material and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay Limit for fiscal in any one fiscal year, beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended." year. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven and Eight, two hundred thousand dollars; and the provision of the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, amended. Contracts. and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen Vol. 29, p. 224, hundred and ninety-six, relating to improving Kentucky River, Kentucky, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Sec- Provisos. retary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement in accordance with the present project for same, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million three hundred Limit. and forty-nine thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated: Provided, That of the amount authorized to be expended eighty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in addition to the fifty thousand dollars herein appropriated in continuing construction and completion of Lock and Dam Numbered Seven, by contract or otherwise, Lock and dam and said eighty-three thousand dollars shall be immediately available: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, beginning July Limit for fiscal first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twentyfive per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended." Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For continuing, Yazoo River, improvement of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For continuing Bayou Plaqueimprovement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennes-Cumberland see: For continuing improvement by construction of Locks Numbered Five, Six, and Seven, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No. 7. year. Miss. mine, La. River, Tenn. Falls and Indiana wise, etc. Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: Ohio River For continuing improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, Chute. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That Proviso. Completion of the Secretary of War may carry to completion the present improvement by project of improving the falls of the Ohio River and Indiana contract or otherChute Falls, Ohio River, by contract, as provided in the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," which became a law June Vol. 29, p. 224. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; or the necessary materials may be purchased and the work done otherwise than by contract, in his discretion, if more economical and advantageous to the United States. Locks and dams in Ohio River: For completing construction of Dam Numbered Six, at or below the mouth of Beaver River, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement from its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, in pursuance of the provisions of "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and improvement of certain public works Ohio River. Chicago River, Vol. 29, p. 228. |