Portrait of exPresident Benjamin Harrison.

Lighting Exec

and

public

grounds.

Provisos.

Maximum per lamp.

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

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

For renewing the superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars.

For portrait and frame for same of Honorable Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars.

LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC utive Mansion GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts; 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 thousand 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 and fifty cents 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 three thousand 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: Provided, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour.

Burners.

Electric lights.

Repair of water pipes, etc.

Proviso.

etc.

For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven posts, at thirty cents per light per night, seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.

REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning 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: Provided, That the Secretary of War and the Investigation of water rights, Attorney-General are hereby authorized to investigate and ascertain what action has been taken by them or their predecessors in office, or by any Secretary of the Interior, Vol. 22, p. 168. under the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington," and under any previous Acts; and also the existing claims, if any, of the State of Maryland, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and any other owner of land and water rights, or either, at the Great Falls; and also, further, the cost of acquiring the title or titles to such lands and water rights, or either, as may be necessary to

vest in the Government complete ownership of the water rights and necessary lands, and to make a full report of all the facts to Congress; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for such investigation, examination, and report.

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 two ing Office. hundred and fifty dollars.

Monument.
Care and main-

tenance.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and mainte- Washington nance of the 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 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 dollars 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, Expenses. 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 neces sary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars.

For one new engine, complete, in position, to replace the New engine. old engine which runs the dynamo for the electric lights, six hundred and fifty dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Engineer Department.

ments.

For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, River and harPennsylvania: Continuing improvement, removal of Smiths bor improve. Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Philadelphia, Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Pa.

Tex.

For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing Galveston, improvement, six hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars of which may be expended for dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the United States.

channel. St.

For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River, Hay Lake Michigan: Continuing improvement, one hundred and Marys River, fifty thousand dollars.

Mich.

Hudson River,

N. Y.

For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Mississippi For improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the River, mouth of Ohio River to the landing on the west bank below the the Ohio to Min

neapolis, Minu.

St. Marys Riv

Mich.

Point Judith,

R. I.

Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, seven hundred and fiftyeight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; continuing improvement from the mouth of Missouri River to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For improving Saint Marys River at the Falls, Michigan: at the Falls. Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, including Sullivan Island and Mount Pleasant Shore: Continuing improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Charleston,

S. C.

Savannah, Ga.

Mobile, Ala.

Mississippi
Commis-

River sion.

For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvement, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, travelMississippiing, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.

River.

Missouri River Commission.

er.

Under Missouri River Commission: For improving MisMissouri Riv. Souri River from its mouth to the south line of Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be used for removal of snags and other like obstructions in the Missouri River above Sioux City, Iowa, from the south line thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

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Miscellaneous

objects.

Survey of

northern, lakes.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: etc., For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dol

Transporting

maps.

New York Harbor.

lars.

For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars.

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HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City.

For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, Inspectors, etc. and expenses of office, fifteen thousand dollars;

For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousand dollars;

Steamers, etc.

For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, eight thousand dollars.

For purchase or construction of one steam tug, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, In all, seventy-six thousand dollars.

UNDER LEGISLATIVE.

Legislative.

BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

Library of Congress.

construction.

Proviso. Contracts au, thorized.

For continuing the construction of the building for the Continuing Library of Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, seven hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into for any work or materials required for the construction of said building, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law; and the officer in charge of said building is hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session plans and esti- Report on tunmates of cost for a tunnel, with suitable conveying apparatus for the rapid transmission of books, papers, and messages at all times between the said building and the Senate and House wings of the Capitol.

and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business;

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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

nel.

escapes, etc.

To enable the Chief of Engineers of the Army, under Repairs, fire the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, to repair the Government Printing Office, provide fire escapes, and put said building in a safe and secure condition, and to enable the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, to rent, if necessary, any buildings for use of the printing office, seventy-five thousand dollars.

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Approved, August 18, 1894.

August 23, 1894.

Vancouver,

Wash.

CHAP. 309.-An Act Extending the time for the completion of a railroad bridge over the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Bridge across of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Columbia River, the time for the completion of the bridge across the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington, under the Act of Congress approved August twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River by the Oregon Railway Extensions Company," be, and the same is hereby, extended until the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Time of com pletion extended Vol. 26, p. 369.

Approved, August 23, 1894.

August 23, 1894.

and Weldon Rail

may bridge Contentnea Creek, Grifton, N. C.

CHAP. 312.-An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Wilmington of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That road Company it shall be lawful for the Kinston Branch of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina, or its successors or assigns, to construct a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at or near the town of Grifton, in the county of Lenoir and State of North Carolina; that said bridge Railway and may be constructed for railway, wagon, and postal service, wagon bridge. with single or double track, for railway traffic, and shall be constructed under the conditions and limitations hereinafter specified.

Free navigation.

Litigation.

Draw.

Lawful structure and route.

post

SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not interfere with the free navigation of said river beyond what may be necessary to carry into effect the rights and privileges herein granted, and in case of any litigation arising under the provisions of this act such litigation may be tried and determined by the circuit court of the United States within whose jurisdiction said bridge is located.

SEC. 3. That the bridge hereby authorized to be constructed must be constructed with a draw of such dimensions and character as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

SEC. 4. That any bridge constructed under this Act shall be a lawful structure, and shall be known as a post road, over which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission of mails, troops, and munitions of war of the Government of the United States or for passenger or freight passing over the same than the rate per mile charged for their transportation over the railroad or public highways leading to the said bridge, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies. The United States shall also have the Postal telegraph. right of way over said bridge for postal-telegraph purposes.