Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 18 Part 3.djvu/247

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FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 455. 1874. -217 _ For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, W¤¤t¤¤¤ coastincluding compensation of civilians, and pay and rations of engineers of steamers engaged in the work, two hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended in the piovioo, prosecution of surveys beyond the northern line of Washington Territory after December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. For extending the triangulation of the Coast Survey,- so as to form a Gooiioiio som., geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United between Atlu n ti e States, and assisting in the State surveys, including compensation of *****1 P**°m° °°°°*°’· civilians engaged in the work, fifty thousand dollars. &°· · For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Repene, see., nf Coast Survey, forty-one thousand dollars. C<>=¤¤*»S¤"•>Y ve S- For building a steamer for the Coast Survey, for use on the Gulf coast, °°1“é f _ G 1, seventy-six thousand dollars. c,,§,_,§f‘°°°' °‘ “ For continuing the publication of the observations made in the pro- poniiooiion of oi,- gross of Coast Survey, including compensation for civilians engaged in eervetione. the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing-Ollice, nine thousand dollars. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. For salaries of nine hundred and thirty-nine light-house keepers and Kc,,,.,,., and M_ light-beacon keepers, and their assistants, five hundred and saxty-five eistnnte. thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses in renttin g and improving light- R,.,,,,;,., mi mi, houses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred and fifty thou- dental expenses. sand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to order the sale at auction, after due public notice, of any real Rm ,,,,,8 &c_ estate or other property pertaining to the Light-House Establishment, no not required, may longer required for light-house purposes; the proceeds of such sales, M ¤<>ldafter the payment therefrom of the expenses of making the same, to be P¤‘<>¢¤¢§T¤ Q 0 ll G deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as f!‘;"°'°“ “‘*° 1`“’““‘ now provided by law in like cases. y' For supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights on the Atlantic, Supply or light- Gulf, Lake, and Pacino coasts with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois- h¢>¤¤¤¤. &<=- skins, spi-rits of wine, whiting, polishingpowder, towels, brushes, soap, paints, and other cleaning-materials, and for expenses of repairing and keeping in repair illuminating-apparatus and machinery, and of gauging, testing, transportation, delivery of- oil, fuel, and other supplies thr lighthouses and fogsignals, and other incidental necessary expenses, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. - _ For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navl- visiting iigi. io, gation, two thousand dollars. M- For ·seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental 1,,,,1,, SMP, ,,,,,1 expenses of twenty-two lightships and seven relief lightvessels, two voeioie, hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. _ _ For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, reiittlng, and 1m- pog.oigiioio_ priaving ibgsignals and buildings connected therewith, fifty thousand o ars. . For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, renewing, and 1;..,,,.,,, bggyggug, supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day·beacons, and for chains, &e. sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred thousand dollars. · LIGHT-HOUSES, FOG-SIGNALS, AND BEACONS. For building a lighthouse and fog-signal at Avery’s Bock, Machias Avery’e Rock. Bay, Maine, (or vicinity,) nfteen thousand dollars. For a light-house and fog-signal at Egg Rock, Frenchman’s Bay, Egg Rock. Maine, (or vicinity,) fifteen thousand dollars. _ ‘ For a keepers dwelling at Monhegan lightstation, Maine, five thou- t¤é[<>¤h¤S¢¤¤ Ilshk sand dollars. “ `“ ‘°°‘