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228 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 902. 1886. Repairs. REPAIRS OF LIGHT-HOUSES: For repairing, rebuilding, and improving light-houses, and buildings and grounds connected therewith, for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminatingapparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for incidental cxpenses relating to these various objects three hundred thousand dollars, ` Salaries of keep- SALARIES OF KEEPERS OF LIGHT-HOUSES: Fo1‘S3l£tI‘l€S,fu8], ITIGOHS, °”» °"°· rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand and fifty light-keepers and fog-signals keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Light-vessels. EXPENSES OF LIGHT-VESSELS: For seaman’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty light-ships, two hundred thousand dollars. B¤·>r=¤s¤- Exrnnsss or nuomen; For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred thousand dollars. iuigsignnis. Exrnnsns or ros-srsiursa For establishing, replacing. duplicating, and improvin g fogsignals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, fifty thousand dollars. _ inspection. · INSPECTING LIGHTS: For mileage or travelling expenses of members ot'the Light-House Board in visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collis· · _ _ _ ions, three thousand dollars. L’·?"""¥ ’“'°“· LIGHTING OF RIVERS: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post-lights on the Hudson River, New York; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers, one hundred and _ _ ninety thousand dollars, °‘""'°Y °f °‘"‘· Sunvnx OF LIGHT-HOUSB SITES : For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars. Vfllghgt B1J*1}`f» That the light and fog·bell appropriated for by the act of March

,,Q{,{ g °“ °g` third eighteen hundred and eightydive, to be established on Bush’s

v..i_ gg, ,,_ 45;, Bluff, near Norfolk, Virginia, may be placed at such point in the viciuity of the bluff as the Light-House Board may select. , C_°¤=* ¤¤·l 6*0- coxsr un ononnric scnvnr. cttw Survey. p FXD'~;}*S*; ;>f **3* For every expenditure requisite for aud incident to the survey of the

 {md 'PQQQE; Atlantic, Gully and Pacino coasts of the United States, including the

cggsfg and r;,..,,, survey of rivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep sea soundings, temperature, and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream, and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations ; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of North America; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the iicld-work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light·House Board or other proper authority; and including travelling expenses. of officers and men of the Navy on duty for commutation to officers of the field lorcc while on neld duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outtit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the _ repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended frgrlaa. I under the iollowing heads: Projuidcd, That no advance of money to mmm} "b;°:m{’,E chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to .0,,;,. ;,, ,,(,,,,,,,;,,_ a commissioned ouicer or to a civilian omcer who shall give bond in

 or henna such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.