Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 24.djvu/550

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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 362. 1887. 517 For observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice in Party expensesthe Delaware River, and noting the changes caused thereby in Cherry °°““““°d· Island Flats, two hundred dollars. For examinations and resurveys on the Virginia coast from Chincoteague to Cherrystone, and especially at Cape Charles and in its vicinity, including triangulation, hydrography, and topography, five thousand dollars. To continue the surveys in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and up the Cooper and Ashley Rivers to the head of navigation; and to continue the astronomical, latitude, and azimuth work, and, in connection therewith, the recovery and remarking of old triangulation stations, for their preservation, and the connection of some detached tri-~ angulation between Beaufort and the mouth of the Cape Fear River, North Carolina; and the connection of the Cape Fear River triangulafion with the coast triangulation at Masonsborough, two thousand dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, six thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, seven thou- i sand dollars. , · To make olf-shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the primary triangulation of Southern California, and for connecting the same at Mount Conuess and Macho stations with the transcontinental arc, and for a primary base-line in the vicinity of Los Angeles, six thousand dollars; For continuing the resurvey of San Francisco Bay and San Pablo and Suisun Bays and the strait of Carquinez, the examination of San Francisco Bar and entrance, and the mouths of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including ollishore hydrography, and to continue the survey oi the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, nine thousand dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical longitude and magnetic stations between Sitka and the southern end of the Territory, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottiugs, three thousand dollars. For examination into reported dangers on the eastern, Gulf, and Pacihc coasts, one thousand dollars. _ To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf slopes, five hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, at the Los Angeles Magnetic Observatory, one thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing the exact line of levels from Cairo westward, two thousand dollars. For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, at Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, near San Francisco, in California, two thousand three hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Pulpit Harbor, Maine, and at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, two thousand dollars.