Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 25.djvu/991

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946 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 411. 1889. '§¤¤v¤¤‘¤’ ¤¤¤¤¤¢¤· SALARIES or Knnrnns or Lmnr-Housns :_ Eor salaries, fuel, °rations, rent of quarters where necessary and similar incidental exnses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred and fifty lighthegsc and fog-signal keepers, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ngnsvesssn EXPENSES or L1enr·VEssELs: For seamen’s wages, rations, reairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of light-ships, two hundred and nfteen thousand dollars. suoym. EXPENSES or BUoYAeE: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and dag-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundre and twenty-five thousand do lars. reg-sagusn. EXPENSES or FOG·SIGNALS: For establishing, replacing, dupli- ‘ cating, and improving, fog·signals and buildings connected therewith, — Eng for. repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand o ars. Y¤¤P¤°**¤¤ INSPECTING Lmurs; For milea e or traveling expenses of members of the Light-House Board, inclugling rewards paid for information · as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars. Lizh¤i¤z of rivers- LIGHTING OF RIVERS: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York : the Raritan River, New Jersey; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New J erscgy ; Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Maryland; Ca e ear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint J ohn’s and Indian Rivers, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; and on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington Territory; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. Survey of ws- SURVEY or LIGHT-Housn Srrns; For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Sugggf M ¤¤¤<¤¤¤¤ coAsr AND cnonnrrc SURVEY. E*y°”°° 0* ¤¤"¤v For eve expenditure re uisite for and incident to the surve of gléingniigilldldifg the Atlantg, Gulf, and Paccific coasts of the United States andbthe °°“'• °‘°· coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the 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 reparation of the Coast Pilot; continuingl researches and other woiilr relating to terrestrial · magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the field-work, in conformity with the regulations for thegovernment of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretar of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officer and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be iixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day