Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 26.djvu/432

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

378 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. ¤¢h*#'¤¤¤¤‘¤· EXPENSES or LIGHT-VESSELS: For seamen’s wages, rations, reirs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of ight-ships, two hhndred and forty-five thousand dollars. Bumze- EXPENSES or BUoYAGE: For expenses of establishing, replacing and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day—beacons, and for incidental gxpenses relating thereto, three hundred and thirty-five thousand 0 ars. F°S*¤*¢¤·¤ Exrmusns or FOG-SIGNALS! For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, anddfgriepairs an incidental expenses of the same, sixty-five thousan dollars. 1¤¤i>¤¤•=i¤¤- INSPECTING LIGHTS: For mileage or traveling expenses of members of the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars. U8¤¤¤H¤f¤'*'°¤· LIGHTING OF RIVERS: For establishing, suppl `ng, and maintain- _ ing post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, Ig-dw York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New J ersep; Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Maryland; Caple ear River, North‘ Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Jo n’s and Indian Rivers, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navible channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi,

 uri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; on

the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; and on Pu et Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; 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 eighty thousand dollars. suneyuman. Sunvnr or Lronr-nousn sims: 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 Gongress, one thousand dollars. Q and G00d¢¤¤ COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. ¤¤g:•¤¤ ¤f w" For ever ex nditure re uisite for and incident to the surve of Plague, °:{¤i}°l,il£§ the Atlantd, (B85f, and Paciltic coasts of the United States andblhe · °°“°“·°*°· coast of the Territory of Alaska. including the survey of rivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation: deep-sea soundings, temerature and current observation along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal . observations; the necessary resurvevs; the pgeparation of the Coast Pilot; continuingiresearches and other wor 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 includigg compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employ on the field-work in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for s e- cial examinations that may be required by the Light House Boardp or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on neld duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Tremury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary Pmm. of the Treasury, and under the following heads: Provided, That no