Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 28.djvu/409

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380 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 301. 1894. Sound, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, coast of New .Iersey from Sandy Hook to Cape May, bar and entrance to Brunswick Harbor, Saint Johns River to Jacksonville, and Fort George Inlet, seventeen _ thousand seven hundred dollars. _ To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery towards Mobile; and for triangulation, topography and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, iucluding Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, seven thousand four hundred dollars; To make olfshore soundings along; the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the ulf Stream, five thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and the survey of the Columbia River to the Cascades, and the resurvey of San Francisco Harbor triangulation, topography, and hydrography, nfteen thousand dollars; and the Superintendent of the oast and Geodetic Survey is hereby directed to make a survey of the Harbor of San Francisco and the water approaches thereto. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the ame, and for the establishment of astro- • nomical, longitude, and magnetic stations, eight thousand four hundred dollars; For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for con— tinuing tidal and current observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacinc coasts, ten thousand nve hundred dollars; For examination of reported dangers on the Atlantic, Gulf, and · Pacinccoasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand nve hundred dollars; To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward and southward from the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, eastward from San Francisco, California, eastward from Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Saint Augustine and Cedar Keys, Florida, and from the vicinityof Chicago, Illinois, to Lake Erie, two thousand nve hundred dollars; romuwsnu nu- For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as prac- ""' ticable in States where points have not been furnished; and for surveying and distinctly marking with ermanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of Califbrnla commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree gflsongitude west from •Green wich, thirteen thousand nve hundred o ars- For determinations of geographical positions and to continue gravity observations, three thousand nve hundred dollars; For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacino oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and the necessary check bases, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; — For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light—House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, two thousand nve hundred dollars; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of otncers of the neld force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, fo be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, four thousand seven hundred dollars;