302 FIFTYPIFTH CONGRESS. Suss. II. Ch. 68. 1898. HS·l¤>¤¤·Phi¤ 0m¤¤· HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE : For two clerks of class two; one clerk of · class one; one assistang messenger; one watchman; in all, five thou- . san four hundredand orty dollars. S¤¤·i¢¤¤- For draftsmen, engravers, assistants, nautical experts, computers, custodian of archives, copyists, copperplate printers, apprentices, and laborers in the Hydrographic Office, forty thousand dollars. M¤rm»1·.•»w. ‘ For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, electrotyping copperplates; cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; data for charts and sailing directions; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to ‘ printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; expert marine, meteorological, and other work in the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of, compiling, and arranging data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating in hydroggphy, mariple meteorology, navigation, and surveying, twenty-nine ousan dollars. Bent- For rent of building and rooms for printing presses, draftsmen, and engravers, storage of copperplates and materials used in the construc- . tion and printing of charts; repairs and heating of the same, and for ‘ · gas, water, and telephone rates, one thousand five hundred dollars. ¤<»¤·¤¤z•¤¢•¤v•¤~¤¤¤- Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Phila- · —delphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Townsend, Buffalo, uluth, and Sault Sainte Marie, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and tfgro other; for which the oiilces were established, twenty- one usan dollars. Aic¤;“n{¤£°1:_¤¤¤¤¤b¤¤. For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing . “graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Paciiic Coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and iloatin g obstructions to navigation; and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for, and printing and mailing the chart; the employment of three nautical experts at one thousand six hundred dollars each, and two tabulators and copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, ten thousand dollars. ' rmi ninnm. mm For drawing and engraving on copper plates the survey of Pearl "°,X,§’,'f_ ,,_,,_ Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, authorized under the sundry civil act of dr·:_g;:;5rm¤¤ fvr June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; for completing a series `of charts of the Hawaiian Islands, for the navigation of the vessels of the Navy and for the beneiit of mariners generally, from data resulting from the Hawaiian Government survey, which have been made available for this purpose by the Hawaiian Republic; and for the construe- Alw...1m;g:»¤ mg tion of a series of charts' of the coasts and waters between the State of m,,j’,ff‘;,,§{ ’“"“ ° Washington and the Territory of Alaska, including the reduction of the accitimulatedg dauta rglating tioghle currents and meteorology of the adjacen ocean, we ve thousand dollars. imma. tr amp- BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hun- "‘°'"‘ dred dollars; ·one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one copyist; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Nmmcn Alumnae NAUTIGAL ALMANAC OFFICE: For the following assistants, in pre- °m°°‘ paring for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac,
