FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 351-l. 1906. 425 send, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and ex ress charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collldcting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing N1g_Qg*{,‘;{}Q,*g*Yg§g;§j*· graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime com- ` munity of the Pacific 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 Hoating 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, two thousand dollars. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services P°*¤°¤¤l=*="i<*•=¤· or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under a propriations that may be made for printing and binding. NAVAL 8BSEBVATORYZ For pay of three assistant astronomers, ono N¤'•l°b¤°"***°*Y- at two thousand four hundred dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant in department of nautical instruments, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; instrument maker, one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant on equatorial, one thousand dollars; assistant in spectroscopic work, one thousand dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and nine laborers; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For miscellaneous computations, five thousand dollars. €¤¤v¤¤¤•>¤•· For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, pho- 3*** tograp s, and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. `or a paratus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two Apr>¤r¤¤¤¤- thousancl)dollars. For re irs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chem- C°“**“¤°“**"P°¤'°°- ` icals, andxlstationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exc ange), foreign postage, and expressage. plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor. seven thousand five hundred dollars. For one new steam boiler, and installation and appliances for the New Misfsame, two thousand dollars. NAUTICAL ALLIANAC OFFICE: For the following assistants in pre- of1ggg¤¤¤* M¤¤¤¤¤¤ paring for ublication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, ` namely: Three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one. thousand four hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and
