Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 1.djvu/743

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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3914. 1906. 7 13 Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; Monongahela River, York River, James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at 'Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississi pi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washin_gton Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior Bays, at the head of Lake Superior; in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; 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, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Sunvnr or meu·r—r1oUsm srms: For preliminary examinations, sur- sumysnast veys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. ` Ou. Houses ron Lreirr STATIONSZ For establishing isolated oil houses ou new for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dol- ` lars in cost. MAINTENANCE or LIGHTS on GHANNELS or GREAT LAKES: To enable 6** L*°¤· the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially . improved by the Government of the United States, where the same gan not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand o lars. · Pomu: AU PELEE LIGHT-VESSEL, LAKE Emu: For maintenance of a. ,__*;gj¤E*ge **1 P°'¤·= light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, mgm vémi. four thousand dollars. GUA1u·ANAmo, CUBA, NAVAL s’1‘A*r1oN L1eu'r·HoUsE smnvron: For G"¤¤*·¤¤¤°·C¤*·¤· maintainin existing aids to navilggtion, to establish and maintain additional hghts, day marks, and acon lights where required; and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light—house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light—house engineers at light-house depots, six thousand ollars. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. sg mi ‘*°°d°¤° · For everv ex enditure re uisite for and incident to the surve of §_¤*Y°Y.°* ¤g· the coasts of the United Stages and of coasts under the jurisdictioii of iiirimeiiusiiidnigu I the United States, includin the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep—sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream ilowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurvevs: the p1‘0p8\‘8·bi0¤ of the Coast Pilot; continuing Const Pilot. researches and bther work relating to physical hydrography and 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, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise approglriated for, of persons employed in the lield work, in conformity wi the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted