616 FORT!-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 143. 1883. ery, six thousand dollars; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty two ° thousand five hundred dollars 1 Provided, That the work of no other Pmuiw. department, bureau, or commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this bureau. Military tele- For maintenance and repair of militarytelegraph lines, thirty-tive l;1‘¤l>hli¤·¤¤- thousand dollars: Provided, That on and after the first day of July, P'°"“’°· eighteen hundred and eighty-three, all moneys received for the transmission of private dispatches over any and all telegraph lines owned or _ operated by the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, as required by section thirty-six hundred and seventeen B. S. 3617, 713. of the Revised Statutes; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 0l>§¤rv¤»¢i0r9, Observation and exploration in the Arctic Seas: For completing the §;°£.‘“ *h° *~"°*"“’ work of scientific observation and exploration on or near the shores of Lady Franklin Bay, and for transportation of men and supplies to said location and return, and for completing the work of scientic exploration at Point Barrow, thirty-three thousand dollars; the same to be immediately available. And it is provided that the above work near Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow shall be closed, and the iorce there employed shall be returned to the United States within the year, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. · Pay Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and ten second lieutenants, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of one hundred and iitty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payments due on discharge, two hundred thousand dollars; for mileage to onicers when traveling on duty under orders, five thousand dollars; for pay of contract surgeons, three thousand six hundred , dollars; for commutation ofquarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, seven thousand dollars; in all, two hundred andthirty-tivethousandonehundred dollars. Andthe Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps, not to exceed ten commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law and exclusive of officers detailed for Arctic sea service. ‘ Subsistence. Subsistence: For the subsistence of signal service enlisted men, and for commutation of rations of signal service enlisted men, one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents; for commutation of rations to enlisted men detailed from regiments for duty at signal stations at Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow, eight thousand and fiftytwo dollars ; in all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dolla.rs and seventy-two cents. ‘ For subsistence stores for Lady Franklin Bay, for sale to the officers and men of the expedition, five thousand dollars. For subsistence stores for Point Barrow, for sale to the officers and men and civil employees of the expedition, three thousand dollars. Supplies. Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for onicers and enlisted men at Fort Meyer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort Meyer, Virginia, and on the United States military-telegraph lines, six thousand two hundred and ninety-tive dollars; commutation of fuel lor two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dollars each per month, twenty three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and iorty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars; forage for twenty-five mules and six horses, three thousand one hundred dollars; stat-ionery, one hundred dollars; stoves, seven hundred and six dollars and twenty-tive cents; lights, three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, fiftyseven thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents
