Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 25.djvu/558

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512 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. which has been made from previous appropriations for repairs for Point Reyes, 0¤r the erection of keepers’ dwellings at Point Reyes Light-Station, Calnemu, mass. ifornia, and Boston Light-Station, Massachusetts, is hereby authorized, the same involving no further expenditure of money from the Treasury. Kwper¤’ ¤¤¤¤ri•¤¤. SALARIES or KEEPERS or LIGHT-HOUsEs: For salaries, fuel, ra- °t°' tions, rent of quarter·s where necessary, and similar incidental exnses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred light-house and ildg-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Light-vessels. EXPENSES OF LIGHT-VESSELS: For seamerfs wages, rations, repairs, salaries, su plies, and incidental expenses of light-ships, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Buoysze EXPENSES or BUOYAGE: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental Expenses relating thereto, three hundred and twenty-five thousand o lars. F<>z¤s¤M¤ Exrnnsus or noe.-sreruns: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, gud for repairs an incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand ollars. rmpecnou. Insrncrxne Lmnrs: For milea e or-traveling expenses of members of the Light House Board, incluting rewards pai for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars. lighting rivers- Lreurme or mvnns: For establishing, suppllying, and maintaining post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, ew York; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Ma land; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia {Saint J ohn’s River, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; and on Puget Sound, Washington Territory; 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Surveyotdtes. SURVEY OF LIGHT-HOUSE SITES: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses aud structures for which estimates are to be made to Gongress, one thousand dollars. commu eeeame Ooasr AND 0EoDETIo SURVEY. E nses or survey For every expenditure r uisite for and incident to the surve of @’€,‘®';§°,5 (j{‘E;,$°§ the Atlantic, Gulf, and rgne coasts of the United States andythe ¤¤••¤- ¤¤=· coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings; temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurve ;the reparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and otllgr works relating to 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; and includiu compensation not otherwise appropriated forfof persons employecl on the field-work, in conformity with the regulatrons for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Surveyxadopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations t at may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers