FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 174. 1894. 19] 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 to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, and surveying, thirty thousand dollars. For rent of building for printing presses, draftsmen, and engravers, *****1*- storage of copper plates and materials used in the construction and printing of charts; repairs and heating of the same, and for gas, water, and telephone rates, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Phila- ,,,$Q‘Qf}§f'{,€,*{Q};§‘P°““*“ delphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, 4 N Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Port Townsend, and Cleveland, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car. fare and ierriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight. express, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, including one thousand dollars for rent of ‘ New York office, seventeen thousand dollars. · _ _ For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacino Ocean, showing NI$‘{',§**{)§{;{{,?[’,€f§lY`?‘ graphically the matters ofvalue and interest to the maritime community 1’¤b1i¤1·*¤g· wrof 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 iloating 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 employ- ment 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. _ , _ BUREAU or EQUIPMENT; For chief clerk, one thousand eight hun- ,,,Q§{f°“" 0* Hqnun dred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; two copyists; one assistant messenger, and one laborer; in ali, seven thousand tive hundred and eighty dollars. Y _ NAUTICAL Amnxiuo Orricn; For the following assistants in pre- O,§g§}f""“' ·“'"““"° paring for publication 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 hun- ‘ dred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, iitteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. _ For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the ”°'“""""‘ American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and improving the Tables of the Planets, eight thousand four hundred dollars. V Nm`, 0bm_mm_y NA\'ilL OBSERVATORY: For pay of three assistant astronomers, one C ' at two thousand dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one instrument-maker, one thousand tive hundred dollars; one electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; one photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; two firemen; six watchmen; two skilled laborers, one at one thousand dollars, who shall be foreman and captain of the watch, and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; eleven laborers; and one elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirtyseven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. _ For miscellaneous computations, one thousand two hundred dollars. C°mP"**“*°¤°- For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two -—11>i>=·¤=¤¤¤~ thousand five hundred dollars.
