496 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28. 1918. affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal_ at the mines, including personal services in the District oiPColumb1a, and in the field, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year _ nineteen hundred and nineteen. ,.§,}’..,l§li° ‘"m"“ °°”" Public utility companies: To enable the ]2tureau_of Standards to t{)*;g_$$*§·$£;{g:=*¤Qgg· make investigations urgently needed by public utility companies m P K °y’ order to improve their efhciency and adjust their methods of operation to meet the changed ecomomic conditions incident to the war, and to aid State and municipal administrative officers and the manement of publicly owned utilities in adjusting standards of service zlriien necessary to meet present conditions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. S ¤¤<1 Gwdetiv cosw AND enonnrrc stmvmr. '__ J Mdi¤¤¤»¤¤¤v¤¤r¢¤¤· For additional employees from April first to J ”‘ tieth, nine- · teen hundred and e`¤hteen, inclusive, at not ex "annual rates of compensation asliiollowsz Six astronomical, c, tidal, and _ miscellaneous computers, $1,200 each; three topograp `c and hydrographic draftsmen, $1,200 each; three clerks, $1,200 each; three ynamo tenders, $1,080 each; three laborers, $840; in all, $5,040. m£§?°m°°l °°°i°' For additional electrical equipment, $750. L"’““‘°“’°’ B“'°"“· Lrerrrrrousn smzvrcrz. Tompkinsville, . . . . N.Y.,depot. For re airing the wharves at the general lighthouse depot, Tom (hmmm kinsvilleg) Staten Island, New York, $60,000. P- numané mpam, For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and °“’· structures connected therewith on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico Nantucket Mm which have been damaged or destroyed by hurricane, $100,000. rsgngmif For the installation of an electrically operated fog-signal whistle fxgcggt on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, $15,000. rzepnmusmiaum, For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation °°°· and structures connected therewith on the Atlantic coast of the United States which have been damaged or destroyed by ice or storm, Mmm, $150,000. ¤1»li°$?i°° To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, ad- _ justed, and determined to be ue to the claimants by the Commisv°l‘°°·"‘°3" sioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the rovisrons of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen liundred and ten, on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-nine, $598.58. Hsherlesfiureau. BUREAU or FISHERIES. ,,,‘f'“"° °’“*’"°’ "°°° Vessel service: For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $8,000. iizimrliiirea. Fairport (Iowa) Biological Station: For rebuilding the laboratory building, including scientific apparatus and supplies, scientific library, furniture, and other necessary equipment, $80,000. ' ”eP““"°“‘°‘L°“°'· DEPARTMENT or LABOR. ,,§}“"‘°’“‘°“‘ °l “" To enable the Secretary of Labor to advance to wage earners eajnijseggsstrégspgggé transportation to such places as may be deemed necessary for the mm. q purplose of securing employment in connection with the prosecution PM- P~*·”"- of the war, $250,000, which may be used as a revolving fund until
