SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch. 259. 1922. 795 use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the stora e of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Ijlydrograpiic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to dprmting presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing an engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public husiness; reparation of pilot charts and their P“°*°h°'”· supplements, and dpi-rmting andp mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing ections and other nautical ublications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating tolliydrogra hy, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanogralp-llily, and) terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and tec cal subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $110,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, BRANCH nrnnoonarrrrc ormons. B'°¤°h °m°°¤· For contingent exipenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, 0§°“““g°¤* °¤P°¤¢*°¤ New York, Phila elphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New ` Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrographiy, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, an terrestrial magnetism, stationery, misce aneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessarg expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot c arts, and for other pulipposes for which the offices were estabhshed, $15,000. or services of necessary employees at branch. offices, $23,700. ,,§;,E‘§,°}‘ °“°°“· °“" ' Navn, onsnnvxronx. N°‘”“°"’°"‘“°”· sananms. Navr nnranrimnr. Astronomers-one $3,200, one $2,800; assistant astronomers—one ,_,,§§}§§{,‘§,_°‘ °"*“°“ $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks——chief $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants——three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,200; four firemen, at $720 each; seven watchmen, at $720 each; mechanic, $900; eight laborers, at $660 each; in all, $56,400. 0oNr1NoEN*r AND mscnnnnmnons nxrrmsns, NAVAL oasnnvaronr. ,,_g§},F‘,§l°*¥°°‘·°°°··°*‘ For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. _ _ °‘?“‘P“°°*‘°““· For professional and scientitic books, books of reference, periodicals, L“"°'Y· engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. x mm t or apparatus and instruments, and for relpairs of the same, $2,500. ‘ pp _ '° For repairs to buildings, fixtures, an fences; furniture, gas, e,§°j°P°“‘°b““°m¢S» chemicals, and stationery; fre' ht (including transmission of pu lic documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses; $3,500. . . For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for M'S°°u‘m°°‘”‘t°m°‘ the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and ower plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of) teams; maintenance, repair, or operation of motor truck and passenger automobile and of horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for
