3:20 THIB,'l`Y-FIF’I`H CONGRESS. Sess. L Ch. 154. lcézi. For pay and rations of engineers for seven steamcrs, used in the hy- Coust Survey. drography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Depam ment, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may make such allowances to the 0ll'lCC1'S and men of the army and navy, while employed on coast survey aervice, for subsisteuce,iu addition to their compensation, as he may deem necessary, not exceeding the sum authorized by the treasury regulation of the eleventh May, eighteen hundred forty-four. Deficiency for To supply deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled sea- S°”m°”' men, one liuudmd and fifty thousand dollars. Liglimouse Liyhzhouse EsmbIislzment. -Fon- the Atlantic, gult; and lake coasts, viz: °*°°' hShm°”'°‘ For supplying five hundred and iifay—six light-houses and beacon lights with oil, glass-chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting, and cleaning materials, transportation and other uecéssary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting appa.ratus, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-bur dollars and forty- five cents. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of all the light-houses and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and seventy-tlirea thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty- one cents. For salaries of six hundred and eleven keepers of light-houses and lightbeacons and their assistants, sixty thousand dollars. For salaries of fifty-two kcepcrs of light-vessels, twenty thousand two hundred and six dollars and fifty-seven cents. For scamexfs wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of fifty- two liglxt-vesscls, one hundred and eighty-Eva thousand one hundred and ninety-uiuc dollars and fifiy cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the: buoys, eighty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. For Pacific For the O'0u.sts of C'aZ1fo·rnia, Oregon, and lWzsMng£0n. -For oil and °°*‘“· other supplies for twenty-tbur lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to nmiggntion, one thousand {bur hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety-one cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-four lights, and buildings connected Llxcrcwith, twenty-ibur thousand five hundred and sixty-tlircc dollars. 1856,ch·1G0- For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of eighteenth A,m p 100 August, eighteen hundred and fifcy-six, for inspection and trunsp0rtmion purposes, thirty thousand dollars. Fo; limi and qu2u·ters for oiicers of the army serving on light-house Amy Omcm, duty, the payment. of which is no longer provided for by the quartcrmas— Tlgight-l¤01¤50 tcx·’s depm‘m1c11t, seven thousmd and thirt.y—tbur dollars and five cents. ` “ l` For compensation of two superintendents thl- the Iiié-saving stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars. For compensation of filly-bur keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. . For contingencies for Iiié-saving apparatus on the coast of the United States, twelve thousand dollars. [.1fe-boats, Sm. For the purchase of the best self-righting lifc—b0at, to be placed at each 0f the twentyaaight lifb-saving stations OH the coast of New Jersey, six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For the purchase of the best Iiié-bouts, to be approved by the Treasury DGpk\1'lll1€llE, {br use on the coast of Long Island, Leu thousand dollars. For procuring two additional improved metallic liié·b0ats, 21. metallic lllé-cur, and necessary lmrncss, lincs, and other suitable articles, no bc
