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Turn Point, Washington.

Oil houses for light

stations.

Proviso.
Limitation.

Light-house establishment.

Supplies.

Turn Point Light Station, Washington: For establishing a light and fog-signal station at Turn Point, west end of Stuart Island, Canal de Haro, Washington, fifteen thousand dollars.

Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses. for the storage of mineral oil, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided. That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.

Repairs.

Keepers salaries,

etc.

Light-vessels.

Buoyage.

Lighted buoys.

Fog signals.

Inspection.

Lighting of rivers.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

SUPPLIES OF LIGHTHOUSES: For supplying fog signals, lighthouses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

REPAIRS OF LIGHTHOUSES: For repairing, rebuilding, and improving lighthouses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pierhead and other beacon lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

SALARIES OF KEEPERS OF LIGHTHOUSES: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred and seventy-five lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF LIGHT VESSELS: For seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light vessels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF BUOYAGE: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

LIGHTED BUOYS: For purchase of lighted gas buoys, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF FOG SIGNALS: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, seventy thousand dollars.

INSPECTING LIGHTS: For mileage or traveling expenses of members of the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars.

LIGHTING OF RIVERS: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut, the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John's and Indian Rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; and on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; 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 eighty three thousand dollars.

SURVEY OF LIGHTHOUSE SITES: For preliminary examinations, Survey of sites. surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars.

LIFE SAVING SERVICE.

Life-saving service.

For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as fol- Superintendents lows:

For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand dollars;

For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

salaries.

For salaries of two hundred and fifty-two keepers of life-saving Keepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and sixty nine thousand one hundred dollars.

Miscellaneous ex

For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life- Crews. boat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and penses. deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act Vol. 22, p. 57. approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the

New stations.

Brant Rock, Mass.

Port Orford, Oreg.
Long Branch, N. J.

Revenue-cutter

service.

penses.

United States, eight hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For establishing new life saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars.

That the Secretary of the Treasury may establish a life-saving station at or near Brant Rock, on the coast of Massachusetts, at such a point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend.

Also, one at or near Port Orford, on the coast of Oregon.

For the purchase of a site for the Long Branch Life-Saving Station, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required.

REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.

Salaries and ex- For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers' stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instructions of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Behring Sea and the other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Government on the Seal Islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; to carry into effect the provisions of "An act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York," approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

Vol. 25, p. 151.

Steamer "Ewing." Steam launches, Puget Sound.

Steam vessel at Chicago, Ill.

Point Barrow, Alaska.
Refuge Station.

Engraving and print ing.

Salaries.

Proviso.
Large notes.
Wages.

Proviso.

Large notes.

Materials, etc.

For rebuilding revenue steamer Ewing, eighty thousand dollars. For two steam launches for use in Pugets Sound, at a cost not exceeding five thousand dollars each.

For the construction and equipment of a steam vessel to be used for the purpose of boarding vessels at the port of Chicago, Illinois, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, eight thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available.

ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate-printers' assistants, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.

For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers' assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.

For engravers', printers', and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and eighty-one

thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For machinery, furniture, and fixtures for, and expenses of occupying new wing authorized by act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

New wing: machinery, furniture,etc

Laws, 1st Sess., 51st Cong., p. 374.

Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pa

For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the cife, and Alaska coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to coasts, etc. the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work 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 including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: Provided, That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.

FOR PARTY EXPENSES:

For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coast of Maine and to the International boundary monument, and including the Kennebec River to Augusta, three thousand dollars.

For triangulation, topography and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, the coast of Massachusetts, the Connecticut River to Hartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy. New York and to continue to date corrections of former surveys of the Delaware River, from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Trenton, fifteen thousand dollars:

To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile, three thousand five hundred dollars:

For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lake Ponchartrain and the resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, fifteen thousand dollars.

To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars.

For continuing the topographic survey of the coast of California, including necessary triangulation and astronomical work in connection therewith, five thousand dollars;

For continuing the triangulation west of the one hundred and tenth meridian and connecting the same with the transcontinental arc, ten thousand dollars.

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Proviso.
Advances.

Party expenses.

Party expensescontinued.

Traveling expenses.

Urgent "objects not hereinbefore named."

Contribution to International Geodetic

For continuing the survey of the coasts of Oregon and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, twenty five thousand dollars;

For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical, longitude, and magnetic stations between Sitka and the southern end of the Territory, ten thousand dollars;

For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, eight thousand dollars;

For examination into reported dangers on the Eastern Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five hundred dollars;

To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and at San Antonio Magnetic Observatory, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For continuing the line of exact levels westward from the vicinity of Jefferson City, Missouri, eastward from the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee; westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and eastward from San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars;

For continuing tidal observations on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, five thousand dollars;

To continue gravity experiments, at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars per station, except for special investigations and experiments authorized by the Superintendent at one or more stations, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, ten thousand dollars;

For determination of geographical positions (longitude parties), three thousand dollars;

For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and check bases in Ohio and Indiana, twenty-two thousand dollars;

To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty. and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand five hundred dollars:

For objects not herein before named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, seven thousand dollars; For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for the Association for the Measurement of the Earth, four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, or so much there of as may be necessary, five hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be payable out of the item " for objects not hereinbefore named;"

Measurement of the
Earth.

Proviso.
Payment.

Interchangeable expenditures.

Alaska boundary survey.

And twenty per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. ALASKA BOUNDARY SURVEY: For expenses of carrying on a preliminary survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British

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