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able apartments therein, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

For court-house and post-office at Springfield, Missouri: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For court-house at Springfield, Massachusetts: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Texarkana, Arkansas: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. Court-house and post-office at Tyler, Texas: For construction of a fence around the site, one thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post-office at Toledo, Ohio: For elevator and mail lift, seven thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Vicksburg, Mississippi: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars.

For post-office and custom-house at Wilmington, North Carolina: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For custom-house at Wheeling, West Virginia: For necessary repairs of building, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For post-office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.

For Treasury Building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury Building and Winder Building, one thousand dollars; resetting and repairing loose tile flooring, eight hundred dollars; for flooring rooms, two thousand four hundred dollars; repairs to roadway west of building, three hundred dollars; lead calking for joints in the approaches on the north, south, and west, three hundred and fifty dollars; reslating southwest pavilion roof, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; painting remainder of roof, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.

For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repair and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress at its next session a statement of the expenditure of the appropriation for repairs and preservation of public buildings for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight showing on what public buildings said appropriation was expended and the number of persons employed and paid salaries therefrom.

LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG-SIGNALS.

Charlotte Harbor, Florida: For the establishment of a light or lights and other aids to navigation to guide into Charlotte Harbor, Florida, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site and erection of a boat-house for lightships boats, at Cape May, New Jersey, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Goose Rocks, Maine, light and fog-signal: For the establishment of a light-house and fog-signal at or near Goose Rocks, at the entrance to Fox Island Thoroughfare, and the establishment of a day beacon at or near Channel Rock, in the vicinity of Goose Rocks, Maine, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Crabtree Ledge Light-Station, Maine: For additional amount for

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completion of a light-house on Crabtree's Ledge (so called), between Bean Island and the mainland of Crabtree's Neck, in Frenchman's Bay, Maine, thirteen thousand dollars.

Lubec Narrows Light-Station, Maine: For additional amount for completion of a light-house at or near Lubec Narrows, Maine, twelve thousand dollars.

Deer Island Light-House and Fog-Signal, Massachusetts: For additional amount for completion of a light-house and fog-signal at or near Deer Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, six thousand dollars.

Stonington Harbor, Connecticut: For the establishment of a light and fog-signal on the breakwater at the entrance to Stonington Harbor, Connecticut, eight thousand dollars.

Cob Point Bar Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing a lighthouse at or near Cob Point Bar, Wicomico River, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars.

Holland's Island Bar Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing a light-house at Holland's Island Bar, near the entrance to Kedge's Straits, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Tangier Sound Light-Station, Virginia: For the establishment of a light-house and fog-signal to mark the lower entrance to Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Great Wicomico River Light-Station, Virginia: For the establishment of a light-house at the mouth of the Great Wicomico River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Newport News Light, Virginia: For establishing and completing a light-house at Newport News Middle Ground, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars.

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

Spectacle Reef Light-Station, Michigan: For renewing the cribwork, repairing the fog-signal, and making other necessary improvements at the station, fifteen thousand dollars.

Cedar River Point Light-Station, Michigan: For the establishment of a light-house at or near Cedar River Point, at the mouth of Cedar River, Green Bay, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sand Island Light-Station, Alabama: For protecting the light-station on Sand Island, Alabama, from the encroachment of the sea, twelve thousand dollars.

Two Harbors Light-Station, Minnesota: That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation act, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the establishment and completion of a light-house at Two Harbors, Minnesota, is hereby authorized to be used for the establishment and completion of a light-station at the point named.

For the purchase of a sight and erection of a buoy depot, at Absecon Inlet, New Jersey, fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Washington Buoy-Depot, North Carolina: For purchase of land and extension of buoy-depot at Washington, North Carolina, five thousand dollars.

Point Loma Light-Station, California: For establishing the lightstation at Point Loma, California, in a situation lower down the cliff thirty thousand dollars.

Ballast Point Light-Station, California: For establishing a light or lights and fog-signal on or near Ballast Point, entrance to San Diego Bay, California, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Umpqua River Light-Station, Oregon: For the purchase of a site and the construction of a coast light-house on the headlands, near the mouth of the Umpqua River, Oregon, fifty thousand dollars.

Pier-Lights: For the construction of pier-lights at Duluth, Lake Superior, Minnesota; Kewaunee, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin; Charlotte Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York; and Port Washington, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, sixteen thousand dollars.

Supply-steamer for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: For an additional amount for the construction of a steamer for the transportation of oil and other supplies to the light-houses on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.

For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:

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 two 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 of 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 life-boat stations on. the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

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

For salaries of two hundred and thirty-one keepers of life-saving and life-boat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fiftyfour thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation.

of volunteers at life-saving and life-boat stations, for actual and 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 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 United States, seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

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

REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.

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; instruction of 'cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of 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; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Construction of revenue-steamer for Southern coast: For additional amount for construction of one revenue-steamer for duty on the Southern coast of the United States, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars.

That the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress at its next session a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight under the appropriation for the Revenue-Cutter Service, and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures under said appropriation shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.

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 seventy 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 large denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination 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, and for wages of printers' assistants at steam-presses, at one dollar and fifty cents a day each, when employed, and for royalty for use of steam plateprinting machines, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That there shall not be an increase of the number of steam plate-printing machines, in the Engraving and Printing Bureau.

For engravers,' printers,' and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to purchase, or to acquire by condemnation in such manner as the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall direct, lot twelve, in square two hundred and thirty-one, as an addition to the site of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and for this purpose the sum of seven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the balance remaining unexpended of the appropriation made by act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

SUPPLIES OF LIGHT-HOUSES: For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights, and fog-signals with illuminating, cleansing, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and forty thousand dollars.

REPAIRS OF LIGHT-HOUSES: For repairing, rebuilding, and improving light-houses, and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the expenditure of seven thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and nine cents, which has been made from previous appropriations for repairs for the erection of keepers' dwellings at Point Reyes Light-Station, California, and Boston Light-Station, Massachusetts, is hereby authorized, the same involving no further expenditure of money from the Treasury.

SALARIES OF KEEPERS OF LIGHT-HOUSES: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred light-house and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF LIGHT-VESSELS: For seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of light-ships, two hundred and fifteen 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 twenty-five thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF FOG-SIGNALS: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith,

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