and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty 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 Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Maryland; CapeFear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John's River, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; and on Puget Sound, Washington Territory; 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 fifty thousand dollars. SURVEY OF LIGHT-HOUSE SITES: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Con-gress, one thousand dollars. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings; temperature and current observations along the coasts 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 works 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 in Cobscook Bay and Saint Croix River, and to the International boundary monument, and for off-shore soundings (all new work), seven thousand dollars. For resurveys: For triangulation, topography, and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Block Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, and Connecticut River to Hartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy, New York, seven thousand dollars. For physical surveys of Monomoy Shoals and entrance to Vineyard Sound, observations and reductions, six thousand dollars. For physical surveys of New York Harbor, to continue observations and reductions, three thousand dollars. For observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice in the Delaware River, and noting the changes caused thereby in Cherry Island Flats, two hundred dollars. To correct to date former surveys of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers for use on a new large-scale chart of the same in the vicinity of Philadelphia and up the Delaware River to Trenton, two thousand dollars. To complete the surveys in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and up the Cooper and Ashley Rivers to the head of navigation; and to continue the astronomical, latitude, and azimuth work, and in connection therewith, the recovery and remarking of old triangulation stations, for their preservation, two thousand dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, seven thousand dollars. For the survey of the tributaries of Pensacola Bay, two thousand dollars. For the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Perdido Bay, and its connection with the coast triangulation and for resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta, and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, seven thousand dollars. To make off-shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars. For hydrography, coast of California, five thousand dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, including necessary tertiary triangulation, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the primary triangulation of Southern California and for connecting the same at Mount Conness with the transcontinental arc, and for a primary base-line in the vicinity of Los Angeles, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the resurvey of San Francisco Bay, and of San Pablo and Suisun Bays, the examination of San Francisco Bar and entrance, and the bar and approaches, two thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, 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, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, nine thousand dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical fongitude 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, two thousand dollars. For examination into reported dangers on the eastern, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five hundred dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf slopes, one thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, at the Los Angeles Magnetic Observatory, one thousand two hundred dollars. To remove the magnetic observatory from Los Angeles, and to reestablish it either at Seattle or Port Townsend, Washington, or at Austin or San Antonio, Texas, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For continuing the exact line of levels from Cairo southward to Okolona, Mississippi, two thousand dollars. For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, at Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, near San Francisco, in California, two thousand five hundred dollars. For one season's series of tide observations at Sitka or vicinity, and at Unalaska or vicinity, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, fivé hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Pulpit Harbor, Maine, and at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and to begin observations at Savannah, Georgia, two thousand one hundred dollars. To establish a self-registering tide-gauge at Savannah, Georgia, or vicinity, one thousand two hundred 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. For furnishing points for State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, eight thousand dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude parties), three thousand dollars. For continuation of transcontinental geodetic work on line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two 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 dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, three thousand dollars. For contribution to the "International Geodetic Association for the measurement of the earth," or so much thereof as may be necessary, four hundred and fifty dollars, 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 thereof 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 herein before named," and after the adhesion by the Government of the United States to the convention of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the International Geodetic Association aforesaid. And ten 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 thousand seven hundred dollars. ALASKA BOUNDARY SURVEY: For expenses in carrying on a preliminary survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British Columbia, in accordance with plans or projects approved by the Secretary of State, including expenses of drawing and publication of map or maps, twenty thousand dollars, said sum to continue available for expenditure until the same is exhausted. FOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE OF VESSELS: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars. PAY OF FIELD OFFICERS: For pay of Superintendent, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at four thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two assistants, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars each, six thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. For pay of nine assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of three subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two subassistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four subassistants, at one thousand one hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of three aids, at nine hundred dollars each, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Total pay in field, one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no new appointments shall be made to the above force until the whole number of assistants, subassistants, and aids shall be reduced to fifty-two. PAY OF OFFICE FORCE. For one accountant, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, at two thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand one hundred dollars. For two draughtsmen, at two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand one hundred dollars. For additional draughtsmen, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For two computers, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand three hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand one hundred dollars. For additional computers, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one tidal computer, at two thousand dollars. For one tidal computer, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one engraver, at two thousand and sixty dollars. For one engraver, at two thousand dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For two engravers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For one engraver, at nine hundred dollars. For additional engravers, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. 1299-17 |