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516 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 362. 1887. Inspection. INSPECTING LIGHTS: For mileage or traveling expenses of members of the Light»House Board, including rewards paidstor information as to collisions, three thousand dollars. Lighting rivers. LIGHTING on RIVERS: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining postlights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York; the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland ; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; at Chicot Pass and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Great Kanawha Rivers; ou the Columbia and Willaniette Rivers, Cregon ; and on Puget Sound, Washington Territory, two hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars. _ Llzhting Statue Licnrnvc, Tun STATUE or Lmnnrv IN New Yom; Hannon: For Qinggggi N°" building for engines and boilers, ten thousand dollars; incandescent °r' light plant, two thousand five hundred dollars; dynamos, lamps, and lens for torch, four thousand dollars; removing present machinery to new building, additional houses for side lamps, putting grounds in order, fencing and incidentals three thousand dollars, in all, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Survey of sites. SURVEY on L1GHT·HOUsE SITES: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of ligh t-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress. two thousand five hundred dollars. Coast and Geo- COAST AND GEODETIC SURWEY detic Survey. _ E¤P*;_¤¤*=¤ of MF- For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the §?§f °p,§§;““§,°g Atlantic, Gulf, and Paciiic coasts of the United States and the mast gf Amin, c,,,_,,_’ the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head ot tide—water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings; temperature and ~ current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream tlowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; improving 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 he 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 ollicers 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; ontiit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to Prcviso. be expended under the following heads: Provided, That no advance of Ad"°¤°°°· 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: Party expenses. FOB. PARTY EXPENSES: For triangulation,topography, and h ydrograph y of the coast of Maine in Cobscook Bay and Saint Croix River, and for off shore soundin gs be— tween Matinicus and Seguin Lights, ten 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, fifteen thousand dollars. _ ` For physical hydrographic surveys on Monomoy Shoals, four thousand dollars. · For physical hydrograpliy in New York Harbor and its approaches, ‘ three thousand dollars.