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356 FIFTYSECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 380. 1892. thousand dollars for preservation and repair of the buildings occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Some and came Cossr AND Gmonnric SURVEY. \I!VBy. Exgznlrses or num For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the §{,,_ *,{f,·d°‘j§,,k, 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, temperatiue and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japm 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 govermnent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury- for special examinations that may be required by the Light House Poard or other proper authority, and includ— ing traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to omcers 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 z>¤i•¤· by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: Pro- ""°°°’ vided, That no advance of money to chiefs of iield parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian oilieer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. PM: umm- Fon rxnrx nxrmvsns: For triangulation, topography, hydrography of the coast of Maine, and to the international boundary monument; the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, including Vineyard Sound; the coast of Massachusetts (including resurvey of Boston Harbor), and New Hampshire; the Connecticut River to Hartford, the Hudson River to Troy, and to continue to date corrections of former surveys of the Delaware River, from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Trenton, and for completing unfinished surveys of parts of the Atlantic coast from Maryland to Florida, and tor necessary resurveys, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars; To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery towards Mobile, and for triangulation, topography and hydrography of unlinished portions of the Gulf Coast, including Lake Pontchartrain and the resurvey of Mobile Bay Entrance, eight thousand four hundred dollars; To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, and to transport the steamer Blake to Chicago, and keep her there during the Columbian Exposition, for the purpose of exhibiting the instruments and methods of deep-sea sounding, six thousand tour hundred dollars; For continuing the survey of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the sur~ vey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the \Villa1nette towards the Cascades triangulation, topography, and hydrography, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars; For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astro nomical, longitude, and magnetic stations. eight thousand four hundred dollars-