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THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 79. 1868. 745 the coast of the United States, (including compensation of civilians em- Coast survey. ployed in the work,) four thousand dollars. For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, four thousand dollars. _ For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, nine thousand dollars. For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled D*>*l°i°¤°Y f°' seamen, one hundred thousand dollars. °°°m°“’ For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided Mi¤¤¤U¤¤¤¤¤¤· for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, ten thousand dollars. Ligkt—House Establishment. — For the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, mplgglpt-hcpse esviz , _ s men . For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improving all the light-houses and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars. For salaries of five hundred and ninety-six keepers of lighthouses and light·beacons, and their assistants, fifty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For salaries of forty-three keepers of light·vessels, three thousand nine hundred dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty· five light-vessels, one hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, one hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to naviga— tion, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of a lot and erection of a suitable building thereon for the lightrhouse establishment in New York City or vicinity, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the price of purchase of lot, and erection of building thereon, shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. For the Coasts of Oaltfomia, Oregon, and Washington. — For supplying California, Orenineteen light-houses and beacon·lights with oil, glass chimneys, chamois §]°“tb:“d W“h‘ skins, polishing powder, and other cleaning materials, transportation, ex- g ` penses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, seventeen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses of nineteen light-houses and buildings connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For salaries of forty-three keepers and assistanbkeepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, twenty-tive thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating buoys and beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten thousand dollars. For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of eighteenth 1856,_¤h-160- August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for transportation of supplies and v01' "‘ P' 100* materials, and for` repairs of light-houses, and buoy service, and for inspection purposes, twenty thousand dollars. _ _ For compensation of two inspectors of customs acting as superintend~ ¤°I£`°`”"“€ ““‘ vot. xxx. Pos. -·- 94 `