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FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 292. 1870. 303 For labor in improvement of the grounds, eight thousand dollars. A8"l°°l*“'°1 For terrace walls and gateway, five hundred dollars. D°p°mm°¤t‘ For material for roads and walks, seven thousand dollars. For vases, two hundred dollars. For new tools, repairing, and blacksmithing, one thousand dollars. POST-OFF ICE DEPARTMENT. _ P<>S1’»-O¢H<=¢ Department. For repairs and improvements for the proper ventilation of the rooms V‘*“m”l°° °f used by the dead-letter branch of the Post-Oflice Department, ten thou- giggggimr sand dollars. LTGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Bsgghfggixc IS • For repairs and incidental expenses in reiitting and improving light- _ R°P”l” of houses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For salaries of six hundred and twenty lighthouse keepers and light- S“l“'l°’* beacon keepers, and their assistants, four hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental wszzzmgz? expenses of twenty-tive light-vessels, two hundred and thirty-two thou- i sand two hundred and ninety dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, pain ting, repairing, remooriug, and beE;‘(g§ aud supplying losses of buoys and beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and ` similar nccessaries, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses in refitting and improving fog-sig F°g‘*lg”’·lS· nals and buildings connected therewith, thirty thousand dollars. _ _ _ For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navi· inyfémg ****1 gation, two thousand dollars. ,,g§,,_ E For supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights on the Atlantic, _ Supplies fof Gulii Lake, and Pacific coasts, with oil, wicks,- glass chimneys, chamois gggggglgggglld skins, spirits of wine, whiting, polishing powder, towels, brushes, soap, paints, and other cleaning materials, and for expenses of repairing and keeping in repair illuminating apparatus and machinery, and of gauging, testing, transportation, delivery of oil and other supplies for lighthouses, and other incidental necessary expenses, two hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars. SURVEY OF THE COAST. C°"* ’“"°Y· For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United Gxlgxgmd States, and Lake Champlain, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, three hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Pacific coast of the United States, in- P¤°m° ¤°*¤t• cluding compensation of civilians engaged in the work, two hundred thousand dollars. For pay and rations of engineers for the steamers used in the coast °¤§§15;g?·°f survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, five thousand dollars. For continuing the publication of the observations made in the progress Obgglaggglggn °f 0f coast survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, ' the publication to be made at the government printing office, two thousand dollars. _ _ For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used ID the of2z;;';: &°· coast survey, forty-five thousand dollars.