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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. OH. 73. 1881. 333 For steeringsignals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For Contingent ox- . freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and tele- P¤¤¤¢¤- graphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, ten thousand four hundred and seventeen civil ostsbiisii. dollars and twenty-five cents. mont. For drawing, engraving, purchase of chart paper, and printing and rxyamgmpmc, photolithographing charts, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographie information, forty-five thousand dollars. For ofdce furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of Funiitin·o,1abor, books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, ¤*°·**°”°’Y» P°¤*· freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. ““°‘ For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely: Naval Observa- For pay of three assistant astronomers, four thousand nine hundred *°¤‘S'· dollars: Provided, That any assistant astronomer who has not served Prooko. for four years continuously shall receive only one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. For one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For wages of one instrument-maker, three watchmen, one messenger, and one porter; lor keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings and inclosures; for fuel, light, and office furniture; chemicals for batteries; and lor stationery, freight, and all other contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For reducing and transcribing astronomical and meteorological ob servations for publication, two thousand two hundred dollars. 1 For professional books and periodicals lor library, one thousand dollars. For solar and stellar photography, one thousand dollars. . For payment to the Smithsonian Institution lor freight on observa- Distribution. tory publications to be shipped to foreign countries diuing the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. For photographic apparatus, five hundred dollars. For computing, one thousand two hundred dollars. For repairs to dome of large telescope, five hundred dollars. To finish the computations of the second part of the transit of Venus observations, and to complete them for publication, nine hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of Nautical Almanac: For pay of computers and clerks Nwiicei Alma for preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical ”“· Almanac, nineteen thousand dollars. _ _ For rent, fuel, labor stationery, boxes, expressage, books, and mis- Contingent excellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. P°”““· For improving the tables of the planets, three thousand dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANOE. For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the Ordnance stores current daily work of the mechanical branches of the ordnance depart- ‘”"1 °“PPh°’· ment at the several navy yards, magazines, and stations, sixty thousand dollars. . For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations in fitting ships for sea and in preserving ordnance material, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, twenty thousand dollars.