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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 133. 1881. 4.9 Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing Buoyage. removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Fogsignals: For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, dupli- Fos-siznals. cating, establishing, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, sixty thousand dollars. Inspecting lights : For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and Inspwringlighrn. other aids to navigation including rewards paid for infomation as to collisions, four thousand dollars. Suppliesoflight-houses: Forsupplyingthe light-houses beacon-lights, snppnes. and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Paciiic coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for light-stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy- nve thousand dollars. · Repairs of light·houses: For repairs and incidental expenses of light- R¤1•¤i¤¤- houses and stations; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; for the establishing and repairing pier headlights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand dollars; of which sum thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to the rebuilding of the light-house on Sharp’s Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, to be immediately available. _ Lighting and buoyage: For maintenance of lights and buoys on the Lis 1**5**18 Mid Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, g‘;§f£:§° 0*;*;) one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Mimeé mv.,'.·S_ Survey of light-house sites: For examination and survey of sites for Survey of time proposed light-houses, and preparing plans for proposed structures, ten f" “€h*·h°'**°°· thousand dollars. COAST Arm GEODETIC SURVEY. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, eastern division: For every _Survey or Atlanpurpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of *¤° ¤¤‘lG““`°°”*°· the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the Mississippi and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or shipnavigation; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and currentobservations along the above-named coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf Stream, including its entrance into the Gulf, its course through the Caribbean and into and around the Sargasso Sea; the triangulation towards the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of Eastern North America, and other results of the work,_with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians en- QQQBC in the work, three hundred thousand dollars; and of this sum eight thousand dollars shall be immediately available. _ For continuation of the resurvey of the Delaware Bay and River, ten Del_awn.re Bay thousand dollars. _ md R"'"' _ Survey of the Pacific coasts, western division: For every purpose Survey of Pacific and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey °°““* of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either tidal iniluence or of ship-navigation; deepsea soundin gs, temperatures, currents, and dredgmgs along and also m the Japan Stream iiowing off these coasts; the triangulation towards the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of Western North America, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians em- Pl9)’ed in the work, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and of this sum six thousand dollars shall be immediately available.