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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. 513 and men of the Navy 011 duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on iield duty, at a rate to be iixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars a11d fifty cents peiday each; outnt, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expende in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads : Provided. P¢·vvis<>. That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this ap ro- Advances. priation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian ofiicer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. OB PARTY EXPENSES: Partyexpeuses. For triangulation, topogra hy, and hydrography of the coast of Maine in Cobscook Bay anti) Saint Croix River. and to the International boundary monument, and for off-shore soundings (all new work), seven thousand dollars. For resurveys: For triangulation, topography, and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Block Island, N antucket, Nantucket Shoals and a roaches, and including Vineyard Sound, and Connecticut River toHartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy, New York, seven thousand dollars. For physical surveys of Monoinoy Shoals and entrance to Vineyard Sound, observations and reductions, six thousand dollars. For physical surveys of New York Harbor, to continue observations and reductions, three thousand dollars. For observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice in the Delaware River, and noting the changes caused thereby in Cherry Island Flats, two hundred dollars. To correct to date former surveys of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers for use on a new large-scale chart of the same in the vicinity of Philadelphia and up the Delaware River to Trenton, two thousand dollars. To complete the surveys in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and up the Cooper and Ashley Rivers to the head of navigation; and to continue the astronomical, latitude, and azimuth work, and in connection therewith, the recovery and remarking of old triangulation stations, for their preservation, two thousand dollars. To continue the rimary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand) dollars. _ For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, seven thousand dollars. d ger the survey of the tributaries of Pensacola Bay, two thousand o ars. For the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Perdido Bay. and its connection with the coast triangulation and for resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, three thousand do lars. _ For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta, and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, seven thousand dollars. To make oliishore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current gud temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand o ars. For hydrography, coast of California, five thousand dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern gaiifornia, including necessary tertiary triangulation, eight thousand o ars. For continuing the rimary triangulation of Southern California and for connecting the same at Mount Conness with the transcontinental arc, and for a primary base-line in the vicinity of Los Angeles, eight thousand do lars. s*rA*r L—voL Xx\‘——33