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52 STAT.] 75TH: CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 180-APR . 27, 1938 for official use in field work; payment of rewards for the appre- Payment hension and conviction, or for information helpful to the appre- w r hension and conviction of persons found interfering with aids to navigation maintained by the Lighthouse Service, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (33 U. S . C . 761); $4,280,000. 33St. 12 . Special projects, vessels, and aids to navigation: For constructing Special projec or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels giatsdndst' for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, not to exceed $1,264,000; and for establish- ing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $436,000; in Availability. all, $1,700,000, which sums shall be available for all expenditures, directly relating to the respective projects which are approved by the Secretary of Commerce. Salaries, keepers of lighthouses, and so forth: For salaries of not heepec °sa exceeding one thousand four hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $1,869,500. Salaries, lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and saLighoes" crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,332,000. Salaries, superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of deSertc.,sale eighteen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintend- ents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Light- houses, District of Columbia, $726,100. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in Retiredpay. the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except per- sons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $700,000. COAST AND GEODElTC SURVEY For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of motorcycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $500, surveying instruments, including their exchange, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels, packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of commissioned officers (not to exceed six thousand pounds in any one case), when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents or tending seismographs, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, for operation, maintenance and repair of an airplane for photographic survey, and expenses incident to the execution of field work upon approval by the head of the Bureau, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by the Secre- tary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses, coastal surveys: For surveys and necessary resur- veys of coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico under the jurisdiction of the United States, and including the employment in the field and office of two physicists to develop survey methods based on transmission of sound through sea water Coast and Geodetic Survey. Expenses. Field expenses, coastal surveys. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Gulf of Mexico. 279 )f re- '61. ts, ves- o navi- light- laries. vessels, dents, 6ries.