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 F ORTY-—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 114. 1871. 507 hereafter to be admitted to said hospital and asylum, unless persons removed thither from some other government hospital. Stlqnal Qgfce. ——~ For manufacture, purchase, or repair [of] meteorologi- Signal office. , cal and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing probable approach and force of storms; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expense of offices maintained for public use in cities or posts receiving reports; for maps and bulletins, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards·of-trade rooms; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one hundred and two thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation, nor of any appropri· N°_P¤}'* °Y **9* ation for the several departments of the government, shall be expended £;°Q’,:;,l?Q,?,X;,§°fo, for telegraphing between said departments and their officers or agents, teiegiaphtng, except at rates first to be established by the Postmaster-General, under ‘;§§gl’*· &°· . . ., ch. 230, § 2. section two of chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes of eighteen v01_ xiv_ p_ 22;, hundred and sixty-six. Jfhscellaneous. —— For contingencies of the army, namely : -— Mi¤¤¤ll¤¤°°‘¤¤· To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of dis- Contingencies bursing officers for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, °m‘° "my‘ which will not involve any actual expenditure, but merely a transfer on the books of the treasury, two hundred' thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of dis- Disbunzing bursing officers for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, which °m°°"‘ will not involve any actual expenditure, but merely a transfer on the books of the treasury, seventy-five thousand dollars. For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, _ State penitenclothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military mi""' convicts confined in them, fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the surveys of the northern and northwestern lakes, one Surveys of hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. l”·k‘i’· Lighthouse E's!ablis}zment.·—· For repairs and incidental expenses in re- tIg§l}*£°“Sz fitting and improving lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, two es is mn ` hundred and twenty·five thousand dollars. For salaries of seven hundred and thirty-two lighthouse keepers, and KGGPBYS Md light—bcacon keepers, and their assistants, four hundred and thirty-nine assistants' thousand two hundred dollars. For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental Light-vessels. expenses of twenty-five light-vessels, and seven relief light-vessels, two hundred and sixty-one thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and Buoys sud supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, b°”°°“s‘ sinkers, and similar necessaries, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, refitting, and im- Fog ignels. proving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, thirty thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to naviga- ,_ {;SP°¤*l°¤ °f tion, two thousand dollars. f lg S` For supplying the lighthouses and beacon lights on the Atlantic, Gulf, l5*%h;h°“5°° Lake, and Pacidc coasts with oil, wicks, glass-chimneys, chamois skins, §;h,S_° °°°` 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 ofgauging, testing, transportation, delivery of oil and other supplies for lighthouses, and other incidental necessary expenses, three hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars. Survey of the Coast. -— For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and g'€§IE£g;V:g'· Gulf coast of the United States, and Lake Champlain, including compen· Gulf cO,,_,,_