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 382 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 182. 1879. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. _Survcy <>fAt1au- Survey of the Atlantic and Gulfcoasts : For every purpose and object tw and G“lfC°"»“t“· necessary for and incident to the continuation of 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 ship-navigation; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and currentobservations along the above-named coasts, and 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 toward the VVestern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the triangulation of the Mississippi River trom the northern boundary of the State of Mississippi to the Gulf; the usual coast-survey work of that part of Louisiana lying between the mouth of the Red River and the Gulf as a portion of the coast included in the operations of the Coast and Geodetic Survey; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work,with the purchase of materials theretor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars. Sm·veyofPacihc Survey of the Western (Pacino) coasts: For every purpose and ob- Coast. ject necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the racist coasts of the United States, including the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either tidal innuenoe or ship-navigation, deep-sea soundings, temperatures, currents, and dredgings along and also in the branch of the Japan Stream nowing oft' these coasts; the triangulation toward the Eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensasation of civilians employed in the work, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Vessels. Repairs of vessels: For the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars. Publishing Ob- Publishing observations: For continuing the publication of observa- ¤*’¤FV¤¤°¤S· tions, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Onice, six thousand dollars. General cx- General expenses: For rent of buildings for onices, workrooms, and P°“““- workshops in Washington, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For rent of nre-proof building, number two hundred and tive, New Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey, nve thousand dollars. For rent of sub-onice at San Francisco, two thousand dollars. For fuel for all the onices and buildings, two thousand dollars. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand four hundred dollars. Charts to Senators That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the House of Reprwd Mwbw- resentatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey, for each regular session of Congress. UNDER THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. Food-fishes. Propagation of foodnshes: For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacino, the Atlantic, the Gulf and Great Lake States, and of salmon, white-fish, carp, gourami, and other useful food-nshes, into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted ; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, and other sea-fishes, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of