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 84 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. OH. 73. 1880. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial, one thousand five hundred dollars. For musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation,namely: For P°“*°“· freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packmgboxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. Civil establish- For the civil establishment, ten thousand four hundred and seventeen m°¤*· dollars and twenty-ive cents. _ Hydrogmphic. For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographing charts, purchase of chart paper, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, forty thousand dollars. For fuel and office furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. Survey Of Am- For preparing and publishing the survey of the Amazon and Madeira fg’;m'E:d M“d°“"’ Rivers and approaches, eleven thousand dollars. Msxicw 00**8*- For preparing and publishing the surveys of the Mexican coast in the Pacific Ocean, twelve thousand dollars. Neve! Observe- For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely: Prvvivm dred dollars each, five thousand one hundred dollars: Provided, That said assistant astronomers shall have each served four years continuously. For one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For wages of one instrument-maker, three watchmen, one messenger, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings and inclosures; for incl, light, and office furniture; chemicals for batteries, and for stationery, freight, and all other contingent expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For reducing and transcribing astronomical and meteorological observations for publication, two thousand two hundred dollars. For professional books and periodicals for library, one thousand dol lars. _ For solar and stellar photography, one thousand dollars. Di¤¤'ib¤*¤0¤· For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observatory _ publications for eighteen hundred and eighty, to be shipped in eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observatory publications for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to be shipped to foreign countries in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and thirty-six dollars and twentyhve cents. For one micrometer for the twenty-six inch telescope, three hundred _ and fifty dollars. For engravings to illustrate report on photographic observations of the transit of Mercury, three hundred and fifty dollars. _ For photographic apparatus, five hundred dollars. mIg°“**°°1 Mm°*‘ For expenses of Nautical Almanac: ~ ‘ For pay of computers and clerks for preparing for publication the _ American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, nineteen thousand dollars. p0g§;:¤mS°¤** °K‘ For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, books, and miscel- ' laneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improving the tables of the planets, two thousand dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANOE. Ordnance and For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on °*d¤¤¤°° 8*0**- the current daily work of the mechanical branches of the ordnance
 * °"·Y‘ For pay of three assistant astronomers, at one thousand seven hun-