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 EOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 133. 1881. 445 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER WAB DEPARTMENT. SIGNAL smzvron. gigm,;g,,,,;,,,,_ Observation and report of storms: For the ex enses of the observa- 0bse u ‘ tion and report of storms by telegraph and signallfor the benefit of com- report rgf merce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, °XP°”“¤ °£ purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and lighthouses; for instrumentshelters; for hire, of furniture, and expenses of oftlces maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving·reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery; and for incidental expenses not ptherwise provided for, three hundred and seventy-uve thousand dollars. Construction, maintenance, and repair of military telegraph lines: Military tele- For the construction and continuing the construction, maintenance, and 8mPh li¤¤¤- use of military telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers and' in the Northwest, and for the connection of military posts and stations, and for the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the States of Texas and Nevada and the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Indian Territory, seventy-five thousand dollars. National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national ceme- yummy ,,,,,,1,,. teries, one hundred thousand dollars. ter-ies. For continuing the improvement of the national cemetery near Chat· Chattanooga. tanooga, Tennessee, by constructing a road or public highway from said cemetery to the city of Chattanooga, five thousand dollars. For pay of seventy-two superintendents of national cemeteries, ufty- Pay of superinnine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. ’¤¤¤d<>¤*i¤· Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For water—leve1obser— Smoyof northvations and reductions, comparisons of standards of base apparatus £f’I`“hW°“*‘ and reductions, printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, completion of publication of final report, office-rent, clerk-hire, fuel, and miscellaneous, eighteen thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance, not exceeding eight thousand dollars, of the appropriation for survey of northern and northwestern lakes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purpose. _ _ _ Publication of the Oihcial Records of the War of the Rebellion: For Pqbhoomon of compensation of temporary clerks and other employees, thirty-four g,°;f’;‘} g‘;°°I§g,'j°'f ‘ thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. _ _ um For rent of necessary offices; for traveling expenses in connection with the collection of Confederate records placed by gift or loan at the disposal of the government; for fuel, lights, stationery, and all other similar necessaries, five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars._ For continuing the preparation of the publication of the offic1alreo— ords, indexing and proof-reading, and printing and binding,  d1— rection of the Secretary of War, of ten thousand copies of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war_of the rebel- 1880 ch 235 HOD, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal AW; 26;, ‘ year, to be distributed as provided in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, forty thousand d0l13»I‘S. Military com Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges of View State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, mamtenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, sixteen ousand dollars. . United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To pro- F vide for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary