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 200 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 332. 1884. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLIS =•~ rr NT. mglitnousesup- For supplies of light-houses: For supplying the light-houses, beacon PIM- lights, and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses; and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized to lease, for the sum of one dollar per annum, a wharf for the landing of supplies near the Currituck Beach Light-House, North Carolina, three hundred and ility thousand dollars. Repairs orught- For repairs of light-houses: For repairs and incidental expenses of b°¤¤°¤· lighthouses and stations, including the two lights at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, which shall remain as they are until Congress shall otherwise direct, and including the restoration of Portland Head Light to its former height and power, which is hereby directed; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; for the establishing and repairing of pier-head lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hun-. dred and ten thousand dollars. Keepers ofligkt- For salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries fuel, rations, rent l¤¤¤•••» vb- of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-tive thousand dollars. Light-venels. For expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty light-ships, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. lhcyagc. For expenses of buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day- beucons, and for the maintenance of whistlingbuoys and bell-buoys, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Fogsignals. For expenses of fog·signa1s : For establishing, renewing, duplicating, and improving fog·signals and buildings connected therewith. and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, thirty five thousand dollars. I ¤ ¤ p v ¢= t in 5 For inspecting lights: For expenses of  and inspecting lights “Kh*°· and other aids to navigation including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars.° B u o y a g e of For lighting and buoyage of rivers : For maintenance of post lights rivus- and bnoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana, the Light-House Board bein hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights am? beacons as are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Survey or light- For survey of lighthouse sites: For examination and survey of sites l¤¤• ¤*¤¤· for proposed lighthouses, and preparing plans for proposed structures, tive thousand dollars. COAST AND ezonmmc BURVEY, Sinai enum- For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the tim 0 end Pe- Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States, including the °'*·° °°"'“‘· survey ofrivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf stream and Japan Stream {lowing of the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resnrveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of North America, and the compilation of datafor a general map of the United States; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the held-work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury. and including allowance for subsistence to olllcers of the Navy attached