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 rirrnzrn conennss. sms. 1. cH. 1069. 1888. 535 duty in any capacity as officer, clerk, or otherwise, in the office of nausremr Omcm, the Chief Signal Officer at the date of the passage of this act, who °”°· has heretofore been paid as an enlisted man in the Signal Cor s, and whose office employment or place is specincally provided for herein, under the direction of the Secretary of War, may be continued in such office, clerkship, or employment without a new appointment thereto after September iirst, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. OBSERVATION AND REPORT OF s*1‘oRMs. mpgnggzauu ie. To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorologica observation and report, b telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the beneiit of commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows: For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instru- Instrwucnts. ments, and expenses in connection therewith, including those already issued and to be issued to voluntary unpaid observers, and the Secregzlry of Ygrlphall establish regulations respecting such issue, three ousan dollars. For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological infor- megmpmug. mation in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold-wave, and other sm-m smug. signals on the sea, lake, and Gulf coasts of the United States, and in the interior, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators, lanterns, and fla s, ten thousand dollars. Sor manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument shelters, and Insmmentshelms expenses in connection therewith, ive hundred dollars. or rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery, coneaugeutsxpsms ice, stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of tele hones, text-books, lum- §’§fld° °* W”h“‘g‘ ber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observa- _ gion outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand ollars. For river and Hopdplipervations, and expenses in connection there- S€}_n;€§)::d mm ob. with, nine thousan dollars. · For expenses (including paper, forms, printing and lithographing Maps mi biuimns. supplies, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying weather maps or weat ier bulletins. and for the maintenance of a printing office. under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washingtoii. for the printing of the necessary orders, circulars, maps, or ulletins, as may be necessar to carr into edect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal, Service, fifteen thousand dollars. _ For observations, and expenses incidental thereto. announcing the etormn 1-egam ¤·- probable approach and severity of frosts or rains, for the benefit of p° *‘ the cotton region of the United States, seven thousand dollars. _ { _ For maintenance and repair of military and sea-coast telegraph mf£_"’“"Y °”g'“T’b lines, including rent of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies. and general repairs. twerity-three thousand seven hundred dollars: and of this amount not exceeding seven hundred dollars may be used for the rental of such cable and land wires as may, in the opénion of the Chief Signal Otlicer, be necessar to secure connection tween the Point Reyes pnilitary telegraph line and the signal—ofIice in San Francisco, Caliornia PAY. For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, m1;¤[¤;e*;°·· °* °m°°” mounted. twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars: for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps. to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars ; for pay -