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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Crr."189. 1895. 92], of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and, also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels ;·to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: Provided, That no advance rmm. of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be A‘“""‘°°“· made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civiliauoflicer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct: FOR FIELD EXPENSES; Field expenses For survey of unfinished portions of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River; Hudson River to Troy; Charleston bar and entrance, South Carolina, and necessary resurveys, including Boston Harbor, and the approaches to New Bedford Harbor, Buzzards Bay, the bar and entrance to St. Simonds Sound, and Savannah River bar, eighteen thousand dollars; To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile; and for triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, and for the necessary resurveys, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; For odshore soundings along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, five thousand “ dollars- For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, and for necessary resurveys, Sari Francisco harbor, triangulation, topography and hydrography, fifteen thousand dollars; For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska and making hydrographic surveys in the same, including survey of the Aleutian Islands and examination of the mouth of Yukon River, and for the establishment of latitude, longitude, and magnetic stations, nfteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings and for tidal and current observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, · five thousand dollars; For establishment of a self-registering tide gauge at Reedy Island on the Delaware River, seven hundred dollars; For examination of reported dangers on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations and including the emp1oy· ment of such pilots and nautical experts as may be necessary for the same, three thousand dollars; To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, two thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as prac- vB*’;**’*° *° S“*° “" ticable in States where points have not been furnished, and for survey- y ing and distinctly marking with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of Calitbrnia commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For determinations of geographical positions, and to continue gravity · observations, two thousand five hundred dollars;