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 422 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 420. 1896. government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the_ Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the LightHouse Board or other proper authority, and includin g 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 rateto he 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 53******- Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: Provided, v°°°°° That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasma direct. Field ·¤v·¤·°·· mhon 5i¤·mL1> nxrmzsnsz For survey of unfinished portions of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River; Hudson River to Troy; and for the necessary resurveys, including the coast from Lynn to Cape Ann, the shores of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Sound, approaches to New Bedford, Buzzards Bay, Chesapeake Spy and tributaries, and Savannah River bar twen -five thousand dollars- 'llo contitgue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile; and for triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lake Pontohartraiu and Sabine Lake, and for the necessary resurveys, seven thousand eight hundred dollars- For offshore soimdin gs 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, San Franoisc; Harbor, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, twenty thousan dollars- ‘ mana survey. 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, fifteen thousand dollars; 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, tive thousand 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 tlaeemploy- ment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, three thousand dollars; To continue magnetic ob ervations in all parts of the United States, two thousand dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels! the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, two thousand five hun rec dollars; P•·i¤¤¤ M ¤¤¤*¤ —¤*- For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practi- ""' cable in States where points have not been furnished, and for surveying and distinctly marking with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and run- · ning southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude gest from Greenwich, ard for primary triangulation along the Rio ram e. fwe ve t ionsan dollars· For determinations of geographical gplsgipps, and to continue gravity observations, two thousand five hundredollars; For completing the transcontineutal geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, seven thousand dollars;