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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 791. 1900. 595 Desdemona Sands, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon: For establish- O1Q;S**°m°¤° Sandsing a light· and fog-si nal station near the lower end of the Middle ° ` Ground, Desdemona §nds, Columbia River, Oregon, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of e even thousand dollars, in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for V°‘·”·*’·““· Fort ·Stevens Light and Fog-Signal Station, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for the light and fog-signal station at or near the Middle Ground, Columbia RIVGY, twenty-four thousand dollars. _ Slip Point light-house and fo si nal, Washington: For establishing Sup P°‘“”·“'”h· a light-house and fog signal at éi %’oint, Clallam Bay, State of Washingrton, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. _ ongue Point light-house depot, Oregon: For erectin two isolated T°“g“° P°"“·°'°g‘ houses in which to store coal oil for use in the light-gouses of the Thirteenth light-house district, with a track extenc§ng fromsthem· to the de ot wharf, five thousand dollars. Tender for the Sixteenth light-house district: Toward- constructing, d,§*gg{°’» S*X°°°mh equi ping, and oufifting complete a new steam tender for service in ` the Sixteenth light-house district, thirty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light-house tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. _ Li ht-house and fo -signal stations in Alaskan waters: To enable ‘u”’Sk°"°°"°°°' the Secretary of the gl`reasury to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light-house and Yfog-signal stations in Alaskan waters, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Oil houses for light-stations: For establishing isolated oil houses -0*1 h°““’s· for the storage of mineral oil ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cosh Li ht-House LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. lishrfient. ` SUPPLIES or LIGHT-HOUSES: For suplplying fog signals, light-houses, S“¥“’“°S· and other lights with illuminating, c eaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annua consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian member of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for .the purchase of technical and gmofessional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House oard, and fo1' all other necessary incidental expenses, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. R. REPAIRS or LIQHT-HOUSES! For repairing, protecting, and improv- °p”’"‘ ing light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establ1shing an repairing day marks and pier-head and other beacon lights, including] purchase of land for same; for illuminating apgaratus and mac inery to replace that already in use, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relatin to these various objects, six hundred and forty thousand dollars 0% which amount not exceedin fifteen thousand dollars shall be used to change the characteristic ofg Cape Cod light, Massachusetts. ‘ · SALABIES or KEEPERS or mem-HoUsES: For salaries, fuel, rations, K°°P°”’¤***°"°°· rent of quarters where necessarg, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand four hundred and seventy- five light-house and fog-s1gnal keeipers and laborers attending other lights, seven hundred and sevent - ve thousand dollars. · EXPENSES or LIGHT-VESSELS: Tor seamen’S wa es, rations, repairs, mgh""°““’l“‘ salaries, supplies, and temporary employment auf all- other necessary ilnqggental expenses of light-vessels, our hundred and ifty thousand 0. rs.` EXPENSES or Booman: For expenses of establishing, replacing, B“°*"‘g°·