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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 200. 1908. 335 Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for commutation to otncers of the field force while on neld duty, at a rate commumum. to be nxed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outiit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the urvey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the “°P’“”· °*°· 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 Commerce and Labor, and under the ollowing heads: Provided, That advances of money under this appro- Provenpriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and b Adv°°°°°` authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, and accounts arisin under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of gmties. Fon FIELD mxmmsms: or surveys and necessary resurveys of the *1**** °¤P°¤¤°·- Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States including the coasts of _ outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, ;i.‘{.'T‘,‘{°i;,,,i,,,,;.,,,,, That not more than twenty-nve thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available. · For surveys and n resurveys of the Pacinc coast, including *’°°i“° °°”*· the Hawaiian Islands and ka and other coasts on the Pacino Ocean ‘ under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That this mhcn, em appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila or mlipinu.' an employment in the onice at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. . h _ I h For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to har— ,·,;h,{°`°° Nm hors and bars, and for tidal and current obmrvations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars. - Comm". For onshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the ‘ coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employ- ment of such pilots and nautical experts in the neld and omce as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. i W For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines ,,.§l,$'F“°* ° ° m` in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the plurc ase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites w ere necessary and the erection of tem- · porary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points v§f¤¤ °° °‘°‘° "“" to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical poisjgions, and for continuing gravity observations, nfty thousand o rs. For any special surveys that may be required by the Light·House S’°°m °°"°”‘ Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, including expenses of surveys in aid of the shellnsh commission of the State of Maryland, which expenses, including cost of plats and charts, shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars in any one year, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, “*'°°"“"°°‘“ including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of onicers o the