The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-16
BY AUTHORITY.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.

~ BY AUTHORITY.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
Pub 49
AN ACT making appropriations sundry civil expenses
of the for the year ending the threth of
june eighteen hundred and fifty nine.
BE enacted by the S~as and Hoase Of Reprssusa:vs Of
he United Sates Of America Congress assemblsd That tho
following sums be- aud the same are hereby appro-
priaed for the objects hereafter expressed for the
fiscal ending the thtieth june eighteen hundred
and fifty nine, viz:
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For continuing tho survey Of the Atlantic and Gulf
coast of the United States Qncludng compensation to
superintendent and assistants. and excluding pay and
emouments of officers of the army and navy and petty
officers and of the navy employed on the work,
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey OF the western coast of the
United States, hundred and thirty thousand dol
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and
keys, excluding pay and emonments OF officers OF the
army and navy and petty officers, and of the navy
employed on the work,) forty thousand dollars.
For running line to connect the trangulation the
Atlantic coast with that the Gulf of Mexico tho
Florida peninsula, ten thousand dollars. @
For repairs of the Crawford, Madison, Mason, and
George Bache, and other smiling vessels used in the
coast survey ten thousand dollars t .,.is.
For pay and ratons Of engineers for steamers
used in the photography of the coast survey longer
supplied by the Navy Department. twelve Thousand eight
hundred dollars Propidd That the Secretary of the
Treasury make such allowances to the officers and of
the army and navy while employed the coast survey
service for subsistence addition to their compensation
he may deem necessary, not exceeding the sum au
orzed by the treasury regulation OF the eleventh May
eighteen hundred and forty -four. g4s
To supply deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick
and disabled seamen, hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. s.a.s. .a.4 a,s. t..t.sr .. ~
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT
For the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, viz: :
For supplying five hundred and fifty six light houses
and on-lights with oil, glasschmneys wcls cha
mois skins, polishing powder whiting and cleaning
teras transportation and other necessary expenses of
the same repairing and keeping in repair the lighting
apparatus hundred and thirty eight thousand
hundred and twenty four dollars and forty five cents
For repairs and incidental expenses reftng and i'm
proyements of all the light houses, and buildings
nected Herewith, hundred and seventy three thou
sand two hundred and eighty nine dollars and twenty
cents. Fsglsss
For salaries six hundred and eleven keepers of light
houses and light beacons and their assistants sixty thou
sand dollars. a
For salaries of fifty two keepers of light vessels twenty
thousand two hundred and six dollars and fftyseyen
cents
For seamens wages repairs, supplies, and incidental
expenses of fiftytwo lightyessels one hundred and
eghtyye thousand bundled and ninety dollars
and fifty cents
For expenses of raising cleaning painting repairing
remoong, and supplying losses Of buoys and day bea
cons and for chains and snkers the game and for
colorng and numbering all the buoys eghtytwo thou
sand two hundred and eight dollars and seventy
eight cents nria. a.sassat
rHR COASTS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON.
For oil and other supplies twenty four lights clean
ing materials of all kinds and transportation of the same
expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair pub
fishing notices to mariners OF changes of aids to navga
tOn thousand four hundred and seventy dollars
| and ninety -one cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty four
lights and buildings connected herewith twenty four
thousand five hundred and sixty three dollars.
For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the
of eighteenth August eighteen hundred and tysix for
inspection and transportation purposes, thirty thousand
dollars ''
For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving
provided for by the Quartormaster Department seven
Thousand and thirty -four dollars and five cents
For compensation of two superntendents for the life
saving stations the coasts of Long Island and New
Jersey, three thousand dollars. ssa,.s. ~ f5ata
For compensation of fifty -four keepers of stations
two hundred dollars each. ten Thousand eight hundred
dollars
For contingencies for esayng apparatus on the coast
| of the United States, twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the best self rghting life boat
be placed at each of the twenty stations
tho coast of New Jersey, six thousand four hundred
and forty dollars. PA
For the purchase of the best boats to be approved
by the Treasury Department for the Of Long
| Island, ten thousand dollars. pi@tt
For procuring two additional improved metallic life-
boats aneallic lfear and necessary harness. nes and
other suitable articles to be used under the direction OF
the Secretary of the Treasury In saving le in of
marine disaster of Galveston station Texas ten thou
sand dollars.
SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lsnds exclusive of Calfor-
nia Oregon Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebras-
ka and Utah. including incidental expenses and island
surveys in the interior and all other special and difficult
surveys demanding augmented rates. to be apporoned
and applied to the several surveying districts according
the exgences of the public SERVICE including
selecting swamp lands and the compensation and
penses survey to locate private land claims in Louis
lana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all for
| mer appropriations, forty thousand dollars. 81
For correcting and defective lines of public
and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri at rate not
exceeding six dollars per mile thousand dollars.
For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates now
| authorized by law three thousand dollars. f3 s
For surveying the public lands and private land claims
In California including Office expenses incident to the
survey of claims and to be dsbnrsed at the rates pre-
scribed by law for the different kinds of work. hun
| dred thousand dollars. g3.
For continuing the survey of base meridian standard
parallels township and section lines in New Mexico,
! twenty-five Thousand dollars. -
For surveying such of the private claims in New Mex
leo shall have been confirmed by Congress including
penscs incurred by the surveyor general in adudcatng
the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the necessary base, meridian standard
parallels township and section lines In Kansas and Ne
braska also outlines Of Indian reservations hundred
| thousand dollars ~ -
For continuing the survey Of the base meridian cor