Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-10-10
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at tie Third Session of the Thirty
Serenth Congress.
OFFICIAL.

PUBL1C-No. 70.
An Act making Appropriations for sundry
Civil Expenses of the Government for the
Year ending June thirty. eighteen hun
drcd and sixty-four, and for the Year end
ing the sol of June, 1868, and for 9TH
or Purposes.
Be 1t enacted by tie Senate and House Of
Representatives tie United States Of Amer
ic0 IN Congress assembled, That the follow
ing sums be, and the same arc hereby, appro-
rriatcd, for the objects hereinafter expressed
for the fiscal year ending the thirticth
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
viz:
Surrey Of tie Coost.-For the survey of
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United
States, (including compensation Of civilians
engaged in the work, and excluding pay and
cmolumcnts of officers of the army and navy
and petty officers and men employed on the
work. one hundred and seventy eight thou
sand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the western
coast of the United States, (ncluding COM
pcnsaton Of civilians engaged in the work,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing survey of the Florida reefs
and keys, (including compensation of civil
ians engaged in the work, and excluding pay
and cmolumcnts of officers of the army and
navy, and petty officers and men employed
on the work. eleven thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in
the progress of the survey of the coast of the
United States, including compensation of
civilians employed in the work. four thou
sand dollars.
For repairs of steamers and sailing schoon-
crs used in the coast survey, four thousand
dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for four
steamers used in the photography of the
coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy
Department, nine thousand dollars.
For supplying deficiency in the fund for
the relief of sick and disabled seamcn, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous
claims, not otherwise provided for. as shall
be admitted in due course of settlement at
the treasury, ten thousand dollars.
L;ght-Iiouse EsaJhishmcmt.-For the At
lantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, viz -
For supplying the lighthouses and bea-
con-lights with oil, wicks, glass cliimncys,
and other necessary expenses of the same,
repairing and keeping in repair the lighting
sand six hundred and nincty-cight dollars
and eighty cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, reft-
ting and improving all the lighthouses and
buildings connected Herewith, one hundred
and two thousand two hundred dollars.
For salaries of fyc hundred and ninety-six
keepers of lighthouses and light-bcacons,
and their assistants, ffty-thrce thousand one
hundred and ninety three dollars and thirty
cents.
For salaries of forty-kccpcrs of light-vcs-
sells, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies,
and incidental expenses of forty-fivc light
vessels, one hundred and seventy thousand
nine hundred and sixty-scven dollars and
seventy cents.
For expenses Of raising, cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, rcmooring, and supplying
losses Of beacons and buoys, and for chains
and sinkers for the same, one hundred and
twelve thousand three hundred and twelve
dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting
lights and other aids to navigation, two thou
sand dollars.
For the purchase of lot and erection o.
q suitable building thereon for the light.
house establishment in New York City o,
vicinity, fifty thousand dollars PyOrided
That the price of purchase of lot, and cree.
ton of building thereon, shall not exceed the
sum hereby appropriated.
For the Coasts Of California, Oregon axd
IVasAington.-For supplying nineteen light.
houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass
chimneys, chamois skins, polishing powder,
and other cleaning materials, transportation,
expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in
repair, publishing notice to mariners oi
changes of aids to navigation, seventeen
thousand two hundred and seventy three dol
lars.
For repairs and incidental expenses oi
nineteen lighthouses and buildings connected
Herewith, ten thousand dollars.
| Tor salaries of forty-three keepers and as
sistant-kcepers of lighthouses at an average
not exceeding eight hundred dollars per an
mum, twenty-five thousand eight hundred
dollars.
For expenses Of raising. cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, remooring, and supplying
losses of floating buoys and beacons, and for
chains and sinkers for the same, and for
coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten
thousand dollars.
For maintenance of the vessel provided for
by the act of eighteenth of August, eight
cen hundred and fifty-six, for transportation
of supplies and materials, and for repairs Of
lighthouses, and buoy service, and for
inspection purposes, twenty thousand dol
lars.
For compensation Of two inspectors Of
customs acting as superintcndents for the