FIFTYSECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 208. 1893. 579 harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for con- Party expensestinuing tidal observations on the Atlantic Gulf, and Pacific coasts, °°"“““°°· eleven thousand three hundred 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 for the same, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward and southward from the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, eastward from San Francisco, California, eastward from Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Jacksonville and Cedar Keys, Florida, and from the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, to Lake Erie, four thousand two hundred dollars. For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as prac- P<>i¤t¤ tv Sim ¤¤r- ticable in States where points have not been furnished; and for survey- v°”' ing and distinctly designating with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree · of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west of Greenwich, ntteen thousand six hundred dollars; For determinationsof geographical positions, and to continue gravity observations, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and the necessary check bases, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the ofdce at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, five thousand nine hundred dollars· For dontribution to the International Geodetic Association for the ,,B{yj•j¤=·“*2¤al Gw- Measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much mm °°` thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be P~>¤i•<·· payable out of the item "for objects not hereinbefore named;" and *'“Y'°°"‘· twenty per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available inter- ,,,,{,'Z,°§{,'§{‘,',§T"°‘°1° °" changeably for expenditure on the objects named; In all, for party expense , one hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars. Amlsxs Boumixny Srmvmr: To complete the joint survey of the _,_,;*J__°¤k** www territory adjacent to the boundary line of the United States of America y` and the Dominion of Canada between the Territory of Alaska and the Frovince of British Columbia, and the Northwest Territory of Canada, from the latitude of fifty-tour degrees and forty minutes north to the point where said boundary line encounters the one hundred and forty- first degree of west longitude, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard toit between Great Britain and Russia and between the United States and Russia, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available until
