FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 187. 1899. 875 of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; expert marine, meteorological, and other work in the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of, compiling, and arranging data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, and surveying, thirty-ive thousand dollars. For rent of building and rooms for printing presses, draftsmen, and mn:. engravers, storage of copperplates and materials used in the construction and printing of charts; repairs and heating of the same, and for gas, water, and telephone·rates, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadel— C<>¤¢i¤;¤¤¤¤rp¤¤¤¤¤- phia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Townsend, Buiialo, Duluth, and Sault Sainte Marie, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing graph- M<;¤f·b1yPi1<>¢G1mrt. ically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of P°°'°° °°°‘“" the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for and printing and mailing the Chart; the employment of three nautical experts=at one thousand six hundred dollars each, and two tabulators and copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, ten thousand dollars. Nxurrcnr, Ammnnc Orrrcnz For the following assistants, in pre- Ogguuw M¤¤·¤·¤ paring publication for the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, ` namely: Three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the C°'”P"‘°"'· American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, seven thousand dollars. ' NAVAL Oasmzvyroar: For pay of three assistant astronomers, one Nml 0'>¤¤m¢¤w· at two thousand dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class one; instrument maker, one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and ten laborers; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For miscellaneous computations, one thousand two hundred dollars. 0¤¤=r¤¤¤<>¤¤- For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photo- Books. graphs, and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two Am>¤¤*¤¤· thousand dollars.
