SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 203. 1924. 189 grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneiiciaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor—propelled pasgengerégarrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, 127,1 ; In all, Naval Home, $17 7,550, which sum shall be paid out of the ,,mF,§f’"‘ ‘”“"“ P°“’°” income from the naval pension fimd. sanaiuns, Navy DEPARTZMENT. _ For personal services in the District of Columbia. in accordance Dg,§§,",§}‘,§,Q°”°“““*” with the Classification Act of 1923, $425,000. i HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. HYd'°“"‘°"*° °‘“°°· sananms, NAvY nnranumm. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance °i"m‘“‘ "°”°“”°’· · with the Classification Act of 1923, $300,000. Coivrmcnxr AND ivnscsnnamzons nxrnnsns, Hrnnocmrmc Orman: ,,,§’§,§‘,%°,§§Q,*g§;l,s’{"S‘ For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; modernization, care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from Pu t ham foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of ° ° ' pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $75,300. coxrrxcsrrr nxrnztsns, nnancn Hrnnoonarruc orrxcns. B¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤<=¤5— For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, ,,,‘f,‘},§,?;‘,,€°,§§_“’“’” New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Porto Rico), and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrogralphy, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, an terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of ohices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant ves-
