Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Brought forward.. Rhode Island and Long Island, one, at $1,500; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, $500 For salary of one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, For salary of one hundred and ninety-six keepers of life-saving and life-boat stations For pay of crews of experienced surfmen, employed at the life-saving and life-boat sta- Contingent expenses: For fuel for one hundred and ninety-six stations and houses of For establishing new life-saving stations and life-boat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States $2,697, 000 00 4, 000 00 1,500 00 2,000 00 3,000 00 2,000 00 78, 400 00 376, 960 00 5, 000 00 50,000 00 78,000 00 REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. Expenses of revenue-cutter service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same; and for pay of petty-officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; and for fuel for vessels, repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandl ry and engineers' stores for same: traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department: instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses, which cannot be included under special heads 860, 000 00 ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely: For labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; for paper for notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, including mill expenses, boxing and transportation; for materials other than paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers' tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating-machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed Expenses of removal of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For expenses of removal of the machinery, furniture, and effects of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from the Treasury Department building to the new building in course of erection for said bureau, when completed; and for the purchase and erection of such new machinery and fixtures as may be needed to complete the establishment of that bureau in the new building, including new boilers and a new engine For payment of expenses of printing pension-checks for fiscal year 1879, $8,500, and for the fiscal year 1880, 89,000.... 350, 000 00 50, 000 00 17,500 00 LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of nine hundred and seventy-five light-keepers and fog. signal keepers Expenses of light-vessels: Seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one light ships, and the expense of maintaining the vessels of the light-house establishment, may be paid from any surplus of the appropriation for the works, general or special, on which the respective vessels are, for the time being, employed; and the cost of repairs to such vessels may be paid from the appropriation under which they respectively were employed when they were injured or became dete riorated to such an extent as to render the repairs necessary; or, if such appropriation be exhausted, then from the appropriation under which they are respectively to be next employed.. Carried forward 585, 000 00 230, 000 00 5, 390, 360 00 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Brought forward. Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning painting, repairing, removing, and supply. ing losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar neces saries. Fog-signals: For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, establishing, and improv Inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navi Repairs of light-houses: For repairs and incidental expense of light-houses; for rebuild- Lighting and buoyage: For maintainance of lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers Commissions to superintendents of lights: For commissions to collectors of customs acting as superintendents of lights, being for disbursements to be made by them for the light-house establishment during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880.. $5, 390, 360 00 325,000 00 50,000 00 4,000 00 375,000 00 275,000 00 130,000 00 7,500 00 LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG-SIGNALS. For rebuilding tower, repairing dwelling, and purchasing site for beacon at Ipswich lightstation, Massachusetts. For building a double set of quarters for the two keepers at Cape Poge, northeast point 10,000 00 5,000 00 10,000 00 For day-beacons on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and for repairing the same... For reimbursement of Charles J. Gibbs, master of the light-house tender Verbena, for amount paid by him in accordance with the judgment of court, in the case of the suit for damages occasioned by the collision of the Verbena with the schooner Adell, including attorneys' fees and costs For reimbursing H. W. Arnold, keeper of Conimicut light-station, for losses sustained at the time of the destruction of the keeper's dwelling by ice For steam fog-sigual at Falkner's Island light-station, New York For establishing a first-class fog-signal at Execution Rocks, Long Island Sound. For protecting the site of the east beacon, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, from the encroach- For purchasing site at Steam Mill Point, Whiteball Narrows, N. Y. For purchase of additional land at Cumberland Head light-station, New York That the amount expended for repairing and refitting the discontinued light-station at For protecting the site of the Absecom light-house at Atlantic City, New Jersey. To establish lights on the Delaware River, from Deepwater Point to League Island That the balance of the appropriation made by the act of July 31, 1876, for the establish- For changing position of light on Fig Island, Savannah River, Georgia, and establishing For establishing a depot for buoys and supplies in the sixth light-house district For repairing the light-house at Northwest Passage, entrance to Key West Harbor, Fla. For rebuilding tower at South Pass entrance to Mississippi River, Louisiana For establishing a beacon light to form a range with a large light to guide into the mouth For beacon light on Frying Pan Island, at the mouth of Saint Mary's River, Lake Huron. For establishing a first-class steam fog-signal at the light-station on South Farallon Isl- 10,000 00 800 00 319 00 5,000 00 15,000.00 25,000.00 50,000 00 5,000 00 300 00 230.00 5, 000 00 10,000.00 20,000 00 3,500 00 60, 000 00 17,400 00 3,000.00 10, 000 00 50,000 00 6, 000 00 970 65 50, 000 00 1,300 00 2.000.00 50,000 00 25, 000 00 Carried forward 12,000.00 7,019, 899 65 Brought forward. ifornia Appropriations, &c.-Continued. For establishing a light-house and fog-bell to mark the entrance to Oakland Harbor, CalPoint Pinos light-station, California: To pay amount of the decree of the United States circuit court, attorneys' fees, and costs, in the case of the United States vs. Theron R. Hopkins and others, a suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining condemnation of lands for light-house site For establishing a depot for buoys and supplies in the twelfth district For completing the light-house and fog-sigual, to be established at Point Wilson, Puget For establishing duplicate steam fog-signals on the coasts of the United States For addition to the laboratory used by the Light-House Board for experiments with illu COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: For every purpose and object necessary for and Publishing observations: For continuing the publication of observations, and their dis- For rent of fire-proof building. No. 205 New Jersey avenue, south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safe-keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey For rent of sub-office at San Francisco. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the House of Representatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey, for each regular session of Congress. $7,019, 899 65 5,000 00 6, 000 00 10, 000 00 12,000 00 20, 000 00 30, 000 00 8,000 00 300, 000 00 180, 000 00 30, 000 00 6,000 00 13, 600 00 5,000 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 9,400 00 UNDER THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. Propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific, Illustrations for Report on Food Fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the Report For collecting statistics of the sea-coast and lake fisheries of the United States, espe For constructing, equpping, and fitting a steam-vessel for the hatching of shad, cod, mackerel, halibut, and other fishes, along the coast of the United States, to be built under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, according to the plans of the United States Fish Commission..... MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Expenses of national currency: For paper, engraving, printing, express charges, and other expenses Carried forward 75, 000 00 1,000 00 5, 000 00 3,500 00 45, 000 00 120,000 00 7,908, 399 65 Brought forward. Appropriations, fc.-Continued. Transportation of United States securities: For transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States And so much of the act "making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and for other purposes," approved June 19, 1878, as authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue coin certificates in exchange for bullion deposited for coinage at mints and assay-offices other than those mentioned in section 3545 of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; said repeal to take effect at the end of the present fiscal year. Standard weights and measures: For construction and verification of standard weights That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Secretary of the Treasury to lease, at his Pay of custodians and janitors: For pay of custodians and janitors for all public build- Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, ventilating, and hoisting apparatus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Depart ment Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department..... $7,908, 399 65 60,000 00 7,000 00 1,900 00 380 000 00 120,000 00 90,000 00 75,000 00 50,000 00 POST-OFFICE AND COURT-HOUSE, NEW YORK. Alterations required to be made to remedy the defective ventilation of the basement and Salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, and protection of lands For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treas That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay the State of Geor- Carried forward 42,464 23 1,500 00 60 000 00 20, 000 00 13, 350 00 5, 000 00 15, 000 00 10, 000 00 5,000 00 1,000 00 72,296 94 6,091 85 8,944, 002 79 Brought forward. Appropriations, &c.—Continued. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the State of Pennsylvania, being the amount due said State on special settlement of her war claims, under the act of July 27, 1861. entitled "An act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defense of the United States" To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, amounts advanced at the request of Maj. Gen. R. C. Schenck, dated June 20, 1863, to aid the United States in the construction of works of defense, the accounts to be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, not to exceed the amounts examined, allowed, and approved by the Secretary of War, a sum not exceeding For three additional clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, two at the rate of $1,500 per annum and one at the rate of $1,200 per annum, for the service of the unexpired portion of the current fiscal year a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated. For salary to Charles Bryant, late special Treasury agent of the seal islands in Alaska, from May 15 to June 30, 1877, inclusive, at the rate of $3,650 per annum, being a defi. ciency for the fiscal year 1877. For professional services rendered and expenses incurred by F. W. Viehe, attorney-at- To pay John Sherman, jr., United States marshal for New Mexico, for services rendered To reimburse expenses incurred and paid by C. H. Lord, United States depositary at UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. $8,944, 002 72 8,236 56 96, 152 00 Indefinite. 471 29 3,185 06 351 93 2, 203 69 334 87 20, 000 00 SIGNAL SERVICE. Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observation and report of storms 375,000 00 50,000 00 20,000 00 20, 000 00 ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery, not used for manu Rock Island arsenal: For shop G, an iron working and finishing shop for the arsenal For shop I. a wood working and leather working shop for the arsenal For recovering Fort Armstrong avenue and the causeway to the Rock Island wagon bridge with macadam, and for putting a new floor on the Rock Island wagon bridge... For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw For general care, preservation, and improvement; building new roads; care and preser. vation of the water power; painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges and shores of the island; building fences and grading grounds; and repairs of and extension of railroad Benicia arsenal, Benicia, Cal.: To rebuild the present wharf Carried forward 15,000 00 100, 000 00 50,000 00 50,000 00 6, 000 00 9,000 00 12, 000 00 5, 000 00 9,786, 938 12 |