1 cashier.. 2 deputy collectors and clerks, each... 2000.00 2 deputy collectors, during navigation, 2000.00 each........ Per Month. ..$50.00 collectors and clerks, each... 1000.00 800.00 .................... 1 deputy collector, during navigation, paid MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN (SUPerior). Per Annum. 1000.00 Collector (salary, $1000; fees, etc., ................... ..... collectors, each...... $1500) .$2500.00 1 special deputy collector and inspector. 1400.00 420.00 1 deputy collector.......... 600.00 1 66 66 1 engineer 730.00 5 1200.00 800.00 300.00 100.00 12.00 Per Diem. ......$3.00 son of navigation, each............$25.00 3 inspectors, each...... 2 deputy collectors, employed during season of navigation, each....... 2 deputy collectors and inspectors, each...$3.50 | Collector (salary, $1000; fees, etc., etc., when employed, 1 deputy collector and inspector.......... 1460.00 2 special inspectors, each 1 deputy collector and inspector......... 1277.50 collectors and clerks, each.... 1200.00 1 deputy collector... 1 during navigation......... 1095.00 1 clerk and inspector, during navigation.. 3.00 and chief clerk...... 1800.00 Collector (salary, $1000; fees, etc., ..$3436.75 in 1100.00 1 inspector. 1400.00 Per Diem. .$3.00 .......... 3.00 3.00 PORTLAND, OREGON. (WILLAMETTE). 2400.00 It is provided that there may be emPer Annum. ployed in this service such public vessels etc., and crews in actual service, and as many ...$4200.00 officers and men of the army and navy 3000.00 of the United States as may be necessary, the navy officers to be employed on the 1500.00 hydrographic parts, and the army officers 1250.00 on the topographical parts of the work. 1200.00 The maps and charts of the survey of 900.00 the coasts may be disposed of by the Per Month. Treasury Department at such prices and $45.00 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may fix. 1 engineer and fireman (for eight months) 100.00 1 night watchman... 4 inspectors, each....................... 2 night inspectors, each........ 100.00 Per Diem. 2.50 It is provided by law that the charts prepared by the Coast Survey Service shall show the configuration of the coasts, and by lines the probable limits of the Gulf Stream; the probable limit to which the soundings off the coasts will extend; Per Annum. the triangulation, the topography, and ...$1048.20 the soundings of the coasts. EMPIRE CITY, OREGON (SOUTHERN). Collector (salary, $1000; fees, etc., $48.20) 1 deputy collector.......... 1000.00 TERRITORY etc., 2 boatmen (and 50 cents per diem for rations) each....... 1 watchman......................................................... On the 30th of March, 1843, a board, appointed by direction of the President of the United States, convened for the purpose of preparing a plan of reorganizing the mode of executing the coast $3000.00 survey, and that proposed by said board 2150.00 was approved by the President on April 1200.00 29, 1843. That plan laid down a system 600.00 of rules for ascertaining the geographical positions of points; for obtaining the soundings, the hydrography and topography of the coasts; also for the arrangement of parties for duty in the .$4.00 3.00 field, and prescribing the manner of employment and the compensation to be allowed to the persons to be employed in the service. 600.00 Per Diem. ............. Per Annum. etc., 1200.00 1 deputy collector.................................................... 1500.00 3 1 66 The President, in approving the plan, directed that the Secretary of the Navy should assign suitable officers of the navy to be chiefs of the hydrographical parties, at the request of the Treasury Department; and that the charge of the survey should be continued in that Department, placing the service under its control; and the Secretary of the Treasury to be the medium of communication with the persons employed in the survey, to whom all reports should be made, and from whom all directions on the subject should be received. The service was placed under the Treasury Department because the object and purpose of the survey refer principally to the commercial interests of the country, with which this Department is generally charged. DUTIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COAST SURVEY. The Superintendent has charge of the work in general, and is responsible for 3200 its correctness and fidelity. It is his duty to inspect, personally, the operations of 1 computer.......... 1 66 66 .............. 2 draughtsmen, each. 1 draughtsman.... ........ 1 electrotypist........................................... Per Annum. .$1620.00 1500.00 1200.00 2000.00 all parties and persons employed on the 3 computers, each.......................................................................... The appropriations made for all purposes connected with the Geodetic and Coast Survey amount to about $550,000 annually. 1 clerk in chart-room.. 66 2 clerks, each. 1 writer to superintendent.... ............. 1 messenger to superintendent... 1 1 2350.00 2050.00 2000.00 1800.00 1200.00 2000.00 1800.00 2000.00 1000.00 1600.00 1500.00 1200.00 Per Diem. ..$2.89 4.00 3.831 3.50 3.20 3.00 5.50 5.00 4.50 3.75 3.25 2.00 .................................. |