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EXPENSES. 
The expenses of the Engineer Department for the year have been 
$6,180.56. The amount is divided as per accompanying statement. 
Those acquainted with the large outlays of money usually made for 
hydrographic surveys will at once recognize the economy with which 
the work has been conducted. 
EXPENSES ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 
Salaries, - - - - - - - - - $3,933 94 
Pay of men not under salary, - - - - - 386 55 
U.S: Goastand Geodetic Survey, - =- - = 193 17 
H.G. Scofield, surveys at Bridgeport, - - - 31 00 
Steamboat hire, - - - - - - - 215 00 
Traveling expenses of party in field, - - - 656 41 
Signals, repairs and whitewashing, - - - - ZU 2h 32 
Two iron frame signals, - - = = - - 75 46 
Lumber, - - - - - - - - - 64. 53 
Triangulation work, field expenses, = - = 37 66 
Office supplies, - “ = = = : - 102 45 
Tools and field supplies, - = = = = = 135 56 
Traveling expenses of Engineer, - - - - 87 92 
Postage, - - - - - = = = - Pg) SN 
Express charges, - = = = = : - 17 48 
Telegrams, - - - - - - - - 3 00 
Total, - - - - - - - - $6,180 56 
RECEIPTS ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 
For buoy setting and tracings, - - - - $266 00 
Uncollected balance for buoy setting, —- = - 69 45 
Total, - - - : - - - - $335 45 
For many friendly helps and favors tendered by Messrs. Charles W. 
Bell, Dexter K. Cole, Alvah B. Tuthill, John S. L’Hommedieu, Eli 
Bradley, A. Brinkerhoff, Darius M. Palmer, and Alvah Lyon, I would 
express my thanks. 
The maps and records of the office have been quite generally referred 
to, by the oyster planters and other interested persons, during the year, 
and thus a large amount of correct information has gone abroad. 
Respectfully submitted, 
JAMES P. BOGART, 
Engineer for Commissioners of Shell Fisheries. 
