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By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1536, Revised Statutes (U.S. C., title 14, sec. 53), and as President of the United States, I hereby order that the Secretary of the Treasury cause a suitable number of Coast Guard vessels, when the necassities of the service permit it, to cruise upon the coast in the season of severe weather and to afford such aid to distressed navigators as their circumstances may require; and such vessels shall go to sea fully prepared to render such assistance. Such vessels in the number prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be assigned from time to time for the foregoing purpose by the Commandant of the Coast Guard.

January 6, 1936.