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 SIXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 417. 1916. 601 Any commissioned or warrant officer tt officer, or other en- ·'*“*¢””°°”‘~" °‘ P°’·/_ 1 listed man in the Coast Guard may be  to any duty which ”m°md“W' Q/# Q` may be necessary} for the proper conduct of the Coast Guard; and  the Secretary of the Treasury in time of peace and the Secretary of the Mm, of mr cP0  Navy m time of war may, in his discretion, man any Coast Guard tions. station during the entire year, or any portion thereof, maintain any house of refuge as a Coast Guard station, and change, establish, and fix the limits of Coast Guard districts and divisions. Cmmmm { t_ _That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and w¤•¤u»¤¤1.° °° directed to construct and equip two steam Coast Guard cutters for *’°"·¤ mi service on the Pacific coast and in Alaskan waters, at a total cost not to exceed the sum of $700,000; one steam Coast Guard cutter for service as an anchorage atrol boat in New York Harbor, at a cost not to exceed the sum 0;,5125,000, such vessel to be especially constructed for ice breaking; to purchase or construct and equip two or more cutters for service in harbors and shoal waters, at a total cost For dm mm not to exceed $50,000; to purchase or construct and equip three light- asm. °°"` draft river steamboats, including lifeboats and such other life-saving apphances and equipment as may be neccmary, to be used in resc ` hves and property and in distributing food and clothing to maroouiigd people during flood times on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries, for xtrolling said waters for the enforcement of navigation and motor- at laws, and for rendering aid to vessels in distress, A at a total cost not to exceed $240,000. On account of Coast Guard ppm ' vessels herein authorized, to be available until eglpended, $400,000: Pmm Provwd, That the Secretary of the Navy, at e request of the maui; at navy Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to buil the vessels """· hereainhauthorizedés or atply Coast Guar? Ylesslgls hereafteir authorized, at suc navy yar as e 0 the avy may esignate. mmm That for the purpose of e and property along the coasts  `nd of the United States and at sea contiguous thereto, and to assist in €i°¥L"r£”Z£°°° °°°‘°’°°° the national defense, the Secretary o the Treasury is authorized to establish, equip, and maintain aviation stations, not exceeding ten in number, at such ints on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the _D,m,m_ Gulf of Mexico, and till; Great Lakes as he mai deem advisable, and to detail for aviation dut in connection therewith officers and Ammuc mw, enlisted men of the Unitedy States Coast Guard. At one of these ` stations there may be instituted a school for the purpose of special instruction in aeronautics, and the Secretary o the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ one expert instructor in aeronautics, at a salary of $4,000 per annum, and one assistant instructor, also _ skilled m aeronautics, at a salary of $3,000 per annum. _ im t At the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretaries of ,,,I‘“d °'N"°,,,° ‘,,.§‘§'§, War and Navy are authorized to receive officers and  men of •°'*°°'*— the Coast Guard for instruction in aviation at aa? aviation school maintained by the Army and Navy, and such o ccas alud Enlisted men shall be su 'ect to the regulations gove suc sc oo. I l Hereafter ofliders and enlisted men of the Toast Guard, when ¤¤r•vs¤¢x¤¤aligZ M" detailed for aviation duty, shall receive the same percentages of increases in pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter  prescribed by law for officers and men of the Ngy detailed for aviation Adm duty: Pmmkled, That no more than a y y average of fifteen ug;-mw to be ds commissioned officers and a total of forty warrant officers and euhsted men of the Coast Guard detailed for duty involving actual flying m aircraft shall receive an increase in pay or allowances by reason Immummrdum of such detail or dut :   further, That the number of third wwe. Iieutenants and third lieutenants of engineers now authorized by law for the Coast Guard is hereby increased ten and five, respectively, Hmmm m,,,,,d_ and such portion of the Act approved Augimt twentyfourth, nine- Vol. rr, p. nn. teen hundred and twelve. whic provides that no additional appoint-.