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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 113. 1918. 687 signal station on the Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware River," contained V°'·3*·P-“°· in the Act a proved June t irtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is made available for establishing as buoys and improving aids to na ation in the vicinity of Joe §`logger Shoal, Delaware. liilth lighthouse district: For the purchase of additional gas buoys §’,,Q`·'§,§f,§§§°’· for the improvement of aids to navigation, $65,000. Smemh dm M Depot for sixteenth lighthouse district: For a lighthouse depot and Depot. n ' the necessary equipment for the sixteenth lighthouse district, $90,000. The appropriation of $15,000 "for the installation of an electrically Islintiidhitiiliigaa Eperate og signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, **2- 4 » assachusetts, ’ contained in the deficiency appropriation Act ap- ”“’°°' °°’°°°‘ proved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is ma e available for the establishment of an electrically operated fog-signal bell at that point. _ S _ Lroirrnousm snnvresr L‘“hth°“s° °’“°°‘ General expenses: For supplies, repairs maintenance, and inci-· gi>ié}=”rii;pX<i§ dental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, ligkhting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, ineludlng the establishment, re air, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land) for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, °“°'°°"’*"°"°“S°“· submarine signals, and fog sigpals; establishment of o` or carbide houses not to exceed $10,000: romded, That any oil or carbide house f,','{,,"‘§°';,, W ,1 erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of neces- ¤¤i¤<¤¤¤- sary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in an iiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations an depots; restonngligllcigz stations an depots and Hm"; M mn buildings connected therewith: Provided, at such restoration shall um. be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wagies of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and iiel force while en aged on works of gleneral repair and maintenance, and laborers mum m an§ mechanics at light ouse de ts; rations and provisions or com- ’ ° mutation thereof for kee ers od)0 lighthouses, working arties in the field, officers and crews of)liggl1t vessels and tenders, ang officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels and money accruin from commutation for rations and rovisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in workinglparties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person aving charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of livhthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished sliipwrecked persons who may be temporarily rovided for by them, not exceeding in all $5 000 in any fiscal year; iluel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses· I I { ., St purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary groimd for all ° R °s' °‘ such lights and beacons as are or temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; travelir? expenses· mileagelibrary books for light stations and vessels, an technical books and Sino icals not exceeding $1,000; all other contingent expenses of cm. t mg trict offices and depots; and not exceeding $10,000 for contingent hum uw _Every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the m1i“§.'§{°°“ °' °°”"“' Lighthouse Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive —"'”·*’·°°“· one ration per day, or, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, commutation therefor at the rate of 45 cents per ration. _ Keepers of hggthousesz For salaries of not exceeding one thousand K°°°”‘ eight hundred hthouse and fog—signal keepers and laborers attend— mg other hghts exclusive of post lights, $940,000.
 * §p5%1§*»¢§;)8f the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington,