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 74 TH C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 405. MAY 15, 1936 . 1 339 BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES Bureau of Light- hous es. Salaries : For the Commissioner and other personal services in the Salaries. District of Columbia, $125,600. General expenses : For supplies, including replacement of and General expenses. necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and Aids to navigation. incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids t o navigation, and lighthous e tenders, in clud- ing the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same ; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals ; not to exceed $10,000 for Cape Fear River, the purchase and placement of buoys to mark submarine obstruc- marking obstructions. tions off the mouth of the Cape Fear River ; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000 : Provided, That any oil or Provisos . Limitation on con. carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $1,000 in cost ; con- struction cost. struction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at anyone light station in any fiscal year ; improvement of grounds and f buildings connected with light stations and depots eL Restor ing st ations , stations and depots and buildings connected therewith : Provided urther, That such restoration shall be limited to the original pur- p Limiitted to original pose of the structures ; wages of persons attending post lights ; tem- po rary emp loyees a nd field force w hile eng aged on works of general Pe rsonal services. repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots ; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from co mmutatio n for ra tions an d provis ions for the abo ve-named persons on board of tende rs and light vessels or in working parti es in the fie ld may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party ; not exceeding $2,500 for packing, crat- in g, and t ransport ing pers onal hou sehold e ffects o f employ ees when Tr ansferr ing effe cts transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty ; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels Rations, clothing, etc. ment under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished ship- wrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $2, 000 in any fiscal year ; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses ; purchase of land sites for fog signals ; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made permanent ; rent of offices, depots, and wharves ; traveling expenses, including travel Traveling expenses. for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to pro- u°S.C.,p.u t. vide for ret irement for disa bility i n the Li ghthouse Service ", ap- proved March 4, 1925 (U . S . C., title 33, sec . 765) ; mileage ; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodi- cals not exceeding $500 ; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses ; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to light- house keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed ; purchase (not to exceed $3 ,600), e xchange, mainten ance, op eration, an d re pair of moto r-pr opel led pass enge r-ca rryi ng v ehic les for offi cial use in field work ; payment of rewards for the apprehension and con- Pareing rewards. viction, or for information helpful to the apprehension and convic- tion of persons found interfering with aids to navigation maintained
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