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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 71-MAR. 25, 1940 the Act approved March 3, 1925 (27 U. S. C. 41); coastal communica- tion lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communication service; establishment, maintenance, repair, and improvement of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, fog signals, beacons, day marks, and other aids to navigation; construction of necessary outbuildings, including oil houses at light stations, at a cost not exceeding $2,500 at any one ight station in any fiscal year; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at light- house 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 Coast Guard on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, but money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper voucher to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding $3,500 for packing, crating, and trans- porting personal household effects of employees, not to exceed six thousand pounds in any one case, when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for steward's department on vessels; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; not to exceed $1,500 for traveling expenses of new appointees from ports of embarkation in the United States to first post of duty at isolated light stations in districts outside the continental limits of the United States, and not to exceed $2,500 for the transportation of the children of lighthouse keepers at isolated light stations where necessary to enable such chil- dren to attend school, as authorized by the Act of May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 353); necessary traveling expenses of lighthouse keepers at isolated stations incurred in obtaining medical attention as authorized by the Act of February 25, 1929 (45 Stat. 1261); purchase of provi- sions for sale to Coast Guard personnel at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed; contingent expenses, including subsistence and clothing for shipwrecked and destitute persons succored by the Coast Guard, and including reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of Coast Guard personnel who furnish from their personal stock subsistence and clothing to such persons; subsistence of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard; instruments, apparatus, and services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and not to exceed $4,000 for experimental and research work; motion-picture equipment (not to exceed $30,000) and material for official purposes; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men including those who die in Govern- ment hospitals; apprehension of deserters; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, entrance fees in matches for the rifle team and special equipment therefor; not to exceed $2,500 for con- tingencies for the Superintendent, United States Coast Guard Acad- emy, to be expended in his discretion; payment of rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful to the appre- hension and conviction, of persons found interfering, in violation of section 6 of the Act of May 14, 1908 (33 U. S. C. 761) with aids to navigation maintained by the Coast Guard; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $11,260,000 (composed of "A" item, $10,225,000, and "B" item, $1,035,000); Civilian employees, Coast Guard: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including per diem labor, but excluding per- 193470° -41-PT. I -5 65 43 Stat. 1116. 19U..C.§522- 524; Supp. V, §§ 522- 524. Communication lines, etc. Aids to navigation. Light vessels and tenders. Traveling expenses. 33U.8.C., Supp.V, i748a. 33 U.S. C. §747b. Provisions for sale, isolated stations. Contingent ex- penses. Subsistence of pris- oners. Burial expenses. Rifle matches. Coast Guard Acad- emy, contingencies. Payment of rewards. 35 Stat. 162. Civilian field em- ployees.

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