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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 46 -FEB. 7, 1942 Post,p.9. General expenses, Coast Guard: For fuel, lubricating oil, illu- minants, kerosene, and water; the furnishing of heat, light, and power (service) for vessels, shore stations, depots, and offices; outfits, includ- ing necessary supplies and equipment, medals, newspapers, technical books and periodicals, and library books for field units and head- quarters; printing, binding, and stationery; rental of mechanical accounting machinery and other equipment; repairs to portable equip- ment at field units and headquarters; ship chandlery, engineers' stores, Pot,ehcl 232. draft animals and their maintenance; purchase (not to exceed $125,000), exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use at headquarters horestatious. and in the field; the rebuilding, repairing, maintenance, and inci- dental expenses of shore stations, including lighthouses, lights, beacons, and other fixed aids to navigation, radio stations, depots, and offices; temporary leases and rentals; charter of vessels; improve- ment of property for Coast Guard purposes, including rental, pur- chase, or use of additional land where necessary and the purchase of Repirs to vessels land for beacons, daymarks, and fog signals; repairs to Coast Guard vessels, boats, and aircraft, including cost of salvage operations when incident to such repairs; repair, maintenance, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Navy Department 43 stat.1i6. under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (27 U. S . C . 41); reconditioning, equipment, and necessary expenses of operation of vessels acquired by the Coast Guard under authority of the Coast II§2 8 C.c , Supp. Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 9); coastal com- post pp. 329, 990, munication lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communica- 1020, 1021 . ATids to navigation. tion service- establishment, maintenance, repair, and improvement of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, fog signals, beacons, daymarks, 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 light station in any fiscal year; wages of persons attend- Temporary employ- ing post lights; temporary employees and field force, including ees and eld force. professional, technical, and clerical employees, while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics Rations and pro- 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 Coast Guard on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, but money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions for the above-nalmed 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; transfer of household goods and iUStat. 1 053 effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940, and regulations promulgated thereunder; 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 Isolated light sta. 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 con- tinental 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 children to attend school, as 52stat. 33 . authorized by the Act of May 13, 1938 (33 U. S . C . 748a); necessary 45 Stat traveling expenses of lighthouse keepers at isolated stations incurred in obtaining medical attention as authorized by the Act of February opcntingent ex- 25, 1929 (33 U. S. C. 747b) ; contingent expenses, including subsistence and clothing for shipwrecked and destitute persons succored by the [56 STAT.

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