Volume 24
Public Law 49–779
authorizing the construction of additional light-house Districts.
Approved July 26, 1886
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the construction of additional light-house Districts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section forty-six hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
“The Light-House Board shall arrange the ocean, gulf, lake, and river coasts of the United States into light-house districts, not exceeding sixteen in number.
That any law or regulation prohibiting the employment in the lighthouses of the United States of persons of more than forty-five years of age be and the same is hereby repealed.”
Approved, July 26, 1886.