Public Law 60–99

That from and after the

Life-Saving Service.

District superintendents, etc.

Compensation increased.

passage of this Act the compensation of district superintendents in the United States Life-Saving Service shall be as follows: For the superintendents of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth districts, two thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; for the superintendents of the third and ninth districts, two thousand dollars per annum each; for the superintendent of the eighth district, one thousand nine hundred dollars per annum. That the pay of keepers of life-saving stations shall be one thousand dollars per annum each, and that the pay of the number one surfman in each of the crews of the life-saving stations shall be at the rate of seventy dollars per month.

Sec. 2.

That every keeper of a life-saving station and every surfman

Rations.

in the Life-Saving Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration.

Sec. 3.

That section eight of the Act of May fourth, eighteen

Vol. 22, p. 57.

hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck,” is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 8.

That if any keeper or member of a crew of a life-saving

Death of keeper or member of crew.

Two years’ pay to widow and children.

Dependent mother added.

station shall hereafter die by reason of perilous service or any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the Life-Saving Service in the line of duty, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen

Vol. 22, p. 57, amended.

years of age, or a dependent mother, such widow and child or children and dependent mother shall be entitled to receive, in equal portions, during a period of two years, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the same amount, payable quarterly

Quarterly payments.

as far as practicable, that the husband or father or son would be entitled to receive as pay if he were alive and continued in the Service: Provided, That if the widow shall remarry at any time during the said

Poviso.

Remarriage of widow, etc.

two years her portion of said amount shall cease to be paid to her from the date of her remarriage, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any; and if any child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years during the said two years, the portion of such child shall cease to be paid to such child from the date on which such age shall be attained, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries, if there be any.”

Sec. 4.

That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are

Repeal.

hereby repealed.