Public Law 64–414

That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to establish, provide, or improve the following aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, under the Department of Commerce, in accordance with the respective limits of costs hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded:

Light keepers’ dwellings and appurtenant structures, including sites

Keepers’ dwellings, etc.

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therefor, within the Emit of cost fixed by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page nine hundred and ninety-six), $75,000.

Constructing and equipping light vessels for general service on the

Light vessels.

Great Lakes, or for general service, $150,000.

second lighthouse district.

Constructing and equipping a lighthouse depot for the second

Depot.

lighthouse district, $85,000.

third lighthouse district.

Constructing, or purchasing, and equipping a lighthouse tender to

Tender.

replace tenders worn out in service in the third lighthouse district, or in the Lighthouse Service generally, $150,000.

Improving the light station, moving the fog signal, and constructing

Great Salt Pond, R. I.

a keeper’s dwelling at Great Salt Pond Light Station, Rhode Island, $25,000.

Improvement of the offices and laboratory at the general lighthouse

Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.

depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $21,000.

Improving the aids to navigation on the East River, New York,

East River, N. Y.

$16,000.

fifth lighthouse district.

Constructing and equipping a light vessel for station off Cape

Vessel, Cape Charles, Va.

Charles, Virginia, or for general service, $130,000.

Improving lights and fog signals leading to Cape Charles City,

Cape Charles City, Va.

Virginia, $12,800.

Improving aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the

Chesapeake Bay, eastern shore.

eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, Maryland and Virginia, $29,000.

ninth lighthouse district.

Removal and rebuilding on another site of the light station and

Point Borinquen, P. R.

dwelling at or near Point Borinquen, Porto Rico, $85,000.

tenth lighthouse district.

Aids to navigation at Huron Harbor, Ohio, $4,500.

Huron, Ohio.

Improving the aids to navigation at Fairport Harbor, Ohio,

Fairport, Ohio.

$42,000.

eleventh lighthouse district.

Improving aids to navigation and establishing new aids at or near

Keweenaw Harbor of Refuge, Mich.

the entrance to Keweenaw Waterway Harbor of Refuge, Portage River, Michigan, $110,000.

Improvement at Detroit, Michigan, lighthouse depot, $53,000.

Detroit, Mich., depot.

Light station and fog signal at or near Sand Hills, Michigan,

Sand Hills, Mich.

$75,000.

twelfth lighthouse district.

Improving the light and fog-signal station at Manitowoc North

Manitowoc, Wis.

Breakwater, Wisconsin, $21,000.

Removing and rebuilding Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois,

Chicago, Ill.

and establishing lights on the new breakwater in Chicago Harbor, $142,000.

Establishing and improving aids to navigation at Indiana Harbor,

Indiana Harbor, Ind.

Indiana, $100,000.

sixteenth lighthouse district.

Alaska.

Aids to navigation and improvement of existing aids in Alaska, $60,000.

seventeenth lighthouse district.

Additional aids, etc.

For the establishment of aids to navigation and improvement of existing aids in Washington and Oregon, seventeenth lighthouse district, $35,000.

nineteenth lighthouse district.

Honolulu, Hawaii.

Temporary depot.

Constructing and equipping a temporary lighthouse depot at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, pending the establishment of a permanent depot, $5,000; and authority is hereby granted to erect such temporary depot on land to be leased.

Depot.

Proviso.

Use of naval lands.

Construction and equipment of a lighthouse depot for the nineteenth lighthouse district, $90,000: Provided, That for the purposes herein lands and property now belonging to the United States and being used by the Navy for naval purposes shall be utilized for this purpose.

Sec. 2.

That hereafter the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, whenever he shall deem it advisable, to exchange any right of way of the United States in connection with lands pertaining to the Lighthouse Service for such other right of way as may be advantageous to the service, under such terms and conditions as he may deem to be

Expenses.

for the best interests of the Government; and in case any expenses, not exceeding the sum of $500, are incurred by the United States in making such exchange, the same shall be payable from the appropriation “General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” for the fiscal year during which such exchange shall be effected.

Sec. 3.

That hereafter post lantern lights and other aids to navigation may be established and maintained, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, out of the annual appropriation for the Lighthouse Service on the Mobile, Tombigbee, Warrior, and Black Warrior Rivers, Alabama, and Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada.

Sec. 4.

That the appropriation "General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” shall be available for the purchase and necessary equipment of one motor cycle and the repair and operation of the same for use of the Lighthouse Service in the Hawaiian Islands.

Sec. 5.

That hereafter light keepers and assistant light keepers of the Lighthouse Service shall be entitled to medical relief without charge at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service under the rules and regulations governing the care of seamen of the

Proviso.

Physical examination of new appointments required.

merchant marine: Provided, That this benefit shall not apply to any keeper or assistant keeper who receives an original appointment after the passage of this Act, unless the applicant passes a physical examination in accordance with rules approved by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Treasury.

Sec. 6.

Furnishing all seagoing vessels in the Lighthouse Service with radio equipment and auxiliary power for the operation thereof, $60,000.