FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. 919 _ For salaries of two hundred and fifty-seven keepers of life-saving and K<*°P°*¤· lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and twenty-four . thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat C*°W¤·°*¤=· stations, including the old Chicago station, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-savin g and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any eifort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge, and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life- saving stations on the coast of the United States, one million two hundred thousand dollars. ’ " That the proviso in section one of the Act approved August third, 5**3* °*` ¤;;g¤°¤· eighteen hundred and ninety-four,~is hereby amended so as to read as ”°°‘ p' ` follows: “Prov€ded, That those surfmen who enlist for a term including more than eight and a half months of active service, and those who enlist to fill vacancies caused by the promotion, death, resignation, ordismissal of such surfmen, shall receive sixty dollars per month during said period of active serviee.” For establishing new litesavin g stations and lifeboat stations on the Nw ¤*~¤¤i<>¤¤- sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty-three thousand dollars. _ REVENUE-GUTTER SERVICE. v,§_j'°¤°°·C¤**°’S°*· For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, shams and sxlieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for *‘°““"“· the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, firemen, coal-passers, cooks, stewards, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of v¤1.2s,p.1s1. New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety- Vol. 26, p. 431. three; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the direc- gwmgurgi d t tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the New England j,;, p_';_°`° °°°S ` coast, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred thousand dollars. For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the direc- G'°“‘I·“k°°· tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great Lakes, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved November third, A""- P- °· eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred thousand dollars.
