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1080 FIFTY-FIFTH coxennss. Sess. III. ou. 424. 1899. for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. _ _ ¤zMi¤z ·>f¤v¤¤- Lraurine or mvnus; For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia; James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars. survey of mss. SURVEY OF LIGHT-Hoosm SITES! For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Life-SavlugS¤l’vicc. LIFE-SAYING SERVICE. Supcrinwndcm. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For oneassistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the lite-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the lite-savin g and liteboat stations on the goapts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred o ars; For one superintendent for the life—saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hun- , dred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. Keepers- For salaries of two hundred and seventy-four keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and thirty- nine thousand seven hundred dollars. Crews. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of sixty dollars per month each, during the period of actual employment and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at lifesaving and lifeboat stations for actual and