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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sicss. II. Ch. 546. 1898. 603 nessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San J oaquin 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 conse= quence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars. SURVEY or LIGHT-HOUSEsinus: For preliminary examinations, Survey of simsurveys, 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-SAVING SERVICE. Life-SavingService. 1 For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as fol- S¤r¤ri¤¤>¤d¤¤¤¤· ows: _ 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 one_assistant 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 of 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 life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars- . For due superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars- For eine superintendent for the lifesaving 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 hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and seventy-one keepers of life-saving Keepers and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and thirty- six thousand seven hundred dollars. · For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat CNM- stations, including the old Chicago station, and at the building authorized to be erected at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, gmahs glggposnicn. Omaha, Nebraska, by joint resolution approved December eighteen, °"'P" ‘ eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at lifesaving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster orin any ' effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deter- - mine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outiits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses