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1140 FIFTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CII. 858. 1901. Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River; 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 Mississi pi, 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 chanhels 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. S“"°Y °‘Si“°*& SURVEY OF LIGHT-1IoUsE 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. Oil h_<>¤Se¤- OIL HOUSES FOR LIGHT-STATIONS! For establishing isolated oil houses _{;[;Q’§,‘Q;s,_ for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: Prmdded, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. 0,Ig§g§,f;*kg;f“”“°lS TNIAINTENANCE or LIGHTS ON CHANNELS or GREAT LAKEs: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, under the supervision of the Light- House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars. Pm) Rim- PORTO RICAN LIGHT-HoUsE ESTABLISHMENTZ For maintaining existing aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional day marks, buoys, and beacon lights where required for Porto Rico and adjacent islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. A]“k“· LIGHT—HOUSE AND FOG—SIGNAL STATIONS IN ALASKAN WATERS: To O enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light—house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters, two hundred thousand dollars. Lif€·S¤Vi¤gS*>¤‘i<>*= LIFE—SAVING SERv1oE. S¤1>€ri¤¤=¤d¤¤¤S- For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one su erintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousandp six hundred dollars; For one su rintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dsllars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent. for the coast of Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Tor one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundre 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 lifeisaving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hu`ndred 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