75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CH . 359-JUNE 16, 1937 work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is ma de, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field . The appropriation under title III herein for traveling expenses shall be available for the Bureau of Standards in an amount not to exceed $3,000 for attendance at meetings concerned with standardiza- tion and research or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce . Total, National Bureau of Standards, $2,118 .000, of which amount not to exceed $1,875,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia . 291 Attendance at meet- in gs . Ante, p . 25,3. Total ; services it the District . Bureau of Light- houses. Salaries . BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES Salaries : For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $125,000 . Gen eral e xpens es : For suppl ies, includ ing r eplac ement of and General expenses . additions to existinquiment, repairs, maintenance, and Aids i§navigation- necessary
n incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoy- age, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, includ- ing the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same ; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals ; construction of necessary outbuildings, including oil houses at light stations, at a cost not exceeding $2,500 at any one light station in any fiscal year ; improve- ment of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots ; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith : Provided, That such restoration shall be limited to the Proviso . Restoration limited original purpose of the structures ; wages of per sons a ttendi ng pos t to original purpose . lights ; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works Personalservices- of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots ; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accru- ing from commutation for rat io ns and provisions for the above- named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party ; not exceeding $3,500 for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effect s of e mployee s, not to ex ceed s ix tho usand pounds in any one case, when transferred from one official station to another for per- manent duty
- purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves,
goggles, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards' departments on vessels
reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commer ce of keepers of li ght st ations and m asters of lig ht ves sels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing ete;a"Ons ' furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $1 .000 in any fiscal year ; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses
purchase of land sites for fog signals ; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made per- manent ; rent of offices, depots, and wharves ; mileage ; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals , not exceeding $750 ; traveling expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of kee pe rs of l igh th ou ses ; all other contin gent e xpenses of di strict off ice s and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to Transportation effects . n" clothi ng : ,
