FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 424. 1899. ]()8]_ deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in 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 determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and 1mprovement 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; commutation Commutnticu of of quarters for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty "““"°'“‘ 1n the Life—Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections vn1.22,p.sv. seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including the dona- · tion of a Lyle gun and a complete set of beach apparatus used in connection with it to the Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck, 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 coasts of the United States, one million two hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the New stamens. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, forty thousand dollars. ` REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, Salaries mi tx. lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers and assistant engi- P°“’°°· neers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of a constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal beavers, stewards, cooks, 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; 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 xneimmgs. enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eight- votes, p. 1:,1. een hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement l’··*-‘¤-¤·-*¤¤- of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, one million one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Act of May sixteenth, eighteen Prwngd Ku hundred and eighty-eight, relating to anchorage of vessels in the port kilhimrfewtgrkl 1;;; of New York, is hereby extended to include the waters of Kill von Knll, $*;3¤;rK*1l· Md Rw- Newark Bay, Arthur Kill, and Raritan Bay. y' For the purpose of repairing and defraying the running expenses of ‘·TM¢i¤·" ¤¤r=¤ir¤. - the United States steamer Thetis for a period of six months, said vessel °°‘°‘ to be used as a revenue cutter, and to perform service for the Department of the Interior in procuring reindeer and transporting them to the coast of Alaska, twenty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Navy -m¤¤rem rmsm-y is hereby authorized to transfer said vessel to the Treasury Department, D°¥’“"“"°“*· °°°· For the construction of one revenue cutter of the first class, under ner-erm tuner mr the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great G“*“'°L“k*’°- Lakes, eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said revenue cutter, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor. shall not exceed one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For the construction of a revenue cutter of the first class, under the -—f¤r Pacific ¤<>=¤*~ direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Pacific
