Chapter CCCVII. to provide for the Establishment of life-saving Stations on the Coasts of Maine, Neto Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina
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CHAP. CCCVII.— An Act to provide for the Establishment of life-saving Stations on the Coasts of Maine, Neto Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* ThatTen life-saving stations to be established on the coasts of, &c. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to provide for the establishment of ten life-saving stations on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Virginia and North Carolina, at such points as he may deem necessary, for the saving of life and property on said coasts.
Sec. 2. ThatPoints on the sea and lake coasts for such stations to be reported to Congress. the Secretary of the Treasury he authorized and directed to report to this House, at the next session of Congress, the points on the sea and lake coasts of the United States at which the establishment of life-saving stations would best subserve the interests of commerce and humanity, with a detailed estimate of the cost of such stations Approved, March 3, 1873.