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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · May 9, 1872 · Chapter CXLVIII

Chapter CXLVIII. authorizing the Appropriation for the Employment of Surfmen at alternate Life-saving Stations on the New Jersey Coast, for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be expended in employing Crews at such Stations, and for such Periods, and at such Compensation, as t

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CHAP. CXLVIII.— An Act authorizing the Appropriation for the Employment of Surfmen at alternate Life-saving Stations on the New Jersey Coast, for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be expended in employing Crews at such Stations, and for such Periods, and at such Compensation, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem reasonable, not to exceed forty Dollars per Month for each Person employed.May 9, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAppropriation for pay of surtmen at Life-saving stations on the New-Jersey coast.1871, ch. 114.Vol. xvi. p. 496. the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to expend the sum of ten thousand and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, appropriated by “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, for the “pay of six experienced surfinen to man each of the boats at alternate Life-saving stations on the New Jersey coast, from December fifteenth to March fifteenth,” in employing crews of experienced surfinen at such stations, and for such periods as he may deem necessary and proper, and at such compensation as he may deem reasonable, not to exceed forty dollar’s per month for each person to be employed.
Approved, May 9, 1872.
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