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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · June 19, 1886 · Chapter 424

Chapter 424.

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CHAP. 424.— An act to establish additional life-saving stations.June 19, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Life-saving stations. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to establish additional life-saving stations upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States, as follows: One at or near Point Allerton, Massachusetts; one at such point between the Parmet River life-saving station and the south end of Nansett Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as the General Superintendent of the life-saving Service may recommend; one at or near Cape Poge, Massachusetts; one at or near Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts; one on the northwest side of Block Island, Rhode Island; one on the coast between Point Judith and Watch Hill, Rhode Island; one on Fisher’s Island, Long Island Sound; one at or near Fisherman’s Island, Virginia; one at or near Oak Island, North Carolina; one at or near Old Topsail Inlet, North Carolina: one at or near Plum Island, Lake Michigan; one at South Manitou Island, Lake Michigan; one at South Chicago, Illinois; one at or near Bois Blanc Island, Straits of Mackinaw; one at or near Duluth, Lake Superior; one at or near Point Adams, Oregon; one at such point between Point Reyes and Point Diablo, California, as the General Superintendent of the life-saving Service may recommend; one at such point between Point San José and Point Lobos, California, as the General Superintendent of the life-saving Service may recommend; one on Lake Ontario, New York, at or near the mouth of the Niagara River, as the General Superintendent of the life-saving Service may recommend.
Approved, June 19, 1886.
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