Chapter 779. authorizing the construction of additional light-house Districts
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CHAP. 779.— An Act authorizing the construction of additional light-house Districts.July 26, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Light-house Districts. Increased to sixteenR. S., Sec. 4670, p. 908, amended.Employment of persons over 45 years old to be allowed. That section forty-six hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “The Light-House Board shall arrange the ocean, gulf, lake, and river coasts of the United States into light-house districts, not exceeding sixteen in number.
That any law or regulation prohibiting the employment in the lighthouses of the United States of persons of more than forty-five years of age be and the same is hereby repealed.” " Approved, July 26, 1886.