Chapter 202. To amend section five of the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An Act to organize the Life-Saving Service.”August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Life-Saving Service
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CHAP. 202.— An Act To amend section five of the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An Act to organize the Life-Saving Service.”August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Life-Saving Service.Vol. 20, p. 104. That section live of the Act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An Act to organize the Life-Saving Service,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5. That hereafter the life-saving stations upon the Atlantic Atlantic and gulf stations to be open ten months.and gulf coasts at which crews are employed shall be manned and the stations opened for active service on the first day of August in each year, and so continued until the first day of June succeeding, and upon the lake coasts from the opening to the close of navigation, except suchLake station. stations as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury are not necessary to be manned during the full period specified; and the crews shall reside at the stations during said periods: *Provided*, That all*Proviso*.Pay of surfmen.*Post*, p. 919.Repeal. such surfmen as serve more than eight months shall receive sixty dollars per mouth, during their entire service.
” " Sec. 2. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, August 3, 1894.