Chapter 1638. To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light House Establishment, and for other purposes
1,549 words·~7 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-34/chapter-1638-4333966·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 1638.— An Act To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light House Establishment, and for other purposes. February 26, 1907. [[H. R. 25242](/us/bill/59/hr/25242).] [[Public, No. 132](/us/pl/59/132).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Additional, established.*Post*, p. 1318.Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish and provide the following additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, under the Light-House Board, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, in accordance with the respective limits of cost hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded: second light-house district.Second district.
A light vessel for use near the eastern end of Hedge Fence Shoal, entrance to Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. third light-house district.Third district. A light and fog signal station at the entrance of Huntington Harbor *Post*, p. 1393.and Lloyd Harbor. New York, at a cost not to exceed forty thousand dollars; and from and after the Newark Bay, N. J., channel light discontinued.time when such station shall be put in service the present Lloyd Harbor light shall be discontinued.
A light and fog signal station at or near the west end of the. draw near the Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge at Passaic, New Jersey, at a cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; and from and after the time when such station shall be put in service the present light for the channel at Newark Bay shall be discontinued. A tender for use in the third light-house district, at a cost not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. A tender for use in Porto Rican waters, and elsewhere as may be directed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. fourth light-house district.Fourth district.
A relief light vessel, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. fifth light-house district.Fifth district. Beacon lights at La Trappe River, Maryland, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars. A wharf for buoys and other light-house material at O and Water streets in the city of Washington in place of the old wharf, at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars. seventh light-house district.Seventh district. A tender for use in the seventh light-house district, at a cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. eighth light-house district.Eighth district.
A tender for use in the eighth light-house district, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars. A light station to take the place of the Horn Island light destroyed by storm, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars. ninth light-house district.Ninth district. A light and fog signal station at White Shoal, north end of Lake Michigan, to take the place of the light vessel now maintained there, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 996 Post lights on Fox River.
Lake Winnebago and connecting lakes and channels, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars. Lights discontinued.The Milwaukee light station on the point about one mile northward and eastward of North Point, northerly side of Milwaukee Bay, and the light station at McGulpin Point, Michigan, on the southerly side of the Straits of Mackinac shall hereafter be discontinued. Eleventh district.eleventh light-house district. A light and fog signal station at or near Split Rock, near Beaver Bay, Lake Superior, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.
Lights discontinued.Range lights at Grand Island Harbor. Munising, Lake Superior, Michigan, at a cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; and from and after the time when such range lights shall be put in service the present Grand Island Harbor light shall be discontinued. Power motor for relief vessel.Vol. 32, p. 1093.The relief light vessel for the ninth and eleventh light-house districts authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, shall be equipped with such power motor as, in the opinion of the Light-House Board. appears for the best interests of the Government, without however increasing the limit of cost as fixed by said Act.
Twelfth district.twelfth light-house district. A relief light vessel for use on the Pacific coast, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. A light and fog signal station at Carquinez Strait, between San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California, at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars. A light and fog signal station on the north shore of Molokai Island, Hawaii, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars. A tender for use in Hawaiian waters and elsewhere as may be directed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Thirteenth district.thirteenth light-house district. A light vessel at or near Swiftsure Bank, off the entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait, Washington, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Rebuilding and equipment of a light-house and fog signal at Cape Arago. Oregon, at a cost not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. The limit of cost of fog signal station to be established in connection with light station at Battery Point, Washington, heretofore authorized Vol. 32, p. 431.by the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby increased by the sum of eight thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost fourteen thousand dollars instead of six thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.
Fifteenth district.fifteenth light-house district. A new tender for use in the fifteenth light-house district, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Contracts. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts for any or all of the items provided for in section one of this Act, within the limits of cost therein, respectively, provided. Sec. 3. Keepers’ dwellings, etc.*Post*, p. 1319. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to establish and provide in the Light-House Establishment, in connection with such light-houses as shall, in the opinion of the Light-House Board be for the best interest of the Light-House Service, thirty light-keepers’ dwellings and appurtenant structures, at a cost 997not to exceed the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars at any one light station.
Sec. 4. That when the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall Purchase of sites.determine to erect a light-keeper’s dwelling at any light station under the provisions of section three of this Act, and no suitable site for such dwelling shall then belong to the United States, said Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a suitable site at such light station, at a cost not to exceed one thousand dollars. Sec. 5. That the Act entitled “An Act to establish a light and fog Point Dume, Cal.Vol. 31, p. 798 repealed.station at Point Dume, Los Angeles County, California,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby repealed; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the unexpended balance Unexpended balance.of the appropriation for the establishment of a light and fog signal station at Point Dume, California, carried in the Act entitled “An Vol. 31, p. 1138.Act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.
Sec. 6. That hereafter officers of the Army and Navy detailed for Traveling expenses.service in connection with the Light-House Establishment shall be paid their actual traveling expenses when traveling under orders on official duty to and from points which can not be conveniently reached by vessel or railroad. Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall cause the Report.Light-House Board to make a report to him for transmission to Congress at the opening of the next session thereof of all aids to navigation now in service which may be discontinued without distinct injury to the interests of navigation.
Sec. 8. That the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily Draftsmen for plans of new vessels.at Washington not exceeding three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare plans for the tenders and light vessels authorized by this Act, and to be paid from the respective appropriations therefor, such employment to terminate on or before the date when the plans for such tenders and vessels shall be finished and proposals for building them, respectively, are invited by advertisement.
Sec. 9. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized Hog Island, Va.Conveyance of, to Broadwater Club.to convey to the Broadwater Club, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, the tract of land embraced in the former Hog Island, Virginia, light station, containing six and one-half acres of land, more or less, by the proper legal description thereof: *Provided*, That the said Secretary of Commerce and *Proviso*.Title.Labor shall find that the said Broadwater Club has acquired all the right, title, and interest of Joseph L.
Ferrell and Elise H. Ferrell, his wife, therein, or in an agreement with the Light-House Board or the United States for a conveyance thereof. Approved, February 26, 1907.