Chapter 168. To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 168.— An Act To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes. May 14, 1908 [[H. R. 20784.]](/us/bill/70/hr/20784)[[Public, No. 116.]](/us/pl/70/116) *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of CommerceLight-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Additional, established.*Post*, p. 331. and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish and provide the following additional aids to navigation in the Light-Mouse Establishment under the Light-House Board in the Department of Commerce and Labor, in accordance with the respectif limits of cost hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded:
First Light-House District.First district. A tender for use in the First light-house district and elsewhere as may he directed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. Third Light-House District.Third district. A light and fog-signal station at or near Negro Point, on Wards Island, Hellgate, Rast River, New York, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars. A light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell off Point Judith, Rhode Island, at a cost not to exceed nine thousand dollars.
A light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell, to be placed at or near the entrance to the dredged channel at Greenville, New Jersey, in New York Bay. at a cost not to exceed nine thousand dollars. A new spar shop, at a cost not to exceed three thousand dollars, and a wooden dump scow, at a cost not to exceed seven thousand live hundred dollars, at the general light-house depot, Tompkinsville, New York. A storehouse and dock at San Juan, Porto Rico, ata cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars.
Fourth Light-House District.Fourth district. The limit of cost for a light and fog-signal station on Elbow of Cross Ledge. Delaware Bay, New Jersey, authorized by an Act approvedVol. 33, p. 467. April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby increased by the sum of twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars, so as to make the limit of cost ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars instead of seventy-five thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized. The Schooner Ledge range lights, Delaware River, Pennsylvania, may be, moved, so as to comply with the change in position of the dredged channel of the Delaware River, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Range lights. Reedy Island. Delaware River. Delaware and New Jersey, at a cost not to exceed twenty-live thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated. A temporary light at Goose Island Flats, Delaware River, Delaware, at a cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the establishment of a light and fog-signal station at Goose Island Flats, Delaware River, in the Act of March third, nineteen hundredVol. 33, p. 1171. and five, to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.
Post lights on Delaware River between Bordentown and Trenton, New Jersey, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars.161 Fifth Light-House District.Fifth district. One buoy to be placed off Cape Henry; one buoy to be placed to the northward of the Middle Ground near the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, and one relief buoy, all to be light arid signal or whistling buoys, each fitted with submarine bell, at a cost for the three buoys not to exceed twenty-seven thousand dollars. For a post-lantern light, at or near the mouth of Lower Broad Creek, North Carolina, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars.
The limit of cost for a light and fog-signal station at Ragged Point, Potomac River, Virginia, authorized by the Act approved June twentieth,Vol. 34, p. 1317. nineteen hundred and six, is hereby increased by the sum of five thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost thirty-five thousand dollars instead of thirty thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized. Sixth Light-House District.Sixth district. A tender for the use of the engineer in the Sixth Light-House District and elsewhere, as may be directed, at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars.
A light and signal or whistling buoy, to be placed off the entrance to Saint Johns River, Florida, and a relief buoy for same, at a cost not to exceed eighteen thousand dollars. Eighth Light-House District.Eighth district. A light and fog-signal station at or near the end of Sabine Pass Jetty, at a cost not to exceed forty thousand dollars. The limit of cost for light and fog-signal station at or near the outer end of one of the jetties at Galveston Harbor, as fixed by the Act ofVol. 29, p. 417.
June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby increased by the sum of ten thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost forty-five thousand dollars instead of thirty-five thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized. A buoy wharf and depot shed at Fort San Jacinto, Texas, Military Reservation. Galveston Harbor, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Ninth Light-House District.Ninth district. A light vessel at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.
A fog-signal station at Grand Point au Sable, Michigan, at a cost not to exceed eleven thousand dollars. Tenth Light-House District.Tenth district. A light station at each of the east and west breakwater pierheads, entrance to Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, at a cost, not to exceed forty-five thousand dollars. Eleventh Light-House District.Eleventh district. The limit of cost of the relief light vessel for the Ninth and Eleventh light-house districts, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteenVol. 32, p. 1093. hundred and three, is hereby increased by the sum of twenty thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost fifty thousand dollars instead of thirty thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.
The Light-House Board shall make survey mid estimate the cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light and fog 162 station on Gull Island, or the easterly end of Michigan Island, Apostle Group, and whether when said station is established the existing station on the westerly end of Michigan Island can be safely closed, such survey and report to cost, not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. Twelfth Light-House District.Twelfth district. A light and fog-signal station at or near Four Mile Creek, near Punta Gorda, California, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars.
A light and fog-signal station at some point on the northerly or westerly coast of Kauai Island, Hawaii, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars. Thirteenth Light-House District.Thirteenth district. The Tight-House Board shall survey and estimate the cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light vessel or light station at or near Orford Reef, off Cape Blanco, Oregon, such survey and report to cost not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is herebyContracts. 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. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is herebyoil houses. authorized to establish and provide in the Light-House Establishment at such places as shall, in the opinion of the Light-House Board, be for the best interests of the Light-House Service, two oil houses, at a cost not to exceed one thousand live hundred dollars for each one.
Sec. 4. That it is hereby made the duty of the Light-House BoardNew York and Philadelphia harbors.Anchorage buoys. to care for and maintain the anchorage buoys in New York Harbor and Philadelphia Harbor heretofore placed there by the United States. Sec. 5. That any person, firm, company, or corporation requiredBridge lights.Violation of regulations. by law to maintain a light or lights upon any bridge or abutments over or in any navigable waters, who shall fail or refuse to maintain such lighter lights, or to obey any of the lawful rules and regulations relating to the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and bePenalty. subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall he considered as a new offense.
Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or interfereObstruction to navigation forbidden. with any aid to navigation established or maintained in the Light-House Establishment under the Light-House Board, or to anchor any vessel in any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to obstruct or interfere with range lights maintained therein, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and he subject to a line not exceeding the sum of fivePenalty. hundred dollars for each offense and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.
Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall annuallyReport on discontinuance of lights, etc. cause the Light-House Board to make a report to him for transmission to Congress of all aids to navigation 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 temporarilyTenders, etc. Draftsmen. 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 appropriation 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 advertisements.163 Sec. 9.
That every light-house keeper and assistant light-house keeperKeepers, etc.Ration. in the Light-House Establishment of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Light-House Board, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration. Approved, May 14, 1908.