Chapter 182. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide two new revenue cutters, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 182.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide two new revenue cutters, and for other purposes. April 21, 1910.[[S. 1381](/us/bill/61/s/1381).][[Public, No. 145](/us/pl/61/145).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Revenue-Cutter Service.Two new vessels authorized.*Post*, p. 712. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to provide and equip two new revenue cutters at a cost not exceeding the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in each case, and when either of said revenue cutters shall be placed in service, one of the revenue cutters now in the service shall thereupon be retired from service.
Sec. 2. Transfer of stations. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized from time to time to make such transfer and change of stations of revenue cutters as he may deem desirable for the best interests of the service, and in his discretion to direct any revenue cutter to cruise in any waters to perform the duties of the Revenue-Cutter Service. Sec. 3. Construction under eight-hour law. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to have the vessels provided for herein constructed in accordance with the provisions of Vol. 27, p 340.[R.S., sec. 3738, p.737](/us/rs/s3738/p737).the Act entitled “An Act relating to the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
Approved, April 21, 1910.