Chapter 124. To provide for the construction of two revenue cutters
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CHAP. 124.— An Act To provide for the construction of two revenue cutters.June 24, 1914.[[S. 4377](/us/bill/63/s/4377).][[Public, No. 118](/us/pl/63/118).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Revenue Cutter Service.Construction of two cutters authorized.*Post*, pp. 620. 833.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to construct one steam revenue cutter of the first class for service in the Gulf of Mexico, at a cost not to exceed the sum of $250,000, and one steam revenue cutter of the second class for service on the coast of Maine, at a cost not to exceed the sum of $225,000: *Provided*, That, in the *Proviso.*Medical details for aid to fishing vessels.discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, any of the revenue cutters provided for in this Act, or any other revenue cutter now or hereafter in commission, may be used to extend medical and surgical aid to the crews of American vessels engaged in the deep-sea fisheries, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe, and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to detail for duty on revenue cutters such surgeons and other persons of the Public Health Service as he may deem necessary.
Approved, June 24, 1914.