Chapter 81. To authorize aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 81.— An Act To authorize aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 19746](/us/bill/63/hr/19746).][[Public, No. 269](/us/pl/63/269).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Aids to navigation. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to establish, provide, or improve the following aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, under the Department of Commerce, in accordance with the respective limits of costs hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded.
First district.first lighthouse district. Saint Croix River, Me.A light at or near Dog Island entrance to Saint Croix River, Maine, $3,500. Second district.second lighthouse district. Woods Hole, Mass.Improvements at Woods Hole lighthouse depot, Massachusetts, $50,000. Third district.third lighthouse district. Hudson River, N. Y.Improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Hudson River, New York, $100,000. Sandy Hook, N. J.Improving the aids to navigation at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, $20,000.
Fourth district.fourth lighthouse district. Delaware River, Pa. and Del.Improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Delaware River, Pennsylvania and Delaware, $80,000. Sixth district.sixth lighthouse district. Saint Johns River, Fla.Improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Saint Johns River, Florida, below Jacksonville, $66,000. Seventh district.seventh lighthouse district. Florida Reefs.Additional lighted aids for Florida Reefs, and repairs and improvements to existing aids, $75,000.
Eighth district.eighth lighthouse district. Mississippi River, La.Improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, Louisiana, $50,000. Small tender.Constructing, or purchasing, and equipping a small tender and barge for eighth lighthouse district, Texas and Louisiana, $20,000. Tenth district.tenth lighthouse district. Conneaut, Ohio.Light and fog signal and improving the present aids to navigation in Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, $63,500.
Toledo, Ohio.Improving the aids to navigation in Toledo Harbor, Ohio, $15,000. 927 eleventh lighthouse district.Eleventh district. Detroit River, Mich.Improving aids to navigation and establishing now aids in the Fighting Island Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, $25,000. seventeenth lighthouse district.Seventeenth district. Light and fog signal station at or near Kellett Bluff, Henry Island, Henry Island, etc., Wash.Washington, or at some point on the west coast of San Juan Island, Washington, $40,000.
Improvement of aids to navigation at or near the entrance to Coquille River, Oreg.Coquille River, Oregon, $6,000. eighteenth lighthouse district.Eighteenth district. Light and fog signal station at Point Vincente, California, $80,000.Point Vincente, Cal. nineteenth lighthouse district.Nineteenth district. Aids to navigation in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $80,000.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. panama canal.Panama Canal. Two lights on the Pacific coast, necessary as aids to navigation near Two stations on Pacific coast.*Ante*, p. 883.the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, at a total cost not exceeding $48,000; one of them at Punta Mala, the other at Bona Island.
And for the construction of these two aids the Secretary of Commerce Maintenance, etc.may, by satisfactory arrangement with the Governor of the Panama Canal, have them constructed and maintained through the Panama Canal force. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized, in Tenders for general service.Use of unexpended balances to build.his discretion, to use the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for a tender for the first lighthouse district and elsewhere made by the Acts of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred Vol. 35, pp. 331, 970.and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page three hundred and thirty-one), and March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page nine hundred and seventy), as modified by the Act of July Vol. 37, p. 238.twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page two hundred and thirty-eight), for the construction of additional tenders for general service.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to transfer Tawas light station, Wis.Transfer of lot for life-saving purpose.the lighthouse property in’ lot one, section thirty-four, township twenty-two north, range eight east, Iosco County, Michigan, now a portion of the Tawas Lighthouse reservation, to the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of the Life-Saving Service. Sec. 4. That hereafter employees of the Lighthouse Service compensated Leaves of absence to employees.at a per diem rate of pay may be granted fifteen working days’ leave of absence each year without forfeiture of pay during such absence, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That no employee of the class herein mentioned shall be *Provisos*.Conditions.entitled to any leave until he has served twelve consecutive months, when he may be granted fifteen days’ leave, and that during the second or any subsequent year fifteen days’ leave at the rate of one and one-fourth days per month, as earned, may be granted from the beginning of the second service year: *Provided further*, That the Discretionary allowance.inspectors of the several lighthouse districts shall have discretion as to the time when the leave can be allowed without detriment to the service, and that absence on account of sickness shall be deducted from the leave hereby granted.
Sec. 5. That hereafter post-lantern lights and other aids to navigation Post lantern lights, etc., on Florida lakes, etc.may be established and maintained, in the discretion of the 928Commissioner of Lighthouses, out of the annual appropriations for the Lighthouse Service, on Lakes Okechobee and Hicpochee and connecting waterways across the State of Florida and on the Apalachicola River and Chipola cutoff. Sec. 6. Forest land on reservations.That hereafter the annual appropriations for the Lighthouse Service shall be available for defraying the expenses of cooperation between the Lighthouse Service and the Forest Service in the management of forest land on lighthouse reservations.
Sec. 7. Oaths to expense accounts, etc.That hereafter the provisions of section eight of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page four hundred and Officers authorized to administer.Vol. 37, p. 487.eighty-seven), relative to the administering of oaths to travel accounts or other expenses against the United States shall be extended to chief clerks in the offices of lighthouse inspectors or other employees in the Lighthouse Service designated by them, and hereafter chief clerks in offices of lighthouse inspectors and employees designated by them are authorized to administer oaths of office to employees of the Lighthouse Service.
Sec. 8. Private aids to navigation.Penalty for obstructing.Vol. 35, p. 162.That hereafter the penalties provided in section six of the Act of May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page one hundred and sixty-two), for obstruction to or interference with any aid to navigation maintained by the Light-house Service shall apply with equal force and effect to any private aid to navigation lawfully maintained under the authority granted the Secretary of Commerce and the Commissioner of Lighthouses by Vol. 34, p. 324.section six of the Act of June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page three hundred and twenty-four).
Approved, March 3, 1915.