Chapter 313. To improve the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes
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Chap. 313: To improve the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes. Chapter 313 45 Stat. 1261 1929-02-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 313.— An Act To improve the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes. February 25, 1929.[[S. 5179](/us/bill/70/s/5179).][[Public, No. 803](/us/pl/70/803).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Lighthouse Bureau.Keepers at isolated stations allowed travel, etc., for medical attention.
That hereafter the appropriation, “General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” shall be available, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, for paying the actual and necessary traveling expenses of lighthouse keepers at isolated stations incurred in obtaining medical attention. Sec. 2. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to pay notDetroit, Mich. 50 per centum of the cost of paving Mount Elliott Avenue from Wight Street to the Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan,Payment of 50 per cent for paving street in front of depot at. said portion being directly in front of the lighthouse depot at Detroit. 1262The appropriation, “General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” of the fiscal year in which the work is undertaken shall be available therefor.
Sec. 3. Aids to navigation authorized on Pacific approaches to Panama Canal, in Panama.The Secretary of Commerce is authorized, subject to the consent of the Republic of Panama and suitable diplomatic arrangements for protecting the interests of the United States, to establish and maintain aids to navigation, including the purchase of sites, if necessary, on Jicarita Island and on Morro Puercos in the approaches to the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean, said sites belonging to the Republic of Panama.
Sec. 4. Depot sites in Rhode Island and Maine, to be purchase.The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to purchase the necessary land to be used as sites for lighthouse depots at Newport, Rhode Island; Portland, Maine; and Rockland, Maine. Sec. 5. Details of superintendents and engineers to Washington authorized.The Secretary of Commerce may detail superintendents of lighthouses and engineers in the Lighthouse Service to duty at the Bureau of Lighthouses at Washington without change of status.
Approved, February 25, 1929.
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