7. District offices and life-saving stations and houses of $734.67 $809.67 Rent.. Incidentals. AN ACT Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes. OFFICE OF LIFE-SAVING SERVICE: General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service; four thousand dollars and five hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant general superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk, two thousand dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, forty-eight thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. AN ACT Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE: For salaries of superintendents for the lifesaving stations, as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand nine hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and ninety keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and seventysix thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of seventy dollars per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of sixty-five dollars per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or commutation thereof for keepers and surfmen; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; compensation of twelve clerks to district superintendents, one to each of the district superintendents except that of the eighth district, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed nine hundred dollars each, and persons now serving as clerks to district superin tendents may be promoted to a higher rate of pay within the sum named, as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and allowance for heat and light for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, two million and thirty-five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, twenty thousand dollars. Recapitulation. Salaries of office force.... Crews and expenses, including supplies, rent, repairs, etc.. $48, 120 304, 700 2,035, 420 Salaries of superintendents and keepers. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SERVICE. 20,000 2,408, 240 1. Annual Reports of the United States Life-Saving Service. Treasury Department. 2. Revised Regulations for the Government of the Life-Saving Service of the United States, and the Laws upon which they are Based. Treasury Department. Washington. 1884. 3. Official Register of the United States Life-Saving Service July 1, 1910, With Post Office Addresses. Treasury Department. Washington. 1910. 4. Organization and Methods of the United States Life-Saving Service. S. I. Kimball. 33 pp. Treasury Department. Washington. 1894. (A description of the organization and methods of the service, with an estimate of its effectiveness, by the "father" of the system.) 5. Manuscript Report on the Life-Saving Service. tee. Washington. 1911. Treasury Department Commit 1. Report of Committee, January 16, 1911. 3. Memorandum of Committee in Reply thereto, April 1, 1911. 4. Supplementary Letter of General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, April 14, 1911. 5. Reply of General Superintendent to Memorandum of Committee, April 21, 1911. 6. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. 34th Cong., 3d sess. Senate Ex. Doc. 53. Washington. 1857. (Summarizes previous action in regard to Establishment of stations and purposes for which expenditure of appropriations has been made.) 7. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury. 42d Cong., 2d sess. Senate Ex. Doc. 22. Washington. 1872. (Contains report by Capt. Fune on organization, duties, and condition of work of the service.) 8. The Life-Saving Service. 45th Cong., 2d sess. House Rept. 426. Washington. 1878. (Outlines history; suggests necessary changes and gives arguments in their favor.) 9. Efficiency of the Life-Saving Service. 47th Cong., 1st sess. House Rept. 470. Washington. 1882. (Explanation of need and purposes of the bill with reasons for his recommendations by the general superintendent.) 10. Methods of Business in the Executive Departments. Cockrell Commission. House Rept. 508. Washington. 12. The Life-Saving Service. 52d Cong., 1st sess. House 13. Joint Commission to Inquire into Status of the Laws Organizing the Executive Departments. Report of Dockery Commission. 53d Cong., 1st sess. Rept. 49. Washington. 1893. (References to laws in re appropriations for and creation of service and recommended changes in system of auditing accounts of the bureau.) 14. Claims of W. A. Newell. 55th Cong., 2d sess. Senate Doc. 270. Washington. 1898. (An argument against the claims of W. A. Newell as originator of system by General Superintendent S. I. Kimball.) 15. District Superintendents, Life-Saving Service. 56th Cong., 2d sess. Senate Rept. 1775. (Regarding increase of salaries with final argument by general superintendent presented by Mr. Frye, of the Committee on Commerce.) 16. Compensation of District Superintendents, Life-Saving Service. 57th Cong., House Rept. 2046. Washington. 1902. (Development and consequent increased cost of Life-Saving Service.) 1st sess. 17. Efficiency of the Life-Saving Service. 59th Cong., 1st sess. Senate Rept. 599 and 808. Washington. 1906. (Recommendation from the Committee on Commerce to make service more attractive. Also there is contained a descrip tion of organization, present difficulties, and arguments for and against suggested changes by the general superintendent.) 18. Efficiency of the Personnel of the Life-Saving Service. 60th Cong., 1st sess. House Rept. 1112. Washington. 1908. (Contains proposed legislation for pension of surfmen dying as result of injury received in the service.) 19. Message of the President relating to Pensions for Life-Saving Service. 60th Cong., 1st sess. Senate Doc. 203. Washington. 1908. (Favoring pensioning of Life-Saving Service employees.) 20. Increasing the Efficiency of the Personnel of the Life-Saving Service. 60th Cong., 1st sess. Senate Rept. 334. Washington. 1908. (Includes argument of General Superintendent Kimball favoring increased salaries.) 21. Personnel of the Life-Saving Service. Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Washington. 1908. (Statements by officers of service on matters of efficiency, remuneration, and requirements in LifeSaving Service.) 22. The Life-Saving Service and the Revenue Marine. Magazine, Vol. V, 81. Washington. 1875. The Republic Monthly 23. The United States Life-Saving Service. O'Connor, W. D. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 15, 182. New York. 1879. 24. The United States Government. Lamphere, C. N. 297 pp. Index. Philadelphia. 1880. 25. The Life-Saving Service. Cox, S. S. No. Amer. Review, vol. 132, 482. New York. 1881. 26. The American Life-Saving Service. Lamb, M. J. Harper's Magazine, vol. 64, 357. New York. 1882. 27. The United States Life-Saving Service. zine, N. S. 2, 134. Boston. 1890. 28. The United States Life-Saving Service. 133, 1. Philadelphia. 1892. Johnson, W. W. New England Maga Piper, H. L. Franklin Institute, vol. 29. Life-Savers of the Pacific Coast. Mathews, Gerald. California Illustrated Magazine, vol. 4, 62. San Francisco. 1893. 30. The Life-Saving Service of the United States. Freeman, Thomas J. A. Ameri- New York. 1897. 32. District Superintendents in Life-Saving Service. 60th Cong., 1st sess. Senate Doc. 326. Washington. 1908. (Statement of general superintendent in re district superintendents and difficulties of their work in defense of their retirement.) Senate Rept. 718. 33. Efficiency of the Life-Saving Service. 61st Cong., 2d sess. 4. Outline of organization, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of 5. Compilation of laws relating to the service.. 7. Summary of expenditures of the service, fiscal year 1911. The history of the Lighthouse Service of the United States is almost That all expenses that shall accrue from and after the fifteenth day of August, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, in the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all lighthouses, buoys, and public piers erected, placed, or sunk before the passing of this act at the entrance of or within any bay, harbor, or port of the United States for rendering the navigation thereof safe and easy shall be defrayed out of the |