and Missouri Rivers, for the establishment of such beacon lights, day beacons, and buoys as may be necessary for the use of vessels navigating those streams; and for this purpose the said board is hereby required to divide the designated rivers into one or two additional lighthouse districts, to be in all respects similar to the already existing lighthouse districts; and is hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent.

That whenever it may become necessary, in the adjustment of boundary lines, or in the opening or changing of necessary roadways affecting lands belonging to the United States and used for the purposes of the lighthouse establishments at Staten Island, New York, and at the Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey, or any part thereof, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to execute for such purposes touching the property above referred to, or any part thereof, the necessary conveyances and assurances, and to receive, in consideration thereof, such other conveyances or assurances of adjoining lands, or of lands in the immediate vicinity, or other consideration, as may be agreed upon.

That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to order the sale at auction, after due public notice, of any real estate or other property pertaining to the lighthouse establishment no longer required for lighthouse purposes; the proceeds of such sales, after the payment therefrom of the expenses of making the same, to be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as now provided by law in like cases.

And so much of section forty-six hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States as provides compensation to collectors of the customs for services as superintendents of lights or as disbursing agents for the lighthouse establishment is hereby repealed.

That masters of lighthouse tenders shall have police powers in matters pertaining to Government property and smuggling.

[Act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stat., 198).]

That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Lighthouse Board to apply the money appropriated, other than for surveys, as far as can be without detriment to the interests of the Government, by contract.

[Act of June 20, 1906 (34 Stat., 324).]

That after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any person, company, corporation, or municipality not under the control of the Lighthouse Board, to establish, erect, or maintain in the navigable waters of the United States any light as an aid to navigation, or any other aid to navigation similar to any of those maintained by the United States under the control and direction of the Lighthouse Board, without first obtaining permission so to do from the Lighthouse Board, in accordance with rules and regulations to be established by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; and any person violating the provisions of this section or

any of the rules and regulations established by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in accordance herewith shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.

[Act of Feb. 26, 1907 (34 Stat., 997).]

That hereafter officers of the Army and Navy detailed for service in connection with the Lighthouse Establishment shall be paid their actual traveling expenses when traveling under orders on official duty to and from points which can not be conveniently reached by vessel or railroad.

[Act of May 14, 1908 (35 Stat., 162).]

SEC. 5. That any person, firm, company, or corporation required by law to maintain a light or lights upon any bridge or abutments over or in any navigable waters, who shall fail or refuse to maintain such light or lights, or to obey any of the lawful rules and regulations relating to the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.

SEC. 6. That it shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or interfere with any aid to navigation established or maintained in the Lighthouse Establishment under the Lighthouse Board, or to anchor any vessel in any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to obstruct or interfere with range lights maintained therein, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.

SEC. 7. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall annually cause the Lighthouse Board to make a report to him for transmission to Congress of all aids to navigation in service which may be discontinued without distinct injury to the interests of navigation.

SEC. 9. That every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the Lighthouse Establishment of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Lighthouse Board, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration.

[Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 755).]

Hereafter there shall be submitted, following each estimate for support of the Lighthouse Establishment, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in each of said estimates, together with a statement of the expenditures under each of such objects for the fiscal year terminated next preceding the period of submitting said estimates.

REGULATIONS OF THE SERVICE.

The regulations of the service are published in a volume entitled "Regulations for the United States Lighthouse Service, and Digest of Statutes, Orders, Decisions, and Circulars, and Instructions for the

Personnel of Vessels and Reservations. In force September 1, 1911." As this volume is readily available, it is unnecessary to reproduce the regulations in this place.

SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES OF THE SERVICE, FISCAL YEAR 1911. [Furnished to the Commission on Economy and Efficiency by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.)

Total........ 4,779,633.03 80, 350. 46 4,699,282.57 331, 403. 12 298, 796. 09

Total....

2, 446. 94

731, 201. 16 Grand total... 5,510,834.19 | 82,797. 40 5,428,036.79 | 335, 897. 52 310, 119. 54

7.73 434, 156. 63 728, 754. 22

4, 494. 40

4, 494. 40

11, 323. 45

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE, FISCAL YEAR 1912.

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.

BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES: Commissioner, five thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, four thousand dollars; chief constructing engineer, four thousand dollars; superintendent of naval construction, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger; assistant messenger; two messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, three thousand dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand two hunderd and fifty dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixty-four thousand six hundred and thirty 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.

LIGHTHOUSES, BEACONS, FOG SIGNALS, LIGHT VESSELS, AND OTHER WORKS UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE: Monhegan Ísland, Maine, Light Station: For improving the light and fog signal at Monhegan Island, Maine, ten thousand dollars.

Stonington, Connecticut, Light Station: For repair of sea wall about Stonington Point, Connecticut, five hundred dollars.

For range light, in Bogue Sound, North Carolina, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Staten Island Lighthouse Depot, New York: For constructing a power house and foundry, and for completing the equipment, wiring, and so forth, of the power plant at the general lighthouse depot, Staten Island, New York, thirty thousand dollars.

Brandywine Shoal Light Station, Delaware: For rebuilding and improving the present light and fog signal station at Brandywine Shoal, Delaware Bay, Delaware, on the present or an adjacent site, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For establishing a light and fog signal station at or near the mouth of Rondout Creek, Hudson River, New York, forty thousand dollars. Lincoln Rock Light Station, Alaska: For rebuilding and improving the present light and fog signal at Lincoln Rock, Alaska, on the present or an adjacent site, twenty-five thousand dollars

Buffalo Breakwater, North End Light Station, New York: For rebuilding the Buffalo Breakwater, North End Light Station, New York, on the present or an adjacent site, sixty thousand dollars.

Superior Entry, Wisconsin: For the completion of the lighting of the breakwaters and piers at Superior Entry, Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Eagle Point Range Lights, New Jersey: For the establishment of proper lights to light a difficult turn at the junction of the two Horseshoe ranges on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

San Pedro Breakwater Light Station, California: For establishing a light and fog signal station on the San Pedro Breakwater, California, thirty-six thousand dollars.

For a light vessel for service at or near a point between Point Abino and Sturgeon Point, in Lake Erie, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Edgemoor Lighthouse Depot, Delaware: For the reconstruction of the wharves and sea wall, for dredging the basin, and for other improvements at the Edgemoor Lighthouse Depot, Delaware, thirty thousand dollars.

Miah Maul Shoal Light Station, Delaware Bay: For completing the construction of the light and fog signal station at Miah Maul Shoal, Delaware Bay, thirty thousand dollars.

Fort McHenry Channel, Maryland: For range lights, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For suitable lights and signals in Cape Fear River, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For establishing an adequate system of lighting in the channels leading to Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sand Island Light Station, Alabama: For protecting the site at Sand Island Light Station, Alabama, fifteen thousand dollars.

Detroit River Lights, Michigan: For establishing aids to navigation along the Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, including authority to locate and construct lights and to place buoys necessary to properly mark this channel, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.

Staten Island Lighthouse Depot, New York: For repairs and extension of wharves at the general lighthouse depot, Staten Island, New York, forty thousand dollars.

Hunts Point Light Station, New York: For the establishment of a light and fog signal to properly mark Hunts Point between Hell Gate and Whitestone Point, East River, New York, five thousand dollars.

Battery Point Light Station, Washington: For completing the establishment of the light and fog signal station at Battery Point, Washington, thirty-three thousand dollars.

Aids to navigation, Alaska: For establishing additional aids to navigation in Alaskan waters, sixty thousand dollars.

LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE: General expenses, Lighthouse Service: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same, the establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals, the establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost; the construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year, the improvements of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots, wages of laborers attending post lights, pay of temporary