far as practicable, that the husband or father or son would be entitled to receive as pay if he were alive and continued in the service: Provided, That if the widow shall remarry at any time during the said two years her portion of said amount shall cease to be paid to her from the date of her remarriage, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any; and if any child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years during the said two years, the portion of such child shall cease to be paid to such child from the date on which such age shall be attained, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries, if there be any. (May 4, 1882, sec. 8; Mar. 26, 1908, sec. 3; Jan. 28, 1915.)

Upon the occurrence of any shipwreck within the scope of the operations of the Coast Guard Service, attended with loss of life, the commandant shall cause an investigation of all the circumstances connected with said disaster and loss of life to be made, with a view of ascertaining the cause of the disaster, and whether any of the officers or employees of the service have been guilty of neglect or misconduct in the premises; and any officer or clerk in the employment of the Treasury Department who may be detailed to conduct such investigation, or to examine into any alleged incompetency or misconduct of any of the officers or employees of the Coast Guard Service shall have authority to administer an oath to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such investigation. (Sec. 9.)

The enrolled members of the crews of lifeboat stations may be called out for drill and exercise in the lifeboat and life-saving apparatus as often as the commandant may determine, not to exceed twice a month, for each day's attendance at which they shall be entitled to the sum of three dollars each. (June 18, 1878, sec. 11.)

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to discontinue any life-saving or lifeboat station or house of refuge whenever in his judgment the interests of commerce and humanity no longer require its existence. (Sec. 2.)

The commandant may transfer the apparatus, appliances, equipments, and supplies of any discontinued station or house of refuge to such other stations or houses of refuge as may need them, and may also transfer any portion of the apparatus, appliances, equipments, and supplies, of one station or house of refuge to another whenever in his judgment the interests of the service may require it. (Sec. 3.)

Hereafter all district superintendents of life-saving stations shall be disbursing officers and paymasters for their respective districts, and shall give such bonds as the Secretary of the Treasury may require, and shall have the powers and perform the duties of inspectors of customs. (Sec. 4.)

The appointment of district superintendents, inspectors, and keepers and crews of life-saving stations shall be made solely with reference to their fitness, and without reference to their political or party affiliations. (May 4, 1882, sec. 10.)

Hereafter the compensation of the keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and houses of refuge shall be at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum; and they shall have the powers of inspectors of customs, but shall receive no additional compensation for duties

performed as such: Provided, That said keepers shall have authority and be required to take charge of and protect all property saved from shipwreck at which they may be present, until it is claimed by parties legally authorized to receive it, or until otherwise instructed to dispose of it by the Secretary of the Treasury; and keepers of lifesaving stations shall be required to reside continually at or in the immediate vicinity of their respective stations. [NOTE.-Compensation changed June 22, 1892; but powers bestowed in this section remain.] (June 18, 1878, sec. 4.)

Hereafter the life-saving stations upon the Atlantic and Gulf coasts at which crews are employed shall be manned and the stations opened for active service on the first day of August in each year, and so continue until the first day of June succeeding, and upon the Lake coasts from the opening to the close of navigation, except such stations as, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, are not necessary to be manned during the full period specified; and the crews shall reside at the stations during said periods. (Sec. 5; Aug. 3, 1894.)

Crews may be employed at any of the life-saving or lifeboat stations on the Pacific coast during such portion of the year as the commandant may deem necessary. (May 4, 1882, sec. 6.)

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make all necessary regulations for the government of the Coast Guard Service not inconsistent with law. (June 20, 1874, sec. 8; Jan. 28, 1915; Jan. 12, 1923, sec. 2.)

Bureau of Lighthouses.

Hereafter there shall be in the Department of Commerce a bureau of lighthouses and a commissioner of lighthouses, who shall be the head of said bureau, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars per annum. There shall also be in the bureau a deputy commissioner, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, and a chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of chief clerk and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of Commerce or by the commissioner. There shall also be in the bureau such inspectors, clerical assistants, and other employees as may from time to time be authorized by Congress, and there shall also be employed one chief constructing engineer at a salary of four thousand dollars per annum and one superintendent of naval construction at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, both to be appointed by the President. The commissioner of lighthouses shall make an annual report to the Secretary of Commerce, who shall transmit the same to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; and such commissioner, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine all claims for damages, where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, hereafter occasioned by collisions, for which collisions vessels of the Lighthouse Service shall be found to be responsible, and report the amount so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor. (Sec. 4.)

That all employees of or in the Lighthouse Board or the Lighthouse Establishment are hereby transferred to the bureau of lighthouses, excepting, however, Army and Navy officers. (Sec. 5.)

All duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the Lighthouse Board, under any provision of law not hereby repealed, are hereby transferred to and imposed and conferred upon and vested in the commissioner of lighthouses, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce. (Sec. 6.)

The commissioner of lighthouses shall, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce, have charge and control of the construction, maintenance, repair, illumination, inspection, and superintendence of lighthouse depots, supply stations, light and signal stations, lighthouses, light vessels, lighthouse tenders, fog signals, submarine signals, beacons, buoys, day marks, post-lantern lights, and seamarks and their appendages, and generally of the Lighthouse Service; and the charge and custody of all the archives, books, documents, drawings, models, returns, apparatus, and other things appertaining to the Lighthouse Establishment. (Sec. 7.)

All materials for construction, maintenance, repair, and operation shall be procured by public contracts, under such regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the commissioner, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, and no contract shall be made except after public advertisement for proposals in such form and manner as to secure general notice thereof, and the same shall only be made with the lowest and best bidder therefor, upon security deemed sufficient in the judgment of the commissioner of lighthouses, but all bids may at any time be rejected by the commissioner: Provided, however, That the commissioner of lighthouses may purchase illuminating oil, wicks, and chimneys for lights, and ground tackle for light vessels and buoys, and to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars at any one time, other materials and supplies when immediate delivery is required by an exigency, by private contract or in the open market, if he deems it for the best interests of the service so to do; but such purchases shall be set forth in the annual report of the commissioner with the reasons for purchasing other than upon bids after public advertisement. (Sec. 8.)

The commissioner, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized, whenever an appropriation is made by Congress for a new lighthouse, the proper site for which does not belong to the United States, to purchase the necessary land for such site, provided the purchase money be paid from the amount appropriated for such lighthouse without exceeding the limit of cost, if any, fixed in such case; and the commissioner of lighthouses is authorized to employ temporarily draftsmen for the preparation of plans for tenders and light vessels which may be authorized by Congress, to be paid from the respective appropriations therefor. (Sec. 9.)

The commissioner of lighthouses, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce, shall, from time to time, prescribe and distribute such regulations as he may deem proper for securing an efficient, uniform, and economic administration of the LightHouse Service. (Sec. 10.)

The commissioner of lighthouses, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, as soon as practicable, shall rearrange the ocean, gulf, and lake coasts and the rivers of the United States, Porto Rico, and the naval station in Cuba into not exceeding nineteen lighthouse districts, and a lighthouse inspector shall be assigned in charge of each district. The lighthouse inspectors shall each receive a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, except the inspector of the third district, whose salary shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per annum. The President may, for a period not exceeding three years from the taking effect of this section, assign Army and Navy officers to act in lieu of the appointment of civilian-lighthouse inspectors, but such Army and Navy officers shall not receive any salary or compensation in addition to the salary or compensation they are entitled to as such Army or Navy officers: Provided, That in the districts which include the Mississippi River and its tributaries the President may designate Army engineers to perform the duties of and act as inspectors. The President may detail officers of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army for consultation or to superintend the construction or repair of any aid to navigation authorized by Congress. (June 17, 1910, sec. 11.)

No lighthouse, beacon, public piers, or landmark, shall be built or erected on any site until cession of jurisdiction over the same has been made to the United States. (R. S. 4661.)

A cession by a State of jurisdiction over a place selected as the site of a lighthouse, or other structure or work of the Lighthouse Service, shall be deemed sufficient within the preceding section, notwithstanding it contains a reservation that process issued under authority of such State may continue to be served within such place. And notwithstanding any such cession of jurisdiction contains no such reservation, all process may be served and executed within the place ceded, in the same manner as if no cession had been made. (R. S. 4662.)

Whenever any of the light vessels occupying positions which are adapted to the erection of lighthouses upon pile foundations require to be rebuilt, or require such extensive repairs as to render the substitution of such lighthouse advisable and practicable, such permanent structures may be erected in place of any such light vessels; but the expense arising from all such changes and erections shall be defrayed from the general annual appropriations for repairs, and so forth, of light vessels, except when a special appropriation is made for such change. (R. S. 4668.)

The Secretary of Commerce shall assign to any of the collectors of the customs the superintendence of such lighthouses, beacons, lightships, and buoys, as he deems best. (R. S. 4672; Feb. 14, 1903, sec. 4.)

The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to regulate the salaries of the respective keepers of lighthouses in such manner as he deems just and proper, but the whole sum allowed for such salaries shall not exceed an average of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum for each keeper. (R. S. 4673; Feb. 14, 1903, sec. 4; June 20, 1918, sec. 8.)

The Secretary of Commerce may, upon the recommendation of the commissioner of lighthouses, discontinue from time to time such lights as may from any cause become useless or unnecessary. And he may, upon the like recommendation, from time to time reestablish any lights which have been thus discontinued, whenever he believes such reestablishment to be required by public convenience or the necessities of trade or commerce. (R. S. 4674; Feb. 14, 1903, sec. 4; June 17, 1910, sec. 6.)

No inspector, light keeper, or other person in any manner connected with the Lighthouse Service, shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract for labor, materials, or supplies for the Lighthouse Service, or in any patent, plan, or mode of construction or illumination, or in any article of supply for the Lighthouse Service. (R. S. 4680.)

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 commissioner of lighthouses, 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 commissioner of lighthouses, without first obtaining permission so to do from the commissioner of lighthouses, in accordance with rules and regulations to be established by the Secretary of Commerce; and any person violating the provisions of this section or any of the rules and regulations established by the Secretary of Commerce 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. (June 20, 1906, sec. 3.)

Treasury Agents.

The Secretary of the Treasury may appoint one supervising special agent, who shall receive in addition to the necessary traveling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation of ten dollars per day; eighteen special agents, who shall each receive in addition to the necessary traveling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed eight dollars per day; and nine special agents, who shall each receive, in addition to the necessary traveling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed six dollars per day, for the purpose of making the examinations of the books, papers, and accounts of collectors and other officers of the customs, and to be employed generally, under the direction of the Secretary, in the prevention and detection of frauds on the customs revenue; and the expenses thereof shall be charged to the "appropriation to defray the expense of collecting the revenue from customs." (R. S. 2649; Aug. 15, 1876; Mar. 3, 1891; Feb. 14, 1903, secs. 4, 10.)

The Secretary of the Treasury may, from time to time, make such regulations not inconsistent with law, for the government of the special agents, as he deems expedient, and may rescind or alter regulations so made. But no special agent, in addition to those authorized by the two preceding sections [sec. 2649 as amended], shall be appointed or employed upon any business relating to the