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The said commissioned officers shall rank as follows: Sec. 2. Captains with majors in the Army and lieutenant-commanders in the Navy; first lieutenants with captains in the Army and lieutenants in the Navy; second lieutenant with first lieutenants in the Army and lieutenants (junior grade) in the Navy; third lieutenants with second lieutenants in the Army and ensigns in the Navy: Provided, That whenever forces of the Navy and Revenue-Cutter Service shall be serving in cooperation pursuant to law (section twentyseven hundred and fifty-seven, Revised Statutes), the officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service shall rank as follows: Captains with and next after lieutenant-commanders in the Navy; first lieutenants with and next after lieutenants in the Navy; second lieutenants with and next after lieutenants (junior grade) in the Navy; third lieutenants with and next after ensigns in the Navy: Provided further, That no provision of this Act shall be construed as giving any officer of the Revenue-Cutter Service military or other control at any time over any vessel, officer, or man of the naval service. Nor shall any naval officer exercise such military or other control over any vessel, officer, or man of the Revenue-Cutter Service, except by direction of the President.

The commissioned officers of the United States Revenue- Sec. 3. Cutter Service shall hereafter receive the same pay and allowances, except forage, as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for officers of corresponding rank in the Army, including longevity pay.

When any officer in the Revenue-Cutter Service has sec. 4. reached the age of sixty-four years he shall be retired by the President from active service; and when any officer has become incapable of performing the duties of his office he shall be either placed upon the retired waiting-orders list or dropped from the service by the President, as hereinafter provided.

The Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of Sec. 5. the President, shall from time to time assemble a RevenueCutter Service retiring board, composed of officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service and medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, consisting of not less than five commissioned officers, two-fifths of whom shall be selected from medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, for the purpose of examining and reporting on such officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service as may be ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before it; and the members of said board shall be sworn, in every case, to discharge their duties honestly and impartially, the oath to be administered to the members by the president of the board, and to him by the junior member or recorder; and such board shall inquire into and determine the facts touching the nature and occasion of the disability of any officer who appears to be incapable of performing the duties of his office, and shall have such powers as may be necessary for that purpose; and

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when the board finds an officer incapacitated for active service it shall also find and report the cause which in its judgment has produced his incapacity, whether such cause is an incident of service, whether due to his own vicious habits, or the infirmities of age, or physical or mental disability. The proceedings and decisions of the board shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall by him be laid before the President for his approval or disapproval and his orders in the case.

When a board finds that an officer is incapacitated for active service, and that his incapacity is the result of an incident of service, or is due to the infirmities of age, or physical or mental disability, and not his own vicious habits, and such decision is approved by the President, he shall be retired from active service and placed upon a retired waiting orders list. Officers thus retired may be assigned to such duties as they may be able to perform, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.

When a board finds that an officer is incapacitated for active service, and that such incapacity is the result of his own vicious habits and not due to any incident of service, and its decision shall be approved by the President, the officer shall be dropped from the service.

When any commissioned officer is retired from active service, the next officer in rank shall be promoted according to the established rules of the service, and the same rule of promotion shall be applied successively to the vacancies consequent upon such retirement: Provided, That all promotions shall be subject to examination to determine the professional qualifications of the candidates, and such examination shall be wholly written before a board of officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service, and their physical qualifications shall be reported upon by a board of medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service; and such board shall be convened by the Secretary of the Treasury whenever the exigencies of the service require.

All officers borne upon the retired or permanent waitingorders list at the date of the passage of this Act, or hereafter, shall receive seventy-five per centum of the duty pay, salary, and increase of the rank upon which they have been or may be retired: Provided, That no longevity increase of pay shall be allowed for any length of service accruing after retirement.

No person shall be appointed to the office of captain, first, second, or third lieutenant, of any revenue-cutter, who does not adduce competent proof of proficiency and skill in navigation and seamanship.

The compensation of the officers of the revenue-cutter service shall be at the following rates while on duty: Captains, twenty-five hundred dollars a year each.

First lieutenants and chief engineers, eighteen hundred dollars a year each.

Second lieutenants and first assistant engineers, fifteen hundred dollars a year each.

Third lieutenants and second assistant engineers, twelve hundred dollars a year each.

And at the following rates while on leave of absence or while waiting orders:

Captains, eighteen hundred dollars a year each.

First lieutenants and chief engineers, fifteen hundred dollars a year each.

Second lieutenants and first assistant engineers, twelve hundred dollars a year each.

Third lieutenants and second assistant engineers, nine hundred dollars a year each.

Cadets, five hundred dollars per annum and one ration per day each.

The wages of petty officers and seamen of the revenue cutter service shall not exceed the average wages paid for like services on the Atlantic or Pacific coasts, respectively, in the merchant service.

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Each officer of the revenue-cutter service, while on duty, R. S., 2755. shall be entitled to one Navy ration per day.

The Secretary of the Treasury may cause contracts to be R.S., 2756. made for the supply of rations for the officers and men of the revenue-cutters.

The revenue-cutters shall, whenever the President so directs, co-operate with the Navy, during which time they shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed by the Navy Department.

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The master of any revenue-cutter shall make a weekly R.S., 2761. return to the collector, or other officer of the district under whose direction it is placed, of the transactions of the cutter, specifying the vessels that have been boarded, their names and descriptions, the names of the masters, from what port or place they last sailed, whether laden or in ballast, to what nation belonging, and whether they have the necessary manifests of their cargoes on board, and generally all such matters as it may be necessary for the officers of the customs to know.

The officers of revenue-cutters shall perform, in addition R. S., 2762. to the duties hereinbefore prescribed, such other duties for

the collection and security of the revenue as from time to time shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not contrary to law.

452. Light-House Board.

The President shall appoint two officers of the Navy, of R. S., 4653. high rank, two officers of the Corps of Engineers of the Army, and two civilians of high scientific attainments, whose services may be at the disposal of the President, together with an officer of the Navy and an officer of engineers of the Army, as secretaries, who shall constitute the Light House Board.

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The Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall be ex-officio

Feb. 14, 1903. president of the Light-House Board.

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The Light-House Board shall elect, by ballot, one of their number as chairman of the board, who shall preside at their meetings, when the president is absent, and perform such acts as may be prescribed by the rules of the board.

The Light-House Board shall meet, for the transaction of business, on the first Mondays in March, June, SeptemFeb. 14, 1903. ber, and December. But the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may convene the board whenever, in his judgment, the exigencies of the service require it.

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The Light-House Board may adopt such regulations for the government of their meetings as they judge expedient.

The Light-House Board shall be attached to the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and under his superintendence shall discharge all administrative duties relating to the construction, illumination, inspection, and superintendence of light-houses, light-vessels, beacons, buoys, sea-marks, and their appendages, and embracing the security of foundations of works already existing, procuring illuminating and other apparatus, supplies, and materials of all kinds for building, and for rebuilding when necessary, and keeping in good repair the lighthouses, light-vessels, beacons, and buoys of the United States; and shall have the charge and custody of all the archives, books, documents, drawings, models, returns, apparatus, and other things appertaining to the LightHouse Establishment.

The Light-House Board shall furnish, upon the requisition of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, all the estimates of expense which the several branches of the lighthouse service may require, and such other information as may be required, to be laid before Congress at the commencement of each session.

The expense of maintaining the vessels of the light-house establishment, may be paid from any surplus of the appropriations for the works, general or special, on which the respective vessels are, for the time being, employed; and the cost of repairs to such vessels may be paid from the appropriation under which they respectively were employed when they were injured or became deteriorated to such an extent as to render the repairs necessary; or, if such appro priation be exhausted, then from the appropriation under which they are respectively to be next employed.

The Light-House Board is authorized, whenever an appropriation has been or may be made by Congress for a new light-house, the proper site for which does not belong to the United States, to purchase the necessary land, provided the purchase-money be paid from the amount appropriated for such light-house.

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

A cession by a State of jurisdiction over a place selected R. S., 4662. as the site of a light-house, or other structure or work of the Light-House Establishment, 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.

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Whenever preliminary surveys are required to ascertain R. S., 4663. the necessity for any light-house, light-ship, beacon, or other warning to vessels, the erection of which is or may be authorized by law, or to determine the proper site for the same, or to ascertain more fully what the public exigency requires, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may cause the necessary examinations and surveys on the sea-board Sec. 4. to be made under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and those on the northwestern lakes to be made under the direction of the Corps of Engineers. In all cases in which adverse reports are made, they shall be submitted to Congress at its next session. In all cases in which the objects authorized are favorably reported upon, the works may be commenced immediately after valid titles and cessions of jurisdiction shall have been obtained to the sites.

The President shall cause to be detailed from the Engi- R.S., 4664. neer Corps of the Army, from time to time, such officers as may be necessary to superintend the construction and renovation of light-houses.

The Light-House Board shall cause to be prepared by the R. S., 4665. engineer secretary of the board, or by such officer of engineers of the Army as may be detailed for that service, all plans, drawings, specifications, and estimates of cost, of all illuminating and other apparatus, and of construction and repair of towers, buildings, &c., connected with the Light-House Establishment, and no bid or contract shall be accepted or entered into, except upon the decision of the board, at a regular or special meeting, and through their properly authorized officers.

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All materials for the construction and repair of light- R. S., 4666. houses, light-vessels, beacons, buoys, and so forth, shall be procured by public contracts, under such regulations as the board may from time to time adopt, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and all works of construction, renovation, and repair shall be made by the orders of the board, under the immediate superintendence of their engineer secretary, or of such engineer of the Army as may be detailed for that service.

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