Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
GENERAL NAruRE-No. I'LL

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Approved June 30, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. II.
AN ACT to provide for the establishment OF
life-saving stations and houses of refuge
upon the sea and lake coasts of the United
States, and to promote the efficiency of the
hfe-saving service.
Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Rep
resentdtiUes of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized to establish
Iife-saving stations, life-boat stations, and
houses of refuge, for the better preservation of
life and property from shipwreck, at or IN the
vicinity of the following named points upon
the sea and lake coasts of the United States
namely:
ON THE COAST OF DELAWARE.
Cape Henlopen. a complete life saving sta
ton; Indian River, complete life saving sta
ton.
ON THE COAST OF MARYLAND.
Green Run Inlet, complete life saving sta
ton.
CN THE COAST OF vINGINIA.
Chineotesgue, a complete life-saving station;
Watchapreague Inlet, complete life-saving
station; Hog Island, complete life-saving
station; Sandy Shoal Island, a complete life
saving station; Smiths Island, a complete
life-saving station.
ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA.
Aboat eighteen miles north of Indian River
Inlet, a house of refuge; Gilbert's Bar, house
Of refuge; near Orange Grove, a house of
fuge; between HilIsborough and New River
Inlet, house of refuge; about ten, miles
south of New River Inlet, house of refuge.
ON THE COAST OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Neah Bay, q life boat station; Shoalwater
Bay, life-bost station; Cape disappointment
life boat station.
ON THE COAST OF OREGON
Cape Arago, boat station.
ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA.
Humboldt Bay, a ife-boat station; Point
REYES, life-boat station; between Point Lo-
bos and Point San Pedro, ife-boat station;
Point Conception, near the lighthouse, a lfe-
boat station.
ON THE COAST OF LAKE ONTARIO.
Mexico Bay, about seven miles westward of
Stony Point, q complete llfe-saving station;
Mexico Bay, about sOven miles eastward of
Nine Mile Point. complete ife-saving sta
| ton; Oswego, life-boa station; Charlotte, q
| life boat station.
ON THE COAST OF LAKE ERIE.
Buffalo, life-boat station; Presque Isle, a
complete life-saving station; Fairport, q life
boat station; Cleveland, a ife-boat station
Marblehead (Sandusky) a life boat station.
ON THE COAST OF LAKE HURON.
Point aux Barques. a complete ife-saving
station; Tawas, a complete life saving station
Sturgeon Point, complete life-savIng sta
ton: North Point, Thunder Bay, life boat
station; Forty Mile Point, complete life-sav-
ing station.
ON THE COAST OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
Beaver Island, a life boat station; North
Manitou Island, life-boat station, Point aux
Bee Scies, a complete lifesaving station;
GrRnde Pointe au Sauble, complete life saw
ing station. Grand Haven, life boat station
Saint Joseph's, a Hfe-boat station; Chicago, a
life-boat station; Crosse Point, a complete life
/ saving station; Racine, a lfe-boat station;
Milwaukee, life boat station; Shehoygan, q
life-boat station; Twin Rivers Point, a life
| boat station.
ON THE COAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR.
Between White Fish Point and Point au
Sauble, four complete life-saving stations.
SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury
| is hereby authorized, whenever, in his opinion
| it may become necessary for the proper ad-
ministration of the life saving service, and
the protection of the public property at the
stations and houses of refuge herein authorized
to be established, to appoint one superintenas
4 ent for the coasts of Delaware and Virginia,
one for the coast of Florida, one for the coasts
! of Lakes Erie and Ontario, one for the coasts
of Lakes Huron and Superior, and one for the
coast of Lake Michigan, and also keeper for
| each of SAID stations and houses of refuge ;and
GQ6 Sa1Q Sup6r1QCGnQGnGS snail nave the DOW
ers and perform the duties of inspectors OF
culntoms.
Sec. 3. That the compensation of each oi
the superintendents, to be appointed under the
provisions of the preceding section, shall not
exceed one thousand dollars per annum; and
the compensation of the keepers shall not ex.
eeed two hundred dollars per Rnnum, except
that those employed at the houses of refuge or
) the Florida coast shall reside in said houses
and receive q compensation at the rate of forty
/ | dollars per month.
, SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury il
hereby authorized to appoint an assistant t.
the superintendent of the coast of Long IslanC
! and Rhode Island, who shall perform the du
3 ties required of the superintendent at the life
saving stations within the State of Rhod
Island, and shall reside on Block Island, ant
for his services he shall receive an annual sal
# ary of five hundred dollars.
s Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasur,
e is hereby authorized to employ crews of ex
/ perienced surfmen at such of the stations here
= in denominated complete stations and at sucl
e of the ilfeb boat stations on the Pacific coast a
s he may deem necessary and proper, for sue
o periods, and at such compensation, not to ez
e ceed forty dollars per month, as he may deer
e necessary and reasonable.
e Sec 6. That the Secretary of the Treasur
8 may accept the services of volunteer crews
.r any of the life-boat stations herein authorized
q who shall be subject to the rules and reguIs
} tiOns governing the life.saYing service; and
d list of the names of each crew shall be keI
n in the Office of the Secretary of the TreasurI
Le Such volunteers shall receive no compensate
v except sum ofnot more than ten dollars eac
D. for every occasion upon which they shall hay
,r been instrumental in saving human life, an
- such of the medals herein authorized as tie
Is may be entitled to under the provisions her
y matter made: PTooided, That no payment sha
it be made to any person who shall not have a
tuallY participated in the efforts to save Il
D. life or lives rescued.
a. SEC. Z. That the Secretary of the Treasul
e. is hereby directed to cause to be prepared me-
le ais of horror, with suitable devices, to be di
D tinguished as ife-saving medals of the fir
D. and second class, which shall be bestow,
as upon any persons who shall hereafter endang
al their own lives in saving, or endeavorlng
en- save lives from perlls of the sea, within t
he United States or upon any American vess
a Provided, That the medal of the first ella
IL shall be confined to cases of extreme and
of rolc daring; and that the medal of the secoI
he class shall be given in cases not sufficient
he distinguished to deserve the medal of the fiji
he class: Provided, also, That no award of eth
MS medal shall be made to any person until sui
mt cient evidence of his deserving shall ha
nv been fled with the Secretary of the Treasu
ed and entered upon the records of the Depa
he ment.
all SEC. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasu
of is hereby authorized to make all the neeessa
es. regulations for the government of the life Sc
ed ing service not inconsistent with law.
he Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasu
ia is hereby authorized to dispose of, to the b
re- advantage, after due condemnation by bot
Try of survey, such articles materials belongi
,ns to the life-saving service as may, from lo
mt continued use or other cause, become uns
IN viceable and the proceeds of such sale sh
for be covered into the Treasury.
lks SEC. 10. That from and after the first
da- of July, eighteen hundred and seventy 10
af- whenever any vessel of the United States
or sustained or caused any accident involving
loss oflife, the material loss of property,
of any serious injury to any person. or has
Her ceived any material damage affecting her s