330 On the Light-House System of the United States. 
"That the keepers be required to keep meteorological and tidal 
registers in addition to the necessary returns of the dai y con- 
sumption of oil and other supplies. 
That no light-house keeper be appointed who cannot read and 
write, and is not in other respects competent to the faithful dis- 
e of the duties. 
That a mode of supplying persons employed at lights on rocks 
or other isolated points, on board of light vessels, &c., with ra- 
tions, to enable them to devote their entire time and attention 
to the duties, should be adopted. 
That light-keepers be required to devote their entire time and 
attention to their duties on pain of dismissal, and in no case 
should a keeper be allowed to follow any other vocation to the 
neglect of the light. 
hat no keeper be allowed to be absent from the light with- 
out a positive written permission from the district inspector. 
That no one but a regularly appointed keeper, and his assistant 
or assistants, be permitted to attend to the apparatus, lighting, 
éc., of a light-house or light-vessel, 
That the best cleaning powders, rags, &c., trimming scissors, 
and other necessary articles for keeping good lights, be furnished 
to the keepers; and that they be instructed that, under no pre- 
text, should they employ any other means for keeping their appa- 
ratus in good order than those pointed out in the printed instruc- 
tions from the Department. 
, Jhat proper curtains be provided for the apparatus of each 
light-house, &c. 
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n day. 
That all the articles of supplies be selected and tested by per- 
sons of professional ability and standing. 
That the n : be take 
what additional aids to navigation are necessary in the bays of 
proceed direct to their destination. 
That hereafter buoys, required to be placed over newly dis 
covered shoals, or over vessels wrecked in or near channels, 
or where they may endanger vessels, be placed without a 
‘one for 
on the expense be defrayed from the general appropriations 
uoys. 
enable steamers and. other vessels to enter them at night, and 
