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To carry out these suggestions, it is further recommended: - 
- That a light-house board be created, by authority of law, to 
be attached to the Treasury Department, with power to provide 
with two officers of the Navy of high rank; one officer of the 
Corps of Engineers of the Army; one officer of the Corps of 'To- 
pographical Engineers of the Army, and two Civilians, of high 
Scientific attainments, whose services may be at the disposal of 
the President, as members; and an officer of the Navy, and an 
officer of Engineers of the Army, as secretaries, shall constitute 
the light-house board of the United States) = © 
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