

It was transferred to Department of Commerce and Labor by act of 14 February 1903 (32 Stat. Comprised of employees from the Bureau of Statistics concerned with numbering merchant vessels the Register and Tonnage Division of the Register of the Treasury the Internal Revenue and Navigation Division and shipping commissioners, thereafter appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Bureau of Navigation was established in the Treasury Department by act of 5 July 1884 (23 Stat 118), to consolidate the administration of all navigation laws except those relating to vessel inspection, lighthouses, lifesaving, and revenue collection. Life-Saving Service established as a separate agency under the control of the Treasury Department (20 Stat. The Secretary of the Treasury was president of the Board, and it was authorized to elect a chairman and to divide the coast of the United States into twelve lighthouse districts, to each of which the President was to assign an army or navy officer as lighthouse inspector." It was empowered under the Secretary of the Treasury to "discharge all the administrative duties" relative to lighthouses and other aids to navigation. "This Board was composed of two officers of the Navy, two officers of the Engineer Corps, and two civilians of high scientific attainments whose services were at the disposal of the President, and an officer of the Navy and of the, Engineers as secretaries. 9 October 1852: The Lighthouse Board, which administered the nation's lighthouse system until 1 July 1910, was organized.30 August 1852: Steamboat Act established the Steamboat Inspection Service under the control of the Treasury Department (10 Stat.

14 August 1848: Congress appropriated funds to pay for life-saving equipment to be used by volunteer organizations (9 Stat.

It was renamed Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation in 1936. It was combined with the Bureau of Navigation to form Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection by act of 30 June 1932 (47 Stat. 825), and to the Department of Commerce by act of 4 March 1913 (37 Stat. Steamboat Inspection Service was transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor by act of 14 February 1903 (32 Stat. 458), authorized the appointment of a Supervising Inspector General for the Steamboat Inspection Service. 61), 30 August 1852, formally established the Steamboat Inspection Service in the Department of the Treasury and authorized the appointment of supervising steam vessel inspectors, who collectively constituted the Board of Supervising Inspectors. 304), were performed by engineers appointed by U.S.

Lighthouse Service, was established under the control of the Treasury Department (1 Stat. 7 August 1789: The service, eventually to be known as the U.S.The following timeline reflects the establishment of those services and when they became part of what is now the United States Coast Guard as well as changes in the organizational structure of the Coast Guard itself. The Coast Guard is an amalgamation of five formerly distinct federal services.
