The unprecedented success of the service to this point justified its demand for larger means and fuller powers.  In the last session of the Forty-second Congress a bill was introduced by Hon. John Lynch of Maine to provide for the establishment of additional stations on the North Atlantic seaboard, and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report the points on the entire sea and lake coasts at which stations would best subserve the interests of humanity and commerce, with estimates of the cost.  This bill passed, and was approved March 3, 1873.  The commission appointed consisted of Mr. Kimball, Captain John Faunce and Captain J.H.  Merryman.  Their report is the result of minute examination into the wrecks and disasters on every mile of coast for the previous ten years—­a research into ghastly horrors for a practical end unparalleled perhaps in accuracy and patience.  They recommended the erection of twenty-three life-saving stations complete, twenty-two lifeboat stations and five houses of refuge.  The first class, containing all appliances for saving life on stranded vessels, and manned by regular crews during the winter months, were for flat beaches with outlying bars distant from settlements, and were required on certain points of the shores of the great lakes and on the Atlantic coast as far south as Hatteras.  “Upon the coast of Florida the shores are so bold,” the report states, “that stranded vessels are usually thrown high enough upon the beach to permit easy escape from them; therefore the usual apparatus belonging to the complete stations are not considered necessary.  The section of that coast from Indian River Inlet to Cape Florida is almost destitute of inhabitants, and persons cast upon its inhospitable shores are liable to perish from starvation and thirst, from inability to reach the remote settlements.”  Upon these coasts it was recommended that houses of refuge should be built large enough to accommodate twenty-five persons, supplied with provisions to support them for ten days, and provided with surfboat, oars and sails.  For the majority of points on the Pacific and lake coasts, where disasters were infrequent, lifeboats only were considered necessary, these in general to be manned by volunteer crews.  It was proposed that these crews should be paid for services rendered at each wreck, and a system of rewards adopted in the shape of medals of honor.  The estimated cost of a life-saving station complete was $5302; of a house of refuge, $2995; of a lifeboat station, $4790.  A bill founded on this report was prepared by Mr. Kimball, the chief both of the Revenue Marine and Life-saving Service, and became a law June, 1874.  This bill provides for the protection of the entire lake and sea-coasts of the United States by a cordon of stations, lifeboats or houses of refuge placed at all dangerous points.  The stations on the Pacific coast are not yet built, but it is hoped that all will be finished and in working order by the fall