Coast-Guard Service Act, 1856

Officers of Coast Guard may command Royal Naval Coast Volunteers.

X. The Officers of the Coast Guard shall be deemed and taken to be Officers by whom the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers may be instructed, trained, and exercised, and to whose Command such Volunteers may be made subject, under the Provisions of the Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-three.