# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 103

Chap. CIII.—An Act making appropriations for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys.
Maine.State of Maine.—Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at the western entrance of Fox island thoroughfare.
Six thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Cape Porpoise.
Four thousand dollars for increasing the height of the lighthouse on Boon island.
Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Marshal’s Point, in the town of St. George.
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse at Whitehead.
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse on Franklin island.
Five hundred and ten dollars for spindles and buoys in Penobscot river.
Massachusetts.State of Massachusetts.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on the monument at Gloucester Point.
One thousand dollars for erecting a monument on or near Cohasset Rocks.
Two hundred and fifty dollars in addition to an unexpended balance of a former appropriation, for erecting a spindle-beacon on Minot’s Ledge, and placing a buoy on Hospital Island Ledge near George’s island.
Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument upon a ledge of rocks situated at the outer part of the harbour of Swampscut.
One thousand dollars for two monuments, one on Sunken island, and the other on Pig Rocks, in Braintree bay.
Five hundred dollars for placing ten buoys in the northern channel through the Vineyard Sound, at the following places: one on Point Rips; one on the Shovel Shoals, near Monomoy Point; three on the Handkerchief, north-east, south-east, and south-west parts; one on a rock near Hyannis harbour, in the channel; and two on the Broad Shoal to the eastward of Falmouth, east and west parts.
Five thousand dollars for re-building a lighthouse on Cape Cod, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Four hundred dollars for placing six buoys on ledges and rocks at a place called Wood’s Hole, near Falmouth; and a spindle on Lone rock, near that place.
Rhode Island.State of Rhode Island.—For a beacon-light at or near the entrance of the harbour of Wickford, in the town of North Kingston, three thousand dollars.
Fifty dollars for a spindle on the Halfway Rock between the islands of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Connecticut.State of Connecticut.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at or near Morgan’s Point, on the north side of Fisher’s Island Sound, in the township of Groton.
Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be erected on the Whale Rock, at the entrance of Mystic river, and for one on Turner’s Reef, situated about one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher’s Island.
Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the west side of New Haven harbour; and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys on Pardee’s bar, Black Rock Bar, and the Shag Banks in said harbour.
Six thousand dollars and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument or beacon on Brandford Reef, in Long Island Sound.
Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz: one on the north end of Hatchet’s Reef, in the Sound; one on the south end of said reef; one on the south-east tail of Saybrook Bar, at the mouth of Connecticut river; and one on the south end of Crane reef, west of Saybrook.
New York.State of New York.—Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars to rebuild the beacon in Black Rock harbour, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light at the junction of Roundout creek and Hudson river, or on or near the Esopus Meadows, as may be deemed most expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the middle ground between Stratford and Crane Neck, in Long Island Sound.
Twelve thousand five hundred and twelve dollars, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations for erecting a lighthouse, and forming the foundation for the same, in the harbour of Buffalo.
Pennsylvania.State of Pennsylvania.—Two thousand five hundred dollars for erecting a beacon-light at the end of the pier which forms the entrance into the harbour of Erie, on Lake Erie.
Delaware.State of Delaware.—Fifteen hundred dollars for erecting a beacon-light near the mouth of Mispillion creek.
1828, ch. 69.Ten thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at Mahon’s ditch, in addition to what remains unexpended of an appropriation to build a lighthouse at Duck creek, and which last-named appropriation is hereby transferred to the first mentioned object.
Maryland.State of Maryland.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on or near Turkey Point, at the mouth of Elk river.
For erecting a beacon-light on Lazaretto Point, at the entrance of the harbour of Baltimore, or on the point of land upon which fort McHenry is situated, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For a floating-light at the Wolf Trap, in the Chesapeake bay, twelve thousand dollars.
Four hundred dollars for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Annapolis.
Virginia.State of Virginia.—Seven thousand and five hundred dollars for building a lighthouse on one of the Chingoteague islands.
Five hundred dollars for placing in the Potomac river three buoys on the Kettle Bottoms, one on Port Tobacco shoals, one in Nanjemoy Reach, one on Ragged Point bar, and one on Parsimmon bar.
North Carolina.State of North Carolina.—Eleven thousand dollars for building a lightboat, to be stationed at or near Brant Island Shoal, in Pamptico Sound.
For a buoy to be placed on the bar near Harbour island, two hundred dollars.
For three buoys to be placed in the river and inlets of Cape Fear, twelve hundred dollars.
South Carolina.State of South Carolina.—Fifteen hundred dollars for constructing three hollow buoys, and placing the same on the bar at or near the entrance of the harbour of Georgetown, in addition to any unexpended appropriation for placing buoys at or near that harbour.
A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for purchasing land and removing a wind-mill on Cape Roman.
Georgia.State of Georgia.—For a beacon on the White Oyster Beds, near the mouth of Savannah river, three thousand dollars.
Ohio.State of Ohio.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on Turtle island, at the mouth of Maumee bay, Lake Erie.
One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on the pier at Grand river.
Louisiana.State of Louisiana.—Forty thousand dollars for building two lighthouses, one at the mouth of the south-west pass of the river Mississippi, and the other on the south point, between the south-west pass and the Balize.
Seven thousand dollars for a lighthouse at Pass Christian near the bay of St. Louis.
For buoys to be placed at the south pass, and the pass at Dauphin island, four hundred dollars.
Alabama.State of Alabama.—Five hundred dollars for placing buoys in Mobile bay.
Illinois.State of Illinois.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at the mouth of Chicago river, Lake Michigan.
Michigan.Michigan Territory.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at the confluence of the St. Joseph’s river with Lake Michigan.
Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the Outerthunder bay island in Lake Huron.
A sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for building a light-boat to be stationed in the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan; and three hundred and fifty dollars for buoys and placing the same on the flats at the head of Lake St. Clair.
Florida.Florida Territory.—Eleven thousand four hundred dollars for building a lighthouse on the west end of St. George’s island, near the entrance of Appalachicola bay.
Four hundred dollars for placing buoys in the said bay between St. George’s island, and the entrance of the Appalachicola river.
Two hundred dollars for placing buoys in the bay and river of St. Mark’s.
One hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys at St. Augustine, and in St. John’s river.
Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on a suitable site at or near Port Clinton.
Approved, March 3, 1831.