# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29

Chap. XXIX.—An Act making appropriations for building light-boats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and for other purposes.
Appropriations for light-boats, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby made, and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for building light-boats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys, to wit:
Maine.State of Maine.—For placing buoys in St. George’s river, to wit: on Jenk’s, Colmel’s, Gay’s cove, and Fullerton’s ledges and Point of Rocks, seven hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in Passamaquoddy bay, and for substituting for the ​present fog bell, at the entrance of said passage, a cast steel triangular bell, or a bell of the usual form, but increased weight, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For placing buoys or spindles on ledges of rocks called Fishing rocks and Old Prince, at the entrance of Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise harbour, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of three beacons, on the following sites, in the harbour of Castine, viz: one on Otter rock, one on Homer’s ledge, and one on Stubb’s Point ledge, three thousand dollars.
For the erection of buoys on Alden’s ledge, at the mouth of Portland harbour, fifteen hundred dollars.
For placing buoys on Heron Island ledge, at the mouth of Damariscotta river, and on Western rock, Eastern rock, and Kellsa’s ledge, in said river, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Massachusetts.State of Massachusetts.—For placing buoys, to wit, on West Island ledge, on Nye’s ledge, and on the north-west and south-east end of Mattapoisett ledge, on Sunken ledge, and on Snow’s rock, seven hundred dollars.
For completing the erection of a spindle on Minot’s ledge, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For a stone beacon on Collier’s ledge, Vineyard sound, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For placing buoys at or near the following sites, in or near the harbour of Lynn: one on Lobster’s rocks, near the west side of Nahant, one on the Western rocks, one on the sand bar at the mouth of Sauger’s river, and upon such other sites as may be necessary for safe navigation, five hundred dollars.
For two boat buoys, to be placed at or near the harbour of Nantucket, six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in the harbour of New Bedford on the following sites, to wit: on Fort Flat, near Fairhaven, on Egg island, on Butler’s flat, on Bartholomew’s rocks, on Sandspit shoal, south-east of Dumpling rocks, on the Sunken rocks, south of Dumpling rocks, and on the ledge between Dumpling rocks, and Mishone point, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For erecting beacons and placing buoys on proper sites in Buzzard’s bay, two thousand dollars.
For buoy, beacon or spindle on a sunken rock near the mouth of Green Bay, Plymouth, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Connecticut.State of Connecticut.—For a spindle on the point of rocks near the mouth or entrance of Mystic river, a short distance easterly from the lighthouse on Morgan’s point, in the town of Groton, two hundred and fifty dollars.
1831, ch. 103.For making a foundation, and rebuilding thereon a beacon, near the entrance of Black Rock harbour, in Long Island sound, in addition to a former appropriation, seven hundred and ten dollars.
Rhode Island.State of Rhode Island.—For the erection of iron spindles on the Halfway rock, near the south end of the island of Prudence in Narragansett bay, and the Little Lime rock, in the harbour of Newport, three hundred dollars. For the erection of a beacon on the rock near the harbour of East Greenwich, called the Halfway rock, from the Warwick Neck point to Pattawomet harbour, five hundred dollars.
New Jersey.State of New Jersey.—For placing four buoys on Absecum and New Inlet, Gloucester county, four hundred dollars.
Virginia.State of Virginia.—For a light-boat to be placed on Boler’s rock, in the Rappahannock river, five thousand dollars.
For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Chincoteague Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Matapungo Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For a light-boat to be anchored at or near Ragged Point in the Potomac river, in the state of Virginia, or the erection of a light-house at Piney Point, in the State of Maryland, which of the two lights above mentioned as best adapted for the security of navigation, to be decided on by the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
North Carolina.State of North Carolina.—For a light-boat to be placed on a proper site between Albemarle and Pamlico sound, five thousand dollars.
For building a light-boat to be stationed at or near Harbor Island, five thousand dollars.
South Carolina.State of South Carolina.—For placing three buoys at the bar of the port of Georgetown, on proper sites, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For placing three buoys on proper sites in the north channel of Charleston harbour, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For one buoy on North Edisto bar, one in the Swash channel, on Combahee, two on South Edisto bar, two on the Bird Key channel, and one in Calibago sound, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For five beacon-lights at Charleston bar, five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; one light to be placed as to range precisely with the main light, when a vessel shall be crossing the bar at the Ship channel and in the deepest water; two to be placed on Morris’ Island, to range with each other when a vessel shall be crossing the Overall channel and in the deepest water; one to be placed on Sullivan’s Island, to the eastward of fort Moultrie; and another to be placed on the back of Sullivan’s Island, or on the main, to range when a vessel shall have crossed the bar, and is steering northward.
Ohio.State of Ohio.—For placing not less than five buoys at the entrance of Sandusky harbour, five hundred dollars. For placing two buoys at Port Clinton, at the mouth of Portage river, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Louisiana.State of Louisiana.—For the purpose of replacing the twenty buoys that were on the coast of Louisiana, to mark out the channel from the vicinity of the lighthouse on Point au Fer, into the Atchafalaya bay, or so many of them as may be sunk or have been destroyed, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars.
Florida.Territory of Florida.—For placing eight buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, at proper sites, eight hundred dollars.
For placing four buoys at proper sites in the channel at the east end of St. George’s island, Appalachicola bay, six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys to mark the channel through the east pass of Appalachicola bay and river, one thousand dollars.
Michigan.Territory of Michigan.—For placing ten buoys to mark the channel at the mouth of the Miami of Lake Erie, and in Maumee bay, seven hundred dollars. For erecting a lighthouse at Mobile Point, eight thousand dollars; and for placing buoys in Mobile bay, five hundred dollars. For the preservation of Fairweather Island, and the lighthouse and other public buildings thereon, and securing Black Rock harbour, two thousand six hundred dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1835.