The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-29
[BY AUTHORITY
LAw OF TIE UNITED sr1yEs. |
AN ACT
JOHN CLARKE.

To erect light house at the entrance of Se;tuatr
hdr6or, a stone column a spit of sand at the
entrance into Boston hdrbor, and a beacon on
Beachpoint near Plymouth hnrbor in the .,ats
Of Nassachusests a Gght a. the entrance of
Bayou St. .fohn into lafe Ponciayfrair and fpo
lights on lake Erie, and for beacons G. 6uoys,
near the entrance Of BeverLy Har6or.
ID IL enacted BY the Senate and House of Re.
~ presentatives o. the UIrtes! States of A,ne
rted, IN Congress assembled, That on the ces.on
OF the jurisdiction Of so much land on one of the
points forming the entrance of Scituate harbbr.
IN the state of Massachusetts, as tn President
OF the United States shalt decm auficient and
most proper tor a light house, it shall be the
DUTY ofthe Secretary of the Treasury to provide
by contract for building Of light house of
stone thereon, and placing it on the like esta
ana disposition OF the lights shall be such, as
may distinguish ii from those of Others
= SE q Aad be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty OF the secretary of the Treasury. to
cause to be erected column of stone, as bea-
con on spit Of sand, extending from Light
mousse or from the Great Brewster Island at the
entrance OF the harbor of Boston, in the state of
Massachusetts, Of such form and Dimensions ne
ne shaiI deem necessary. And also to cause good
and sufficient buoys and beacons to be placed
tor the safety of navigation, at or near the en-
trance OF the harbor of Beverley in Massachu-
sets.
SEC. 8. Andse it further enacted, That one of
the two beacons directed to be erected on the
stony Muscle bed, near Plymouth harbor. in
the state of Massachusetts, by an act which pas
SEQ the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred
and eight, be and the same IS hereby directed
to be erected on Beach point, near the said har
Dor of Plymouth.
SEC. 4 And BE i. frthe, enacted. That the
secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby
IN ha kexIo
ed under proper regulations, such light as he
snail deem proper and necessary, at OF near the
entrance OF Bayou St. John into lake Poncbar-
tram, 10 the Territory of Orleans ard such
iights as he shall deem proper on or near Bird
Island and on or near Presq' isle in Lake Erie.
SEc' ,. dnd DC IT further enacted, That there
De appropriated eutsof any monies in the ,Trea
sury OF the United States, not otherwise appro.
priated, the following sums of money to accom-.
plish the purposes ofthis act, to wit
For the erection of light house, at the
entrance OF Scitsate harbor, four thousand dol.
lars; N''-
For the erection of stone column on 4 sniff of
sand, extending from Light house island At the
entrance of Boston harbor, three thousand 6v.
hundred dollars;
And for the erection and establishment of
light at the entrance of Bayou ST. Iohn into
lake Ponchartrain, two thousand dollars;
and tor the erection and establishment of { wo
hgnts on Lake Erie, one thousand six hundred
dollars eN
And for beacons and buoys near the entrance
OF Beverley harbor. tne sum of fifteen hundred
dollars.
B.VARNUM.
Speaker 81 the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,
:. Pyesident Of the Senate, pro .tempo,e.
APPRovED,
May 1, 1910.