Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-06-27

United States of America, contrary to
the provisions of this act, together with
the vessel OH board of which the same
shall be laden, her tackle, apparel, and
furniture, shall be forfeited to the United
States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That the form of the bond aforesaid shall
be prescribed, and the same shall be
discharged, and all penalties and for
FIXTURES, incurred under this act, shall
be sued for, recovered, distributed and
accounted for, and the same may be
mitigated, or RENTED, in the manner,
and according TO the provisions, of the
act to which this act is supplementary.
Washington. May Is, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to authorize the erection of light.
house on one of the Isles of Shoals, neal
Portsmouth, in New-Hampshre.
Be ii enacted by the Senate and RouSt
Of REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States
Of america, in Congress assembled.
That, as soon as the jurisdiction of such
one of the Isles Of Shoals, in the state OF
New-Hampshire, in the state of Massa-
chusetts, or in the state Of Maine, as the
President of the United States shall Sc
lect for the site of lighthouse, shall be
coded to, and the property thereof vested
in, the United States, it shall be the du-
ty of the Secretary of the Treasury to
provide, by contract, which shall be APP
proved by the President, for building
lighthouse ON such island, to be SO light
ed as TO be distinguishable from other
lighthouses on the east and west Of the
same; and, also, TO agree for the salaries,
wages, or hire, Of the person or persons
to be appointed by the President for the
uperintendence of the same,
Sec. Q. ind be it further enacted,
That the sum Of FIVE thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby, appropriated,
for the purpose of building such light
house, to be paid out of any moneys in
the Treasury, not otherwise applopri-
ated.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be,
and he is hereby, authorized to provide,
by contract, for building lighthouses,
erecting piers, beacons, or landmarks,
and building and placing light vessels,
or boats, or buoys, on the following sites
or shoals, to wit A pier at the mouth
of Kennebunk river, in the state OF
Maine; two lighthouses, one On Ten
pound Island, at the entrance into Glou-
Ccsteg Aarbor, and the other on Bakers
Island, near Salem, in the state of Mas
sachusetts; lighthouse at a proper
site near the mouth of Genesee river, in
the state of New-York; buoy on
Southwest Ledge, and another On
Fall, in or near to the harbor
of New-Haven, in the state of Connecti-
cut: A light vessel at the end OF Smiths
Point Shoals, in the Chesapeake Bay,
in the state of Virginia: A lighthouse
on Shell Castle Island, in the state of
North Carolina; or, in lieu thereof,
light vessel, to be moored in a proper
place, near the said Island, if, in the
opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury,
the latter shall be preferred: A beacon
and two buoys on proper sites in the
channel leading to the harbor OF Charles
on, in the state Of South Carolina: A
lighthouse on a proper site in Mobile
Bay, in the state of Alabama, or, in lieu
hereof, light vessel in the said bay;
if the same shall be preferred A light
vessel, should the same be deemed ne
cessary by the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry, at the mouth of the Mississippi, in
he state of Louisiana.
Sec. 4. And be it .farther enacted,
That there be appropriated, out of any
moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the following sums of
money, to accomplish the objects speci-
led in this act, to wit: for erecting a
bier at the mouth of Kennebunk river, a
sum not exceeding five thousand dol
ars: for placing bell near the light
house OH West Quoddy Head, a sum
lot exceeding one thousand dollars for
erecting two lighthouses, one on Ten
pound Island, and the other on Bakers
Island, and placing three huoys on the
'oclks and fats near Salem, sum not
exceeding nine thousand dollars for
lefraying the expense Of lighting the
lighthouse Oh the south side OF the
larbor of Nantucket; and experimenting
he same, sum not exceeding three
hundred dollars for lighthouse near
he mouth of Genessee river, a sum not
exceeding FIVE thousand dollars: for
placing two buoys, one on Southwest
edge, and the other On Adams Fall, in
,r near the harbor of New-Haven, a
,,,xo not avcaedino three hundred dol