Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-04-17

That there shall be allowed and paid tC
each commissioned officer who shall be
discharged from the service of the
United States in pursuance of this act
three months pay in addition to the pay
and emolumcnts to which he may be en-
titled by law at the time Of his dis
charge.
Sec. IA. .fnd be it further enacted
That the system Of s." General Regula.
tons for the Army" compiled by Major
General Scott, shall be, and the same is
hereby, approved and adopted for the
government of the army of the United
States, and of the militia, when in the
service of the United States.
JOHN W. TAYLOR,
Speaker gt'the House Of Representatives.
JOHN GAiLLARD,
president Of the Senate pro tembore
Washington, March 2, 1921.
Approved: JAMES MONROE,
AN ACT to authorize the building of Light
Houses therein mentioned, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted BY the Senate and House
Of Representatives Qfthe United States
Of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary OF the Treasury be,
and he is hereby, authorized and en-
powered to provide, by contract, for
building light houses, and placing buoys
on the following sites and shoals, to wit !:
FIVE lighthouses, one on Cross Island,
near Machlas one in the harhor OF
Boothbay, at such place as the Secrela-
ry the Treasury shall designate and
one on Pond Island, at the mouth of the
kennebeck river; one on the Strattord
Point, in Connecticut; and one on
Throg's Neck, in New York and on
the shoals of Nantucket, and the Vine
yard sound, number of buoys, not ex-
ceeding ten, in the state of Massachu-
sets. A light house at the mouth of
Oswego river, at such place as shall be
designated by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, in the state of New York. And
two buoys, one on James ledge, and one
on the rock called Old Gay and spin
die on the Brothers, in the state of Rhode
Island.
Sec. 9. .4nd be it further enacted,
That there be appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the following sums of mo-
ney, to wit: For building three light
houses, one on Cross Island, near Ma
chias; one in the harbor of Boothbay /;
and one on Pond Island, ten thousand
five hundred dollars For building the
light houses on Stratford Point, and
Throg's Neck, four thousand dollars
For light house at the mouth of Oswe-
go river, three thousand five hundred
dollars: For ten buoys, on Nantucket
shoals, and the Vineyard sound, one
thousand five hundred dollars: For two
buoys and spindle for the rocks called
James ledge, Old Gay, and the Bro
theirs, four hundred and fifty dollars {:
And for placing buoys, and anchors with
buoys, in the Altamaha river, between
the ports of Darien, and Doboy sound,
in the state of Georgia, a sum not eX-
ceeding one thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That no light house shall be built on any
site previous to the cession of jurisdic-
ton over the same to the United States.
Sec. 4. .4nd be it further enacted,
That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby, authorized and re-
quested to cause such an examination
or survey of the Isles of Shoals on the
coast of New Hampshire and Maine, to
be made, by proper and intelligent per-
sons, as may be requisite to ascertain
the expediency and practicability of re-
pairing the sea-wall at Smutty Nose
Island, and of building sea-wall be-
tween said Island and Cedar Island.
And that the President be further re-
quested, in like manner, to ascertain the
expediency of erecting stone pier on
Sunken Rocks, in the harbor of Ports
mouth, in the state of New Hampshire.
And the President is hereby authorized
to cause the sea-wall aforesaid to be re-
paired, and the pier aforesaid to be erect
ed, by contract, under the direction OF
the collector of the district Of Ports
mouth, if, on the report of such persons,
he shall deem it necessary. And the
President is further requested to COM
municate to Congress, at their next ses-
sion, the result OF so much of the eXami-
nation and survey, as relates to the ex'