American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-05-31

gas, or on some place in the vicinity, eight thou
sand dollars and for procuring and placing the buoy'
on the coast of North Carolina, and for removing
the floating light at or near the port OF Ocracoke
the sum OF one thousand three hundred dollars
Sec. S. find be IL further enacted, That the Be
cretary Of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, au-
horzed TO provide, by contract, to be approved by
the President of the United States, for building
sea wall or pier at the Isles of Shoals. between
Cedar Island and Smutty -nose. Island, the coast
Iof New Hampshire and Maine, conformably to the
report OF the commissioners appointed under the
fourth section OF the act passed the third day oil
March, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty one
entitled AN act to authorize the building of light
houses therein mentioned, and for other purposes,
and that a sum, not exceeding eleven thousand five
hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated for the
purpose aforesaid, to be paid out of any moneys in
the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec 6. lind be IL further enacted, That the Sc
cretary of the Treasury be authorized and required
to to be erected in the Bay oil Delaware, at or
near place called the Shears, near Cape Henlopen,
10y contract or contracts to be approved by the Pre-.
sdent Of the United States two piers Of sufficient
dimensions to be harbor shelter for vessels
from the ice, If, after survey, made under his di-
Irection, the measure shall be deemed expedient; &
provided that the jurisdiction Of the site where such
piers may be directed, shall be first ceded 10 the
United States, according to the conditions in such
case by law provided and that, for the purpose Of
carrying the same into effect, there be approprla-
ted the sum of twenty two thousand seven hundred
dollars, to be paid out Of any moneys in the Trea-
sury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. find be ii further enacted, That, the light
authorized TO be built Cross Island, in the state
of Maine, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be
built on the south point Of Libby Island, and for
building and completing the same, the sum Of five
hundred dollars. in addition to the former appro-
priation is hereby appropriated, out Of any money
in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 8, find be IL further enacted That the follow.
ing sums of money be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury,
not otherwise appropriated for the following pur-
poses, to wit: Four thousand dollars to enable the
Secretary Of the Treasury to purchase the patent
right OF David Melville and others, to newly in
vented lamp for lighting light houses; and sum
not exceeding four thousand two hundred and forty
dollars, for placing the same in lighthouses.
Sec 9. IND 6ei. Jurth.y enafted, That for ma
king and completing survey of the coast of Florida
under the direction OF the President Of the United
States, sum Of money. not exceeding six thousand
dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated,
out Of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, for carrying the same into effect.
Approved LANES .H0NROE
Washington, May z, 1922.
AN ACT to establish an additional Land Office in the state
of Illinois
Be ii enacted 5y The Senate and House of Rebreseat7e
IF The United STATES IF .7nerica Congress assembled ha
so much ofthe public lands Of the United States as
lies OF the Misspp river, north of the line Sc
parating the thirteenth and fourteenth tiers Of town
ships north of the base line. and west of the third
principal meridian in the state OF Illinois, shall form
a land district, for the disposal Of said lands, and
Tor which purpose land office shall be established
at such place therein, as the President Of the Uni.
ted States shall designate, until the same shall be
permanently fixed by law.
Sec Q. ind be n further enocted, That there
shall be register and receiver appointed to the said
land Office, to superintend the sales Of the pubic
lands IN the said district who shall reside at the
place where the said Office shall be established as
aforesaid, give security in the same manner, in the
same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments,
and duties and authorities, shall, in every respect,
be the same in relation to the lands which shall be
disposed OF at their Offices as are, or may be, by
law provided in relations to the registers and rece
vers of public moneys in the several offices esta-
blished for the sale Of the public lands Provided,
That the said appointments shall not be made until
a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been
surveyed within the said district, to authorize, in
the opinion Of the President, public sale of lands
within the same.
Sec ind be il further enacted That the pro.
visions OF the second. third and fifth sections Of the
act entitled IAN act to designate the boundaries of
districts and establish land Offices for the disposal of
The public lands not heretofore offered for sale in
the states of Ohio and Indiana approved March
'hird' eighteen hundred and nineteen, and the act,
entitled An act making further provision for the
sale OF the public lands,' approved April twenty
tourth' eighteen hundred and twenty, be, and the
same are hereby, made applicable to the said dis
trIct and Office, so far they are not changed by
subsequent; laws Of tho United States.
Approved :-L4yMES MONROE
Washington, May 8, 1892
AN ACT requiring surveyors general to give bond and
security for the aithnl dshnrsement of hl;c ,nnne.