Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-08-24

sand dollars for building the light house at
or near Ocracoke, the sum OF twenty thousand
dollars; andforbuildng the lighthouse tCape
Florida, eight thousanddollars; andfor building
the lighthouse onthe Dry rortugas, or on some
place in the vicinity, eight thousand dollars;
and ion procuring and placing the buoys onthe
coast of North Carolina, and for removing the
floating light at or near the port of Ocracoke,
the sum ofone thousand three hundred dollars.
Sec. 5. .4ifd be nfn4Aer enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby
is, authorized 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, on the coast of New
Hampshire and Maine, comfortably to the re-
port 1.-THE Commissioners appointed under the
fourth section of the act passed the third day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-one, entitled :" An act to authorize the
building of Light Houses therein mentioned,
and for other purposes, and that q sum, not
exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dol
lars is hereby appropriated for the purpose
aforesaid, to be paid out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and
| required to cause to be erected in the Bay Of
i
Shears, near Cape Henlopen, by contract or
contracts, to be approved by the President Of
the United States, two piers Of sufficient d.
| mansions 10 be harbor or shelter for vessels
from the ice, if, after a survey made under his
| dire ction, the measure shall be deemed expe-
dent and provided that the jurisdiction of
the site where such piers may be erected,
shall be first ceded to the United States ac-
| cordng to the conditions in such case by law
provided and that, for the purpose ofcarrying
the same into effect, there appropriatedthe
sum OF twenty-five thousand seven hundred
dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec.7. .andd be it further enacted, That the
Light authorized to be built on Cross Island,
in the state of Maine. be, and,tle same is here
by, 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 appropriation, is here's
by appropriated, out OF any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 8. md be ii further enacted, That the
following sums Of money be, and the same are
hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
following purposes, to Wit: Four thousand
dollars TO enable the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry 20 purchase the patsnt .;:si,t Of David Mel
vile and others, to ancwly invented Lamp sor
| lighting lighthouses and sum not exceed
ing four thousand two hundred and forty dol
lars. for placing the same i'm Lighthouses.
Sec. 9. .4nd be it further enacted, That for
making and completing a survey Of the coast
Of Florida, under the objectionable President
Of the United States, a sum Of money, not ex-
lceeding six thousand doilars,be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated, out Of any moneys ia
the. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
carrying the same ntoeffect. MIL
May Z, 1922 Approved,
ia MES MONROE,