Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-04-19

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ing light house on Cape Roman, ten
thousand dollars for erecting beacon
on Hadrell's Point, one thousand five
hundred dollars for finishing the light
house near ST. Augustine, in the terri
tory of East Florida, the sum of five
thousand dollars; for building light
house at or near Pensacola, sum not
exceeding six thousand dollars ; for
building light house at Fort Gratio,,
three thousand FIVE hundred dollars
and for building and placing two light
vessels in Delaware Bay, twenty thou
sand dollars.
Sec. s. Ind be it further enacted,
That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause
such an examination and survey to be
made of the obstruction between the
harbor of Gloucester and the halbor of
Squam, in the state of Massachusetts,,
as may be requisite to ascertain the ex-
pediency of removing such obstruction
and the President is hereby authorized
to cause such obstruction TO be removed,
by contract or otherwise, under the d.
rection Of the Collector of the District of
Gloucester, if, from the report of per-
sons he may appoint to examine and sur
vey thesame, he shall deem it expedient
and sum, not exceeding six thou
sand dollars, is hereby appropriated for
that purpose, to be paid out OF any mo-
ney n'the Treasury not otherwise APP
propriated.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, BY
the authority aforesaid, That the sum
of one hundred and fifty dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated, to be
paid out of any money in the Treasury,
not otherwise appropriated, to enable
the President of the United States TO
cause the entrance of the harbor of the
Port Pressure Isle, in Pennsylvania, to
be examined and surveyed by one of the
Typographical Engineers of the United
States, whose duty it shall be to make
probable estimate of the expense of re-
moving the distractions, and report on
the best manner of removing them, and
the effect of such removal on the chan
mel, in future.
Washington, March 3, 1928 t
Approved: JAslES MONROE.
AN ACT further to extend the provisions of
the act, entitled Gan act supplementary to
an act, entitled San act for the relief of the
purchasers of public lands, prior to the LIST
July, 1890.
Belt enacted by the Senate and House
Of Reiresentatives ofthe United States
OF america IN Congress aS0rmosea, That
all persons who shall produce satisfac-
tory evidence to the Register and Re
ceiver OF, the proper Land Office, thai
they were actually entitled to, and would
have availed themselves of the provi-
sions ofthe act, entitled San act for the
relief of the purchasers of the public
lands, prior to the first day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty
approved April twentieth, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-five, and their
failure to do SO was owing to such cause
or Circumstance as he could no, contro
or prevent, shall be allowed until the
thirtieth day of September next, to avail
themselves Of all the privileges, advan-
tages, and provisions of the said act, in
the same manner they could have done |
prior to the thirtieth day of September
last.
Washington, March 3, 1923.
Approved; JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to establish an additional Land OF.
flee in the Territory of Michigan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives offhe United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
all the public lands in the district OF
Detroit, lying south of the boundary
line, between the third and fourth town.
ships, south of the base line, except so
much thereof as lies north OF the river
Huron, of Lake Erie, and all the public
lands in the territory of Michigan, to
which the Indian title was extinguished |
BY the treaty of Chicago, shall be form
ed into new land district, and for the
sale of the public lands within the dis
trict hereby constituted, there shall be
land Office established, at such place
within the district, as the President
of the United States may designate.
Sec. 2. ind be it further enacted,
That there shall be Register of the
Land Office, and Receiver Of Public
Moneys, appointed by the President of
the United States, for the Land Office
hereby erected, to superintend the sales
OF public lands within said district, who
shall give security in the same manner,
in the same sums, and whose compensa-