American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-06-06

4 anu ior Uner purposes
BE enacted BY he Senate and Rouse IF Representatives.
Of ne United States Of america Congress assembled, That
the If the Treasury be. and he hereby. en-
powered provide by Contract for building Light Houses
and Light Vessels ard erecting Beacons and Beacon Lights
and placing Buoys, on The following sites shoals to wit
In the State of Niane Light House Mantincus
Rock, and one on Pemsqud Point.
In the State Of Massachusetts, Light Vessel to be anc
ored at or near rhckanuck Shoa in The Vineyard Sound
tonnage of the Light Vessel to be under hun
dred and twenty-five tons Light House the end of
Sandy Neck, at OF the Mouth Of arnstable Harbor
Light House at or near the end Of Long Point, Pro-
vncetown Harbor
mouth OF Norwak FIabor, be loca'ed the Routon
Neck or on the end of Norwak Long Island under
the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury after
animation Of those sites shall have been made by suitable
persons, 10 be by him appointed for that purpose Bea
con on the Round Shoals the mouth Of Ousaonic River
In the State Of New-York Light House at
JuD&rk, on Lake Erie. one at the Fast end of Lake
Erie, on proper site TO be selected the month
of Buffalo Greek. One on the West end of Plum Island,
In Long Island Sounds and one on Tibs Point, in Lake
Ontario
In the States of New York and New Jeey Light House
upon the Bluff, near Fof Tumpkns, Staten Island
IN Princess Bay, on SAID Island and TWO the Highland
| of Neversnk.
| In Delaware Bay, Light House the Brandywine
Shoals
In the State of MARYLAND, Light House on Cove Point,
instead Of Cedar Point, here ore ordered. Light
House Smiths Island, Concord Point near
the mouth OF the Saquehannah liver; and Light YES
sci to be anchored at Hoopets Straits Chesapeake
| Bay.
In the State of vhgna, Lgh, House Smiths Island
near Cape Charles oper site to be selected, under
the direction Ut he Secretary IT the Treasury.
In the State of North Carolina, Light VESSEL not to be
under fifty, exceed egly tons, TO be anchored
he southwest Stradd If the Roy shoa and the Beacon
on Federal Point at he New let of Cape Fear river
be made Beacon Lgt.
In the State Of South Carolina Light House Cape
Romano vicinity Light Vessel tn be anchored
the said Cape, or its vicinity the preference be Civ,
to the the other which, in the opinion of the Sec
retary Of the Treasury shall best subsere the purposes of
| navigation. and afford security to the same.
In the State OF Georgia. Beacon Grass Island, the
entrance OF Cockspur tarbor
III the State of Mississp Light House the Mssis-
sippi river, at the town Of Natchez.
Sec. 2. .4nd be further enacted That the following
Of money be- and the same hereby appropriated
to wit
In the State Of Maine, four thousand dollars for Light
House on Mannicus Rock and four thousand dollars for
one on Pemaquid Point
In the State of Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred
dollars for Lighthouse at the end of Long Point,
Province Town harbor eight thousand for Light Yes
sci to be anchored at or near Tuckanuck shoa in the
Vineyard Sound and ninety dollars for spar Buoys be
anchored one on the Middle Ground shoa near the en-.
trance of Salem harbor, and the Ledge Rocks,
off Dorchester Flats in Boston harbor three thousand
five hundred dollars for Light House the end of Sandy
Neck the mouth Of Barnstabe harbor; and
hundred dollars for placing Buoys proper Sites in
near the harbor of Gloucester.
In the State of Rhode Island, sixty dollars for Buoys
Sally Rock at the entrance of the harbor of East
Greenwich.
In the State of Connecticut four thousand dollars for
Lighthouse, to be located Routon Neck, the
west end of Norwak, Long Island Thousand doa,
for the Round Shoals, the mouth of the O-
satonc Rivers hundred and twenty-five dollars for pla.
cling Buoys in the following sites, to wit: Thmblc
Island Reef, Inn Reef one on Negro Head
Brown Reef and Birds Reef at the
of Brsnford habor and one hundred dollars for making
an examination and survey necessary ascertain the
utility and expense of erecting Beacons in Long Island
Sound, shpmans Reef lying the promontory of
the name, Stamford, Smiths Ledge, opposite the
town of Daren and Reef known by the of PAT
ricks Horse the extremity Of Norwalk harbor
In the State of New York. Lighthouse at Dun.
kirk six thousand dollars, Lake Ere two housandive
hundred dollars for at the end of Lake Erie
site be selected four thousand dollars for Plum
Island in Long Island three thousand dollars for
Tibts Point, Lake Ontario.
In The States of NewYork and NewJersey, thirty thou.
sand dollars for Light House upon the Bluff, Fort
Tompkins Staten Island, for one in Princess Bay,
said island, and two the Highlands of Neversnk also,
for keeping the buoys, now anchored, the the
Romer the southwest point of the eastern branch and
the other the northeast point of Sandy Hook, known
by the of the False HOOK and for placing spar buoys
along the channel from the bar to the southwest Spit and
from thence to the middle ground and at such other places
between the last mentioned place and the city, may be
deemed necessary and also spar buoys the Stepping
stone Execution Rocks, and Middle Ground in Longsan
' Sound
In the State of New.Jersey. three hundred dollars for
placing buoys proper sites, five buoys the entrance Of
f the harbor Of Little Egg Harbor.
In the Bay of Delaware, twenynn thousand and two
hundred dollars for Light House the Brandywine
v Shoals.
In the State of Maryland three thousand five hundred
dollars for Light House Smiths Island two thousand
FIVE hundred dollars for Concord Point near
the mouth of Susquehsnnah rivers and Four thousand dol
lars for Light Vessel at Hooper's Straits.
In the States of Maryland and Virginia. hundred and
sixty dollars for placing buoys the river Potomac to vii
. one Port Tobacco Shoals, four the south side oil
Nanjemoy Reach, on Lower Cedar Point Bar, on
Craney Island Bar and four for designating the channel in
t that part of the river called the Kettle Bottoms.
the State of Virginia, ten thousand dollars for light
house Smiths Island Cape Charles proper
d site to be selected.
In the State of North Carolina nine thousand five hun
IL ed dollars for light vessel to be anchored at the south
Stradde Royal shoa and two thousand dollars for
Iht Federal Point Cane Fear river; and one