The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-15
(PuBLIc-No. 36.]

AN ACT making appropriations for lighthouses, light
boats bnoys &c, and providing for the erection and
establishment OF the same, and Tor other purposes
Be enacted by the Sonata and Hse Of Representatives Of
the Uaitsd States of America Congress assembled That
made and directed to be paid of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated 10 enable the Score
eiec Prociisa hopsver, If good title any which
1t may b necessary to cannot be obtained
able terms the exclusive right such and be
acquired by cession, where the othe United
demands before the appropriation would by law fall into
the surplus fund.- in and all such the appropri
tons shalt be applicable the offsets for which they
made at any time within two after the drst meeting
oil the legislature sub 'elus to the passage OF this act
am Stale wherein such land may be situated,
IN MAINE
For thirteen spar bnoys and beacons in Casco bay
For lighthouse Giikeys harbor, three thousand five
For lighthouse Beaachamp point, the opposite
SIDE of the harbo in The OF Camden, three thousand
Eve hundred dollars;
For fog bell at the lighthouse Lib5y's island seven
hundred and nifty dollars
MASSACHUSETTS,
or scew,pile osaeon or other practicable structure
survey Of the coast twenty-five thousand dollars
pnded under the direction OF the Bureau OF
For six large buoys on the shoal, off Nantucket, one
For Iight-boat on Pollock Rip, off Chatham twelve
thousand five hundred dollars
NEW YORK
For ightboat Horse Shoe reef Niagara river, ten
thousand dollars for the erection of light house instead
hereoi II after the survey herein provided for It shall be
For four buoys mark the channel from the aore
said shoa TO Bird island, three hundred doliars
FOR beacon the southeast part of Romer shoa,
the lower bay of New York thousand dollars;
Tor three spar buoys in Battemilk channel hundred
For four additional spar-buoys in the lower bay of New
York at such points be designated By the Secretary
oil the Treasury four hundred dollars
NEW JERSEY.
For lighthouse on the rocks at Bergen Point, five
For five spar buoy, at Thoms river three hundred dol
lars;
For five spar buoys Barnega inlet three hundred dol
For lighthouse the mouth of the Passaic river five
thousand dollars
For two buoYs the aud west oyster beds in New
ark bay, one hundred dollars;
For lighthouse the point of Maurice river Cum
penand county, five thousand dollars;
70 provide su boats, life rockets carronades lines
@ ohes necessary apparatus for the better preservation OF
ne aho properly from shipwreck along the coast OF New
Jersey, between Little Egg H,rbor and Cape May, ten
nobsa dollars to be expended under the direction Of
such ohcsr OF the revenue marine may be de
aea or that purpose by the Secretary OF the Treasury
DELAWARE.
For the foundation and construction of a lighthouse
tnc Delaware breakwater, ten thousand dolars
MARYLAND.
foftwo spar buoys at the mouth of Chester river,
hundred and twenty dollars
Fo,a Iightboa, Galveston bar twelve thousand v.
For lighthouse at Sabine Pass, thousand five
hundred dollars
ILLINOIS.
For the foundation and construction of
near the end of the north pier Chicago fifteen thou
dollars u be expended under the direction the Bureau
Oh Geographical Engineers, and the present lighthouse
within the city, and the beaeongh the pier, shall be
ucH'nued from and after the completion Of the afore
SAID light house.
For lighthouse a, the mouth oil Calumet river fou
ousand dollars to be expended under the direction OF tbs
bureau OF Typographical Engineers
FLORIDA.
FOR buoys and the bar of Nassau river the
coasts OF Georgia and Florida, ia the neghborhood
one thousand dollars
MICHIGAN
For lighthouse the mouth OF Muskeeon river thcs
thousand live hundred dollars;
For light house Manitou island, Lake Superior sew
en- thousand five hundred aollars
ro lighthouse at Eagle harbor, Lake Superior, ou
For floating bell at Sranard rock, Lake Superior on.
thousand dollars.
lighthouse Skagalec rock, Lake Michigan, foo
thousand dollars
ro beacon ght the pier New Buffalo, hun
afed and fifty d,iars;
For lighthouse at North Black river Lake Michigan
afes thousand 1--WE hundred dollars;
,Aof providing sur-boats, ebeats and other means 70
preservation OF life and properly snPwrecked ON tn
oa OF the United States, thousand dollars, to b%e
pended under the control and direction the Secretary
he treasury.
SIC And BE- il further enacted That the Fifth Audto
'eininary surveys necessary to determine tina site
proposed lighthouse or iight-boa ascertain NOR
~ What the public exgercy demands, the Secretary
Nv NaVy shaii, therenpon. appoint officers
% navy, not under the grade Of commander, psrforn
ae'e4ued when the expenditure to be lad
under the direction Of the Bureau OF Typographical Eng
ess the Secretary OF War shall appoint Or Oft
80 OF the corps of BIOGRAPHICAL engineers possessing
"qas'e skin and experiences perform the like service