The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-05

AN ACT making appropriations for Light Houses
Ii0ht Boats, Buoys &c, and providing for the
erection and estaDlshluehi oi 'he same, ana Tor
other purposes.
BE IL enacted 6y the Senate and House of Repre-
SIGNATURES Of the United States Of America in Con
oress assembled That the following appropriations
be and the same hereby made, and directed TO
be paid out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, 10 enable the Secretary of the
Treasury TO carry the provisions OF this act into cf
feet: Prorided, hotDerer If good title TO any land
which it may be necessary TO use, cannot be OBJ
tanned on reasonable terms, or the exclusive right
10 such land cannot be acquired by cession, when
the interest Of the United States demands it, before
the appropriation would by law fall into the
plus fund.- in any and all such cases, the appropri-
atoms shall be applicable to the objects for which
they are made at any time within two years after
wherein such land may be situated, subsequent to
the passage OF this act, to wit
IN MAINE.
For buoy on a ledge about league east of
Boon island, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For dumb bcacons on Drunken and Elders
lodges, al the mouth of the thoroughfare between
Northhaven and Vinalhaven, one thousand dolare
For light house Black Saddleback Island, in
the county Of Hancock, four thousand dollars.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For beacon and buoys at the mouth of Little
Harbor, near Portsmouth, two thousand FIVE hun
dred dollars.
For beacon on Logy's ledge. in Piscataqua
river, five hundred dollars
MASSACHUSETTS.
For a dwelling house for the keeper of the bea-
con light at Hyannis eight hundred dollars.
For spar buoy on the middle ground of Chat
ham, one on the east end of Monomoy Rip; one on
Schooner Bar; one at Powder Hole Harbor; and
on Stone Horse Shoal, near Pollock Rip, four
hundred dollars
For one spar buoy at the north, and al the
south end of ledge called Muskeget Rocks, one
ON the northwest end of the Horseshoe, one at Hy-
annis, one the Sturgeon Flat, one of Stoney
Point and one on Bankenship's rock, in the Ed
gartown district, five hundred and sixty dollars.
For lght-ho Egg Rock, near Nahant,
five thousand dollars.
For fog signal, to be placed at the outer light
house in Boston Bay, three thousand dollars.
For spar buoys at the entrance of Lynn Harbor,
viz: one on the Dolphin Rock, one on the Libby
Rock, one Sawney's Rock, one on the northeast
and the southwest of Pig Rocks, on
Old Harry Rock, and one on Lobster Rock, five
hundred and sixty dollars.
For the completion of the causeway from the
shore TO the light house at EdgartoVn four thou
rand dollars.
For buoya or beacons at the Harbor of Newbury-
port, five hundred dollars.
For light house on the breakwater at Bass riv-
err, four thousand dollars.
For beacon on Bird Island, and one ON the False
Spit, and buoy Slate Ledge, near the lower
middle in the harbor OF Boston, two thousand nine
hundred dollars
For beacons on Black Rock Harbor Rock, and
Five Pound Island Points, in the harbor of Glou-
cester, fifteen hundred dollars.
at the mouth of and in Essex river, in Ipswich Bay
seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For light house upon reef OF rocks called the
Sow and Pigs, of the Island of Cuttyhunk. in place
of the light boat stationed off said reef, and the
lighthouse said island: Prorided, on examina-
ton, good foundation can be found, thirty thou
sand dollars.
IN RHODE ISLAND.
For a light house on Sandy Point, Prudence
Island, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For spar buoy the middle ground shoal
Dutch leland Harbor, in Narraganset bay, forty
dollars.
For buoy upon rock near Coal Mine Wharf
on the Island Of Rhode Island, one hundred dol
lars
IN CONNECTICUT.
For can buoy on Pea Fields Reef, off Blac h
Rock Harbor, one hundred dollars.
For a beacon Ii ght on Bridgeport bar, three thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars.
IN NEW YORK.
For four spar buOys in Greenport Harbor, tire
hundred dollars.
For two beacon hghts near Fort Hamilton as
range to guide vessels from the Southwest Spit t
the Narrows, four thousand dollars.
For seyen can buoys in Niagara river, be
tween Horse Shoe Reef and Grand Island, one thou
sand dollars.
For the erection Of beacon ON the southeas
part Of Romcr shoal, thirty thousand dollars.
For a spar buoy Glover's Reef Por
Chester, Long Island Sound, seventy dollars.
For a spar buoy at Cold Spring, Long Island
seventy dollars.
For four spar buoys TO be placed in the inlet tc
Fire leland Bay, Long leland.
For an iron can buoy between the new and old
Inlet shoal, at Little Egg Iarbor, two hundred dol
lars
For beacon at the Elbow in Passaic river
and for four spar buoys in said river, four hundre'
dollars
For spar buoy on Mill Reel, at the entrance o
the Kills and beacon at the Corner Stake, ncs
Elzabethtovn Point, four hundred dollars.
1fs,ltf-
sand five hundred dollars.
IN DELAWARE.
For light house at the entrance Of Indian River
five thousand dollars.
~ NARYLAND.
For a lighthouse at Seven Foot Knoll, ten thou
sand dollars.
For light boat to be stationed of James Island
Tangicr Sound, eight thousand dollars or, for ,
light house the southwest point Of James Island
II the Secretary Of the Treasury shall decide that
will answer the purposes Of commerce.
is VIRGINIA
For two lights on the south end Of Hog Island, a.
range for the channel Of Great Mutchipungo, or
Sand Sboal, az the the other upon actual sur
yey may be found 10 be beet ten thousand dollars
and the appropriation Of ten thousand dollars, made
by the act Of the fourteenth August, eighteen hun
drod and forty eight, for two lights on Sand Shoa
Inlet, be and is hereby repealed.
For four beacons in James river. viz one on
White sbosl, one On Bluyess Blot shoal, one OF
Point Shoal, and one on Deep Water Shoal, thre,
thousand five hundred dollars
NORTH cAEOusA.
For buoys in Hatteras Inlet near the south break
ors, at the entrance from the ocean, five hundrc,
dollars.
For buoys al the Cape Channel opposite the Hat
tcras light house, one at Gates Sloo and ono at th
Bog Channel opposite binnkect, two hundred anS
fifty dollars.
Is SOUTH CARoLIsA.
For email bcacon-hght on Morris leland, tw,
thousand five hundred doilars.
~ MISSISSIPPI
For beacon light. house on the pier Of NIissis
s,ppi City, three thousand dollars
For hght-hOusc on the wet end Of Ship leland
twelve thousand dollars, being renewal Of ap-
preparation i0f the purpose made August four
toenth, eighteen hundred and forty eight
For a light-h house at or near pasCag0ula river,
three thousand dollars.
IL MtCHIoAN.
For light house on the northwest point Of Gran,
Travcrs Bay, four thousand dollars.
For light house at the Port Of Marquette. LAX,
Superior, 1--WE thousand dollars.
fora ght-hous the point Of land about thre
miles cast OF Cbeboygan river, in the Straits o