Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-12

msgaIes senss oock-ya and other neodfu public
shall Dc reserved and excepted from the operation Of this act
ProUided That shall be deemed necessary in the iudQ
ment Of the President to include any such reservation the
improvements OF settler made previous to the passage
this act 1t shall in such case BE- the duty Of the Secretary
War to the value Of such improvements to be sscer
tanned, and the amount asceraned shall be paid TO the
party entitled thereto out of any money not appro
priated. lApproved, September 27. 1850
] PuBLIc-No a.
AN ACT making appropriations for lighthouses Ightboats
buoys &c. and providing for the erection and establish
ment Of the same, and for other purposes.
BE enacted 6y the SENATE and House of Representatives
of the United States Of Amerca in Congress assembled,
That the following appropriations be and the same are hereby
made and directed to be paid out of any money in the Trea
su not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary
h,s Treasury to carry the provisions Of this act into effect
Pavided hooerer good title any land which il NAV
be necessary be obtained on reasonable terms
or the exclusive right to such land be acquired by
cn when the interest Of the United States demands IL be-
fore the appropriation would by law fall into the surplus fund
any and all such the appropriations shall be appica
biz 10 the OBJ for which they made at any time within
two years ae the first meeting Of the Legislature in any
State wherein such land may be situated subsequent to the
passage Of this act, to wit
IN MAINE.
For abuoy ON ledge about league of Boon Island
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For dsmb besco Dunden and Fdsrs lodges at the
mouth of the ihoro ushfas between Norhhaven and vnal
haven one thossan1 dollars
For lighthouse Black Ssddleback Island in the county
of Hancock, four thousand dollars. ret
In NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For beacon and bu at the mouth Of Little Harbor near
Portsmouth, two thousa I'D five hundred dollars
For beacon on Loy sledge, in Pscaaqua river five hum
ded dollars yEt
NJ IN MAS 'sACHUsETTs.
For dwelling house the keeper Of the beacon light at
Hyannis, eight hundred Dol lars.
For spar buoy the ddle ground off Chatham one on
the end of Monomoy Ri Schooner Bar one at
Powder Hole Hsrbor and Stone Horse Shoal near
pollock Rip four hundred do liars
For spar buoy ct the h and ct the south end of
ledge called Muskeget Rocks the northwest end of
the Horseshoe, Hyannis the Sturgeon Flat
off Stony Point aud B nkenships rock in the Ed
gartown district, five hundred AM. | sixty dollass
For lghthouseon Egg Rock, Nahan. five thousand
dollars.
For fog signal be placed at the outer lighthouse in
Boston Bay, three thousand dollars
For spar buoys at the entrance Of Lynn Harbo viz one
on the Dolphin Rock the Libby Rock one on Saw
neys Rock the northeast and the southwest of
Pig Rocks; Old Harry Rock, and one on Lobster
Rock, five hundred and sixty dollars.
For the completion Of the causeway from the shore to the
lighthouse at Edgartown, four thousand dollars
For buoys or beacons at the Harbo of Newburypor five
hundred dollars
For lighthouse the breakwater at Bass river, four
thousand dollars
For beacon Bird Island and one on the False Spit
and buoy Slate LEDGE the lower middle the ha
Dor Of Boston, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For beacons Black Rock Harbor Rock and Five Pound
the narOOr OF Uoucester,
For the erection Of beacon and placing buoys the mouth
Of and in Essex river in Ipswich Bay, hundred and
fifty dollars
For lighthouse upon reef Of rocks called the Sow and
Pigs off the Island of Cuttyhunk place Of the ghboat
stationed off said reef and the lighthouse said Island
ProUdcd examination, good foundation be found
thirty thousand dollars.
IN RHODE ISLAND.
For lighthouse Sandy Point Prudence Island three
thousand five hundred dollars.
For spar buoy the middle ground shoa Dutch Island
Harbor, in Narragansett bay, forty dollars
Fora buoy upon rock Coal Mine walk the island
Of Rhode Island, one hundred dolars.
IN CONNECTICUT.
For a buoy on Peaieds reef off Black Rock haIbor
one hundred dollars.
For beacon light on Bridgeport bar three thousand Eve
hundred dollars.
IN NEW YORK
FoIour spar buoysn Greenpo harbor three hundred dollars
For two beacon lights Fort Hamilton, range
guide vessels from the Southwest Spit the Narow four
thousand dollars
For seven can buoys in Niagara ver between Horse Shoe
Reef and Grand Island, thousand dollars
For the erection Of beacon the southeast part of Romer
Shoal, thirty thousand dollars
For spar buoy Goves Reef Pert Chester, Long
Island Sound, seventy dollars.
For par buoy at Coles Spring, Long Island seventy
dollars.
For four spar buoy to be placed in the inlet of Fire
Island Bay, Long Island
IN NEW JERSEY
at Little Egg harbor, two hundred dollars,
For beacon the Elbow n the Passaic river, and for
four spar buoys in said river, four hundred dollars.
For spar buoy Mill Reef at the entrance of the Kels
and beacon the Corner Stake, Elzabe,hown Point
For lighthouse Covas Konk Point four thousand five
hundred dollars.
IN DELAWARE
For lighthouse the entrance Of Indian river five thou
sand dollars.
IN MARYLAND.
For lighthouse at Seven Foot Knoll, ten thousand dollars
For light to be stationed James Island, Tanger
Sound eight thousand dollars; for lighthouse the
southwest point Of James Island, if the Secretary of the ea
suy shall decide that will the purposes Of commerce
IN VIRGINIA.
For two lights the south end of Hog Island, range
for the channel Of Great Mutchipungo Sand Shoa
the the other upon actual survey may be found be
best thousand dollars and the appropriation Of ten thou
sand dollars made by the act of the fourteenth August egh
teen hundred and eight for lights Sand Shoal
Inlet, be, and is hereby, repealed.
For four beacons in James river viz White Shoa
on Buvess Bluff Shoa Point Shoa and one on
Deep Water Shoal, three thousand five hundred dollars
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
For buoys in Hateras Inlet the south breakers at the
entrance from the ocean, five hundred dollars.
For buoys the Cape Channel opposite the Hatteras light
house, Cotes Sloo and the Bog Channel and
one at Kinneet, two hundred and fifty dollars
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
For small beacon light Morris Island, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
IN MISSISSIPPI
For beacon lighthouse the pier at Mississippi City,
three thousand dollars.
For lighthouse on the end of Ship Island, twelve
thousand dollars, being renewal Of appropriation for this
purpose made August fourteenth eighteen hundred and forty