Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-11-21

shall designate shall report, in any Of the cases
herein provided for, that preliminary surveys are
necessary to determine tho site Of a proposed |
light houee or light boat beacon or buoy, or to |
ascertain more fully what the public exigency
demands, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
thereupon appoint one or more officers of the
United States revenue service to perfom the re-
quired duty.
SEC. 4. And be i further enacied, That any
officer 80 appointed shall forthwith enter upon
the discharge Of the duty, and, after fully ascer
tanning the facts, shall report first, whether the
proposed facility to navigation is the most su,a-
BILE for the exigency which exists and second,
where it should be placed if the interests of com
merce demand 1t /; third, if the thing proposed
be not the most suitable, whether it is expedient
to make any other kind Of Improvement fourth,
whether the proposed light has any connexion
with other lights, and if so, whether it cannot be
so located as to subserve both the general and
the local wants of trade and navigation and
nth, whether there be any, and ic any, what 9TH
er facts Of Importance touching the subject
SEC. S. find be Il further enacted, That all
such reports shall, as speedily as may be, be laid
before the Secretary of the Treasury, and il such
as to authorize the work without further legisla-
ton. he shall forthwith proceed with it, otherwise
such reports shall be laid before Congress at the
next ensuing session; but in all cases where
such persons as the Secretary of the Treasury
shall designate does not report such preliminary
examination as expedient, the provisions of this
act shall without delay be carried into execu
ton.
SEC. 6. find be It further enacied. That here
after all buoys along the coast, or in bays, har-
bors, sounds, or channels, shall be colored and
numbered, SO that passing up the coast or sound,
or entering the bay, harbor, or channel, red
buoys with even numbers shall be passed on the
starboard hand, black buoys with uneven num-
bers the port hand. and buys with red ana
black stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel
ways to be colored with alternate white and
black perpendicular stripes
Sec. z. find be II further enacted, That there
shall be allowed 10 collectors, when acting as su-
; pernteDdents of light houses, beacons, light
boats and buoys, the rate of commission
on the disbursement of the aforesaid appropria-
tons, as were allowed and paid for the year end
ing fourth March, eighteen hundred and forty
nine: Prouidcd, That 10 collector shall receive
for his services superintendent aforesaid, over
the sum of four hundred dollars per anpum 3
find provided further That the Secretary of the
Treasury shall assign TO the collectors the su-
5 perntendence of such light houses, beacons,
/ light boats and buys as he rDuy Judge best and
most convenient for The public interest.
, Sec. &. .4nd be ii further endcied, That there
: be- and hereby Is, appropriated The sum OF one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to purchase
I a steamer be employed in the coast survey
upon the Pacific coast and used, if deemed ex-
t pedent, in designating the sites of the several
light houses provided for in California.
|, SEC. 9. And be 1t further endcied, That the
SUN of two thousand dollars is hereby appropria.
t ted to pay the balance due TO NJ. La Port, o.
Paris, Tor the light at Saneoty Head, al Nan
n tucket.