The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-03-06
IN MARYLAND

For a lighthouse at Seven Foot Knoll,
ten thousand dollars.
For light-boai to he stationed off James
Island, Tangier Sound, eight thousand dol
lars; or for a lighthouse on The southwest
point of James Island, f the Secretary. of
the Treasury shall decide that it will an
swer the purposes of commerce.
aH IN VIRGINIA.
For two lights on the south end of Hog
Island, as range for the channel OF Great
Mutchipuugo, or on Sand Shoal, AS the one
or the other upon actual survey may he
found to be best, ten thousond dollars; and
the appropriations of ten thousand dollars,
made by the act of the fourteenth August,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for two
lights on Sand Shoai Inlet, be, and is here
by repealed.
For four beacons in James river, viz: one
OH White Shoai, one on Bluyess Bluff ShOal,
one OH Point Shoal, and one on Deep Wa
ter Shoal, three thousand five hundred lol-
lars.
IN NORTH CAROLINA. "a
For buoys in Hatteras fniet, near the
south breakers, at the entrance from the
ocean, FIVE hundred dollars. -NI
For buoys at the cape Chanual opposite
the Hatteras lighthouse, one at Gates SlOO,
and enc at the Bog Channel opposite Kin
nikect, two hundred and fifty dollars.
IN SOUTH CAROLINA. .
For a small beacon-lght on Morris Is
land, two thousand five hundred dollars.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
For beacon llght-hous on the pier at
Cifu fkroo fhn,,sa nj HutiarS
For A lighthouse on the west end Of Ship
Island, twelve thousand dollars, being a re-
newal Of an appropriation for this purpose
made August fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and forty eight.
For light house at or near Pascagoula
river, three thousand dollars.
IN MICHIGAN.
For a light house on the northwest point
of Grand Travers Bay, four thousand dol
lars.
Fo- light house at the Port Of Mar
quette, Lake Superior, five thousand dol
lars.
For a lighthouse on the point Of land
about three miles east Of Cheboygan river,
in the Straits Of Mackinaw, four thousand
rdollars.
For lighthouse at or near the mouth OF
Eagle river, four thousand dollars.
For light-ho on the south shore Of
Lake Superior, at Ontanagon, five thousand
dollars.
For lighthouse at Ottawa Point, ir
Saginaw Bay, five thousand dollars.
For light-ho on Beaver Island, Lake
Michigan, five thousand dollars.
IN WISCONSIN.
For n light house at the mouth of Twin
rivers, three thousand five hundred dol
lars
For a lighthouse at Port Ulao, three
thousand five hundred dollars.
IN TEXAS.
I For a lighthouse and beacon-light at
Brasos Santiago, fifteen thousand dol
lars. ..
For lighthouse at Bolivar Point, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For lighthouse at Matagorda Island
fifteen thousand dollars.
IN FLORIDA.
For the erection of light on Sea Horse
Key, eight thousand dollars.
IN GEORGIA.
For the purchase Of the signal-light at
the Savannah river, one hundred and fifty
dollars.
For two dumb beacons to be erected, one
on Black Oyster Rock, the other on Sugar
Loaf, in the river Savannah, four thousand
dollars.
IN LOUISIANA.
For n light house at or near the head Of
the Southwest Pass Of the Mississippi river,
fifteen thousand dollars.
IN CALIFORNIA.
For light house at Alcatras Island; for
a lighthouse at Point Conception, and q
fog signal for hght-house on Battery
Point entrance of the bay of San Francisco;
for light house at San Diego; for light
house and Il fog-signal at Monterey; for a
lighthouse at the island Of Faralones, off
the harbor Of San Francisco, and fog sig
nal, and for the transportOn, erection, and
placing the same; ninety thousand dol
lars.
IN OREGON.
For n lght-hou on Cape Disappoint-
ment, at the mouth of the Columbia river;
one on an island off Cape Flattery, at the
entrance of The Straits Of Fuca, and one at
New Dungenness; twelve iron can buoys in
Columbia river, and the transportation,
erection. and placing Of the same; fifty
three thousand one hundred eand forty dol
lars.
TO authorize the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to test the use and economy Of the cal
ciuin light, five thousand dollars.
For fog signals at the lighthouses on Ex-
ecu,ion Rocks, Gull Island, Long Island
Sound, Beaver Tail Point, Rhode Island,
and on board the light boat at Bartlett'S
Reef, Long Island Sound, two thousand
FIVE hundred dollars.
For life-boats for rendering assistance 10
wrecked mariners and others, on the coast
of the United States. to be expended under
the control aud direction Of the Secretary
of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars.
SEC 9. And be Il further enacted, That
whereas the light house on Minot's ledge is
completed, and in operation, the one at
Scituate be therefore suspended during such
time as the one Oh Minot's ledge is light
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SEC. s. .and be it further enacted,
That if such person as the Secretary Of the
Treasury shall designate, shall report, in
any Of the cases herein provided for, that
preliminary surveys are necessary 10 deter
mine the site Of a proposed light house or
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