The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-03-06
ACTS OF THE THIRTY.FIRST
CONCRESS OF THE II. s..

CONGRESS OF THE u. Sc,
Passed at the first Session, which was begun and
held at the City Of Washington, in the District
of Columbia, on Monday, the third day Of De-
cember, one Thousand eight hundred and forty
nine.
MILLARD FILLMORE, President. WILLIAM
r. KING, Prcsiden, Of the Senate, pro tenn
pore. HOWELL Conn, Speaker of the House
Of Representatives.
Chap. 77.--AN ACT making appropriations for Light
Houses, Light Boats, Buoys dc, and providing for
the erection aud establishment OF tho same, and for
other purposes.
SEC. l. Be IL enacted 5y the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of The Uaifef States of .7meri
ca in Congress assembled, That the following
appropriations bc and the same are hereby
made, and directed to be paid out of any
money in the treasury 10 carry the provis-
ions Of this act into effect: Prorided Hoc-
ever, ifa good title to any land which it
may he necessary TO use, cannot be Obtain
ed on reasonable terms, or the exclusive
right to such land cannot be acquired by
cesson, when the interest of the United
State demands il, before the appropriation
would by law fall into the surplus fund, in
any and in all cases, the appropriations
shall be applicable 10 the objects for which
they are made, at any time within two
years after the first meeting of the Legisla-
ture, in any state wherein such land may
he situated, subsequent to the passage of
this act, 10 wit:
IN MAINE.
For buoy on ledge about one league
east Of Boon Island, one hundred and fifty
dollars
For dumb beacons on Drunken and
l. -, E
oughfare between North Haven aud Vim
alhaven, one thousand dollars.
For light house on Black Saddleback
thousand dollars.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For beacon and huoys at The mouth of
Little Harbor, near Portsmouth, two thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars.
For beacon on Logy's ledge, in Pis-
cataqna river, five hundred dollars.
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
For dwelling house for the keeper of
The beacon light at Hyannis, eight hundred
dollars.
For spar buoy on the middle ground
off Chatham, one Oh the east end of Mono
moy Rip; one on'schooner Bar; one at
Powder Hole Harhor; and one on Stone
Horse Shoal near Pollock Rip, four hun
dred dollaIs.
! For one SPAR bnoy at the north, aud aud
one at the southend, Of ledge called Musk
eget Rocks, one on the northwest end of the
Horseshoe, one at Hyannis, one on The
Sturgeon Flat, one off Stony Point, and
one on Blankenship's rock, in the Edgar
town district, five hundred and sixty dollars.
For light house on Egg Rock, near
Nahant, five thousand dollars.
For q fog signal, TO be placed at the out
er light in Boston Bay, three thou
sand dollars.
For spar buoys at the entrance Of Lynn
Harbor, viz: one on the Dolphin Rock,
one@on the Libbey Rock, one on the Saw.
ney's Rock, one on the northeast and one
southw est of Pig Rocks, one on Old Har-
ry Rock, and one on Lobster Rock, five
hundred and sixty dollars.
For the completion of the causeway from
the shore to the lighthouse at Edgar town
four thousand dollars.
For buoys or beacoDs at the Harbor Of
Newburyport, five hundred dollars.
For a lighthouse on the breakwater at
Bass river, four thousand dollars.
For a beacon on Bird Island, and one on
the False Spit, and buoy on Slate Ledge
ron, two thousand nine bunlred dollars.
For beacons on Black Rock, Harbor Rock,
and Five Pound Island Point, in the harbor
Of Glocester, fifteen hundred dollars.
For the erection of a beacon and placing
buoys Mt the mouth ofand in Essex liver,
in Ipswich Bay, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
For lishthouse upon n reef Of rocks
called the Sow and Pigs, off the Island Of
Guilty yhunk, in place of the lighboat sta
tioned off said reef, and the lighthouse on
said island: Prrided, on examination, a
good foundation can be found, thirty thou
sand dollars.
IN RHODE ISLAND.
For a lighthouse on Sandy Point, Pru-
dance Island, three thousand FIVE hundred
dollars.
For spar buoy on the middle ground
shoal, Dutch Island Harbor, in Narrayan-
set hay, forty dollars.
For buoy upon a rock near Coal Mine
Wharf, on the Island Of Rhode Island, one
hundred dollars.
IN CONNECTICUT.
For a can buoy on Pea Fields Reef
of Black Rock Harbor, one hundred dol
lars.
! For a beacon-light on Bridgeport bar,
three thousand five hundred dollars.
IN NEW YORK. ~
| For four spar huoys in Greanport Har-
Dor three hundred dollars.
! For two beacon-lights near Fort HamIl-
ton, as range to guide vessels from the
Southwest Spit to the Narrows, four thou
sand dollars. ....sf t,.a.ert<
For seven can buoys in Niagara river,
between Horse She Reef and Grand Is
land one thousand dollars.
For the erection Of "A beacon on the
southeast part Of Romer Shoal, thirty
thousand dollars. ratace esd
For spar buoy on Glover's Reef, near
Port Chester, Long Island sound, seventy
dollars. -r
For spar buoy at Cold Spring, Long
Island, seventy dollars.
| For four spar buoys, to be placed in the
inlet to Fire Island Bay, Long island.
IN NEW JERSEY
For an iron can buoy between the new
and old Inlet Shonl. at Little Egg Harbor,
two hundred dollars. ..
For beacon nj the f" Elbow" in Passaic