The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-09-29
TPrBLIC Acr-No. COL

AN ACT making appropriations for
lighthouses, light-boats, buoys, &c.
and providing for the erection and es-
tablishment for the same, and for 9th
er purposes.
BE IL enacted 5y the Senate and
H0USc Of Representatives Of Me Un'tct
States If 1merica in Congress assem-
6ica, That the following appropriations
be. and the same are hereby. made and
directed to be paid out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, to enable the Secretary of the treas
ury to carry the provisions Of this act
into effect Provided, however, If a
good title to any land which it may be
necessary to use cannot be obtained Oh
reasonable terms. or the exclusive right
to such land cannot be acquired by ces-
sion. when the interest of the United
States demands it. before the appropria.
ton would by law fall into the surplus
fund, in any and all such cases the ap-
preparations shall be applicable to the
objects for which they are made at any
time within two years after the first
meeting of the Legislature in any State
wherein such land may be situated. sub
sequent to the passage of this act, to
wit :
MAINE.
For a lighthouse on the hubble
Cape Neddich, York, five thousand dol
lars.
For dumb beacon on Haddock',
ledge, in Penobscot bay, five hundred
dollars.
For Jones's fog bells to be placed at
Cape Elizabeth, Sequin, Whitehead ant
West Quoddyhead lighthouses, tel
thousand dollars.
For the erection of beacon on Log
ey's ledge, in Portsmouth harbor, in ad
dition to an appropriation of five hun
dred dollars by the act of September
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fit
ty. five hundred dollars.
For two spar,buoys on the Eastern
and Western Sisters. at the entrance O
Pscatalua river, one hundred and sixty
dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse anC
keepers house on Boon islands, twenty
five thousand dollars
For beacon on Steel's ledge, in Pen
ohscot bay, one thousand dollars.
For a light house at the easterly enc
of thoroughfare between North Havel
ane Vinalhavon, or on Herring Neck, a
the Department shall determine, five
thousand dollars.
For beacons, buoys, and spindles a
points on the Kennebec river, five thou
sand dollars.
For Jones fog-bell, to be placed reai
the lighthouse at Petit Menan, tw'
thousand five hundred dollars.
For buoys to be placed on Old Mans
ledge. at the entrance of Penobscot bay
FIVE hundred dollars.
For the erection Of beacons on a rec
of ledges at the entrance Of CamdeI
harbor, one near Negro island, and on'
near Northeast point and for placing
buoys on other ledges in said harbor, OH
thousand dollars
For the erection of beacons or spin
dies and placing of buoys on the ledge'
one thousand dollars.
For the erection of harbor-light oil
point of land lying west of the en-
trance of Bucks harbor, in Brooksville
three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection of beacons, buoys
and spindles, between Owlshead anC
Whitehead lighthouses, and through
Muscle Ridge channel, four thousand
dollars
For the erection Of four buoys al
Goldsborough at the following places
one on the southeast point OF Calf Is
land, one on the western point of the
Middle ground off Stone Island one Oh
Halftide ledge, and one on sunkeI
rock at the entrance of Flanders bay
two hundred dollars.
For repairing or reconstructrng tho
stone beacon on Buck ledge, Penobsco'
river, five hundred dollars
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For a beacon on Willey's ledge and a
spar buoy on Halfway rock, in the har
Dor of Portsmouth, eight hundred dol
lars
MASSACHUSETTS.
For a light-boat near Succonessel
shoal, north channel Vineyard sound
twelve thousand dollars
For three buoys in Holiness Hole
harbor, three hundred dollars.
For the erection of beacon and thu
repair Of beacons and for buoys in th'