The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-06
TIL E REP u BLIC.
BY UTH O r | T Y
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed during The First Session Of the Thirty second
Congress.
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AN All making appropriations Ior nghf houses
light boats, buoys, &c, and providing for the
erection and establishment OF the same, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentatiues Of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the following appropriations
be, and the same are hereby made and directed to
be paid out Of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to carry the provisions of this act into
effect: Provided, hotveper, If good title to any
land which it may be necessary to use cannot be
obtained reasonable terms, or the exclusive
right to such land cannot be acquired by cession,
when the interest of the United States demands it,
before the appropriation would by lay fall into the
surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appro
priations 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, subsequent to
the passage of this act, to wit:
MAINE.
For a light house on the hubble, Cape Neddich,
York, five thousand dollars.
For dumb beacon on Haddock's ledge, in Pc
nobscot bay, five hundred dollars.
For Jones's fog bells to be placed at Cape Eliza
beth, Sequin, Whitehead and West Quoddyhead
light houses, ten thousan dollars
For the erection of a beacon on Logey's ledge,
in Portsmouth harbor in addition to an appropria-
ton of five hundred dollars by the act Of September
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, five
hundred dollars
For two spar buoys on the Eastern and Western
hundred and sixty dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse and keepers
house on Boon islands, twenty-five Thousand dol
lars.
one thousand dollars
For a lighthouse at the easterly end Of
thoroughfare between North Haven and Vinal.
haven, or on Herring Neck, as the Department
shall determine, five thousand dollars.
For beacons, buoys, and spindles at points on
the Kennebec river, five thousand dollars.
For Joness fog-bell, to be placed near the light.
house at Petit Menan, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For buoys to be placed on Old Mans ledge, at
the entrance of Penobscot bay, five hundred dol
lars.
For the erection of beacons on a reef of lodges
at the entrance of Camden harbor, one near Negro
island, and near Northeast point; and for
placing buoys on other lodges in said harbor, one
thousand dollars
For the erection of beacons or spindles and plac-
ing of buoys the lodges at the entrance of Mar
raguagus harbor, one thousand dollars.
For the erection of harbor- light on point of
land lying west of the entrance OF Bucks harbor,
in Broofsville, three thousand five hundred dollars
For the erection of beacons, buoys and spindles,
between Owshead and Whitehead light
and through Muscle Ridge channel, four thousand
dollars.
For the erection of four buoys at Goldsborough
at the following places: one on the southeast point
of Calf leland, one on the western point of the
Middle ground off Stone Island; on Half tide
ledge, and one on sunken rock at the entrance OF
Flanders bay, two hundred dollars.
For repairing reconstructng the stone bea-
con Buck ledge, Penobscot river, five hundred
dollars.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For beacon on Willey's ledge and spar buoy
on Half way rock, in the harbor Of Portsmouth,
| eight hundred dollars.
MASSACHUSETTS.
For a light. boat near Succonesseh shoal, north
channel Vineyard sound, twelve thousand dollars.
For three buoys in Holiness Hole harbor, three
hundred dollars.
For the erection of beacon nnd the repair OF
beacons and for buoys in the harbor OF Newbury
port, two thousand dollars
For beacon on Fawn bar, near Deer island, in
Boston harbor, in addition to the former appropri
alton, one thousand dollars.
For two iron spindles the northeast ledge of
| the Graves and on Harding ledge, in Boston har
Dor, in addition to the former appropriation, six
thousand dollars
For light, boat near Killpond bar, or light
house in the vicinity of it, as on examination may
be thought most expedient, twelve thousand dol.
lars.
For spar buoy on Bibb rock, near WelAcet
harbor, seventy five dollars.
For buoy boat on Great Rip, five hundred
dollars.
For a buoy boat on sand shoal near north end Of
| Bass Rip, five hundred dollars. The above buoys
| to be located under the direction Of the Superin
| tendent of Coast Survey.
For first class light-vcssel to be moorcd on or
| near the south shoal off Nantucket, under the
direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey
| to be built under the direction of a competent
val architect, and fitted with life boat duplicate
| moorings and fog-bell, the illuminating nppara.
tus to be of large size parabohc rchectors and Ar
| gand lamps, to produce light properly disin.
guished, which shall be far as the elevation
of the lanterns above the level of the will per-
nit, thirty thousand dollars
For Joncs's fog bells at Bakers island, at the
entrance of Salem harbor and at Race Point, Cape
| Cod. five thousand dollars.
| For a buoy to be placed on rock in the Vine
yard sound, near Point Cannon light house, one
| hundred and twenty dollars.
| For buoy to be placed over a sunken vessel at
| Succonesset Point, one hundred and twenty dol
| lars.
Towards the erection of light. house OF granite,
iron, or n combination of both, the outer Minot
ledge, at the entrance of Boston harbor, upon a
plan to be approved by the Typographical bureau /;
contract for the building thereof to be made
with the lowest responsible bidder who shall give
sufficient security for the faithful performance of
the same, and the work to be executed in strict
conformity with the plan or plans approved by the
typographical bureau, under the supervision OF ouch
person az the Secretary OF the Treasury may de-
signate, eighty thousand dollars.
For four spar-buoys in the harbor OF New Bed
ford three hundred dollars.
For hght-vessel to be moored off Minot's ledge,
until the proposed lighthouse on said ledge be
completed, sixteen thousand dollars.
RHODE ISLAND.
FOR an iron Can-Ouoy W pe piaoeu On u TUCK III
the channel leading from Narraganset bay to Ma
naquacket pond, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For dolphin or buoy to be placed on the south
point of Goat island, in the harbor Of Newport, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For the preservation of the light house and dixie
wall ut Goat island, Newport harbor, three thou
sand five hundred dollars
CONNECTICUT.
For light on the Long wharf, in the harbor OF
| New Haven five hundred dollars.
NEW YORK.
For n light house on Point Au Roche on the
west side OF Lake Champlain, five thousand dol
lars
For six spar-buoys in Hudson river, between
Albany and Troy, four hundred and eighty dol.
lars.
For a beacon light on Black Rock pier, six hun.
dred dollars.
To repair or rebuild the foundation of the light
house on the breakwater at Oswego, five thousa nd
dollars.
For Jones's fug-b bells to be placed at the Sandy
Hook aud Throgg's Neck light houses, five thou
sand dollars.
For new light. ship to take tho place Of that
now moored off Sandy Hook twenty thousand dol