Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-12

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Approved, March B 1858.
GPuBLIc-No. 39.l
AN ACT making appropriation for lght-houses, light
boats buoys, &C., and providing for the erection and
establishment of the same, and for other purposes
BE enacted By The Senate and House Of Representatives. Of
the United States Of Aaerca IN Congress assembled That the
following appropriations be and the same hereby
made and directed to be paid out of any money in the
Treasury otherwise appropriately to enable the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to carry the provisions Of this
act into effect: Prorded horeper, Ii good title to any
land which may be necessary USE be obtain
ed reasonable terms, the exclusive right to such
land cannotbe acquired by cesson when the interest Of
the United States demands it, before the appropriation
would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all
such the appropriations shall be applicable to
the objects for which they are made at any time within
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 buoys beacons and spndes to be placed at the
channels of Muscongus bay, and at other important
points in the waters Of said Saten addition to the
appropriated by the act of August thirty first eighteen
hundred and hfty-two, three thousand dollars.
MASSACHUSETTS.
For buoys to mark the channel Of Taunton river FIVE
hundred dollars. t
For beacon on Deep Hole rock" in Vineyard sound,
six hundred dollars.
For the erection of lighthouse aid keepers house on
or near the breakwaer at Bass rive being reappropr-
alton of the appropriated by the act Of Sep
TENDER twentyeght, eighteen Kindred and fifty, four
hundred dollars.
Towards the erection of lighthouse the rocks call
ed the Sow and Pigs" tie entrance of Buzzard s
bay, to take the place Of the Ihtvesse stationed
there being reappropriation the same sum appropr
ated by the act of September enty eighteen hun
dred and fifty, thirty THOUSAND dollars.
For lightvessel to be mpred off Minots Ledge, in
o n asst IF
Congress, six thousand doas.
RHoDEASLAND.
For buoys to be placed the following points Old
Newton the Sisters" Brig LEDGE lNarragansett
bay, Sandy Point" CLOCK Island,) and Taursett
Point" (near Wexford I've hundred dollars.
For erecting beacon ght at g Lime Rock" Newport
harbor, one thousand dollrs.
CONNECTICUT.
For buoys in New Hava harbor, two hundred dollars
For buoy Penfeldreef, one hundred and fifty dol
lars.
For beacon Race Rex, Long Island Sound, seven
thousand dollars
For the erection of on or more beacon-ghts below
iddetown the Connecticut river and for the
ton OF buoys and spindles, thres thousand dollars
For the erection of fog bell whistle, the light
house board shall determine OF Pine Island in FiShers
Sound, one thousand dollars.
NEW YORK
Fora small light on carlton Head and for
pairing or rebuilding Tbbets Pint house five thou
sand dollars
",
to be placed the south piernear the light at
Buffalo, two thousand dollars
For new lightyesse to take the place of that now
moored off Sandy Hook, in addition to the appro-
dollars.
NEW JERSEY.
For buoys to be placed Abscum bar and in the in
ct, Ga harbor of refugee eight hundred dollars.
DELAWARE.
For beacons and buoys for Delaware Bay to complete
he necessary beaconage and byage in the lower part Of
he river and bay, five thousand dollars.
MICHIGAN
For lighthouse on Point Betsey, Lake Michigan FIVE
For house Grand Island harbor, Luke sape-
rior, FIVE thousand dollars.
For light house at Rock Harbor, Isle Royal, Lake
Superior, FIVE thousand dollars.
For fogbel, to be worked by machinery, for Thur
der bay island lighthouse Lake Huron two thousand
five hundred dollars.
For erecting lighthouse at the mouth Of Portage
river, five thousand dollars.
For the erection Of light house at Point Iroquois or
on the Island off Point Aux-cheus, as the Lighthouse
Board shall determine, five thousand dollars.
For making the foundations Of two lighthouses to
be beacon light, the Saint Clair Flats thousand
dollars the places to be selected aud the work executed
under the direction Of the Typographical bureau.
OHIO
For beacon Of solid masonry, to be placed on q reef
yng in the track of vessels the end of Lake Erie
the south Shore off Bois Bance and Touissant
river, three thousand dollars.
VIRGINIA.
For frsclass buoy to be placed the Upper Mid
die IN Chesapeake bay, and buoys for Sand Shoa and
Hog Island inlet Atlantic coast, eight hundred dollars
For buoys to be placed in the Potomac river follows
lower end Jones Point 0ccoquon fats" off Marbows
Creek" lower part of "Wade's Bay" off Jenifers
quarter, Matthias Point" and Dents Shoal," FIVE
hundred and sixty dollars.
For q small light at Stingery Point" Rappahannock
two hundred and fifty dollars
For a beacon at MAYORS Hole, Rappahannock one
hundred and fifty dollars
For twelve buoys for Rappahannock river six hundred
dollars
SOUTH CAROLINA.
For six large iron buoys for Charleston bar and chan
nes, three thousand dollars.
For large bell buoy for the entrance over Charleston
bar, five thousand dollars
For buoy to be placed on Middle Ground Shoal,
Vharieston harbor, FIVE hundred dollars.
For hight vessel to be placed on Rattlesnake Shoal
twenty thousand dollars
For rebuilding beacon on Morris island Charleston
harbor three thousand dollars
For changing the present lighthouse at Cape Roman
into hrstcass seacoast light by elevating improving
anu renting me same with the most approved ilumina
ing apparatus, twenty thousand dollars
FLORIDA.
Tor an iron pile lighthouse take the place Of the
dollars.
For making permanent the signals placed by the coast
survey along the Florida reef thousand dollars
For the erection Of first class liphbouse aud 6tt;no
the same with first order illuminating apparatus near
Jupiter inlet thirty-fve thousand dollars
ALABAMA
For beacon to mark shoal in Mobile bav channel.
caused BY wreck, five hundred dollars
LOUISIANA
For largest class iron buoys to mark the approaches to
three thousand dollars
Towards the erection Of first class light bo,sa "a