Kansas weekly herald., 1854-11-24

reside at Frontera aforesaid and he shall be en-
titled to a salary, not exceeding two thousand
dollars per annum, including in that sum the fees
allowed by law; and the amount he shall col
lect in any one year for fees, exceeding the sum
of two thousand dollars, shall be accounted for
and paid into the treasury of the United States.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
District Court for the Territory of New Mexico
shall have and exercise jurisdiction over all cases
which shall arise in the Collection District of
Paso del NOrte, in the administration of the re-
venue laws, in the same manner as if the said
district was entirely within the Territory Of New
Mexico.
APPROVED, August 2, 1854.
CHAP. CXCIV.-.fD .4ct making appropria-
tions for Light Houses, Light-B Boats, Buoys, etc;
and providing for the erection and establishment of
the same, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America In
Congress assembled, That the following appro-
priations be, and the same are hereby, made, and
directed to be paid out Of any money in the treas
pry not otherwise appropriated, to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provis-
ions of this act into effect: Provided, however,
If good title to any land which it may be nee
essary to use cannot be obtained on reasonable
terms, or the exclusive right to such land can
not be acquired by cession when the interest of
the United States demands it, before the appro-
priation would by law fall into the surplus fund,
in any and all'such cases, the appropriations
shall be applicable to the objects for which they
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 rebuilding lighthouse and keep
er's dwelling on Petit Menan Island, thirty five
thousand dollars
For rebuilding lighthouse on Bakers Island,
five thousand dollars
For rebuilding lighthouse or Franklin Island
five thousand dollars.
For procuring Illuminating apparatus, and
completing lighthouse tower and buildings, au-
thorized to be built on Boone Island, nineteen
thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars,
For an iron bell-boat, to be stationed to mark
Aldenes Rock, five thousand dollars.
For fog-signal and dwelling for keeper, near
Manheigin Lighthouse, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For harbor-light-on ON or near breakwater at
Portland, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For completion of beacon on Buck Ledge,
Penobscot river, in addition to five hundred dol
lars already appropriated, two thousand dollars.
For restoring the two other stone beacons on
Penobscot River, one thousand dollars.
For fog-signals on Mount Desert Rock and
Matinicus lighthouses, five thousand dollars.
For buoys for the waters on the coast of Maine,
viz: St. CroiX River, near the breakWater,
Portland, Maine, and for beacons and buoys at
other important points in the st. Croix, Kenne-
beck, and Penobscot Rivers, etc; two thousand
dollars.
For light on pier-head at Kennebunk Harbor,
five hundred dollars.
For lighthouse to mark the eastern extrem-
ity to Edgemoggin Reach, to be placed upon
such points as may be determined, upon careful
examination and survey, six thousand dollars.
For beacons to mark lodges in Castine Har-
Dor, Maine, five thousand dollars.
For beacon on a ledge in st. Croix River,
about four miles below the town of Calais, and
lighthouse upon Big Island, at the mouth of
st. CroiX River, nine thousand dollars.
For lighthouse on or near the Widows Is
land, at the eastern entrance of Fox Island
thoroughfare, five thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse at the entrance of the
thoroughfare at Isle au Haute, five thousand dol
lars.
For lighthouse on Southern Island, at the
entrance of Tenants Harbor, in the town of st.
George, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For lighthouse at the entrance of Winter
Harbor, in Goldsburgh, four thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For the erection of two beacons in West Pas
samaquoddy Bay, to mark the channel over the
bar at the western entrance, three Thousand dol
lars.
For beacon on Harbor Ledge, a spindle on
Seal Ledges, spindle on Ship Yard Ledge, a
spindle on LowelPs Rock, and buoy on Ram
Island Ledge, in Rockport Harbor, Camden, six
thousand dollars.
For lighthouse on Noddle's Island, at the
entrance to the harbor of Castine and Brooks
vile, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For day-mark or beacon on Trott's Ledge,
about one mile form the entrance to Castine and
Brooksyille Harbor, five hundred dollars.
For a lighthouse at Dry Point, on Lineken's
Neck, on the westerly side of the Damariscotta
River, six thousand dollars.
For alight-house on Wood Island, five thous-
and dollars.
Aussachasetts-For continuation of the work
on foundation and lighthouse buildings on the
rocks called 'ESoW and Pigs" thirty thousand
dollars.
For rebuilding lighthouse at Gay Head, and
fitting it with first order Illuminating apparatus,
thirty thousand dollars.
That the sums appropriated March three,
eighteen hundred and hfty-one, and August
thirty-one, eighteen hundred and ffty-two, ssfor
iron spindles on the Graves and Harding's
Ledges, Boston Harbor," be applied to the pro-
curing and placing bell and triangle beacons
on these points
For the erection Of lighthouse and keep
being the sum appropriated for this object Sep
tember twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty,
five thousand dollars.
For the removal of the lighthouse at Truro,
(highlands,) Cape Cod, to proper site, and for
fitting the same with the most approved illumi-
mating apparatus, and to serve as substitute for
three lights at Nansett Beach, twenty-five thous-
and dollars.
For the preservation of the site of Billings
gate Island lighthouse, (Wellfeet,) two thous-
and dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at Brant's
Point, Nantucket, fifteen thousand dollars
For large fog-bells, for light-vessels in the
Vineyard Sound, in exchange for the small ones
now in use on board of these vessels, one thous-
and five hundred dollars.
For four iron twelve-pounder guns and equip
ments for fog-signals on board Of light-yessels
in Vineyard Sound, two thousand dollars.
For iron buoys and buoy-boats for approaches
to Boston Bay, and on Nantucket Shoals, five
thousand dollars.