Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-10
BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES4o.
PsssSd at tie fret session Of the Ihrtyehtr@ ~
United States.

For beacon buoy belI-boat as may be touEd mos;
e1Pedient to mark the oekockonee en0ai i've
For daynarks buoys and stakes to mark the bar and
channels of the ST. Marks River i've Thousand dollars
For beacon-ight be placed on the most egloe size
the western entrance lto 81 deoIge SUM- "
enable vessels night, hive thousand doaps
aaFor making Es range d lake W9
lights where required at tue Choctaw Fass ana log
Bar Mobile one thousand five hundred dollars
For completing the buoyage sakeage Of the channels
in Mobile Bay, Dauphn, stlS Bo Horn SNIP ana 0S' Is
For gRt and fogbe, to be placed on board of the
Bethel and Hospital ship moTred IN the haro0f Vi 0O''
HssisssppiWFor buoyage and stakeage of Pascagoula
bay of ne . MISSES
dollars d.. po,.,h.rtr.;r
in the place of the present structure which Will not ADMIT
OF Es"g o at Bayou ST. john place
the present structure which will admit of being repair
For new lighthouse at New Canal in place of the
sent structure which will admit Of being repaired SIX
For new beacon-light Proctorsvie in the place of
destroyed by fire November tweny-four eighteen num-
For an iron beboat to mark the to the nowy-
dredged channel of the Pass OF the Mississippi
For a screw-piie lighthouse the "shelI Keys" off
Marsh Island, thirty thousand dollars
For day beacon be placed the east end OF Horn
Island, one thousand dollars o,D
For light house to mark the channel OF the Grano russ
To BaratarIa Bay, ten thousand dollars
For lighthouse, to mark the main entrance 70 n.oai
For lighthouse to mark the channel passage called
the Rgoets connecting Lakes Borgue and POntcharrnn
For buoys and stakes the channels of the Atcha
faaya Blanche Bays and Bars five thousand dol
For an iron screwpe lighthouse TO be erected
The the channel of the Mississippi River ut
be fitted with the most approved OF
apparatus and fOgsgnals, foTty-ve thousand dollars
For buoyage of the Pass aPOure Mississippi RIVER one
For lighthouse at the mouth of Calcasieu River, six
TsSasNFor two small range-Eghts Galveston,
For completing the buoyage of Galveston Bar and Bay,
Sabine and River Matagorda Bar and Bay Aransas
Bar and Bay and Brzos Santiago Bar and Bay ten thou
For lighthouse Ga!linpper Point, Iavacca
For lighthouse or Half-Moon Reef Matagorda
Bay, ten thousand dollars
For q day-beacon mark the wreck of the steamboat
Farmer Pelican Island in Galveston Bay three hun
For beacon on the North Breaker mark
to Galveston Bay, five thousand dollars
AchigGnFIr repair Of the lighthouse foundation, and
pier connected the rewth Monroe thousand Two
For COMPLETING foundations of two lighthouses on ST.
Clair Flats, twenty thousand dAlars
For lighthouse and fogbe the south point of the
harbor of M,ehi mAckinac, Sax thousand dollars
For lighthouse AT or near Old Fort MackiaW Mich
For on Beaver Island six thousand dollars
lndiana.-For beacon-ight the pier bieIkwater
at Michigan city, two thousand dollars
breskwater now being constructed III Mauhegan Little
Fort, one thousand dollars
For buoys mark the bar and harbor Chicago
For light Il Port Clinton, five thousand dollars
For the foundation of lighthouse the breakwater
of construction the haror of Waukegun,
and for light, when the foundation shall be in suitable
light at Little Fort len thousand i've hundred dollars to
be expended under the direction 1.-THE Secretary of War
For light at Inylorport, five thousand dollars
lYscoastn-For small beacunight the pier
at Port Uao in lieu Of the Appropriation for lighthouse
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
FIR small beaGOpgh I be PLACED on the new pier at
completed, one thousand dollars
For lighthouse ut Fond du Lac at the head of Lake
Winnebago, ten thousand dollars
Gaornid-For harborlght at the town of Santa Cruz,
Bay OF Monterey, or on Punta Ano Nueva ten thousand
For harborlght Santa Barbara thousand dollars
For lighthouse on or near Point Lobos to mark the
entrance San Francisco Bay thousand dollars
For lighthouse on Puuta dc los Reyes, twenty thou
Oregon Isrrory-For lighthouse Umpqua, in ad-
don to the for that object approved March
Wa&asngton Itrrtory-For lighthouse Bunt's
Island in the Straits of Fuca twenty-five thousand
For Cape Shoalwaer, at the entrance
The bay Of that name twenty five thousand dollars
ness authorized by act Of Congress- approved September
twentyegh'h eighteen hundred and fifty, addition
any balance that remain the treasury of that appro
prailon afer the completion of the light at Cape DSar
p nnment, thirty-nine thousand dollars
For buoys for the harbor to New Dungenes
Tor the anchorages on the coast Of Puge Sound five
three thousand dollars
SIC And be Hfurthsr enacted, That the appro-
praed by the approved March third eighteen hundred
and and March third eighteen y-one
9r hghhoise on horseshoe Reef Niagara River, New
or any balance thereof remaining treasury on
Inc tnteth OF june eighteen hundred and tyfour be-
and they are hereby reapproprated for the
lighthouse at that point such plan as NAV be deerm
ned to be most advisable
SEC ARd be further enacted That the appropriation
nr lighthouse ON Santa Cruz California approved thirty
urst OF August eighteen hundred and fywo be- and the
sane hereby authorized be employed the erection
Of lighthouse Anacapa Island upon examination
oy Ire proper ohcef 1t IS ascertaned that eligible
sue gap ne found for the interests of navigation that
land, than on the adjacent of Santa Cruz !
Ec f. ind Ge HJurter enacted That tho Secretary of
Inc Treasury be- and he hereby authorized cause the
70 be Discontinued and the lighthouse buildings and
land belonging thereto at Calumet the State of Illinois
% De Sold and on payment of the consideration agreed
INTO the treasury of the United States make execute and
an needfui eonveyances of the and the special
jurisdiction OF the United States the shall hereuf
Ter -
SEC g. Ind be further enacted That the Secretary of
me Treasury be- and he hereby authorized unon the
pleon Of the lighthouse exhibition of the light author
zeo oy the hrst section of this be erected the
entrance to the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi to cause
me present light at that locality to be and
me tower buildings and land belonging thereto to be sold
mo upon the payments for the beng
mo denver all needfu therefor; uris
dicton of the United States said land shall
cease, ana revert to the State of Louisiana
SEC g. And be it further enacted That if after careful
lyorogaPhlcal examination of the locality and the ap-
rgacne thereto shall have been made it is found that the
gnt az the entrance to Vermion Bay Louisiana is not
necessary LOT the navigation of that bay the adjacent
oasis it shall be extngushed and the Secretary of the
Is authorized to cause the lands buildings
ongng thereto to be sod the manner as 6roy
led in the fifth section of this bill F
SEC T. And be further enacted That if preliminary SIR
1eys are required to ascertain the necessity any light
louse or other aid provided for this BILL determine
me proper site for the fully what
uoc exigency requires the Secretary Treasury
the necessary examinations and
YEA BOARD TO be made under the direction the Supernten
lent OF the Coast Survey, and those the northwestern
20 De made under the direction of the Bureau of To-