St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-02-05
GOficiall
LAWS OF THE Z. S.
Passed at the Second Session of the Fortieth
Congress.
Continued tr0m. last ,ceek.D

For the Atlantic, Cult, lake, and Pa
clfic coasts, viz:
For supplying the lighthouses an
beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chin
neys, chamois skins, whiting, spirits G
VINE, polishing powder, cleaning towels
brushes, and other necessary expenses G
the same, and repairing and keeping i
repair the lighting apparatus, two hun
dred and torty-six thousand dollars
Provided, That the Lighthouse Boar,
be, and hereby is, authorized to appl
the amount heretofore appropriated 80
building a lighthouse on a proper site a
Irowbrldge Point, in Thunder bay. il
the State of Michigan" to building ;
lighthouse on ii more eligible site, if sucI
can be found in the immediate vicinity
And provided further, That the an
preparation now availably for rebuild
ing the lighthouse at Bailey's Harbor
Lake Michigan, be applied TO the cree
ton OF new structure between tha
point and North bay, and upon its com.
/ Pletien the light at Bailey's IIarbor shaI
be discontinued
For the necessary repairs and Incl
dental expenses, improving and refitting
lighthouses and buildings connected
Herewith, two hundred thousand dollars.
For salaries oftive hundred and eighty
nine keepers of lighthouses and lighted
beacons, and their assistants, four hun
dred and elghty-seven thousand three hun
dred and titty-two dollars
For salaries Of keepers of light-vessels.
twenty-one thousand three hundred dol
lars
For seamcn's wages, repairs, supplies,
and incidental expenses. of twentv-four
Ight-vesse!s, two hundred and thirty
two thousand two hundred and ninety
dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, remoOring, and supplying
losses OF bearons and buOys, and for chains
and sinkers for the same, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of
reiitting and improving fog-sisnals and
buildings connected Herewith. twenty
thousand dollars
For expenses of visiting and inspecting
lights and other aids to navigation. two
thousand dollars
For lighted beacon on Rose Island.
Narraganset bay, seven thousand five
hundred dollars
For repairs and renovaiions at Watch
Hill, North Dumping, and Saybrook
light station. Connecticut, ten Thousand
dollars
For a fog signal at Eaton's Neck light
station, three thousand dollars.
For the erection of permanent buoy
on Success Rock, Long Island sound. |
three thousand dollars
For repairs and renovations at Brock
ways Reach and Bordeo's Flats beaconS.
eleven thousand four hundred dollars.
For protecting the lighthouse site at
Barnegat, New Jersey, seven thousand
dollars.
For new lantern at Delewaye Break
water light station, two thousand dol
lars.
For range lights on Sullivan's island,
Charleston harbor, fifteen thousand dol |
lars.
For day bcacons on Oyster Rocks.
mouth OF Savannah river, two thousand |
lollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse on Cape
Canaveral, Florida, and fitting it up
with irst-order catadioptric light, in
addition TO foreign appropriations, thirty
thousand dollars
For reimbursing the keepers at Timba-
lier lighthouse the loss of their private
property, destroyed with the lighthouse,
'our hundred dollars
For range lights at Bailey's Harbor,
W lsconsln. SIX thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Beaver
Island light station, five thousand dollars
For renOvating and relighting the
lighthouse OH Michigan Island. Lake
Superior, six thousand dollars
For Il range of lights for Copper Har-
Dor, Lake Superior, with a FOG bell or
such other ear-signal as the secretary OF
he treasury on the recommendation OF
he light house board may adopt, in adj
lltion to former appropriations, five
thousand dollars.
For first order light house at Point
Ano Nuevo, or vicinity, California, nine
" thousand dollars.
For a steam light house tender for the
.weltth district, TO replace the one wreck
ed on the coast of California. ninety
dollars.
For one buoy and light house tender
or service on the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts, forty thousand dollars.
For enabling the light house board TO
experiment with new illuminating" ap-
oaratus and fog signals, i'll addition to
former appropriations, one thousand dol
lars.
For enabling the light house board to
lights and other aids to nav
CATION on the southern coast, in addition
TO former appropriations, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For compensation Of two superintend-
.nts of the lite-saving stations on the
.oast of Long Island and New Jersey,
-hree thousand dollars.
For life boat and station at the south |
end of Narraganset beach, Rhode Island,
two thousand dollars.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers
Of stations, at two hundred dollars each, |
ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies OF life saving sta
tions on the coast of the United States,
ten thousand dollars.
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
For pay of officers and pilots, four
hundred and eight thousand six hundred
dollars: Provided, That hereafter no