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CHAP. XXV.-An Act making appropriations for building lighthouses and beacons,
and placing buoys, and for improving harbours and directing surveys.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following appropria-
tions be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid, out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract for building lighthouses,
erecting beacons, and placing buoys, on the following sites and shoals,
to wit:

State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the most eligible site on an island called Mount Desert Rock.

Five thousand dollars for one on Hendrick's Head, a point of land near the mouth of Sheepscot river, or some place in the vicinity thereof; and Two thousand dollars for a tower and bell at Whitehead Point. State of New Hampshire: Ten thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to appropriations heretofore made for building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale's Back, near the harbour of Portsmouth. Three hundred dollars, for placing two buoys, one on Kitt's Rock, and one on a rock in Peperell's Cove in Portsmouth harbour.

State of Massachusetts: Two thousand dollars for the erection of a monument on the eastern point of the harbour of Gloucester.

One hundred dollars for placing two buoys at or near the same harbour; and

Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be placed on Minot's Ledge, Cohasset Rock, a beacon on Spit Sand, and a buoy on a ledge called Toddy Rock, at or near the harbour of Boston.

Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument on a ledge of rocks without the harbour of Swampscut, or in the vicinity of the same; and five hundred dollars for placing a spindle on Lone Rock and six spar buoys on rocks and ledges in the passage between the Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay.

Five hundred dollars for placing buoys and monuments on rocks and shoals in Anisquam harbour, in Gloucester.

State of Rhode Island: Six hundred dollars for six buoys and a spindle on the following sites, to wit: one on a ledge of rocks east of Brenton's Point, in the harbour of Newport, one on Auld's Rock, south-east of Rose Island, one on the extreme north point of Rose Island, one on Dyer's Rock, northeast of Coaster's Harbour Island, one on the ledge off the Bishop Rock, and one on the ledge north end of Prudence Island, and a spindle, with a ball, on the rock south end of Rose Island.

One hundred and fifty dollars for placing a buoy at the end of the shoal making out from the lighthouse on Goat Island.

Five thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at a proper site on the northwest point of Block Island.

And two thousand five hundred dollars for fixing two bells, viz: one to the lighthouse on Gull Island, and one on the Beaver Tail lighthouse. State of Connecticut: That the appropriation of six thousand two hundred dollars, made by the act of the first session of the twentieth Congress, for the erection of a beacon light on or near Spindle Rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbour, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be applied to the erection of a beacon instead of the said beacon light; and

Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Great Captain's Island, or Greenwich Point, or some other fit place in the vicinity of those mentioned in Long Island Sound.

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New York.

State of New York: Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse in Hudson river, at Four Miles Point, on the west side of the river, and four miles Lighthouse. north of the city of Hudson, or at some other site in the vicinity.

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Lighthouse.

Buoys.

New Jersey. Buoys.

Pennsylvania.

Buoys.

Delaware.

Lighthouse.

Virginia. Lighthouse.

South Caroli

Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on or near one of the Islands called the Brothers, at the Narrows in Long Island Sound; and

Five hundred dollars for eight buoys to be placed at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook.

State of New Jersey: Two hundred dollars for placing buoys at proper sites at New Inlet, or its vicinity, in the district of Little Egg harbour. State of Pennsylvania: Seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars for placing four buoys in the channel to the eastward of the Pea Patch.

State of Delaware: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on a proper site, on or near the northern extremity of Bombay Hook Island, in the Delaware bay.

State of Virginia: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse, or beacon light, at a point of land at or near Back River Point on the Chesapeake Bay. State of South Carolina: Six hundred dollars for the erection of a na. Beacon and beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entrance buoys. into the channel commonly known as Lawford's channel; and three hundred dollars for placing three buoys on proper sites on the Georgetown bar.

Georgia. Buoy.

Ohio. Buoys.

Lighthouse.

Michigan. Lighthouses. 1828, ch. 69.

Florida. Lighthouses.

Mississippi. Lighthouse.

Sums to be placed at the disposition of the President.

Purposes.

Maine. Kennebunk river, &c.

Penobscot.

New Hamp

shire. Piscata qua river, &c.

Massachu

State of Georgia: One thousand dollars for placing a buoy on the outer edge of the shoal called Martin's Industry, at the entrance of Port Royal Sound, or such other place as shall be designated.

State of Ohio: Three hundred and sixty dollars for six buoys to be placed on proper sites on the middle ground or bar at the entrance of Sandusky Bay.

Eight thousand dollars to build a lighthouse at Cleaveland, on Lake Erie.

Territory of Michigan: Instead of building the lighthouse at Otter Creek Point, as directed by an act of the first session of the twentieth Congress, the sum of five thousand dollars, therein appropriated, is hereby directed to be applied to build one at some other point or place, to be designated, in that vicinity.

Eight thousand dollars for a lighthouse at a suitable place near Fort Gratiot, at the entrance of Lake Huron.

Territory of Florida: Seven thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse at the mouth of St. John's river; and

Eight thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse near St. Mark's harbour.

State of Mississippi: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near the Pass Christian.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money appropriated by this section be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at the disposition of the President of the United States, for the following specified purposes or objects, to wit:

State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for repairing the pier on the eastern side of the channel at the entrance of Kennebunk river; and Three hundred dollars for surveying the ship channel of Penobscot river, from Whitehead to Bangor, and ascertaining the cost of improving the navigation of the same, and proper sites for spindles and buoys.

State of New Hampshire: Sixty dollars for making a survey of Cochecho branch of Piscataqua river, from Dover falls to its confluence with the Piscataqua, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of removing obstructions to navigation, and the cost.

State of Massachusetts: One hundred and eighty dollars for surveying setts. North ri- North river, between Scituate and Marshfield, to ascertain the expediver, &c. ency of removing obstructions at the mouth of the same, and to make an estimate of the cost.

One hundred and fifty dollars for examining the piers erected at Sandy Bay, to report the condition of the same, and what works are necessary to make a good and safe harbour, at that place, together with an estimate of the cost.

Thirty thousand dollars for removing the bar at the mouth of the harbour of Nantucket.

Sandy Bay.

Nantucket.

Edgartown

Two thousand five hundred dollars for extending the pier on which the lighthouse is built, at the entrance of Edgartown harbour, to the harbour. shore; and

One hundred and fifty dollars to survey the harbour at Bass river, between Yarmouth and Dennis, to ascertain the practicability and expense of improving the said harbour.

Bass river.

Connecticut.

State of Connecticut: Six thousand and ninety-seven dollars for improving the navigation of Mill river by removing obstructions in the said Mill river, &c. river, and constructing such works as will prevent the sand from filling up the channel of the same.

One hundred and fifty dollars for making a survey of the river Thames, with a view to improve the navigation of the same, and the cost of such improvements.

One hundred and thirty dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Westbrook, near the mouth of Connecticut river, with a view to the improvement of the said harbour, and for ascertaining the cost of such improvement.

Eighty dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Norwalk, with a view to its improvement.

One hundred dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Stamford, with a view to its improvement.

One hundred and fifty dollars to place a buoy on a rock in Long Island Sound, opposite Lloyd's Neck.

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State of New York: One hundred and fifty dollars for surveying the bar at the mouth of Sag Harbour, to ascertain the, best method of venting the harbour being filled up with sand, and the cost of the same. Thirty thousand dollars for extending the pier of Black Rock harbour, at the outlet of Lake Erie, to a point opposite Bird's Island.

For removing obstructions at the entrance of the harbour at Big Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For the improvement of the navigation of the Gennessee river, in the state of New York, ten thousand dollars.

State of New Jersey: One hundred dollars for surveying Flatbeach, alias Tucker's Island, situated between old and new inlet, with a view to preserve the anchorage of the port, and to report an estimate of the cost of such improvements as may be necessary to effect those objects.

State of Pennsylvania: Five thousand dollars for repairing the piers at Marcus Hook: for filling up the sluice between the said piers, and improving the harbour of Marcus Hook, by the removal of obstructions.

State of Virginia: Eighty dollars for making a survey of Deep creek, or branch of the south branch of Elizabeth river, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the same, and an estimate of the cost.

State of North Carolina: Eighty dollars for making a survey of Pascotank river, for removing bars, or obstructions in the same, and an estimate of the cost.

Thames.

Westbrook harbour.

Norwalk harbour.

Stamford har

bour.

Buoy at Lloyd's neck.

New York. Sag Harbour.

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Pascotank

river. Ocracock in

Twenty-one thousand dollars, being an additional appropriation, for effecting the removal of the shoals forming obstructions to navigation let. near Ocracock inlet; and

Twenty thousand dollars for improving the navigation of Cape Fear river, between the town of Wilmington and the mouth of the said river. Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys at the new channel point, at Gales' Island point, and at the lower mouth of Wallace's Channel in Pamlico Sound.

Cape Fear

river.

Buoys.

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Mississippi river.

Mississippi.

Pass Christian.

Pass Marianne. Lake Ponchartrain, &c.

Alabama.

Mobile harbour.

Florida.

harbour.

State of Ohio: Seven thousand five hundred dollars for improving the navigation of Conneaut creek, by removing the bar at the mouth of the same.

State of Louisiana: Two hundred dollars for making a survey of the entrance of the river Teche, with a view to improve and shorten the navigation of the same, and an estimate of the cost of such improve

ments.

Five hundred dollars for making a survey at the passes, at the mouth of the Mississippi, with a view to improvements in the navigation, and building lighthouses and buoys.

State of Mississippi: Five hundred dollars for placing buoys at Pass Christian.

Five hundred dollars for placing buoys at Pass Marianne.

Two hundred dollars for making a survey of the water tract between Lake Ponchartrain and Mobile Bay, with a view to the erection of lighthouses and placing of buoys.

State of Alabama: Twenty thousand dollars, the sum required for completing improvements in the harbour of Mobile.

Territory of Florida: Three hundred dollars for making a survey of St. Augustine the harbour of St. Augustine, and the bar at or near the entrance of the same, with a view to remove the latter, and to render the access to the harbour safe at all times, and to make an estimate of the cost of accomplishing that object; and

St. Mark's harbour.

STATUTE II.

March 2, 1829.
[Obsolete.]
Additional
appropriations

for military ser-
vice for the
year 1828.

May 24, 1828, ch. 123.

Pay, &c., of officers and the military academy.

For subsist

ence.

For forage for officers. For clothing for servants of officers, &c.

Six thousand five hundred dollars for improving the harbour of St.
Mark's, by removing obstructions in the same.
APPROVED, March 2, 1829.

CHAP. XXVI.-An Act making additional appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twentynine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:

For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, seven hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

For subsistence, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of twenty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars. For forage for officers, thirty thousand and ninety-six dollars.

For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the military academy, and twenty supernumerary second lieutenants, graduates of the military academy, fourteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight Supernumera- dollars. ry lieutenants. For the recruiting service.

For the pur

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of three thousand dollars, twelve thousand and forty-seven dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars, seventeen thousand two hundred and sixtytwo dollars.

For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, chasing depart amounting to eighty thousand dollars, viz: For clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, sixty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

ment.

For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, twenty thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, in addition to the probable amount on hand on the thirty-first of December last, of eight thousand dollars, eleven thousand dollars.

For the pur

chase of wool

lens.

Medical and

hospital depart

ment.

For the quartermaster's department, two hundred and fifty-eight thou- Quartermaster'3 department. sand seven hundred and eighty dollars.

Military road

For completing the military road from the mouth of Matanawcook river to Mars Hill, in the state of Maine, forty-two thousand nine hundred to Mars Hill. and thirty-two dollars.

For repairing the military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.

For repairing the same road between St. Augustine and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.

For fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., repairs, and for improving buildings, procuring articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and contingencies for the military academy at West Point, twenty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

For deficit of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, for the expenses of the board of visiters, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eleven cents.

For expenses of the board of visiters in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Military road, Pensacola and Tallahassee. Military road, St. Augustine

and Tallahas

see.

Fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., for military academy at West Point.

Board of visiters.

For the contingencies of the army, seven thousand five hundred dol- Contingencies lars.

of army.

National armories.

Armament of

For national armories, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For armament of fortifications, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty thousand nine fortifications. hundred and fifty dollars.

For arsenals, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand five hundred dollars.

The following sums, transferred to the surplus fund, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, are hereby re-appropriated:

For the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbour, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For removing obstructions in the harbour of Mobile, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-two cents. For piers at Newcastle, appropriated by act of the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, seventeen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-nine cents.

Creek treaty, appropriated by act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, sixty thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-five cents.

For the purchase of provisions for the Quapaws, by act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, two thousand dollars. And for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, per act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.

Ordnance service.

Arsenals.
Arrearages.

Transfers to surplus fund re-appropri ated: Provincetown harbour. 1826, ch. 78.

Mobile har

bour.

1826, ch. 78.

Newcastle. 1826, ch. 78.

Creek treaty. 1826, ch. 148.

Quapaws. 1825, ch. 16. Indian treaties.

1826, ch. 110.

Pay of com

militia.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That eight hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-five cents be appropriated to pay a company of Illinois pany of Illinois militia, commanded by Captain Achilles Morgan, called into service on the northwestern frontier, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty

1828, ch. 21.

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