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two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents be, and the same ishereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, for furnishing the rooms in the centre buildingof the Capitol, under the direction of the commissioner of the publicbuildings.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

Chap. CLXXIX .—An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses, light vessels,and beacons, therein mentioned, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theTreasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide, by contract, forbuilding lighthouses and light vessels, erecting beacons, and placingbuoys, on the following sites or shoals, to wit:

A lighthouse at Owl’s Head, in the state of Maine .

A lighthouse at the mouth of Great Sodus bay, on Lake Ontario ;and one on Yerplank’s Point, in Hudson river, in the state of NewYork .

A lighthouse at the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio .

A beacon light on Cape Henlopen, in the state of Delaware .

A lighthouse on Pool’s Island, and one on Thomas’s Point, in theChesapeake Bay, in the state of Maryland .

A light vessel at or near the long shoal in Pamptico Sound, in thestate of North Carolina .

A lighthouse on one of the Sambo Keys, and a light vessel on theCareysfort Reef, in the territory of Florida .

A beacon on Castle Island, and five buoys near Bristol Ferry, in thestate of Rhode Island .

A pier and three buoys at the mouth of Saco River, and a pier at themouth of Well’s Harbour, in the state of Maine .

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out ofany money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sumsof money, to wit:

For building a lighthouse in the state of Maine , on Owl’s Head, fourthousand dollars.

A lighthouse on Great Sodus bay, on Lake Ontario , in the state ofNew York , four thousand five hundred dollars; and for one on Ver-plank’s Point, in the Iluson [Hudson] River, in the same state, fourthousand five hundred dollars.

A lighthouse at the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio , .eightthousand dollars.

For erecting a beacon light on Cape Henlopen, in the state of Dela-ware , three thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse on Pool’s Island, in the Chesapeake , in the state ofMaryland , five thousand dollars; and for one on Thomas’s Point, inthe same bay, and same state, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For a light vessel to be placed at or near the long shoals on PampticoSound, in the state of North Carolina , ten thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse on the Sambo Keys, in the territory of Florida , sixteenthousand dollars; for a light vessel for Careysfort Reef, twenty thousanddollars; for the lighthouses directed to be built—one on the Dry Tor-tuga s, and one on Cape Florida , in the same territory, including the ap-propriations already made by law, a sum, for each, not exceeding sixteenthousand dollars.

For a beacon and buoys between the Dry Tortugas and the coast ofFlorida , four thousand dollars.

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For furnishingthe rooms in thecentre buildingof the Capitol.

Statute I.

May 26, 1824.

Secretary ofthe Treasuryempowered toprovide, by con-tract, for build-ing lighthouses,&c., on the fol-lowing sites orshoals.

Appropriation