TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch.25. 1829.
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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 UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following appropria-tions be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid, outof any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable theSecretary 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 mosteligible site on an island called Mount Desert Rock.
Five thousand dollars for one on Hendrick’s Head, a point of land nearthe 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, inaddition to appropriations heretofore made for building a lighthouse on aledge of rocks called the Whale’s Back, near the harbour of Portsmouth.
Three hundred dollars, for placing two buoys, one on Kitt’s Rock, andone on a rock in Peperell’s Cove in Portsmouth harbour.
State of Massachusetts : Two thousand dollars for the erection of amonument 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 calledToddy Rock, at or near the harbour of Boston .
Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument on a ledge of rockswithout the harbour of Swampscut, or in the vicinity of the same; andfive hundred dollars for placing a spindle on Lone Rock and six sparbuoys on rocks and ledges in the passage between the Vineyard Soundand Buzzard’s Bay.
Five hundred dollars for placing buoys and monuments on rocks andshoals in Anisquam harbour, in Gloucester .
State of Rhode Island : Six hundred dollars for six buoys and a spin-dle on the following sites, to wit: one on a ledge of rocks east of Bren-ton’s Point, in the harbour of Newport, one on Auld’s Rock, south-eastof Rose Island, one on the extreme north point of Rose Island, one onDyer’s Rock, northeast of Coaster’s Harbour Island, one on the ledgeoff 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 theshoal making out from the lighthouse on Goat Island.
Five thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at a proper site onthe northwest point of Block Island .
And two thousand five hundred dollars for fixing two bells, viz: one tothe lighthouse on Gull Island, and one on the Beaver Tail lighthouse.
State of Connecticut : That the appropriation of six thousand twohundred dollars, made by the act of the first session of the twentiethCongress , 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, direct-ed to be applied to the erection of a beacon instead of the said beaconlight; and
Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Great Captain’s Island, orGreenwich Point, or some other fit place in the vicinity of those men-tioned in Long Island Sound .
State of New York: Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse in Hudsonriver , at Four Miles Point, on the west side of the river, and four milesnorth of the city of Hudson, or at some other site in the vicinity.
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Statute II.March 2, 1829.
[Obsolete.]Appropria-tions for build-ing lighthouses,beacons, buoys.
Monument.
Buoy.