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TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cii. 25. 1829.
Buoys.
Sums to beplaced at thedisposition ofthe President.
Purposes.
Penobscot.
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 be-tween the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook.
State of New Jersey : Two hundred dollars for placing buoys at propersites at New Inlet, or its vicinity, in the district of Little Egg harbour.
State of Pennsylvania : Seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars forplacing four buoys in the channel to the eastward of the Pea Patch.
State of Delaware : Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on a propersite, on or near the northern extremity of Bombay Hook Island, in theDelaware bay .
State of Virginia : Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse, or beaconlight, 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 abeacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entranceinto the channel commonly known as Lawford’s channel; and threehundred dollars for placing three buoys on proper sites on the George-town bar.
State of Georgia : One thousand dollars for placing a buoy on theouter edge of the shoal called Martin’s Industry, at the entrance of PortRoyal Sound, or such other place as shall be designated.
State of Ohio : Three hundred and sixty dollars for six buoys to beplaced on proper sites on the middle ground or bar at the entrance ofSandusky Bay.
Eight thousand dollars to build a lighthouse at Cleaveland, on LakeErie .
Territory of Michigan : Instead of building the lighthouse at OtterCreek Point, as directed by an act of the first session of the twentiethCongress, the sum of five thousand dollars, therein appropriated, is here-by directed to be applied to build one at some other point or place, tobe designated, in that vicinity.
Eight thousand dollars for a lighthouse at a suitable place near FortGratiot, at the entrance of Lake Huron .
Territory of Florida : Seven thousand five hundred dollars, in additionto the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse at themouth 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 nearthe Pass Christian.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money appro-priated by this section be, and the same are hereby, directed to bepaid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, andplaced at the disposition of the President of the United States , for thefollowing specified purposes or objects, to wit:
State of Maine : Five thousand dollars for repairing the pier on theeastern side of the channel at the entrance of Kennebunk river ; and
Three hundred dollars for surveying the ship channel of Penobscotriver, from Whitehead to Bangor , and ascertaining the cost of improvingthe navigation of the same, and proper sites for spindles and buoys.
State of New Hampshire : Sixty dollars for making a survey of Co-checho branch of Piscataqua river, from Dover falls to its confluence withthe Piscataqua, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability ofremoving obstructions to navigation, and the cost.
State of Massachusetts : One hundred and eighty dollars for surveyingNorth river, between Scituate and Marshfield, to ascertain the expedi-ency of removing obstructions at the mouth of the same, and to makean estimate of the cost.