TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 103.
1831.
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State of Maine . —Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at the west-ern entrance of Fox island thoroughfare.
Six thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Cape Porpoise.
Four thousand dollars for increasing the height of the lighthouse onBoon island.
Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Marshal’s Point, inthe town of St. George .
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse at Whitehead.
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse on Franklin island.
Five hundred and ten dollars for spindles and buoys in Penobscotriver.
State of Massachusetts . —Five thousand dollars for building a light-house on the monument at Gloucester Point.
One thousand dollars for erecting a monument on or near CohassetRocks.
Two hundred and fifty dollars in addition to an unexpended balanceof a former appropriation, for erecting a spindle-beacon on Minot’sLedge, and placing a buoy on Hospital Island Ledge near George’sisland.
Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument upon a ledge ofrocks situated at the outer part of the harbour of Swampscut.
One thousand dollars for two monuments, one on Sunken island, andthe other on Pig Rocks, in Braintree bay.
Five hundred dollars for placing ten buoys in the northern channelthrough the Vineyard Sound, at the following places: one on Point Rips;one on the Shovel Shoals, near Monomoy Point; three on the Handker-chief , north-east, south-east, and south-west parts; one on a rock nearHyannis harbour, in the channel; and two on the Broad Shoal to theeastward of Falmouth, east and west parts.
Five thousand dollars for re-building a lighthouse on Cape Cod , shouldit be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Four hundred dollars for placing six buoys on ledges and rocks at aplace called Wood’s Hole , near Falmouth; and a spindle on Lone Rock,near that place.
State of Rhode Island . —For a beacon-light at or near the entranceof the harbour of Wickford, in the town of North Kingston, three thou-sand dollars.
Fifty dollars for a spindle on the Halfway Rock between the islandsof Rhode Island and Connecticut .
State of Connecticut . —Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouseat or near Morgan’s Point, on the north side of Fisher’s Island Sound, inthe township of Groton.
Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be erected on the Whale Rock,at the entrance of Mystic river, and for one on Turner’s Reef , situatedabout one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher’s island.
Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the westside of New Haven harbour; and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys onPardee’s bar, Black Rock Bar, and the Shag Banks in said harbour.
Six thousand and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument orbeacon on Brandford Reef, in Long Island Sound .
Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz : one on the northend of Hatchet’s Reef, in the Sound ; one on the south end of said reef;one on the south-east tail of Saybrook Bar, at the mouth of Connecticut river; and one on the south end of Crane Reef, west of Saybrook .
State of New York . —Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollarsto rebuild the beacon in Black Rock harbour, should it be deemed expe-dient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Four thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on a proper site nearSackett’s Harbour, in Lake Ontario .
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