Georgia, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a lighthouse thereon, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President for the superintendence and care of the same. And the President is hereby authorized to make the said appointments.
Secretary of the Treasury to have buoys placed near the bar of St. Simon’s.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury under the direction of the President, be authorized and required to cause to be placed a buoy or buoys at such place or places on or near the bar of St. Simon’s, as may conduce to the safe pilotage of vessels to and from the ports of Brunswick and Frederica.
The Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be rebuilt, the lighthouse at Clark’s point.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be rebuilt, in such manner as he may deem expedient, the lighthouse at Clark’s point within the town of New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Treasury required to cause a lighthouse to be built at Fivemile point, &c.
Proviso.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required to cause a sufficient lighthouse to be erected on Fivemile point, so called, near the entrance of the harbor of New Haven, in the state of Connecticut, and to appoint a keeper, and otherwise provide for such lighthouse at the expense of the United States: Provided, that sufficient land for the accommodation of such lighthouse, can be obtained at a reasonable price, and the legislature of Connecticut shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States.
Appropriations for carrying this act into effect.
Lighthouse at Clark’s point.
Lighthouse at Fivemile point, Georgia.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated for the purpose of defraying the charges and expenses to be incurred in executing the two first sections of this act, the sum of seven thousand dollars;—for rebuilding the lighthouse as aforesaid at Clark’s point, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the erection of a lighthouse at the Fivemile point aforesaid, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; which sums shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 14, 1804.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXVI.—An Act granting further time for locating military land warrants, and for other purposes.[1]
Act of March 1800. Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 33.
Limitation as to the location of warrants.
1802, ch. 30.
June 1, 1796, ch. 46.
Proviso.
The Secretary of War to endorse the warrant or certificate that no warrant has been issued for the same in virtue of the act of March 3, 1803, ch. 33.
Act of March 1, 1800.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act intituled “An act in addition to an act, intituled An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen,” approved the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force, until the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and five: Provided, however, that the holders or proprietors of warrants or registered certificates, shall and may locate the same, only on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships, and the fractional quarter townships, which had been reserved for original holders, by virtue of the fifth section of an act, intituled “An act in addition to an act, intituled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen:” And provided also, that no holder or proprietor of warrants or registered certificates, shall be permitted to locate the same by virtue of this act, unless the Secretary of War shall have made an endorsement on such warrant or registered certificate, certifying that no
- ↑ See notes to vol. i. 464, and act of March 23, 1804, vol. 2. 274.
