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Chap. XXXVII.—An Act to erect a lighthouse on Boon island in the state of Massachusetts, to place buoys off Cape Fear river, and to erect a beacon at New Inlet, in the state of North Carolina, and to place buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, and to erect a column of stone on Cape Elizabeth, and to complete the beacons and buoys at the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the state of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Treasury may establish a lighthouse on Boon island.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, on being satisfied that Boon island in the district of Maine, in the state of Massachusetts, is a fit and eligible site for a lighthouse, and that one ought to be erected thereon, to cause a lighthouse to be built on the said island: Provided, that the legislature of Massachusetts shall vest the property of the said island in the United States, and cede the jurisdiction of the same.
Buoys to be placed off Cape Fear.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to cause buoys to be placed at or near the main bar, and New Inlet bar off Cape Fear; and also, to cause to be erected a beacon on a point of land, near New Inlet, in the state of North Carolina.
Buoys to be placed at Edgartown harbor.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to cause such buoys as he shall deem necessary, to be placed at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, in the state of Massachusetts.
Beacon to be placed on Cape Elizabeth.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be erected a column of stone, as a beacon, on Cape Elizabeth, in the state of Massachusetts, of such form and dimensions as he shall deem necessary.
Specific appropriations.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein mentioned, to wit: For the erection of a lighthouse on Boon island, three thousand dollars; for placing buoys on the places mentioned off Cape Fear river, two thousand dollars; for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, two thousand dollars; for erecting a beacon, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for erecting a column on Cape Elizabeth, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for completing the beacons and buoys ordered to be placed near the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the state of Massachusetts, the further sum of three hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1811.
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Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act to extend the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes.
Act of Feb. 27, 1809, ch. 19.
Act of Dec. 15, 1809, ch. 2.
Qualifications of voters.
1814, ch. 19.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each and every free white male person, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have paid a county or territorial tax, and who shall have resided one year in said territory, previous to any general election, and be at the time of any such election a resident of said territory, shall be entitled to vote for members of the legislative council and house of representatives of the territorial legislature, and for a delegate to the Congress of the United States for said territory.
