Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXV.—An Act making appropriations for building lighthouses and beacons, and placing buoys, and for improving harbours and directing surveys.
Appropriations for building lighthouses, beacons, buoys.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract for building lighthouses, erecting beacons, and placing buoys, on the following sites and shoals, to wit:
Maine Lighthouses.State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the most eligible site on an island called Mount Desert Rock.
Five thousand dollars for one on Hendrick’s Head, a point of land near the mouth of Sheepscot river, or some place in the vicinity thereof; and
Tower and bell.Two thousand dollars for a tower and bell at Whitehead Point.
New Hampshire. Lighthouse.State of New Hampshire: Ten thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to appropriations heretofore made for building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale’s Back, near the harbour of Portsmouth.
Buoys.Three hundred dollars, for placing two buoys, one on Kitt’s Rock, and one on a rock in Peperell’s Cove in Portsmouth harbour.
Massachusetts. Monument.State of Massachusetts: Two thousand dollars for the erection of a monument on the eastern point of the harbour of Gloucester.
Buoys.One hundred dollars for placing two buoys at or near the same harbour; and
Spindle.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 called Toddy Rock, at or near the harbour of Boston.
Monument.Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument on a ledge of rocks without the harbour of Swampscut, or in the vicinity of the same; and five hundred dollars for placing a spindle on Lone Rock and six spar buoys on rocks and ledges in the passage between the Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay.
Buoys and monuments.Five hundred dollars for placing buoys and monuments on rocks and shoals in Anisquam harbour, in Gloucester.
Rhode Island. Buoys and spindles.State of Rhode Island: Six hundred dollars for six buoys and a spindle on the following sites, to wit: one on a ledge of rocks east of Brenton’s Point, in the harbour of Newport, one on Auld’s Rock, south-east of Rose Island, one on the extreme north point of Rose Island, one on Dyer’s Rock, northeast of Coaster’s Harbour Island, one on the ledge off the Bishop Rock, and one on the ledge north end of Prudence Island, and a spindle, with a ball, on the rock south of Rose Island.
Buoy.One hundred and fifty dollars for placing a buoy at the end of the shoal making out from the lighthouse on Goat Island.
Lighthouse.Five thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at a proper site on the northwest point of Block Island.
Bells to lighthouses.And two thousand five hundred dollars for fixing two bells, viz: one to the lighthouse on Gull Island, and one on the Beaver Tail lighthouse.
Connecticut. Beacon instead of beacon light.
1828, ch. 69.State of Connecticut: That the appropriation of six thousand two hundred dollars, made by the act of the first session of the twentieth Congress, 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, directed to be applied to the erection of a beacon instead of the said beacon light; and
Lighthouse.Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Great Captain’s Island, or Greenwich Point, or some other fit place in the vicinity of those mentioned in Long Island Sound.
New York. Lighthouse.State of New York: Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse in Hudson river, at Four Miles Point, on the west side of the river, and four miles north of the city of Hudson, or at some other site in the vicinity.