United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/6th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 3
Chap. III.—An Act to provide for the erection and support of a Lighthouse on Cape Poge, at the northeasterly part of Martha’s Vineyard.
Lighthouse to be erected on Cape Poge.Section 1. 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 shall be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause a sufficient lighthouse to be erected on Cape Poge (so called) on Martha’s Vineyard, in the state of Massachusetts, and to appoint a keeper, and otherwise to provide for support of such lighthouse at the expense of the United States: Provided, that sufficient land for the accommodation of such lighthouse, together with the jurisdiction thereof, shall be duly and legally granted to, and vested in the United States.
That there shall be, and hereby is appropriated for the erection of said lighthouse on Cape Poge, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 30, 1801.