United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 15
Chap. XV.—An Act declaring the town of Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, to be a port of delivery; and for erecting a Lighthouse on Wood Island, or Fletcher’s neck, in the state of Massachusetts.”
Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, made a port of delivery.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 7.
Surveyor to reside at the said place.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the town, or landing place of Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Perth Amboy, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States. And there shall be appointed a surveyor to reside at the said port of delivery, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars, annually.
A lighthouse to be erected on Wood Island, or on Fletcher’s neck.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to cause a good and sufficient lighthouse to be erected on Wood Island, or on Fletcher’s neck, in the district of Maine, (selecting either place, as the President of the United States may deem most eligible) 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 Massachusetts shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States. And the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the erection of said lighthouse, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 8, 1806.