United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 4
Chap. IV.—An Act to provide for Lighthouses in Long Island sound; and to declare Roxbury, in the state of Massachusetts, to be a port of delivery.
A lighthouse to be placed on Watch Hill Point, and one on Sands’s or Watch Point in Long Island Sound.
Keepers to be appointed.
Proviso.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 hereby is authorized and required, to cause two good and sufficient lighthouses to be erected in Long Island sound, one to be placed on Watch Hill Point, in the town of Westerly, and state of Rhode Island, and the other on Sands’s or Watch Point, in the town of Northampsted, on Long Island, in the state of New York, and to appoint the keepers of the said lighthouses, (under the direction of the President of the United States,) and otherwise provide for such lighthouses, at the expense of the United States: Provided, that sufficient land, for the accommodation of such lighthouses, can be obtained, at a reasonable price, and the legislatures of Rhode Island and New York shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States. And a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting the said lighthouses, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
The houses to be so constructed, as that their lights, on being discovered, may be distinguished from other lights.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said lighthouses so to be constructed, that their lights, on being discovered, may with certainty be distinguished from those of all other lighthouses, heretofore erected in their neighborhood.
Roxbury, in Massachusetts, to be annexed to the district of Boston and Charlestown.
1799, ch. 22.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the town or landing place of Roxbury, in the state of Massachusetts, shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Boston and Charlestown, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions, as other ports of delivery in the United States.
Approved, January 22, 1806.