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282 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 69. 1828. Nothing in Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained tm °°**é> be shall be construed to extend to any court of the United States now €;°s§t{:;n;,° "' established, or which may hereafter be established, in the state of Louisicourt, Src. ana. (a) Approved, May 19, 1828. Srnurn I. May 23, 1828. CHAP. LXIX.—An det to authorize the building of lighthouses, and for other ··é·—— purposes. Secretary of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gh; Efgsggho States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the I,,,,!;,,;,, yo,. Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide, by contract, for building light- building lighthouses and light vessels, and erecting beacons, and placing h°““°’> &°• buoys, on the following sites and shoals, to wit: AtDioe>sHead. In the state of Maine, a lighthouse at Dice’s Head. P°3’:.N°l’“‘1“° In the state of Massachusetts, a lighthouse on Nobsque point; one on the Point of Flats, at the entrance of Edgartown harbour; a lighthouse on Dumpling rock south of the mouth of Aponeganset river. On Nayat In the state of Ilhode Island, alighthouse on Na at oint; and two S Y P P°l¤*.» &°· pyramids or spindles, to wit: one on a reef of rocks, under water, opposite to Pawtuxet, and one on a reef of rocks, o osite the Punham Rock, _ PP in the northern part of Narraganset bay. · _ _ g Ith tt fC t b ight th Sp dl Beacon light n e s a e 0 onnecticu , a eacon 1 on or near e in c gi Sflndle Rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbour. 912,0 ughv In the state of New York, two small lighthouses, to wit: one on the houses north or flats, two miles north of Kinder Hook, upper landing, called the Drowned Kl¤d¤¤ H00k, Lands, and one on the point of the island on the west side of the chan- &°' nel, opposite the lower landing. A lighthouse at a proper site, at or near Portland on Lake Erie. TW¤ light- In the, state of Maryland, two lighthouses; one on Little Watt’s Island, l';';?;; (;';lg“;f,tl° at the south-eastern extremity of Tangier Sound; and the other on Clay sro. ’ Island, at the northernmost extremity of the same sound; and a beacon U light, or a small lighthouse on Point Lookout, in the Chesapeake bay. L¤ehth;»n¤e In the state of Virginia, a lighthouse on Sm1th’s point, at the mouth

£;"‘°l‘of the Potomac, in the Chesapeake bay.

Lgéhr ,,,,,,,1 In the state of North Carolina, a light vessel, to be substituted for the todbeglsubstitu- lighthouse heretofore directed to be built at the Point of Marsh, at the " > °· mouth of Neuse river. B<>¤¤<>¤ light- A beacon light, or small lighthouse, at a proper site on Pamptico point; house on Pam - g mo Sound, gg_ and one at the south entrance of Roanoake marshes. Lighthouse in In the state of Alabama, a lighthouse at or near Choctaw point, in M<>l>il¤ l>¤Y»&<=· Mobile bay ; and an iron spindle on Sand island, on the outer bar of Mobile bay. Two light- In the territory of Michigan, two lighthouses; one at Otter creek 32x3i;;;: “ point, at the head of Lake Erie, and the other on the Island of Bois Porn,) &,,_ Blanc, near Michilimacinac. _ Lighthouse, In the territory ofFlorida, a lighthouse at the mouth of St. John’s river. S°é·l;:;"';’:f· Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That the following sums of money ,,,,,,,,,1 mpg, be appropriated and paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise paid from the appropriated, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act mto "°”'”Y· eifect, viz: 0nIBS;‘£‘S°I‘;“e:d For building a lighthouse on Dice’s Head, five thousand dollars. 1,,;,,,},,,,,,,,For the lighthouse on Nobsque point, three thousand dollars; and for on Nobsque the pier and lighthouse at the entrance of Edgartown harbour, five thou- R*fl*3$1°· E sand five hundred dollars. Du,;i,,n;`:.:,,t_ For a lighthouse on Dumpling rock, four thousand dollars.

(a) See an act to regulate the mode of ractice in the courts of the United States in Louisiana, May P 26, 1824, ch. 181, and notes to that act.