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Alabama.In the state of Alabama, three hundred and twenty dollars for buoys, to be placed on the following points, to wit; A spar buoy at the south-east extremity of the shoal projecting from Mobile Point, one on the west side of the channel on the bar, one on the south-east side of the Spit projecting from Sand Island, and one on Dog river bar.

Louisiana.In the state of Louisiana, one thousand one hundred dollars, for placing eleven buoys on proper sites, at the entrance of the Mississippi river, and six hundred dollars for three lamps or lights, to wit: one for Petit Coquelles, one for Chef Menteur, and one for Fort St. Philip.

Georgia.In the state of Georgia, fifty thousand dollars, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to remove obstructions in the river Savannah, below the city of Savannah; one thousand five hundred dollars for a beacon on Grass Island, at the entrance of Cockspur Harbour.Mississippi. In the state of Mississippi, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse on the Mississippi river, at the town of Natchez. In the territory of Florida, not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Sambo Keys, or Sand Key.

Addition to the salary of the keeper of Quaddy Head Lighthouse, Maine.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the keeper of Quaddy Head lighthouse, in the state of Maine, shall be allowed, in addition to his present salary, the sum of sixty dollars annually, for ringing the bell connected with said lighthouse, from the time he commenced ringing said bell.

When the lighthouse on the Highlands of Neversink is built a lighted, the light vessel, at present anchored at the Hook, shall be removed, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, when the lighthouses, directed to be built on the Highlands of Neversink, in the state of New Jersey, shall be built and lighted, the light vessel, at present anchored at the Hook, shall be removed, and anchored at or near Five Fathom Bank, off the capes of Delaware Bay. And also, that when the Brandywine lighthouse shall be lighted, the Brandywine light vessel, if the same will answer the purpose, shall be anchored at or near Tuckanuck Shoal, in the Vineyard Sound.

Lighthouse to be built near Buffalo Creek.
Lighthouse at Throgg’s Neck.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the lighthouse, directed to be built on a proper site, near Buffalo Creek, in the state of New York, shall be built and lighted, the present lighthouse near Buffalo shall ont be lighted. And that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the lighthouse, heretofore directed to be built on Throgg’s Neck, to be erected either on the said Neck, or the reef adjacent thereto, as he may deem expedient.

Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 18, 1826.

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May 18, 1826.

Chap. LXXIV.An Act regulating the accountability for clothing and equipage issued to the army of the United States, and for the better organization of the quartermaster’s department.

Duties of the quartermaster’s department in addition to its present duties.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the quartermaster’s department, in addition to its present duties, to receive, from the purchasing department, and distribute to the army of the United States, all clothing and camp equipage required for the use of the troops; and that it shall be the duty of the quartermaster general, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to prescribe and enforce, under the provisions of this act, a system of accountability for all clothing and equipage issued to the army.