TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 52. 1847. 175 CHAP. LI.-An .0ct to provide for the Punishment of Piracy in certain, Cases. March 3, 1847. Be it enacted— by the Senate and House if Representatives if the United States if America in Congress assembled, That any subject or Citizens and citizen of any foreign State, who shall be found and taken on the sea, subjects of fwmaking war upon the United States, or cruising against the vessels gfisfgiitgiié and property thereof, or of the citizens of the same, contrary to the ing wai- against provisions of any treaty existing between the United States and the m? U- Sam "‘"‘ · . . . . . tain cases to be State of which such person IS a citizen or subject, when by such med mf ,,,1,,- treaty such acts of such persons are declared to be piracy, may be i¤h€d¤Spi¤¤·¢S· arraigned, tried, convicted, and punished before any circuit court of the United States for the district into which such person may be brought, or shall be found, in the same manner as other persons charged with piracy may be arraigned, tried, convicted, and punished in said courts. Arenovnn, March 3, 1847. Cine. LII. —An Act authorizing the Erection of certain Lighthouses, and for March 3,1341 other Purposes. ·—————-—i—8? Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Res` 17° ` United States of America in Congress assembled, That as soon as a Appropriation cession shall be made by the States, respectively, within the limits of g;' i8l“h°“s°*¤ which any of the lighthouses and other public works hereinafter pro— c` vided for may be situated, to the United States, of the jurisdiction over a tract of land, respectively, proper for the said lighthouses and other public works, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the said lighthouses and other public works to be erected; and that he shall cause the lighthouses and other public works herein provided for, which may be situated on such locations as are now within and under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be erected as soon as practicable; and that the following sums be, and hereby are, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose herein specined, to wit: In Maine. - For building a lighthouse at Little River, in the town M,,,,,_,_ of Cutler, five thousand dollars. For rebuilding a lighthouse at Mount Desert Rock, fifteen thor,. sand dollars. For building alighthouse at Prospect Harbor, in the town of Gouldsborough, five thousand dollars. For a spindle on the South breaker, near Whitehead light, three hundred dollars. For placing buoys on Trundy’s Reef and Broad Cove Rock, in Muscle Ridge Channel, to wit, one at each of the following places : Hay Island Ledge, Hurricane Ledge, Shreves’s Ledge, Spencer’s Head, Island Ledge, Long Ledge, and Muscle Ledge, two thousand dollars. In New IIanipsltire.—For rebuilding the lighthouse on a rock New Hampshire called the Whale’s Back, twenty-tive thousand dollars, inclusive of a 1838, ch-00- former appropriation for a breakwater to protect that lighthouse. In Massacitusetts. -For such a beacon as may be deemed neces- Massachusetts. sary by the Secretary of the Treasury, on a rock called the "Londoner," near Thatcher’s Island, six thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on Minot’s Rock, in Boston Harbor, twenty thousand dollars. For three spar buoys, in Welfleet Harbor, four spar buoys at the mouth of Westport Harbor, and for nine buoys and a beacon in Buzzard’s Bay, two thousand dollars. For a light-boat to be stationed near a reef of rocks at the entrance
