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176 TWENTY·NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52. 1847. of the Vineyard Sound, called the Sow and Pigs, ten thousand dollars ; or for a permanent lighthouse on said reefQ as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem best. For buoys on Hatset’s rock, Mill Rock, and three buoys on the Spit in and near the harbor of Edgartown; for a buoy at Rockport; for a buoy off Brant Point, Nantucket; for beacons or buoys on Harbor Rock, Clam Rock, Elisha’s Ledge, Fort Point, and Black Rock, in the harbor of Gloucester, two thousand dollars; for a buoy on Ben’s Shoal off Monamoy Point, eighty dollars ; for a buoy-boat on the east end of Tuckermuck Shoal, and one on the end of Great or Sandy Point Rip, eight hundred dollars. For repairs to the causeway between the lighthouse and shore at Edgartown, five thousand dollars. C<>¤¤<=¤fi¤¤t— In Connecticut. —For a lighthouse on the North Dumpling, in Fisher’s Island Sound, five thousand dollars. For a beacon on the Southwest Ledge, in New Haven Harbor, one thousand dollars. For rebuilding the lighthouse at the entrance of New Haven Harbor, at a place to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. For buoys at the following places, viz. 2 One on Moulton’s Ledge, in New London Harbor, one on the outward end of the north east bar of " Two Tree Island," one on the north end of Bartlett’s Reef, one on the south end of the Great Goshen Reef, one on Wliite Rock Reef in Black Point Bay, and one at the Housatonic River, the sum of seven hundred and twenty dollars. To complete the sea-wall for the protection of the lighthouse on Fairweather Island, near Black Rock, ten thousand dollars. Rhvdc Island- In Rhode Island. -—For a buoy on Brinton’s Reef, near the entrance of the harbor of Newport, and for placing buoys on Buckley Rock, Race Rock, and on the east end of Watch Hill Reef, four hundred dollars. New Y°*k· In New Y0rk.——For a lighthouse at the entrance of Cattaraugus Creek, four thousand dollars. For a red light on Governor’s Island, one hundred and fifty dollars. For a lighthouse on Execution Rocks, in Long Island Sound, twenty- five thousand dollars. For a beacon on Sandy Hook, three hundred dollars. For a beacon on the south side of Staten Island, three hundred dollars. For three beacon lights on the River St. Lawrence, at the passage of the “Thousand Isles," one at the head of the Narrows, one at Low Rock islet below Alexandria, and one at the shoal below Crossover Island, six thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on Teller’s Point, on the Hudson River, four thousand dollars. For furnishing the lighthouses on the- Atlantic coast with means of rendering assistance to shipwrecked mariners, five thousand dollars, the same to be under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. P°¤¤S>‘l”¤*¤ In PennSyZvavzia.—To continue the construction of the llghlhouse on the Brandywine Shoals, in the Delaware River, thirty thou- T sand dollars. Mw ·l°”°Y~ In New Jersey.—For a beacon-light at the Corner Stake, (S0 called,) between Elizabethtown Point and Shorter’s Island, and also for a small light or lantern at Shorter’s Island, five thousand dollars. d 5`or a lighthouse on the south end of Tucker’s Beach, six thousand o ars. · For a buoy in the south channel of New Inlet, near Tuckerton, eighty dollars.