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THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 176. 1848. 321 Clin. CLXXVI.—-flu Act nutking A ra riaLi0n.s_ or Light/tous i h - _ Buoys, &·e., and providing for the gfcction and Efstablislnnent rislhld fuhaglwsl Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Clmgress assembled, That the following Approprinmn appropriations be, and the same are hereby made, and directed to be {l",,,_,Q§;;“°““°“· paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be bdoys, deci enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect: Provided, however, If a good title to any land which it may Proviso as to be necessary to use cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or the ex- Simclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession, where the interest of the United States demand it, before the appropriation would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appropriations shall be applicable'to the objects for which they are made at anytime within two years after the first meeting of the legislature, subsequent to the passage of this act, in any State wherein any such land lays, to wit: in lllaine. —— For a fog-bell at the lighthouse on Pond Island, mouth of Maine. Kennebec River, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For buoys and beacons in Casco Bay, one thousand dollars. In Massachusetts.- For a. lighthouse at the mouth of Parmet River, M¤¤¤=¤=h¤•¤¤¤ in Truro, Cape Cod, three thousand five hundred dollars. For a lighthouse and keeper’s house at Sankaty Head, Nantucket, twelve thousand dollars. For a small harbor light at Hyannis, two thousand dollars. For a beacon light on Palmer’s Island, New Bedford, three thousand five hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on Wing’s Neck, Buzzard's Bay, thirty-five hundred dollars. For a spar buoy at the mouth of Little Wood’s Hole Harbor; one on the westerly part of Mutton Shoal; one on the south-west point, and one on the north-west point of Hawe’s Shoal; one on the easterly point of Tom’s Shoal, in Muskeket Channel; and three at the mouth of Parmet River, Truro, five hundred dollars; and the upper buoy at Edgartown Harbor to be removed to the shoal point of Cape Poge. Li Rhode Island.- For a dolphin on Long Bed, in Providence Rhode wud_ River, in lieu of the buoy now placed there, one hundred and twenty dollars. For a spar buoy at each of the following places, to wit : ol}` Plumb Beach Point; on Mauna Rock ; on Flat Rock ; and on Bill Dyer’s Rock, near Wickford, two hundred dollars. For two buoys and a spindle at the mouth of Pawcatuck River, two hundred dollars. In Connecticut. -—For a light·boat to be placed on Eel Grass Shoal, Connecticut. in Fisher’s Island Sound, five thousand dollars. In New York. -—For three lamps on the Hudson River; one at the New York. extreme part of West Point; one at the bend of the river, about two miles north of Catskill landing, on the west side of the river; and one at Pryme’s Hook, two miles north of the city of Hudson, one hundred and fifty dollars. For three spar buoys at the mouth of Port Jefferson Harbor, Long Island, one hundred and eighty dollars. For eight spar buoys to guide vessels into Niagara River from Lake Erie, and into Black Rock Harbor, four hundred dollars. For a lighthouse upon the North Brother, near Hurl Gate, East River, if a title to the site can be obtained upon satisfactory terms, ten thousand dollars. In Pennsylvania. --- For a lighthouse on the stone pier in the River Pennsylvania- Delaware, near Fort Mifflin, five thousand dollars. Vox., IX. Pun. ——4l