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214 FORTY-FIFTH CL N GRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 359. 1878. during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two and a half per centum on four hundred thousand dollars, seven thousand dollars Joseph Henry. To pay to the legal representatives of the late Joseph Henry, for services rendered by him as member and president of the Light House Board, eleven thousand dollars. tLigl:Eh0¤¤¤¤. LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG-SIG-NALS. 6 Reiner Shoal; For protecting the foundation of Romer Shoal beacon, New York Bay, two thousand five hundred dollars. Barnegat; For protecting the site to the light-house at Barnegat, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars. Ahseccm; For protecting the site of Absecom light-house, New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. Steam-tender. For building a steam-tender for general service on the Atlantic coast, fifty thousand dollars. _ American Shoal; For commencing the construction of a light house at or near American Shoal, Florida Reefs, Florida, seventy-nve thousand dollars. Th ir ty-in ile For protecting site of Thirty·mile Point light station, Lake Ontario, P<>i¤¤; New York, five thousand dollars. Green Island; For purchasing additional land at Green Island lightstation, Wisconsin, two hundred dollars Racine Point; For the establishment of a lake·coast light and fog-signal station on Racine Point, on Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, forty thousand dollars. Fort Point; For the erection of a light house at Fort Point, Galveston Harbor, Texas, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. Stannardmkcck. For continuing the erection of a light-house on Stanuard’s Rock, Michigan, one hundred thousand dollars. Piedras Blancas. For purchasing right of way to Piedras Blancas site, and supplying that station with water, two thousand dollars. Steam-tender. For building a steam-tender, for service on the Paciiic coast, sixty thousand dollars. Tillamook Hood, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of constructing a nrst-class light-house on Tillamook Head, Oregon. F 0 i- t R ip ley For building a light-house on Fort Ripley Shoals, Charleston Harbor, Shoals. South Carolina, to take the place of the light now at Castle Pinckney, five thousand dollars. pool, lol,o,l_ For the construction of a range-light on Paris Island, Port Royal Bay Point. Harbor South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars; and so much of the 187*% °h·246» act of July thirty first eighteen hundred and seventy six, as directs the 19 S°‘"°‘* 112* establishment of a range light on Bay Point, Port Royal Harbor, be, Month of Missis- and the ame is hereby, repealed; and the appropriation of fifteen ¤iPPi· r thousand dollars made by act approved June twenty-third, eighteen }g7§£:g’·;5g· hundred and seventy four, for a. light-house depot at Southwest Pass, "Louisiana, is made available for the establishment of a depot at such point near the mouth of the Mississippi River as the Light-House Board may select. Northern Lokoo For the erection of pier head lights on the northern and northwestern 1’rvvi¤v. lakes, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Light-House Board is hereby authorized to establish a small pier-head light on the pier of p,,,mg,,;al,oS;,q, the Portage Lake Ship Canal, Lake _Superior, and to lease so much of Canal. said pier as may be necessary for said purpose, the expenses of estab- Proriao. lishing said light to be paid for irom this appropriation: And provided R-S-355.p-59. further That the provision of section three hundred and nfty five and ,1$,b§,;“f1¤,P·914• forty-six hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United pp y` States shall not be applicable to this structure so far as title to the site thereof and cession of jurisdiction thereover are involved. Ohio River. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for maintaining lights on the Ohio River from the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty