Light-houses, &c.For an appropriation in addition to the appropriation for building a light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and for repairing the block-house at the Balize for a temporary light-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the Bald Head light-house, in North Carolina, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the light-house at Nantucket, recently destroyed by fire, seven thousand five hundred dollars; beacon-lights on Sandy hook, one thousand two hundred dollars; erection of a beacon and placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Bristol, in Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For a light on Tybee, and for erecting six beacons, and placing four buoys on such sites, and at such points, as the commissioners of pilotage, residing at Savannah, shall fix on, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For an additional appropriation for building a light-house at Tarpaulin cove, three thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars.
For the following objects, being the balances of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, viz:
For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Lookout, in North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in Georgia, ten thousand dollars.
For erecting a light-house on the south point of Sapelo Island, in Georgia, fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbour of Beverly, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For placing buoys, as deemed necessary, at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents.
For erecting two light-houses on Lake Erie, viz: On or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, seventeen thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on Petite Manan, six thousand dollars.
For fitting up light-houses heretofore authorized to be erected, with the apparatus for lighting the same, five thousand dollars.
For fitting up the light-houses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, agreeably to his contract of the 26th day of March, 1812, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, six thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon on a point of land near New Inlet, in North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the commissioner for settling claims, &c.For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property lost, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in said commissioner’s office, one thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of publishing certain notices by the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing various forms for the said commissioner, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
For office furniture, stationery, wood, and other contingencies, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the hire of an additional clerk, from the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, at nine hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For the hire of a messenger, from the first of July to the first of February following, one hundred and twenty dollars.
For printing certificates of registry.For defraying the expenses of printing certificates of registry and other documents for vessels, five thousand dollars.