south point of Sapelo Island, two thousand five hundred and five dollars.
Additional appropriations to pay the salaries of lighthouse keepers.
Salary of each keeper fixed at 350 dollars per ann.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand and twenty-seven dollars be, and they are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, to pay the salaries to the several keepers of the lighthouses within the United States; to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, so as to fix the annual salary of each keeper aforesaid, at the rate of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
Lighthouse authorized on south point of Sapelo, may be placed on Wolfe’s Island.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in case he shall deem it expedient and proper, may cause the lighthouse heretofore authorized to be erected on the south point of Sapelo Island, to be changed to, and placed on Wolfe’s Island.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
Statute II.
Chap. CVII.—An Act to repeal part of an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to ‘An act regulating the Post-office establishment.’”
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 34.
The clause of act of Feb. 27, 1813, for securing the regular transportation of the mail throughout the year, repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the last clause of the “Act in addition to ‘An act regulating the Post-office establishment,’” passed the twenty-seventh day of [February,] one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, as contains these words, being the concluding words of the clause, namely: “And that such contracts shall secure the regular transportation of the mail throughout each year;” be, and the same is hereby, annulled and repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
RESOLUTIONS.
1. Resolution declaring the admission of the state of Illinois into the Union.
Act of 18th April, 1818, ch. 67.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states,” the people of said territory did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:Vol. i. 51.
Illinois a state of the Union, on an equal footing. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Illinois shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Approved, December 3, 1818.
