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178 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Ssss. II. Ch. 53. 1847 For a lighthouse on Western Sister Island, in Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. _ Illinois. In 1Zlin0is.——For a lighthouse at Chicago, three thousand live hundred dollars. For a lighthouse at Littlefort, four thousand dollars. Michigan. In Jmchigan. — For a lighthouse .at Monroe, three thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at Clinton River, three thousand dollars. For a. lighthouse near Waugoshance, the sum appropriated by the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to wit, twenty- five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated. For a lighthouse at Point au Barques, on the westerly shore of Lake Huron, and at the mouth of Saginaw Bay, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at De Tour, where the River Sault Ste. Marie empties into Lake Huron, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at White Fish Point, on Lake Superior, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at St. Joseph’s, three thousand five hundred dollars. Post, p. 337. For a lighthouse at Copper Harbor, Fort Wilkins, Lake Superior, tive thousand dollars. Wisconsin. Lz VWsc¢msin. —-— For a lighthouse at Southport, four thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at or near Tail Point, at the mouth of Fox River, four thousand dollars. Works to be Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the works at Cary’s Fort

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0gHp.,p0g,aphmi sachusetts, Whale’s Back, New Hampshire; Fairweather Island, Bureau- near Black Rock, Connecticut; and Brandywine Shoals, in the Delaware River, Pennsylvania, shall be executed under the superintendence of the Topographical Bureau. Delaware break- Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the light at the Delaware `”“°"* breakwater shall hereafter be included within the list of those established by law. _Lighthouses Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following named lightd‘“°““““°d· houses be, and they are hereby, discontinued, to wit: one at the west end of St. George’s Island, and one at the entrance of St. Joseph’s Bay, in Florida; one at Cunningham’s Harbor and one at Otter Creek, on Lake Erie; the lighthouse on Otter Creek not to be discontinued, however, until the lighthouse at Monroe be completed; and that, whenever the lighthouse on the Execution Rocks, Long 18.,9, eh_ S1` Island Sound, is completed, then the light at Sand’s Point, on Lvflg Island, be discontinued. Approved, March 3, 1847. March 3, l84’7. Czar. LIII.—An Act far the Admission of the Stare of Wisconsin into the ”—`°—"’;' Union. · 1848, ch. 50. _ Preamble. Wnnxms the people of the Territory of Wisconsin did, on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-six, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State government, which said coustitution is republican ; and said convention having asked the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the original States — Wiscom ad- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the mined mln me United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Staw of Union. Wisconsin be, and the same is hereby, declared to be, one of the Um-