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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duties payable according to law, on the importation of a monument imported in the frigate Constitution from Italy, on account of the officers of the United States navy, be, and they are hereby remitted.

, March 13, 1808.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as soon as the jurisdiction of so much of the head land of the south point of the island of Sapelo, in the state of Georgia, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient for the purpose of erecting a lighthouse and its appurtenances, shall have been ceded to the United States, provided the said land can be obtained at a reasonable price, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a lighthouse thereon, and furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President, for the superintendence and care of building the said lighthouse. And the President is hereby authorized to make the said appointment.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be further authorized and directed to cause to be placed four buoys on the shoals called the South and North banks of the harbor or entrance of the inlet leading to the town of Darien.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be erected and placed beacons and buoys at the following places, to wit: two beacons and three buoys near the entrance of Ipswich harbor; three buoys, one on Gurnet rock, one on Boss rock, and one on Deek’s flats, and two beacons on the stony muscle bed, near Plymouth harbor; three additional buoys before the harbor of Nantucket, and a buoy or leading mark on the island of Tuckanuck, in the state of Massachusetts—three buoys at or near to the entrance of Connecticut river, and three buoys to be placed at or near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river, in the state of New Jersey.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appropriated and paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, for the purposes aforesaid.

, March 17, 1808.