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Bishops, three miles south-east from the lighthouse on Point Gammon; a beacon on Collin’s ledge; a buoy on the Channel rock; a buoy on the south-west rock; a buoy on the Gangway rocks; a buoy on the southwest part of the Suckenecut shoals; a buoy on the end of Dogfish bar; and a buoy on the south end of Kilpond bar, in the Vineyard Sound, in the state of Massachusetts.

A boy on Cheppinaxet point; a buoy on Garden point; and a buoy on Long Point in East Greenwich harbour, in the state of Rhode Island.

A beacon on Well’s Point; a buoy on Marchard flat; a buoy on Stoney bar, and a buoy on Allen’s flat, in Bridgeport harbour; a beacon on Patrick’s reef, in Norwalk harbour; a buoy on Smith’s ledge, near Darien, and a buoy on Shippan reef, in the state of Connecticut.

Four buoys at the entrance of Mobile bay, and one at the mouth of Dog river, in the state of Alabama.

Three buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour, and three buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, in the territory of Florida.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to accept, from the state of Pennsylvania, the cession, to the United States, of the public piers, and the causeway leading thereto, which were built by said state, at Chester, in the Delaware river, and directed to cause said piers and causeway to be repaired by contract.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to cause to be built, by contract, a column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Sound, in the state of Maine.

. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to accomplish the objects specified in this act, that is to say:

For building a lighthouse at or near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, fifteen hundred dollars.

For building a lighthouse on the point of Marsh near the mouth of Neuse river, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For erecting a beacon at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, one thousand dollars; for erecting a beacon or spindle on the ledge of rocks, called the Bishops, one hundred dollars; for erecting a beacon or spindle on Collin’s ledge, one hundred dollars; and for placing six buoys on the sites above designated, in the Vineyard Sound, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For placing three buoys in East Greenwich harbour, seventy-five dollars.

For erecting a beacon on Well’s Point, in Bridgeport harbour, five hundred dollars; and for placing three buoys in said harbour seventy-five dollars.

For erecting a beacon on Patrick’s reef, in Norwalk harbour, three hundred dollars; for placing a buoy on Smith’s ledge, near Darien, twenty-five dollars; and for placing a buoy on Shippan reef, thirty dollars.

For repairing the public piers and causeway at Chester, five thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty cents.

For erecting a column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Sound, twelve hundred dollars.

For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in the state of New York, and placing thereon the lighthouse authorized to be built at the east end of Lake Erie, by the, including the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars, made by the act aforesaid for that object, six thousand five hundred dollars; any part of which sum may be applied by the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expense of altering the lighthouse