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For a lighthouse on Nayat point, three thousand five hundred dollars; and for two pyramids or spindles, in Narraganset bay, two thousand dollars.

For a beacon-light on or near Spindle rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbour, six thousand two hundred dollars.

For two small lighthouses in Hudson river, eight thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse at or near Portland, on Lake Erie, five thousand dollars; one thousand dollars for removing obstructions in order to make the light of the lighthouse at the mouth of the Genessee river, on Lake Ontario, visible at a distance.

For erecting a tower and placing a bell thereon with machinery, near the lighthouse on Pool’s Island, Chesapeake bay, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the lighthouse on Little Watt’s island, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for that on Clay island, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for a beacon-light, or small lighthouse, on Point Look Out, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For the lighthouse on Smith’s point, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For a beacon-light or lighthouse on Pamptico point, five thousand dollars; and for one at the entrance of Roanoke Marshes, five thousand dollars; for a light vessel, to be placed at or near the point of Marsh Shoal, at or near the Neuse river, six thousand five hundred dollars; this sum to be in addition to the sum already appropriated for building a lighthouse at the point of Marsh, at the mouth of the said river, for which lighthouse the light vessel is substituted.

For a lighthouse at Otter Creek point, five thousand dollars.

For one on Bois Blanc, five thousand dollars.

For one at St. John’s river, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for one on Choctaw point, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For placing four buoys in Hudson river, on the following sites: One on a reef of rocks opposite Van Wee’s point; one on a reef of rocks north of Constitution point; one on a reef of rocks, the south point of Conner’s Hook island; and one on a wreck of a vessel sunk in Haverstraw bay; three hundred dollars.

For placing two buoys near the channel, to the eastward of the Pea Patch, in the river Delaware, viz: one on the north-east point of the Pea Patch; and one on a small shoal in the passage, four hundred dollars.

For spindles or monuments, and buoys, to render the navigation of Kennebec bay and river safe, fifteen hundred dollars.

For placing a buoy on Killpond bar, in Buzzard’s bay, sixty dollars.

For placing twenty buoys, at proper sites, in the river Teche, in the state of Louisiana, two thousand six hundred dollars.

For an iron spindle on Sand Island, on the bar of Mobile bay, six hundred dollars.

For five buoys, in the channel, between Key West and the islands to the westward of it and the main, leading from the Gulf Stream to the bay of Mexico, seven hundred dollars.

For two buoys at the mouth of St. John’s river, territory of Florida, one hundred and sixty dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the said secretary be empowered as aforesaid, and that the following sums be appropriated and paid as aforesaid, for the purposes hereinafter designated, viz:

To build a lighthouse, at a proper site, near St. Mark’s harbour, in Florida, the sum of six thousand dollars.

To build a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks, called the Whale’s Back, in the harbour of Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire, eight thousand dollars, in addition to the former appropriation for that object.