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Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on or near one of the Islands called the Brothers, at the Narrows in Long Island Sound; and

Five hundred dollars for eight buoys to be placed at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook.

State of New Jersey: Two hundred dollars for placing buoys at proper sites at New Inlet, or its vicinity, in the district of Little Egg harbour.

State of Pennsylvania: Seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars for placing four buoys in the channel to the eastward of the Pea Patch.

State of Delaware: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on a proper site, on or near the northern extremity of Bombay Hook Island, in the Delaware bay.

State of Virginia: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse, or beacon light, at a point of land at or near Back River Point on the Chesapeake Bay.

State of South Carolina: Six hundred dollars for the erection of a beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entrance into the channel commonly known as Lawford’s channel; and three hundred dollars for placing buoys on proper sites on the Georgetown bar.

State of Georgia: One thousand dollars for placing a buoy on the outer edge of the shoal called Martin’s Industry, at the entrance of Port Royal Sound, or such other place as shall be designated.

State of Ohio: Three hundred and sixty dollars for six buoys to be placed on proper sites on the middle ground or bar at the entrance of Sandusky Bay.

Eight thousand dollars to build a lighthouse at Cleveland, on Lake Erie.

Territory of Michigan: Instead of building the lighthouse at Otter Creek Point, as directed by an, the sum of five thousand dollars, therein appropriated, is hereby directed to be applied to build one at some other point or place, to be designated, in that vicinity.

Eight thousand dollars for a lighthouse at a suitable place near Fort Gratiot, at the entrance of Lake Huron.

Territory of Florida: Seven thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse at the mouth of St. John’s river; and

Eight thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse near St. Mark’s harbour.

State of Mississippi: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near the Pass Christian.

. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money appropriated by this section be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at the disposition of the President of the United States, for the following specified purposes or objects, to wit:

State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for keeping the pier on the eastern side of the main channel at the entrance of Kennebunk river; and

Three hundred dollars for surveying the ship channel of Penobscot river, from Whitehead to Bangor, and ascertaining the cost of improving the navigation of the same, and proper sites for spindles and buoys.

State of New Hampshire: Sixty dollars for making a survey of Cochecho branch of Piscataqua river, from Dover falls to its confluence with the Piscataqua, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of removing obstructions to navigation, and the cost.

State of Massachusetts: One hundred and eighty dollars for surveying North river, between Scituate and Marshfield, to ascertain the expediency of removing obstructions at the mouth of the same, and to make an estimate of the cost.