Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 4.djvu/535



State of Maine.—Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at the western entrance of Fox island thoroughfare.

Six thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Cape Porpoise.

Four thousand dollars for increasing the height of the lighthouse on Boon island.

Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Marshal’s Point, in the town of St. George.

Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse at Whitehead.

Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse on Franklin island.

Five hundred and ten dollars for spindles and buoys in Penobscot river.

State of Massachusetts.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on the monument at Gloucester Point.

One thousand dollars for erecting a monument on or near Cohasset Rocks.

Two hundred and fifty dollars in addition to an unexpended balance of a former appropriation, for erecting a spindle-beacon on Minot’s Ledge, and placing a buoy on Hospital Island Ledge near George’s island.

Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument upon a ledge of rocks situated at the outer part of the harbour of Swampscut.

One thousand dollars for two monuments, one on Sunken island, and the other on Pig Rocks, in Braintree bay.

Five hundred dollars for placing ten buoys in the northern channel through the Vineyard Sound, at the following places: one on Point Rips; one on the Shovel Shoals, near Monomoy Point; three on the Handkerchief, north-east, south-east, and south-west parts; one on a rock near Hyannis harbour, in the channel; and two on the Broad Shoal to the eastward of Falmouth, east and west parts.

Five thousand dollars for re-building a lighthouse on Cape Cod, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Four hundred dollars for placing six buoys on ledges and rocks at a place called Wood’s Hole, near Falmouth; and a spindle on Lone rock, near that place.

State of Rhode Island.—For a beacon-light at or near the entrance of the harbour of Wickford, in the town of North Kingston, three thousand dollars.

Fifty dollars for a spindle on the Halfway Rock between the islands of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

State of Connecticut.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at or near Morgan’s Point, on the north side of Fisher’s Island Sound, in the township of Groton.

Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be erected on the Whale Rock, at the entrance of Mystic river, and for one on Turner’s Reef, situated about one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher’s Island.

Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the west side of New Haven harbour; and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys on Pardee’s bar, Black Rock Bar, and the Shag Banks in said harbour.

Six thousand dollars and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument or beacon on Brandford Reef, in Long Island Sound.

Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz: one on the north end of Hatchet’s Reef, in the Sound; one on the south end of said reef; one on the south-east tail of Saybrook Bar, at the mouth of Connecticut river; and one on the south end of Crane reef, west of Saybrook.

State of New York.—Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars to rebuild the beacon in Black Rock harbour, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Four thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on a proper site near Sackett’s Harbour, in Lake Ontario.