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State of Maine.—For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site on Fort Point, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, five thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site on Negro Island, at the entrance of Camden harbour, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For the erection of a beacon on the end of a shoal in George’s river, round which is formed what is called the Great Bend, three thousand dollars.

For a fog-bell to be placed on a proper site on Cape Elizabeth, near the eastern lighthouse, seven hundred dollars.

State of Massachusetts.—For the erection of a lighthouse on the north-easterly part of Straitmouth harbour, five thousand dollars.

For building a lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour of Marblehead, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For a beacon at the harbour in the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, at or near the site where the former beacon was erected, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For a beacon or monument on Deer Island Point, Boston harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For a monument of stone on the island of Nixe’s Mate, in the harbour of Boston, one thousand dollars.

State of Rhode Island.—For the removal of the lighthouse now on the north end of Goat Island, near the harbour of Newport, to a point north of its present site, agreeably to a survey and estimate heretofore made by direction of the Department of War, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars.

State of New York.—For a lighthouse on a proper site at or near the mouth of Esopus creek and near Saugerties, five thousand dollars.

For beacon lights on the piers at the mouth of Genesee river and Sodus bay, four thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse or beacon-light on one of the piers at the harbour of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. For placing four lights on the following points in the Hudson’s river, viz: one near Van Wie’s point; one near Castleton, one on the island near New Baltimore; and one at Kinderhook, six hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on a proper site at the mouth of Oswegatchie, a tributary stream of the St. Lawrence, five thousand dollars.

For a lighthouse on the flats in Hudson’s river, above Stuyvesant’s Landing, in the place of the one carried away by the ice, five thousand dollars.

State of New Jersey.—For a lighthouse on or near the shoals of Barnegat, to be erected in such a manner as to be distinguished from the adjacent lights, six thousand dollars.

State of Delaware.—For rebuilding the lighthouse on Brandywine shoals, in the bay of Delaware, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, however, That before the commencement of the work, a resurvey, plan and estimate shall be made, and that then it shall be in the discretion of the proper department to enter upon the rebuilding of the said lighthouse, or to report such survey, plan and estimate to Congress as shall be considered best for the public interest.

For building a lighthouse at the mouth of Christiana river, six thousand dollars.

State of Maryland.—For a bell, and fixing the same on the lighthouse at Cove point, in Chesapeake bay, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For building a lighthouse on Love point, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars.

State of Virginia.—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper place at the mouth of the Rappahannock river, twelve thousand dollars.

State of North Carolina.—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper place at or near the mouth of Roanoke river, ten thousand dollars.