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present fog bell, at the entrance of said passage, a cast steel triangular bell, or a bell of the usual form, but increased weight, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For placing buoys or spindles on ledges of rocks called Fishing rocks and Old Prince, at the entrance of Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise harbour, five hundred dollars.

For the erection of three beacons, on the following sites, in the harbour of Castine, viz: one on Otter rock, one on Homer’s ledge, and one on Stubb’s Point ledge, three thousand dollars.

For the erection of buoys on Alden’s ledge, at the mouth of Portland harbour, fifteen hundred dollars.

For placing buoys on Heron Island ledge, at the mouth of Damariscotta river, and on Western rock, Eastern rock, and Kellsa’s ledge, in said river, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

State of Massachusetts.—For placing buoys, to wit, on West Island ledge, on Nye’s ledge, and on the north-west and south-east end of Mattapoisett ledge, on Sunken ledge, and on Snow’s rock, seven hundred dollars.

For completing the erection of a spindle on Minot’s ledge, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For a stone beacon on Collier’s ledge, Vineyard sound, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For placing buoys at or near the following sites, in or near the harbour of Lynn: one on Lobster’s rocks, near the west side of Nahant, one on the Western rocks, one on the sand bar at the mouth of Sauger’s river, and upon such other sites as may be necessary for safe navigation, five hundred dollars.

For two boat buoys, to be placed at or near the harbour of Nantucket, six hundred dollars.

For placing buoys in the harbour of New Bedford on the following sites, to wit: on Fort Flat, near Fairhaven, on Egg island, on Butler’s flat, on Bartholomew’s rocks, on Sandspit shoal, south-east of Dumpling rocks, on the Sunken rocks, south of Dumpling rocks, and on the ledge between Dumpling rocks, and Mishone point, one thousand and fifty dollars.

For erecting beacons and placing buoys on proper sites in Buzzard’s bay, two thousand dollars.

For buoy, beacon or spindle on a sunken rock near the mouth of Green Bay, Plymouth, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty dollars.

State of Connecticut.—For a spindle on the point of rocks near the mouth or entrance of Mystic river, a short distance easterly from the lighthouse on Morgan’s point, in the town of Groton, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For making a foundation, and rebuilding thereon a beacon, near the entrance of Black Rock harbour, in Long Island sound, in addition to, seven hundred and ten dollars.

State of Rhode Island.—For the erection of iron spindles on the Halfway rock, near the south end of the island of Prudence in Narragansett bay, and the Little Lime rock, in the harbour of Newport, three hundred dollars. For the erection of a beacon on the rock near the harbour of East Greenwich, called the Halfway rock, from the Warwick Neck point to Pattawomet harbour, five hundred dollars.

State of New Jersey.—For placing four buoys on Absecum and New Inlet, Gloucester county, four hundred dollars.

State of Maryland.—For placing buoys at proper sites in the following rivers, viz: Nanticoke, Wicomico, Manokin, Annamusox, and Pocomoke river and sound, Hooper’s straits, and Tangier sound, one thousand and fifty dollars.