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State of Virginia.—For a light-boat to be placed on Boler’s rock, in the Rappahannock river, five thousand dollars.

For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Chincoteague Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.

For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Matapungo Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.

For a light-boat to be anchored at or near Ragged Point in the Potomac river, in the state of Virginia, or the erection of a light-house at Piney Point, in the State of Maryland, which of the two lights above mentioned as best adapted for the security of navigation, to be decided on by the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.

State of North Carolina.—For a light-boat to be placed on a proper site between Albemarle and Pamlico sound, five thousand dollars.

For building a light-boat to be stationed at or near Harbor Island, five thousand dollars.

State of South Carolina.—For placing three buoys at the bar of the port of Georgetown, on proper sites, four hundred and fifty dollars.

For placing three buoys on proper sites in the north channel of Charleston harbour, four hundred and fifty dollars.

For one buoy on North Edisto bar, one in the Swash channel, on Combahee, two on South Edisto bar, two on the Bird Key channel, and one in Calibago sound, one thousand and fifty dollars.

For five beacon-lights at Charleston bar, five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; one light to be placed as to range precisely with the main light, when a vessel shall be crossing the bar at the Ship channel and in the deepest water; two to be placed on Morris’ Island, to range with each other when a vessel shall be crossing the Overall channel and in the deepest water; one to be placed on Sullivan’s Island, to the eastward of fort Moultrie; and another to be placed on the back of Sullivan’s Island, or on the main, to range when a vessel shall have crossed the bar, and is steering northward.

State of Ohio.—For placing not less than five buoys at the entrance of Sandusky harbour, five hundred dollars. For placing two buoys at Port Clinton, at the mouth of Portage river, one hundred and fifty dollars.

State of Louisiana.—For the purpose of replacing the twenty buoys that were on the coast of Louisiana, to mark out the channel from the vicinity of the lighthouse on Point au Fer, into the Atchafalaya bay, or so many of them as may be sunk or have been destroyed, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars.

Territory of Florida.—For placing eight buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, at proper sites, eight hundred dollars.

For placing four buoys at proper sites in the channel at the east end of St. George’s island, Appalachicola bay, six hundred dollars.

For placing buoys to mark the channel through the east pass of Appalachicola bay and river, one thousand dollars.

Territory of Michigan.—For placing ten buoys to mark the channel at the mouth of the Miami of Lake Erie, and in Maumee bay, seven hundred dollars. For erecting a lighthouse at Mobile Point, eight thousand dollars; and for placing buoys in Mobile bay, five hundred dollars. For the preservation of Fairweather Island, and the lighthouse and other public buildings thereon, and securing Black Rock harbour, two thousand six hundred dollars.

, March 3, 1835.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,