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State of Connecticut.―For placing six buoys in the western, and six in the eastern entrance of Mystic river, from Fisher’s island sound, in the State of Connecticut, according to the survey and estimate of F. H. Gregory, reported to the Board of Navy Commissioners on the seventh day of August last, four hundred and thirty-five dollars; and for buoys on the rock in the channel east of Ram island, and upon Turner’s reef, according to said survey and report, one hundred dollars.

For the erection of a light-house on Lynde point, at the mouth of Connecticut river, in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars already appropriated, two thousand five hundred dollars.

To complete a sea-wall, to preserve the light-house and other buildings on Fairweather island, near Blackrock harbor, pursuant to the report of Captain Gregory, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the erection of buoys on such of the rocks in the harbor of Milford as may be designated by the Superintendent of Light-houses for that district, three hundred dollars; for one buoy on a ledge called the Shoal, west of Black point, and one buoy on Pond reef in the bay of Niantick, one hundred and sixty dollars; for buoys on Cornfield point rock, Adams rock, and Oyster Pond point rock, near Plum island, in Long Island sound, two hundred and forty dollars.

State of New York.―For completing a beacon on Romer’s shoals, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made, ten thousand dollars; to be expended under the direction of a competent engineer, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury.

To complete a light-house on Esopus meadows, on the western shore of the Hudson river, three thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.

To complete a light-house on Cedar island, Sag Harbor, two thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.

For the erection of a light-house on the northern islet in Fisher’s sound, near the northwest end of Fisher’s island, three thousand dollars.

For the payment of the balance remaining due for the expenses of procuring and locating buoys in the new channel in the port of New York, lately discovered and called Gedney’s channel, eight hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-six cents.

New Jersey.―For erecting a small beacon-light at South Amboy, and putting down the following buoys, to wit: One on the tail of the Great Beds; one on Billop’s Point shoal, southwest part of Staten island; one on the Middle Ground, near Prince’s bay; one on the Old Orchard shoal; one off the point of the Great Kill shoals, one thousand and fifty dollars.

For the erection of a beacon-light at the Corner Stake so called, between Elizabethtown point, and Shorter’s island; also another small light or lantern on Shorter’s island; also for buoys, &c. at the following places: A spar buoy at Bergen point; a spar buoy at the Mill Rocks, in Newark bay; a spar buoy on the first oyster bed or point of the bar between the Hackensack and Passaic channels, one and a half mile below the crossing place; a spar buoy at the Corner Stake, so called; a spar buoy at the crossing place, on the north side; a spar buoy at the elbow; all pursuant to the report of Captains Kearney, Sloat, and Perry, thirty-four hundred dollars.

State of Delaware.―For rebuilding a floating-light on Five Fathom Bank, at the entrance of the Delaware Bay, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

State of Maryland.―For placing for buoys at or near Pool’s Island channel, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars.

State of Virginia.―For placing spar-buoys in James river, between Day’s point and Richmond city, on such ledges and shoals as may be selected, two thousand dollars.

For building a light-boat to take place of the one in the narrows of the Potomac, eight thousand dollars.