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 380 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cn 105. 1849. shall be subject to the full postage charge ; that letters refused, or which cannot be delivered, may be immediately returned to the dead letter office, and that newspapers not sent from the office of publication shall be charged with the same postage as other papers, to be prepaid. Approved, March 3, 1849. March 8, 1849. Crur. CV. ·—.6n Act making Appropriations for Lighthouses, Lightboats, Buoys, ··—·····—·· &·e.,and providing for the rection and Establishment of the same, and for other Purposes. _ Appropriation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ey" the §"`b,f§g‘$°“S°s’ United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following bdoys, &¤.` appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to _ enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provisions of this ca;?:;:;e“ii,jg act into effect: Provided, however, If a good title to any land which cannot be ob- it may be necessary to use cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or the interest of the United States demands it, before the appropriation would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appropriations shall be applicable to the objects for which they are made, at any time within two years after the first meeting of the legislature subsequent to the passage of this act, in any State wherein any such land may be situated to wit: 33000. In Jllaine.-—-For thirtedn spar buoys and three beacons in Casco Bay, three thousand dollars. $3500_ For a lighthouse at Gilkey’s Harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars. ` For a lighthouse at Beaucham Point, or on the o osite side of the gssoo. g P PP harbor, in the town of Camden, three thousand five hundred dollars. $75_ For a fog-bell at the lighthouse on 1ribby’s Island, seven 'hundred and fifty dollars. Massachusetts, Massachusetts.—For a screw-pile beacon, or other practicable struc- $25.000- ture, on the south shoal otf Nantucket, lately discovered by the survey of the coast, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers. $1000. For six large buoys on the shoals 0H' Nantucket, one thousand dollars. $12,500. For a light-boat on Pollock Rip, off Chatham. twelve thousand five hundred dollars. New York. New Yor/c.—For a light boat on Horse Shoe Reel, Niagara River, $10,000. ten thousand dollars; or for the erection of a light·house instead thereof] $20 000 if] after the survey herein provided for, it shall be deemed more advisa- ’ble, twenty thousand dollars. $300- mic; {our spar buoys, to mark the channel from the aforesaid shoal to r s and, t ree hundred dollars. 810,000. fllllor a bteaclpn on the south-east part, of Romer Shoal, in the lower bay o ew or, ten thousand dollars. 5%*0- For three spar buoys in Buttermilk Channel, two hundred dollars. 3400. For four additional spar buoys in the lower bay of New York, at suchhponlitsdas gray be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, our un re dollars. New Jane!. New Jersey.-—For a lighthouse on the rocks at Bergen Point, five $5000* thousand dollars. $300. For five spar buoys at Thom’s River, three hundred dollars. 8300 . For five. spar buoys at Barnegat Inlet, three hundred dollars. 86000 dnllfor a lighthouse at the mouth of the Passaic River, five thousand ars.
 * 1- the exclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession, where