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 THIRTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 77. 1850. 503 For a lighthouse at Boliver Point, fifteen thousand dollars. Bolivar Point. For a lighthouse at Matagorda Island, fifteen thousand dollars. m dM¤°¤S°¤d¤ In Fhirida.——For the erection of a lighthouse on Sea Horse Key, §f:,,.§d,,_ eight thousand dollars. Sea. Horse Key. In Georgia.- For the purchase of the signal light at the Savannah Georgia. River, one hundred and fifty dollars. Savannah River. For two dumb beacons to be erected, one on Black Oyster Rock, the other on Sugar LoafQ in the River Savannah, four thousand dollars. In Louisiana. —For a lighthouse at or near the head of the South- I·°¤?Si¤¤¤- west Pass of the Mississippi River, fifteen thousand dollars. P,,,_S°`"h`w°st In Cal{farnia.—For a lighthouse at Alcatraz Island; for a light- g,,;;r,,m;,_ house at Point Conception, and a fog signal ; for a lighthouse on Bat- Alcatras; Point tory Point entrance of the Bay of San Francisco; for a lighthouse at g`:,;°§g§;“E San Diego; for a lighthouse and a fog signal at Monterey; for a light- Diego; nfontchouse at the Island of Faralones, 0H` the harbor of San Francisco, and '°Y 5 F”°1°¤°$· a fog signal, and for the transportation, erection, and placing the same; ninety thousand dollars. In Oregon.-—For a lighthouse on Cape Disappointment, at the Oregon. mouth of the Columbia River; one on an island off Cape Flattery, at Pacific coast. the entrance of the Straits of Fuca, and one at New Dungenness; 0"g°“· twelve iron can buoys in Columbia River, and the transportation, erection, and placing the same; nity-three thousand one hundred and forty dollars. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to test the use and Calcium light. economy of the calcium light, five thousand dollars. For fog signals at the lighthouses on Execution Rocks, Gull Island, Long Island Long Island Sound, Beaver Tail Point, Rhode Island, and on board %’,;;“£5 Is,n"fd the light-boat at Bartlett’s Reef, Long Island Sound, two thousand tive hundred dollars. For life-boats and other means for rendering assistance to wrecked Lite-boats,&c. mariners, and others, on the coasts of the United States, to be expended under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Treasnry, ten thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whereas the lighthouse on Lighthouse at Minot’s Ledge is completed and in operation, the one at Scituate be S°i*&“;° ‘;‘%§‘ therefore suspended during such time as the one on Minot’s Ledge is {E', im M;;,,;-: lighted, Ledge is lighted. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if such person as the Sec- Secretary of retary of the Treasury shall designate shall report, in any of the cases £’?“‘gY““*h9; herein provided for, that preliminary surveys are necessary to deter- oécm ,,?¥¥i?1S_ mine the site of a proposed lighthouse, or light-boat, beacon or buoy, revenue service or to ascertain more fully what the public exigency demands, the Sec- Fgrmighfgzgg retary of the Treasury shall thereupon appoint one or more officers of and beacons. the United States revenue service, to perform the required duty. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any officer so appointed Duties of ofshall forthwith enter upon the discharge of the duty, and, after fully §;°’jh;PQS‘;1f;g%'; ascertaining the facts, shall report; first, whether the proposed facility ,,;ms,,id_ to navigation is the most suitable for the exigency which exists; and Reportsecond, where it should be placed if the interests of commerce demand it; third, if the thing proposed be not the most suitable, whether it is expedient to make any other kind of improvement; fourth, whether the proposed light has any connection with other lights, and if so, whether it cannot be so located as to subserve both the general and the local wants of trade and navigation; and fifth, whether there be any, and if any, what other facts of importance touching the subject. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all such reports shall, as ecretary of speedily as may be, be laid before the Secretary of the Treasury, and gggsgsif jg; if Such as to authorize the work without further legislation, he shall 0,,,,,; when Pm, forthwith proceed with it; otherwise, such reports shall be laid before ¥¢P¤¤‘* is favor