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 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1851. 627 any sum on which the said State of Maine did not either pay or lose i terest as aforesaid. DAPPROVED, March 3, 1851. Crue. XXXVII.-An Act making- Appropriations for Lighthouses, Light-boats, March 3, 1851. Buoys, tw., and providing for the Erectwn and Establishment of the same, and `;"—; for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be aid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to Enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provisions of {his act into ellect: Provided, however, If a good title to any land which it hProviso as to may be necessary to use cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or ".°'£ *I;P’°‘ the exclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession, when ggmugim $.,,:;::2 the interest of the United States demands it, before the appropriation f¤¤<l»_Wl}¢39 pile would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all such cases, the ,,0f;:;_§£u appropriationsshall Ibe applicable to the objects for- which they are piade, at any tgnetwitlpxin two yeziysl afgr the grstlpieptring of the legipature in any tae w erem suc an may e si ua e, su sequen o the paissage of this act, to wit:-— Maine.—For buoys on Whites and Thorns Ledges, and on Pond Maine. Island Reel, at the mouth of Kennebec. River, three hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on Pond Island, at the entrance of Narraguagus Bay, four thousand dollars. Massachuseits.——For a light-boat on the Shovelful Shoals, 0H` Chat- Massachusetts. ham, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For eleven buoys in the channel to Commercial Point and N eponset River, in Dorchester, one thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at the head of Holmes’s Hole Harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon on Fawn Bar, near Deer Island, Boston Harbor, two thousand five hundred dollars. For two iron spindles on the north·east ledge of the Graves, and on Harding’s Ledge, Boston Harbor, two thousand dollars. Rhode Island.—For a light-boat off Brinton’s Reel] lifteen thou- Rhode Island. sand dollars. Connecticut.- For a can buoy on Pea Field Reel] oh' Black Rock Connecticut. Harbor, in Long Island Sound, in addition to a former appropriation 1850, ch. 77. in the act of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, one hundred 61. thirty-five dollars. hNew York.——For a lighthouse on Flynn’s Knoll, near Sandy Hook, New York. t irty thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on Horseshoe Reel, Niagara liliver, twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the former appropriations. For a lighthouse on the pier at the mouth of Sodus_Bay, and the removal of the beacon light on said pier, to Grassy Point, near Port Glasgow, six thousand dollars. _ _ hFor adlighthouse on the northern extremity of Gardmer’s Island, six thousand dollars. h Fpr a beacon on the sandspit, in the harbor of Sag Harbor, seven un red dollars. Igoré tpe completion of two beacons near Fort Hamilton, two thousan o lars. For four spar buoys at Fire Island Inlet, three hundred dollars. 5 n{’;"yl¢¢¤l§—— For a lighthouse at Fishing Battery, Chcsapeaké B8}', M°~¤‘¥l¤¤‘l· Vc thousand dollars.