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 628 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1851. For a lighthouse on the Bodkin Shoal, mouth of the Patapsco River, 1819.ch-102. in addition to the former appropriation, seventeen thousand dollars; 1822, ch.41. When this is completed, the present light on Bodkin Point to be discontinued. New Jersey. Now Jersey. —- For a fogbell at the Newark Lighthouse, two hundred and fifty dollars. For completion of the beacon in Passaic River, four spar buoys in the same, a spar buoy at Mill Rock, and a beacon at the corner stake near Elizabethtown Point, eight hundred dollars. Northilarolina. North C'arolina.—For a buoy on Middle Ground Shoal, Beaufort Harbor, two hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on Beacon Island, six thousand dollars. For a light-boat, near Ocracoke Channel, fifteen thousand dollars. For an iron buoy on Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, eight hundred dollars. For a floating bell beacon on Cape Hattcras, outer shoal, eight thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on the Upper Jetter, in Cape Fear River, including a bridge from the shore to the lighthouse, thirteen thousand dollars. Ohio. Ohio. —For a lighthouse on Rock or Mouse Island, Lake Erie, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on Green Island, Lake Erie, five thousand dollars. For a beacon light on Cedar Point, as a range to enter Sandusky Bay, nve hundred dollars. For buoys at the entrance of Port Clinton, Lake Erie, two hundred and fifty dollars. Michigan. flliohigmz. - For a lighthouse at Bayley’s Harbor, five thousand do lars. Florida. Florida.-·-For buoys at the entrance of Mosquito Harbor, five hundred dollars. Oregon. Oregon. —For a lighthouse and fog signal at Umpqua, fifteen thousand dollars. For fog signals for the lighthouses at Cape Disappointment, Cape Flattery, and New Dunginness, three thousand dollars. California. Ifalifornia. —-For a lighthouse at Humbolt Harbor, fifteen thousand dollars. Texas. Texas.--For a lighthouse at Aransas Pass, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For three lighthouses of the third class, at Half Moon Shoal, Red Field Bar, and at Clopper’s Bar, Galveston Bay, fifteen thousand dollars. _Surveys for Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if such person as the Sec~ “t°°‘ retary of the Treasury shall designate shall report, in any of the cases herein provided for, that preliminary surveys are necessary to determine the site of a proposed lighthouse or light-boat, beacon or buoy, or to ascertain more fully what the public exigency demands, the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon direct the superintendent of the survey of the coast of the United States to perform such duty on the seaboard, and the colonel of the corps of topographical engineers to perform such duty on the north-western lakes. Same subject. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers so directed shall forthwith enter upon the discharge of the duty, and after fully ascertaining the facts, shall report: First, whether the proposed facility to navigation is the most suitable for the exigency which exists; and second, 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