Chapter CXCIV. making Appropriations for Light-Houses, Light-Boats, Buoys, etc., and providing for the erection and establishment of the same, ana for other purposes
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Chap. CXCIV.— An Act making Appropriations for Light-Houses, Light-Boats, Buoys, etc., and providing for the erection and establishment of the same, ana for other purposes. Aug. 3, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation. That the following 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 act into effect: *Provided, however*, If a good title to any land which it may be necessaryProviso as to sites. to use cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or the exclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession when the interest of the United States demands it, before the appropriation would by law tall 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, in any State wherein such land may be situated, subsequent to the passage of this act, to wit: *Maine*.—For rebuilding light-house and keeper’s dwelling on PetitMaine.
Menan Island, thirty-five thousand dollars. For rebuilding light-house on Baker’s Island, five thousand dollars. For rebuilding light-house on Franklin Island, five thousand dollars. For procuring illuminating apparatus, and completing fight-house tower and buildings, authorized to be built on Boone Island, nineteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars. For an iron bell-boat, to be stationed to mark Alden’s Bock, five thousand dollars. For fog-signal and dwelling for keeper, near Manheigin Light-House, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For harbor-light on or near breakwater at Portland, three thousand five hundred dollars. 336 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 194. 1854. For completion of beacon on Buck Ledge, Penobscot River, in addition to five hundred dollars already appropriated, two thousand dollars. For restoring the two other stone beacons on Penobscot River, one thousand dollars. For fog-signals on Mount Desert Roek and Matinicus light-houses, five thousand dollars. For buoys for the waters on the coast of Maine, viz.:
St. Croix River, near the breakwater, Portland, Maine, and for beacons and buoys at other important points in the St. Croix, Kennebeck, and Penobscot Rivers, etc., two thousand dollars. For light on pier-head at Kennebunk Harbor, five hundred dollars. For a light-house to mark the eastern extremity to Edgemoggin Reach, to be placed upon such point as may be determined, upon careful examination and survey, six thousand dollars. For beacons to mark ledges in Castine Harbor, Maine, five thousand dollars.
For a beacon on a ledge in St. Croix River, about four miles below the town of Calais, and a light-house upon Big Island, at the mouth of St. Croix River, nine thousand dollars. For a light-house on or near the Widow’s Island, at the eastern entrance of Fox Island thoroughfare, five thousand dollars. For a light-house at the entrance of the thoroughfare at Isle au Haute, five thousand dollars. For a light-house on Southern Island, at the entrance of Tenant’s Harbor, in the town of St.
George, four thousand five hundred dollars. For a light-house at the entrance of Winter Harbor, in Goldsburgh, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of two beacons in West Passamaquoddy Bay, to mark the channel over the bar at the western entrance, three thousand dollars. For a beacon on Harbor Ledge, a spindle on Seal Ledges, a spindle on Ship-Yard Ledge, a spindle on Lowell’s Rock, and a buoy on Ram Island Ledge, in Rockport Harbor, Camden, six thousand dollars.
For a light-house on Noddle’s Island, at the entrance to the harbor of Castine and Brooksville, four thousand five hundred dollars. For a day-mark or beacon on Trott’s Ledge, about one mile from the entrance to Castine and Brooksville Harbor, five hundred dollars. For a light-house at Dry Point, on Lineken’s Neck, on the westerly side of the Damariscotta River, six thousand dollars. For a light-house on Wood Island, five thousand dollars. Massachusetts.*Massachusetts*.—For continuation of the work on foundation and light-house buildings on the rocks called “Sow and Pigs,” thirty thousand dollars.
For rebuilding light-house at Gay Head, and fitting it with first order illuminating apparatus, thirty thousand dollars. 1851, ch. 37.That the sums appropriated March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, 1852, ch. 112.and August thirty-one, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, “for iron spindles on the Graves and Harding’s Ledges, Boston Harbor,” be applied to the procuring and placing a bell and triangle beacons on these points. For the erection of a light-house and keeper’s dwelling on Egg Rock Island, near Nahant, being the sum appropriated for this object September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, five thousand dollars.
For the removal of the light-house at Truro, (highlands,) Cape Cod, to a proper site, and for fitting the same with the most approved illuminating apparatus, and to serve as substitute for three lights at Nansett Beach, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the preservation of the site of Billingsgate Island light-house, (Wellfleet,) two thousand dollars. 337 For rebuilding the light-house at Brant’s Point, Nantucket, fifteen thousand dollars. For large fog-bells, for light-vessels in the Vineyard Sound, in exchange for the small ones now in use on board of these vessels, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For four iron twelve-pounder guns and equipments for fog-signals on hoard of light-vessels in Vineyard Sound, two thousand dollars. For iron buoys and buoy-boats for approaches to Boston Bay, and on Nantucket Shoals, five thousand dollars. For a light-house and keeper’s house on or near the “Point of Rocks,” Westport, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. For a light-house on the Spit situated at the entrance of the Narrows, Boston Harbor, fifteen thousand dollars. For the erection of a day-beacon, sixty feet high, on “Point Alderton Bar,” on the south side of the entrance to Light-House Channel, eighteen thousand dollars.
For placing buoys in the New Bedford Collection District, on rock at the mouth of Monument River; on Bourne’s Flat, at the turn of the channel above Siah’s Point; one between the last named and Boure’s Neck; one at each end of Pismire Bed; one on rock in channel of Dartmouth River; one on Cow Rock Ledge; and one on rock in Phinney’s Passage, two thousand dollars. *Vermont*.—For two small lights to be placed on the pier at Burlington,Vermont. two thousand dollars. For a fog-signal at Juniper Island light-house, Lake Champlain, eight hundred dollars. *Rhode Island*.—For a new light-house tower and illuminating apparatusRhode Island. on Beaver Tail, and for a fog-signal, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For rebuilding the light-house and keeper’s dwelling at Watch Hill, and for repairs of sea-wall to preserve the light-house site, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For a beacon-light at Bristol Ferry, one thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon or spindle to mark the reef extending from Block Island, two thousand dollars. *Connecticut*.—For completing the beaconage and buoyage of theConnecticut. Connecticut River, as authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, five thousand dollars.
For a fog-bell at Saybrook light-house, Connecticut, one thousand dollars.1853, ch. 140. For a beacon at Sugar Reef, east entrance of Long Island Sound, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon on Long Point, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon on Sea-Flower Reef, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a fog-signal at or near Lynde Point light-house, eight hundred dollars. For buoys at the eastern extremity of Watch Hill Reef, and on “Whamphasoc,” entrance to Stonington Harbor, five hundred dollars.
For a light-house at or near Niantic, Long Island Sound, four thousand dollars. For a beacon on Black Ledge, entrance to New London Harbor, two thousand dollars. For a beacon on the Whale, two thousand dollars. For buoys in the harbor of Noank and Mystic, five hundred dollars. For a light-house on Black Point, between the Connecticut River and New London, five thousand dollars. For a harbor-light on the end of the breakwater at Southport, one thousand dollars. For a fog-bell at the North Dumpling light-house, in place of the338 one now kept up at the expense of private companies, eight hundred dollars.
New York.*New York*.—For erecting a first-class sea-coast light-house tower, and fitting it with the most approved illuminating apparatus, near Great West Bay, Long Island, thirty-five thousand dollars. For a fog-signal, with machinery, at Little Gull Island light-house, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a fog-signal at Stony Point light-house, eight hundred dollars. For a beacon-light to mark entrance to Loyd’s Harbor, Huntingdon Bay, Long Island, four thousand dollars.
For a light-house at or near Race Point, Fisher’s Island, Long Island Sound, eight thousand dollars. For a light-house on Horton’s Point, Long Island Sound, four thousand dollars. For a light-house at or near Windmill Point, Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars. For a small light at north end of Isle au Motte, Lake Champlain, five hundred dollars. For a light-house at or near Crown Point, Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars. For nine small lights near Whitehall, in place of those at present kept up by steamboat companies, Lake Champlain, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For buoys for the following points in Lake Champlain, viz: on “Point au Fer Reef,” “Perry’s Reef,” near “Valcour Island,” on “Ferris’s Reef,” and on “Schuyler’s Island Reef,” seven hundred dollars. For buoys in Long Island Sound, at the following points, viz: Hay , Beach Flats, Great Hog Neck, South Hole, Little Hog Neck, Midway Bar, entrance of channel at River Head, Shelter Island Ferry, at Ncekoll’s Rocks, between Rum Head and Mishomac Point, at a shoal east of Gardiner’s Point, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For an iron bell-buoy on or near Shag won g Reef, five thousand dollars. For an iron-pile beacon on the southern part of the Romer Shoal, New York Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. New Jersey.*New Jersey*.—For the continuation of the system of protecting human life from shipwreck, as heretofore established, by life-boats, on the New Jersey coast, twenty thousand dollars. For a first-class light-house, to be fitted with the most approved illuminating apparatus, to be placed in the vicinity of Absecum Inlet, to guide navigators clear of Absecum and Brigantine Shoals, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For a bell-buoy and a nun-buoy for Absecum Bar, five thousand dollars. For a large buoy or buoy-boat, to be placed on the southwest point of the overfalls, Delaware Bay, one thousand dollars. For a first-class iron buoy, to be placed on the northeast part of Five Fathom Bank, eight hundred dollars. Delaware.*Delaware*.—Towards the erection of a light-house at Cross Ledge, in place of the light-vessel at present at that point, thirty thousand dollars. For a first-class iron buoy, to be placed on McCrie’s Shoal, mouth of Delaware Bay, eight hundred dollars.
For a beacon-light on the pier at Port Penn, Delaware Bay, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For a beacon-light on Reedy Point, Delaware Bay, three thousand dollars. For refitting Cape Henlopen light-house with first order illuminating apparatus, fifteen thousand dollars. For a light-house on or near Ship John Shoals, Delaware Bay, thirty thousand dollars. 339 For a fog-signal, to be placed at the Delaware Breakwater light-house, eight hundred dollars. For a fog-signal, to be placed at the Reedy Island light-house, eight hundred dollars.
For banking in Reedy Island and preserving the site of the light-house, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars. For a large iron bell-buoy, to be placed on or near Fenwick Island Shoal, five thousand dollars. For a light-house on Bower’s Beach, between Murder Kill and Jones’s Creeks, Delaware Bay, five thousand dollars. For a light-house at or near the mouth of Old Duck Creek, on the west side of Delaware Bay, five thousand dollars. *Maryland*.—For a light-house on or near the “Seven-Foot Knoll,”Maryland. at the mouth of the Patapsco River, in addition to the appropriations approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, and March1650, ch. 77.1853, ch. 140. three, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For a light-house on Sandy Point, Chesapeake Bay, eight thousand dollars. For a light-house on Drum Point, entrance of Patuxent River, five thousand dollars. For a light-house on Love Point, or the extremity of the shoal, (the northern extremity of Kent Island,) mouth of Chester River, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars. For buoys and stakes at the following points in the Great Choptank River, viz.: at Jamaica Shoals, Sugar Loaf, Hambrook, and Middle Ground, near mouth of the river, one thousand dollars. *Virginia*.—For a light-house on Smith’s Point Shoal, mouth of PotomacVirginia.
River, in place of the light-house on Smith’s Point, and the light-vessel at present placed to mark the extremity of the shoal, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a light-house half way between Cape Henry and Body’s Island light-house, and on or near False Cape Henry, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a light on or near York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, fifteen thousand dollars. For buoys at Green Point and Sandy Point, in York River, five hundred dollars. For a light-house on the shoals off Cherrystone, or on Sandy Point, to mark the entrance to Cherrystone Harbor, ten thousand dollars.
For buoys or stakes, to be placed in the Chesapeake Bay, on the following points, viz.: Fisherman’s, Pickett’s Hole, Cherrystone, Pocomoke Flats, Hunting Creek, Deep Creek, Chesconncssex, Onancock, Pungoteague, Nasevadox, The Gulf, New Point Comfort, Peankatank River, Great Wicomico River, Rappahannock River, Drum Point Spit, near Stingray Point, and near Smith’s Point light-vessel, two thousand three hundred dollars. For buoys and stakes in the Potomac River, between Alexandria and Georgetown, two hundred dollars.
For a light-house on such point as may be determined upon, after careful examination and survey, to mark the entrance to the Cone and Yeocomico Rivers from the Potomac, five thousand dollars. For forty-three buoys, for buoying the Kettle Bottoms, and completing the buoyage of the Potomac River from its mouth to the port of Alexandria, three thousand dollars. For buoys to be placed in suitable places in Matchipungo Bay and its tributaries, one thousand dollars. For a small light on the wharf of the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, five hundred dollars. 340 For a fog-bell, to be placed near the light-house at Old Point Comfort, and for a small light on the Inner Spit, to mark the entrance to the anchorage off Old Point Comfort, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a small pile light-house on the extremity of the shoal making out from Stingray Point, mouth of the Rappahannock River, twelve thousand dollars. North Carolina.*North Carolina*.—For a pile light-house on or near Wade’s Point, in place of the light-vessel at that point, which cannot be repaired, ten thousand dollars. For a small beacon-light, to range with the main light, near Fort Macon, Beaufort, North Carolina, one thousand dollars. For a small beacon-light on or near the point of Cape Hatteras, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a small beacon-light on Federal Point, Cape Fear, to range with the light-house on that point, and to be a substitute for the light-vessel on Horse Shoe Shoal, eight hundred dollars. For buoys and stakes for Albemarle, Pamlico, Core, and Croatan Sounds, Nouse River, Pamlico River, Roanoke River, and the straits from Core Sound to Beaufort, two thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For a light-house on Roanoke Marshes, ten thousand dollars. For a pile light-house on the north-west point of Royal Shoal, ten thousand dollars.
South Carolina.*South Carolina*.—For erecting a permanent beacon, to range with Charleston light, for crossing the bar, as a substitute for the present movable lantern, one thousand dollars. For rebuilding the two beacons on Sullivan’s Island, and for building a keeper’s house, six thousand dollars. For a small beacon-light on Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, one thousand dollars. For a light on the Battery, at Charleston, two thousand dollars. For a small light on Castle Pinckney, to mark the channels from the bar to the city, and up the Cooper River, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a light-house to mark the shoals off Cape Roman, in place of the present light at that locality, and for buoys to mark the inner channel, called the “Slue,” in addition to the appropriation of March three, eighteen 1853, ch. 140.hundred and fifty-three, for changing the present light at Cape Roman, thirty thousand dollars. For a light-house and beacon-light on the main land, at North Edisto, fifteen thousand dollars. . For buoys in North Edisto Inlet and approaches, five hundred dollars.
For a light-house and beacon-light on the north point of Hunting Island, to serve as a seacoast light, and range for the Swash Channel, in place of the light-vessel at present stationed off St. Helena, and for repairing and placing that vessel at Combakee Bank, thirty thousand dollars. For a day-beacon or buoy in St. Helena Sound, eight hundred dollars. For a first class light-vessel, to take the place of the present inefficient one stationed at Martin’s Industry, and for repairing the present vessel, (after the larger vessel is built,) and placing it at or near the entrance to Calibogue Sound, thirty thousand dollars.
For a light-house and beacon-light on or near Hilton Head, to guide to Port Royal Harbor entrance, ten thousand dollars. For five iron buoys for Port Royal Harbor, one thousand five hundred dollars. For buoys for St. Helena Bar, one thousand five hundred dollars. For two beacons, to serve as a range to Calibogue Sound, five thousand dollars. 341 *Georgia*.—For iron buoys and day-beacons for Tybee Bar and. SavannahGeorgia. River, ten thousand dollars. For iron buoys for the Altamaha Sound and River, five thousand dollars.
For iron buoys for St. Catharine’s Sound and Inlet, Sapelo and Doboy Bars and Sounds, and the channels leading through them, and at the south bar of Cumberland Sound, five thousand dollars. For iron buoys to be placed in the St. Mary’s and St. Andrew’s Bays, two thousand dollars. *Florida*.—For the erection of a light-house and beacon-light, to serveFlorida. as a range for the channel across the bar in place of the present lighthouse at the mouth of St John’s River, in addition to the balance of the appropriation, approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and1852, ch. 112. fifty-two, for the preservation of the site, which is hereby made applicable to the same objects, fifteen thousand dollars.
For rebuilding on a proper site, and elevating and refitting with the most approved illuminating apparatus, the light-house at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand dollars. For buoys for the St. John’s Bar and River, two thousand dollars. For elevating and fitting with the most approved illuminating apparatus the light-house tower at Cape Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing the beacon on Rebecca Shoals, five thousand dollars. For iron buoys for Key West Harbor and approaches, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a small beacon-light near or on Fort McRea, Pensacola, one thousand dollars. For two large iron buoys for Pensacola Bar, one thousand dollars. For day-beacons and buoys, to mark the channels in Appalachicola Bay and St. George’s Sound, from Dog Island light-house, three thousand five hundred dollars. For buoys to mark the bar of the north-west channel of and in Tampa Bay, one thousand dollars. For a light-house on South-West Cape, westaide [of]Appalachee Bay, fifteen thousand dollars.
For a beacon, buoy, or bell-boat, as may be found most expedient, to mark the Ocklockonee Shoal, five thousand dollars. For day-marks, buoys, and stakes, to mark the bar and channels of the St. Mark’s River, five thousand dollars. For a beacon-light, to be placed on the most eligible site at or near the western entrance into St. George’s Sound, to enable vessels to enter at night, five thousand dollars. *Alabama*.—For making permanent five range-stakes, with lights whereAlabama. required, at the Choctaw Pass and Dog River Bar, Mobile, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the buoyage and stakeage of the channels in Mobile Bay, Dauphin, Petit-Bois, Horn, Ship, and Cat Island Passes, ten thousand dollars. For a light and fog-bell, to be placed on board of the Bethel and Hospital ship, moored in the harbor of Mobile, two thousand eight hundred dollars. *Mississippi*.—For buoyage and stakage of Pascagoula entrance andMississippi. bay, and of the approaches to Biloxi, Mississippi city, and Shieldsboro’, eight thousand dollars. For a light-house on St.
Joseph’s Island, ten thousand dollars. *Louisiana*.—For a new light-house at Port Pontchartrain, in the placeLouisiana. of the present structure, which will not admit of being repaired, six thousand dollars. For a new light-house, at Bayou St. John, in the place of the present structure, which will not admit of being repaired, six thousand dollars. 342 For a new light-house at New Canal, in place of the present structure, which will not admit of being repaired, six thousand dollars.
For a new beacon-light at Proctorsville, in the place of one destroyed by tire November twenty-four, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, three thousand dollars. For an iron bell-boat, to mark the entrance to the newly-dredged channel of the South-West Pass of the Mississippi, five thousand dollars. For a screw-pile light-house on the “Shell Keys,” off Marsh Island, thirty thousand dollars. For a day-beacon, to be placed on the east end of Horn Island, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a light-house, to mark the channel of the Grand Pass to Barataria Bay, ten thousand dollars. For a light-house, to mark the main entrance to Timballier Bay, and for coast purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. For a light-house, to mark the channel or passage called the Rigolets, connecting Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, five thousand dollars. For buoys and stakes to mark the channels of the Atchafalaya and Cote Blanche Bays and Bars, five thousand dollars. For an iron screw-pile light-house, to be erected as near to the entrance to the channel of the Mississippi River, at the South-West Pass, as may he found to be practicable, to be fitted with the most approved description of illuminating apparatus and fog-signals, forty-five thousand dollars.
For buoyage of the Pass al’Outre, Mississippi River, one thousand five hundred dollars. For a light-house at the mouth of Calcasieu River, six thousand dollars. Texas.*Texas*.—For two small range-lights at Galveston, one thousand dollars. For completing the buoyage of Galveston Bar and Bay, Sabine Puss and River, Matagorda Bar and Bay, Aransas Bar and Bay, and Brazos Santiago Bar and Bay, ten thousand dollars. For a light-house on or near Gallinipper Point, Lavacca Bay, ten thousand dollars.
For a light-house on or near Half-Moon Reef, Matagorda Bay, ten thousand dollars. For a day-beacon, to mark the wreck of the steamboat Farmer, near Pelican Island, in Galveston Bay, three hundred dollars. For a beacon on the North Breaker, to mark the entrance to Galveston Bay, five thousand dollars. Michigan.*Michigan*.—For repair of the light-house foundation, and pier connected therewith, near Monroe, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For completing foundations two light-houses on St.
Clair Flats, twenty thousand dollars. For a light-house and fog-bell on the south point of the harbor of Michillimackinac, six thousand dollars. For a light-house at or near Old Fort Mackinaw, Michigan, six thousand dollars. For alight-house on Beaver Island, six thousand dollars. Indiana.*Indiana*.—For a beacon-light on the pier or breakwater at Michigan city, two thousand dollars. Illinois.*Illinois*.—For a temporary beacon-light, at or near the breakwater now being constructed at Waukegan, Little Fort, one thousand dollars.
For buoys to mak [mark] the bar and harbor at Chicago, three hundred dollars. For a light at Port Clinton, five thousand dollars. For the foundation of a light-house on the breakwater now in course of construction at the harbor of Waukegan, and for a light, when the343 foundation shall be in a suitable condition for erecting the structure, in place of the present light at Little Fort, ten. thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
For a light at Taylorport, five thousand dollars. *Wisconsin*.—For a small beacon-light on or near the pier at PortWisconsin. Ulao, in lieu of the appropriation for a light-house at that port, approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, one thousand1850, ch. 77. dollars. For a small beacon-light, to be placed on the new pier at Milwaukie, known as the “North Cut,” when it shall be completed, one thousand dollars. For a light-house at Fond du Lac, at the head of Lake Winnebago, ten thousand dollars. *California*.—For a harbor-light at the town of Santa Cruz, Bay ofCalifornia.
Monterey, or on Punta Ano Nueva, ten thousand dollars. For a harbor-light at Santa Barbara, ten thousand dollars. For a light-house on or near Point Lobos, to mark the entrance to San Francisco Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a light-house on Punta de los Reyes, twenty-five thousand dollars. *Oregon Territory*.—For a light-house at Umpqua, in addition to theOregon.1861, oh. 37. appropriation for that object, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, ten thousand dollars. *Washington Territory*.—For a light-house on Blunt’s or Smith’s Island,Washington. in the Straits of Fuca, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a light-house on Cape Shoalwater, at the entrance to the bay of that name, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the two light-houses at Cape Flattery and New Dungeness, authorized by act of Congress, approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, in addition to any balance that may remain in the1850, ch. 77. treasury of that appropriation after the completion of the light at Cape Disappointment, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For buoys for the harbor and entrance to New Dungeness, and for the anchorages on the coast of Puget’s Sound, five thousand dollars.
For buoys for the harbor and entrance to Shoalwater Bay, three thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the sums appropriated by theLight-house on Horse-shoe Reef. acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for a light-house on Horse-shoe Reef, Niagara River, New York, or any balance thereof remaining in1849, ch. 105. the treasury on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,1851, ch. 37. be, and they are hereby, reappropriated for the erection of a lighthouse at that point, on such plan as may be determined to be most advisable.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the appropriation for a lighthouseLight-house on Anacapa Island. on Santa Cruz, California, approved thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be, and the same is hereby, authorized to be employed in the erection of a light-house on Anacapa Island,1862, ch. 112. if, upon examination by the proper officer, it is ascertained that a more eligible site can be found for the interests of navigation on that island, than on the adjacent one of Santa Cruz.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryLight-house at Calumet, Ill., to be discontinued. be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the light to be discontinued, and the light-house, buildings, and land belonging thereto, at Calumet, in the State of Illinois, to be sold, and, on payment of the consideration agreed for into the treasury of the United States, to make, execute, and deliver all needful conveyances of the same, and the special jurisdiction of the United States over the same shall thereafter cease.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryLight at S. West Pass of the Mis be, and he is hereby, authorized upon the completion of the light-house344THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 135, 136. 1854. sissippi to be discontinued.and exhibition of the light authorized by the first section of this act to be erected near the entrance to the South-West Pass of the Mississippi, to cause the present light at that locality to be extinguished, and the tower, buildings, and land belonging thereto to be sold, and upon the payments for the same being made, to execute and deliver all needful conveyances therefor; and the jurisdiction of the United States over said land shall thereafter cease, and revert to the State of Louisiana.
Sec. 6. Light at Vermillion Bay, La., may be discontinued.*And be it further enacted*, That if, after a careful hydrographical examination of the locality, and the approaches thereto, shall have been made, it is found that the light at the entrance to Vermillion Bay, Louisiana, is not necesssary for the navigation of that bay and the adjacent coasts, it shall be extinguished; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to cause the lands and buildings belonging thereto to be sold, in the same manner as is provided in the fifth section of this bill.
Sec. 7. Preliminary surreys as to sites, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That if preliminary surveys are required to ascertain the necessity for any light-house or other aid provided for in this bill, or to determine the proper site for the same, or to ascertain more fully what the public exigency requires, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the necessary examinations and surveys on the seaboard to be made under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and those on the northwestern lakes to be made under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers; and in all cases in which adverse reports are made, they shall be submitted to Congress at its next session; and in all cases in which the objects authorized are favorably reported upon, the works shall be commenced immediately after valid titles and State jurisdiction shall have been obtained to the sites.
Approved, August 3, 1854.