Chapter 780. to provide for the establishment of additional aids to navigation to guide vessels through the channels leading to Pensacola, Florida
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CHAP. 780.— An Act to provide for the establishment of additional aids to navigation to guide vessels through the channels leading to Pensacola, Florida.July 26, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pensacola, Fla.Additional aids to navigation established. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to establish range lights near Fort McRae; to reestablish the Fort Barancas ranges; to establish lighted beacons at or near Devil’s Point, Escambia Bay; at or near the anchorage, in Santa Maria de Galvaez Bay; at or near the turn of the channel; and at Bay Point, Black-Water Bay; and that a day-beacon be placed to mark the shoals between the Anchorage and Blackwater Bay, Florida.
The entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, July 26, 1886.