Chapter 801. providing for the construction of a light house supply-steamer for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 801.— An Act providing for the construction of a light house supply-steamer for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and for other purposes.July 28, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Light-house supply-steamer.Construction authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to construct a suitable steamer for use in supplying the lighthouses on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the sum required for construction of the same to be paid from an appropriation hereafter to be made, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; also to cause to be constructed an ironLight-house tender to be built. screw-steamer for use as a lighthouse tender in the fourth lighthouse district, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of sixty-eight thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the contract for the construction*Proviso*.Contract. of such steamers shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement, and that such steamers shall be built in American shipyards.
Sec. 2. That the Light House Board is authorized and required toLight ships.Establishment authorized. establish and maintain lightships at the following named places: One, at or near the south end of Ram Island Reef, Fisher’s Island Sound, Long Island, New York; Hie cost of which shall not exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars; one, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, to be stationed off Grosse’s Point, Lake Saint Clair, Michigan; and also to place and maintain at or near the southeast and of Hog Island Shoal, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, the light ship recently withdrawn from Eel Grass shoal.
Approved, July 28, 1886.