Chapter 117.
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CHAP. 117.— An act for the establishment of light-ships, with fog-signals, at Sandy Hook, New York Harbor, and off Great Round Shoal, seacoast of Massachusetts, near Nantucket.February 8, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Light-ships authorized at— Sandy Hook, New York Harbor. That there be established off Sandy Hook, entrance to New York Harbor, a new light-ship,Great Round Shoal, Mass. with a steam fog-signal, the entire cost of which shall not. exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
That there be constructed and established a first-class light-ship, with a steam fog-signal, off Great Round Shoal, seacoast of Massachusetts, near Nantucket, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the construction of*Proviso*. said light-ships shall be let to the lowest responsible bidders afterContracts. advertisement, and that they shall be built in American shipyards. Approved, February 8, 1889.