Chapter 385. To establish light-houses at the mouth of Boston Harbor to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel
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CHAP. 385.— An Act To establish light-houses at the mouth of Boston Harbor to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel. March 29, 1902.[[Public, No. 60](/us/pl/57/60).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there shall be established Boston Harbor. Light-houses, etc. Broad Sound Channel.by the Secretary of the Treasury a first-order light and fog signal at the Northeast Grave, on a granite tower, built in the most substantial and secure manner and of sufficient height to allow the lantern a focal plane of one hundred feet above high water, to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel, Boston Harbor, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars; for the establishment Lovells Island range lights.of two range lights on Lovells Island, at the mouth of Boston Harbor, the rear light to be of the fourth order, on a tower about forty-five feet above high water, and the front light to be of the fifth order, on a tower about twenty-five feet above high water, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars; and for the establishment of two range lights on Spectacle Island range lights.Spectacle Island, mouth of Boston Harbor, the rear light to be of the fourth order, upon a tower about fifty-five feet above high water, and the front light to lie of the fifth order, upon a tower about thirty feet Limit of cost.above high water, at a cost not to exceed thirteen thousand dollars, the entire appropriation for the five lights above mentioned not to exceed the sum of two hundred and eleven thousand dollars.
Approved, March 29, 1902.