Chapter CXLIV. making appropriations for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons and monuments, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act making appropriations for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons and monuments, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for lighthouses, &c. States of America, in Congress assembled,* 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 provide by contract, for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons and monuments, to wit: 720TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 144. 1834. *State of Maine.*—For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site Maine. on Fort Point, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site on Negro Island, at the entrance of Camden harbour, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of a beacon on the end of a shoal in George’s river, round which is formed what is called the Great Bend, three thousand dollars. For a fog-bell to be placed on a proper site on Cape Elizabeth, near the eastern lighthouse, seven hundred dollars. *State of Massachusetts.*—For the erection of a lighthouse on the Massachusetts. north-easterly part of Straitmouth harbour, five thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour of Marblehead, four thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon at the harbour in the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, at or near the site where the former beacon was erected, one thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon or monument on Deer Island Point, Boston harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars. For a monument of stone on the Island of Nixe’s Mate, in the harbour of Boston, one thousand dollars. *State of Rhode Island.*—For the removal of the lighthouse now on Rhode Island. the north end of Goat Island, near the harbour of Newport, to a point north of its present site, agreeably to a survey and estimate heretofore made by direction of the Department of War, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. *State of New York.*—For a lighthouse on a proper site at or near New York. the mouth of Esopus creek and near Saugerties, five thousand dollars.
For beacon lights on the piers at the mouth of Genesee river and Sodus bay, four thousand dollars. For a lighthouse or beacon-light on one of the piers at the harbour of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. For placing four lights on the following points in Hudson’s river, viz: one near Van Wie’s point; one near Castleton; one on the island near New Baltimore; and one at Kinderhook, six hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on a proper site at the mouth of Oswegatchie, a tributary stream of the St.
Lawrence, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse on the flats in Hudson’s river, above Suyvesant’s Landing, in the place of the one carried away by the ice, five thousand dollars. *State of New Jersey.*—For a lighthouse on or near the shoals of New Jersey. Barnegat, to be erected in such a manner as to be distinguished from the adjacent lights, six thousand dollars. *State of Delaware.*—For rebuilding the lighthouse on Brandywine Delaware. shoals, in the bay of Delaware, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That before the commencement of the work, a resurvey, plan and estimate shall be made, and that then it shall be in the discretion of the proper department to enter upon the rebuilding of the said lighthouse, or to report such survey, plan and estimate to Congress as shall be considered best for the public interest.
For building a lighthouse at the mouth of Christiana river, six thousand dollars. *State of Maryland.*—For a bell, and fixing the same on the lighthouse Maryland. at Cove point, in Chesapeake bay, one thousand two hundred dollars. For building a lighthouse on Love point, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars. *State of Virginia.*—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper Virginia. place at the mouth of the Rappahannock river, twelve thousand dollars. *State of North Carolina.*—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper North Carolina. place at or near the mouth of Roanoke river, ten thousand dollars. 721TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 145. 1834. *State of Georgia.*—For two small beacon-lights on Cockspur island, Georgia. at the mouth of Savannah river, four thousand dollars. *State of Ohio.*—For a beacon-light on a proper site for Huron river, Ohio. two thousand six hundred dollars. For a beacon-light on the pier at Conneant river, two thousand dollars. For a beacon-light on a proper site for Ashtabula creek, two thousand dollars. For completing the beacon-light on the pier at Grand river, one thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For a beacon-light on the pier at Cunningham harbour, two thousand dollars. *State of Louisiana.*—For the erection of a lighthouse on a proper Louisiana. site at Port Ponchartrain, five thousand dollars. For a lighthouse at a proper site at the mouth of Chifuncté river, five thousand dollars. *State of Mississippi.*—For a lighthouse at the mouth of Pearl river, Mississippi. five thousand dollars. *State of Indiana.*—For a lighthouse on a proper site at or near Indiana. Michigan city, five thousand dollars. *Territory of Michigan.*—For a lighthouse on a proper site at Pottawatamie Michigan. island, situated at the entrance of Green Bay, in Lake Michigan, five thousand dollars.
For securing and completing the foundation of the lighthouse on Turtle island, in Lake Erie, two thousand dollars. *Territory of Florida.*—For a lighthouse on a proper site at Musquito Florida. inlet on the Atlantic coast, eleven thousand dollars. For rebuilding the lighthouse at St. John’s river, ten thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, June 30, 1834.