United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/2nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 15
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XV.—An Act for finishing the Lighthouse on Baldhead at the mouth of Cape Fear river in the State of North Carolina.
Secretary of Treasury to finish the lighthouse on Baldhead in North Carolina.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States, be authorized, as soon as may be, to cause to be finished in such manner as shall appear advisable, the lighthouse heretofore begun under the authority of the state of North Carolina, on Baldhead at the mouth of Cape Fear river in the said state: And that a sum, not exceeding four thousand dollars, be appropriated for the same, out of any monies heretofore appropriated, which may remain unexpended, after satisfying the purposes for which they were appropriated, or out of any other monies, which may be in the treasury, not subject to any prior appropriation.
Approved, April 2, 1792.