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96 'I`HIRTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Srzss. 1. Ch. 160. 1856. · · use cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or the exclusive right to idiiiisceggiorgtgl diich land cannot be acquired by ccssion, when the interest of the- United j“'lsdl“l°“‘ States demands it, before the appropriation would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appropriations shall be- applicable to the objects for which they are made at any time within two years after the first meeting of the legislature in any State wherein such land may be situated, subsequent to the passage of this act, to wit: Maine. Main0.—For altering, refitting, and improving the light at Mount Desert Rock, ten thousand dollars. _ _ _ For building a suitable tower and keeper’s dwelling, and for providing and placing the necessary illuminating apparatus at Martinicus Rock, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars. · For rebuilding the light-house tower and keeper’s dwelling, and for supplying and fitting first order illuminating apparatus at Seguin, thirty- five thousand dollars. For rebuilding the light-house, and fitting it with proper illuminating apparatus at West Quoddy Head, fifteen thousand dollars. For rebuilding Brown’s Head light-house, and fitting it with proper illuminating apparatus, five thousand dollars. For rebuilding the light-house at Marshall’s Point, and fitting it with proper illuminating apparatus, five thousand dollars. For rebuilding the light-house at Fort Point, and fitting it with proper illuminating apparatus, five thousand dollars. For a light-house at Deer Island Tl]O1`OUgl1f.3FC, five thousand dollars. For a light-house at Bass Head Harbor, five thousand dollars. ism, cli. 194. For a light-house on or near Spoon Island, in addition to the appropri- V°l·X·1’·%· ation of five thousand dollars, approved August third eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for a light-house in Isle·au-Haute Thoroughfare, one thousand dollars. 1854, cli. 194. For a light-house on or near Widovv’s Island, in addition to the appro- V°l· X· P· 33** priation of third August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a bell buoy to be placed on the south breaker off White Head light-house, at the entrance of Penobscot Bay, five thousand dollars. For a bell buoy to be placed on the ledge about three miles east of Boone Island, five thousand dollars. d §or the erection of a stone beacon on Fiddler’s Ledge, three thousand o ars. For placing buoys at various points in the waters of Maine, for which none have heretofore been authorized, three thousand dollars. For a light—l1ouse and keeper’s dwelling on Round Island, in Machias Bay, five thousand dollars. Massachusetts. Massachusetts.—For the construction and repair of beacons at Newburyport, two thousand dollars. For the erection of a light-house, on a proper foundation, on or near Billingsgate Island, in plac[e] of the present one, fourteen thousand dollars. For the erection of beacons on “Old Cock," and “Cormorant" Rock, in Buzzard’s Bay, and on Great Rock, entrance to Hyannis Harbor, three thousand dollars. For a fog bell at Eastern Point light·house, eight hundred dollars. ' For a light-house on the Bishop and Clerk’s Shoal, in place of the light-vessel now placed near that danger, and for stationing the lightvessel (on the completion of said lighthouse) off the south end of the “ Handkerchief “Shoal, in the Vineyard Sound, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding the stone beacon at Lane’s Point, Annisquam Harbor, seven hundred dollars. Rhode Island. Rhode 1sZand.——For the erection of a keeper’s dwelling, and foot-bridge to Lime Rock light-house, one thousand five hundred dollars. For reconstructing the light-house tower, and for new illuminating apparatus at Dutch Island, four thousand dollars.