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already erected at said Buffalo, if he shall be of the opinion that the same may be so altered as to render unnecessary the erection of another lighthouse in the vicinity of Buffalo.

Repairing the Newport lighthouse.For altering and repairing the Newport lighthouse, at the entrance of Narragansett Bay, twelve hundred dollars.

Lighthouse at Natchez.
1826, ch. 78.
For erecting a lighthouse at Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, in addition to the appropriation of one thousand five hundred dollars heretofore made for that object, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars.

Buoys at the entrance of Mobile Bay.For placing four buoys at the entrance of Mobile Bay, and one at the mouth of Dog river, nine hundred dollars.

Buoys on the bar at St. Augustine harbour.For placing three buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour, one hundred and twenty dollars; and for placing three buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, one hundred and twenty dollars.

Light vessel, for the southwest point of Royal Shoal.For the erection of a light vessel of between one hundred and thirty and one hundred and fifty tons, for the south-west point of the Royal Shoal, on Pamptico Sound in North Carolina, eleven thousand dollars, and the vessel now stationed at the shoal commonly called Ocracock, nine feet shoal in said sound.

Lighthouse at Cat Island.For a lighthouse at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, five thousand dollars.

Two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth.For the erection of two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth, in Maine, three thousand dollars.

Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 2, 1827.

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March 2, 1827.

Chap. XLVIII.An Act to authorize the laying out and opening of certain roads in the territory of Michigan.

The President to cause to be laid out, a road commencing at Detroit, and pursuing the most direct and practicable route to the Saganaw river and bay, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be laid out, in the territory of Michigan, a road, commencing at Detroit, and pursuing the most direct and practicable route to the Saganaw river and bay, in said territory; and that in like manner he cause to be laid out a road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, at the outlet of Lake Huron; and for each of these objects the President shall appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, the aforesaid roads, and cause the plats of such surveys, accompanied with the field notes, to be made out, certified and transmitted to the President, who, if he approve of the same, shall cause them to be deposited in the War Department and the roads shall be considered as established and accepted.

Each commissioner to be a surveyor, and to receive 3 dollars, and their assistants, 1 dollar 50 cents per day.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners, one of whom, on each route, shall be a surveyor, shall each receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, per day, for the time necessarily employed in exploring, surveying, and marking said roads; and that for the purpose of defraying the expenses thereof, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

12,000 dollars appropriated, for the purpose of connecting the Detroit and the river Raisin with the Maumee and Sandusky roads.
20,000 dollars for the opening of the Detroit and Chicago road.
Proviso.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of connecting the Detroit and the river Raisin with the Maumee and Sandusky roads, and to complete the opening and construction of the same, there shall be appropriated the sum of twelve thousand dollars, which