United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 2
No. 2. A Resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treasury may change light-boat stations, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if upon full inquiry he deem it expedient, to cause the light-boat now stationed at Sandy Hook to be removed, and to be placed near Bartlett’s reef, in Long Island Sound; and whenever the same shall be so removed and placed, to cause the light-boat now at Bartlett’s reef to be removed, and placed, if he deem it expedient, near Execution Rocks, in Long Island Sound, with a bell only for the latter vessel, to be so fixed as to be rung by the motion of the sea.
Approved, August 25, 1841.