Rhode Island.

Connecticut.

New York.

New York and New Jersey.

New Jersey.

Delaware.

Maryland.

Maryland and Virginia.

Virginia.

North Carolina.

South Carolina.

dollars for placing buoys on proper sites, in or near the harbour of Glou

cester.

In the state of Rhode Island, sixty dollars, for buoys on Sally rock, at or near the entrance of the harbour of East Greenwich.

In the state of Connecticut, four thousand dollars for a lighthouse, to be located on Routon Neck, or on the west end of Norwalk, Long Island; one thousand dollars for a beacon on the Round Shoals, at the mouth of the Ousatonic river; one hundred and twenty-five dollars for placing buoys on the following sites, to wit: one on Thimble Island Reef, one on Inn Reef, one on Negro Head, one on Brown Reef, and one on Bird's Reef, at or near the entrance of Brandford harbour: and one hundred dollars for making an examination and a survey, if necessary, to ascertain the utility and expense of erecting beacons in Long Island Sound, on Shipman's Reef, lying near the promontory of the same name, in Stanford, on Smith's Ledge, opposite the town of Darien, and on a Reef known by the name of Patrick's Horse, at the western extremity of Norwalk harbour.

In the state of New York, a lighthouse at or near Dunkirk, six thousand dollars, on Lake Erie; two thousand five hundred dollars for one at the east end of Lake Erie, on a site to be selected; four thousand dollars for one on Plum island, in Long Island Sound; three thousand dollars for one on Tibit's Point, Lake Ontario.

In the states of New York and New Jersey, thirty thousand dollars for a lighthouse upon the bluff, near Fort Tompkins, on Staten Island, for one in Princess bay, on said island, and two on the Highlands of Neversink; also, for keeping the buoys, now anchored, the one on the Romer, on the south-west point of the eastern branch, and the other on the north-east point of Sandy Hook, known by the name of the False Hook, and for placing spar buoys along the channel, from the bar to the south-west spit, and from thence to the middle ground and at such other places between the last-mentioned place and the city, as may be deemed necessary: and also spar buoys on the Stepping Stone, Execution Rocks, and Middle Ground, in Long Island Sound.

In the state of New Jersey, three hundred dollars for placing buoys at proper sites, five buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Little Egg

Harbour.

In the bay of Delaware, twenty-nine thousand and two hundred dollars for a lighthouse on the Brandywine Shoals.

In the state of Maryland, three thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse on Smith's island; two thousand five hundred dollars for one on Concord point, at or near the mouth of Susquehannah river; and four thousand dollars for a light vessel at Hooper's straits.

In the states of Maryland and Virginia, six hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys in the river Potomac, to wit: one on Port Tobacco Shoals, four on the south side of Nanjemoy Reach, one on Lower Cedar point bar, one on Craney Island bar, and four for designating the channel in that part of the river called the Kettle Bottoms.

In the state of Virginia, ten thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Smith's island, near Cape Charles, on a proper site to be selected.

In the state of North Carolina, nine thousand five hundred dollars for a light vessel, to be anchored at the south-west Straddle, Royal Shoal; and two thousand dollars for a beacon light on Federal Point, Cape Fear river; and one hundred and sixty dollars for buoys, to be placed on proper sites, on the north and south sides of New Inlet, near Federal Point.

In the state of South Carolina, two hundred and forty dollars for buoys, to be placed on the bar of Georgetown; and seventeen thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Cape Romaine, or a light vessel to be anchored off said cape.

In the state of Alabama, three hundred and twenty dollars for buoys, to be placed on the following points, to wit; A spar buoy at the southeast extremity of the shoal projecting from Mobile Point, one on the west side of the channel on the bar, one on the south-east side of the Spit projecting from Sand Island, and one on Dog river bar.

In the state of Louisiana, one thousand one hundred dollars, for placing eleven buoys on proper sites, at the entrance of the Mississippi river, and six hundred dollars for three lamps or lights, to wit: one for Petit Coquelles, one for Chef Menteur, and one for Fort St. Philip.

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In the state of Georgia, fifty thousand dollars, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to remove obstructions in the river Savannah, below the city of Savannah; one thousand five hundred dollars for a beacon on Grass Island, at the entrance of Cockspur Harbour. In the state of Mississippi, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse on the Mississippi river, at the town of Natchez. In the territory of Florida, not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Sambo Keys, or Sand Key. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the keeper of Quaddy Head lighthouse, in the state of Maine, shall be allowed, in addition to his sent salary, the sum of sixty dollars annually, for ringing the bell connected with said lighthouse, from the time he commenced ringing said bell. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, when the lighthouses, directed to be built on the Highlands of Neversink, in the state of NewJersey, shall be built and lighted, the light vessel, at present anchored at the Hook, shall be removed, and anchored at or near Five Fathom Bank, off the capes of Delaware Bay. And also, that when the Brandywine lighthouse shall be lighted, the Brandywine light vessel, if the same will answer the purpose, shall be anchored at or near Tuckanuck Shoal, in the Vineyard Sound.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the lighthouse, directed to be built on a proper site, near Buffalo Creek, in the state of New York, shall be built and lighted, the present lighthouse near Buffalo shall not be lighted. And that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the lighthouse, heretofore directed to be built on Throgg's Neck, to be erected either on the said Neck, or the reef adjacent thereto, as he may deem expedient.

Alabama.

Louisiana.

Georgia.

Mississippi.

Addition to

the salary of the keeper of Quaddy Head lighthouse, Maine.

When the

lighthouse on the Highlands of Neversink is built and lighted, the light

vessel, at present anchored at

the Hook, shall

be removed, &c. Lighthouse to be built near Buffalo Creek.

Lighthouse at Throgg's Neck.

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SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not other-priated to be wise appropriated.

APPROVED, May 18, 1826.

paid from the treasury.

STATUTE 1.

CHAP. LXXIV.-An Act regulating the accountability for clothing and equipage May 18, 1826. issued to the army of the United States, and for the better organization of the quartermaster's department.

Duties of the

present duties.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the quartermaster's duty of the quartermaster's department, in addition to its present ion to its department in duties, to receive, from the purchasing department, and distribute to the army of the United States, all clothing and camp and garrison equipage required for the use of the troops; and that it shall be the duty of the quartermaster general, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to prescribe and enforce, under the provisions of this act, a system of accountability for all clothing and equipage issued to the army.

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Every captain or commander of a company,.

&c., at the expiration of every quarter, to make returns of supplies.

Duty of all

officers charged with the issue of clothing, &c.

Two additional quartermasters, and ten assistant quartermasters, to be appointed.

Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.

Proviso.

Each officer appointed, to give bond and security.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every captain, or commander of a company, detachment, or recruiting station, or other officer, who shall have received clothing or camp equipage for the use of his command, or for issue to the troops, shall render to the quartermaster general, at the expiration of each regular quarter of the year, quarterly returns of such supplies, according to the forms which may be prescribed, accompanied by the requisite vouchers for any issues that shall have been made; which returns and vouchers, after due examination by the quartermaster general, shall be,transmitted for settlement to the proper office of the Treasury Department.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all officers charged with the issue of clothing, or other supplies, carefully to preserve the same from waste or damage; and, in case of deficiency, on final settlement, of any article of supplies, the value thereof shall be charged against the delinquent, and deducted from his monthly pay, unless he shall show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, by one or more depositions, setting forth the circumstances of the case, that the said deficiency was occasioned by unavoidable accident, or was lost in actual service, without any fault on his part; and, in case of damage, he shall also be subject to charge for the damage actually sustained, unless he shall show, in like manner, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, that due care and attention were given to the preservation of said supplies, and that the damage did not result from neglect.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, the better to enable the quartermaster's department to carry into effect the provisions of this act, there be appointed two additional quartermasters, and ten assistant quartermasters, to be taken from the line of the army, who shall have the same rank and compensation as are provided for like grades by the act, entitled "An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one: Provided, That assistant quartermasters be entitled, also, to receive the allowance of forage heretofore authorized, by law, to regimental and battalion quartermasters.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each officer appointed under this act, shall, before he enter upon his duties, give bond, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the Secretary of War, in such sum as the President shall direct, with condition for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

APPROVED, May 18, 1826.

STATUTE I.

May 20, 1826. 1853, ch. 80.

The marshals

to allow compen

sation to persons imprisoned on account of inability to give security, &c.

Proviso.

CHAP. LXXV.-An Act to allow compensation to such witnesses, on the part of the United States, as may be imprisoned, to compel their attendance in court on account of their inability to give security in a recognizance.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the marshals for the several districts and territories of the United States be authorized to pay such persons as may have been, or shall hereafter be, imprisoned on account of inability to give security in a recognizance for their attendance as witnesses on behalf of the United States, the same sum, for each day's imprisonment, as is provided by law for witnesses actually attending court under process: Provided, The said allowance be first fixed and certified by the proper judge, as in case of jurors. APPROVED, May 20, 1826.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LXXVI.—An Act authorizing the importation of statues of George Wash- May 20, 1826. ington and Alexander Hamilton, free of duty.

[Obsolete.] Statue of

of Alexander

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Washington Washington, and Monument Association in Massachusetts be, and are hereby, authorized Hamilton, auto import into the United States, from the city of London, a statue of thorized to be Washington, free of duty; and that the Merchant's Exchange Company, imported free of duty. of the city of New York, be, and they are hereby, authorized to import into the United States, for the use of the New Exchange Building, in the city of New York, a statue of Alexander Hamilton, free of duty. APPROVED, May 20, 1826.

STATUTE I

CHAP. LXXVII.—An Act authorizing the payment of interest due to the state of May 20, 1826.

Delaware.

[Obsolete.] The claims of Delaware against

the United States, to be settled.

Rules adopted

case.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the state of Delaware against the United States, for interest upon loans or moneys borrowed, and actually expended by her, for the use and benefit of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertaining the amount of interest as aforesaid, due to the state of Delaware, the following rules to shall be understood as applicable to, and governing the case, to wit: First, that interest shall not be computed on any sum which Delaware has not expended for the use and benefit of the United States, as evidenced by the amount refunded or repaid to Delaware by the United States. Second, that no interest shall be paid on any sum on which she has not paid interest. Third, that, when the principal, or any part of it, has been paid or refunded by the United States, or money placed in the hands of Delaware for that purpose, the interest on the sum or sums so paid or refunded, shall cease and not be considered as chargeable to the United States, any longer than up to the time of the repayment as aforesaid.

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Amount of in

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of interest, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in [the] terest, when astreasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826.

CHAP. LXXVIII.—An Act for improving certain harbours, and the navigation of certain rivers and creeks, and for authorizing surveys to be made of certain bays, sounds, and rivers, therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to wit:

In the state of Maine, one thousand two hundred dollars, for building a pier, on Steels' Ledge, near the harbour of Belfast.

In the state of Massachusetts, three thousand five hundred dollars, for the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbour.

In the state of New York, fifteen thousand dollars, for building a pier, and repairing the old one, at the mouth of Buffaloe Creek; and three thousand dollars for clearing out and deepening the harbour of Sackett's Harbour.

certained, to be paid from the treasury.

STATUTE I.

May 20, 1826.

[Obsolete.] Specific appropriations.

Maine.

Massachusetts,

New York.

Delaware.

Ohio.

Maine.

Massachusetts.

Connecticut.

New York.

Pennsylvania.

North Carolina.

Alabama.

Michigan.

Sums herein appropriated to

In the state of Delaware, twenty-two thousand dollars for building piers, at proper sites, in the river Delaware, at New Castle, and three thousand dollars for repairing the old piers at the same place, and deepening the water around them.

In the state of Ohio, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, to remove obstructions at the mouth of Grand River; twelve thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Ashtabula Creek; two thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Cunningham Creek; and five thousand dollars for the same purpose, in Huron River; and four hundred dollars for making a survey of Sandusk Bay, to ascertain the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof, and of placing buoys therein.

In the state of Maine, two hundred dollars for making a survey to ascertain the practicability and utility of removing obstructions to navigation in Pisquataqua river, and the expense of effecting the same.

In the state of Massachusetts, five hundred dollars for making surveys of the following places, to wit: the flat on the north-west side of the harbour of Edgartown, to ascertain the practicability of building a light-house thereon, and the utility of the same to navigation, and of preventing the said harbour from being filled up with sand.

The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river, and the practicability of deepening the channel over the same, and the harbour of Hyannis, in the Vineyard Sound, to ascertain what improvements can be made in the same for the safe anchorage of vessels, and the expense of effecting, severally, these objects.

In the state of Connecticut, four hundred dollars for making a survey of Saugatuck river and harbour, and to ascertain the expediency and expense of removing the obstructions to the navigation thereof, and of facilitating the commercial intercourse between the port of Saugatuck and the city of New York.

In the state of New York, two hundred dollars for making a survey of Oswego bay and harbour, for ascertaining the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof.

In the state of Pennsylvania, one hundred dollars, to defray the expense of a survey of the public piers at Chester, in the river Delaware, in order to determine the expediency of accepting the cession thereof made by the state of Pennsylvania, and the expense of repairing the same.

In the state of North Carolina, one thousand dollars for making a survey of the Swash, in Pamtico Sound, near Ocracock Inlet, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the channel through the same can be deepened; and also one of Cape Fear River, below the town of Walmington, [Wilmington,] for the same purpose, and also for a survey of Roanoke Inlet and sound, with the view of ascertaining the practicability of making a permanent ship channel between Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, at Roanoke Inlet, or elsewhere, and a statement of the costs of effecting, severally, these objects.

In the state of Alabama, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of removing the obstructions and deepening the harbour of Mobile.

In the territory of Michigan, two hundred dollars for making a survey of La Plaisance bay, to ascertain the expediency of improving the navigation thereof, and the expense of effecting the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein be paid from the appropriated be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826.

treasury.