Volume 2 · 659
Public Law 11–XXXVII
to erect a lighthouse on Boon island in the state of Massachusetts, to place buoys off Cape Fear river, and to erect a beacon at New Inlet, in the stale if North Carolina, and to place buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, and to erect a column of stone on Cape Elizabeth, and to complete the beacons and buoys at the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the slate of Massachusetts.
Approved March 2, 1811
Statutory text
An Act
to erect a lighthouse on Boon island in the state of Massachusetts, to place buoys off Cape Fear river, and to erect a beacon at New Inlet, in the stale if North Carolina, and to place buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, and to erect a column of stone on Cape Elizabeth, and to complete the beacons and buoys at the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the slate of Massachusetts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Secretary of the Treasury may establish a lighthouse on Boon island.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, on being satisfied that Boon island in the district of Maine, in the state of Massachusetts, is a fit and eligible site for a lighthouse, and that one ought to be erected thereon, to cause a lighthouse to be built on the said island: Provided, that the legislature of Massachusetts shall vest the property of the said island in the United States, and cede the jurisdiction of the same.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury
Buoys to be placed off Cape Fear.
be, and he is hereby directed to cause buoys to be placed at or near the main bar, and New Inlet bar off Cape Fear; and also, to cause to be erected a beacon on a point of land, near New Inlet, in the state of North Carolina.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury
Buoys to be placed at Edgartown harbor.
be, and he is hereby directed to cause such buoys as he shall deem necessary, to be placed at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, in the state of Massachusetts.
Sec. 4.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Beacon to be placed on Cape Elizabeth.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be erected a column of stone, as a beacon, on Cape Elizabeth, in the state of Massachusetts, of such form and dimensions as he shall deem necessary.
Sec. 5.
And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money
Specific appropriations.
be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein mentioned, to wit: For the erection of a lighthouse on Boon island, three thousand dollars; for placing buoys on the places mentioned off Cape Fear river, two thousand dollars; for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, two thousand dollars; for erecting a beacon, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for erecting a column on Cape Elizabeth, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for completing the beacons and buoys ordered to be placed near the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the state of Massachusetts, the further sum of three hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, .