the public debt of the United States, as may be wanted for that purpose, is hereby pledged and appropriated for the payment of the interest and for the reimbursement of the principal of the stock, which may be created by virtue of this act. It shall accordingly be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund, to cause to be applied and paid out of the said fund yearly, and every year, such sum and sums as may be annually wanted to discharge the interest accruing on the said stock, and to reimburse the principal, as the the same shall become due, and may be discharged in conformity with the terms of the loan; and they are further authorised to apply, from time to time, such sum or sums out of the said fund as they may think proper, towards redeeming by purchase, and at a price not above par, the principal of the said stock or any part thereof. And the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to establish sufficient revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter take place in the funds hereby appropriated for paying the said interest and principal sums, or any of them in manner aforesaid. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 1, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LXIII. AN ACT for the relief of P. C. L'Enfant. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorised and directed to pay P. C. L'Enfant, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and sixty. six dollars and two-thirds, with legal interest from the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as a compensation for his services in laying out the plan of the city of Washington. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate pro tempore. May 1, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LXIV. AN ACT to erect a light house at the entrance of Scituate harbour, a stone column on a spit of sand at the entrance into Boston harbor, and a beacon on Beach point near Plymouth harbor in the state of Massachusetts; a light at the entrance of Bayou St. John, into lake Ponchartrain, and two lights on lake Erie, and for beacons and bouys, near the entrance of Beverly harbor. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of America, in Congress assembled, That on the cession of the jurisdiction of so much land on one of the points forming the entrance of Scituate harbor, in the state of Massachusetts, as the President of the Unit- Light house ed States shall deem sufficient and most pro- to be built on per for a light house, it shall be the duty of the point the secretary of the treasury to provide by entrance contract for building of a light house of stone thereon, and placing it on the like establishment with other light houses. The number and disposition of the lights shall be such as may distinguish it from those of others. forming the of Scituate harbor. erected on a Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Beacon to be treasury, to cause to be erected a column spit of sand of stone, as a beacon on a spit of sand, ex- extending from light tending from Light house, or from the Great house. . Brewster Island at the entrance of the harbor of Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, of such form and dimensions as he shall deem necessary. And also to cause good and suf. ficient buoys and beacons to be placed for the safety of navigation, at or near the entrance of the harbor of Beverly, in Massachusetts. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one of the two beacons directed to be erected on the Stony Muscle Bed, near Plymouth harbor, in the state of Massachusetts, by an act which passed the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and eight, be, and the same is hereby directed to be erected on Beach point, near the said harbor of Plymouth. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury, be, and he is hereby authorised to cause to be erected and established, "under proper regulations, such a Beacons near the entrance of Beverly. of the harbor Light to be placed near the entrance of Bayou St. John and Bird Island. Specific appropriations. light as he shall deem proper and necessary, at or near the entrance of Bayou St. John into lake Ponchartrain, in the territory of Orleans; and such lights as he shall deem proper on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presq' isle in lake Erie. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money to accomplish the purposes of this act, to wit: For the erection of a light house, at the entrance of Scituate harbor, four thousand dollars : For the erection of a stone column on a spit of sand, extending from Light house island at the entrance of Boston harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars : And for the erection and establishment of a light at the entrance of Bayou St. John into lake Ponchartrain, two thousand dollars : And for the erection and establishment of two lights on Lake Erie, one thousand six hundred dollars : And for beacons and buoys near the entrance of Beverly harbor, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore May 1, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LXV. AN ACT for the relief of Arthur St. Clair. E 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 hereby is authorised to cause to be paid out of any monies which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars to Arthur St. Clair, who serv. ed in the army of the United States throughout the revolutionary war: Provided, the said Arthur St. Clair shall, previous to the receipt of the said sum of money, sign a release of all claim for further remuneration from the government for services rendered, or money advanced by him during the revolutionary war. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 1, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LXVI. AN ACT for the relief of William W. Weymouth and Joseph P. Weeks. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Dd |