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(ACT of January 26th, 1802.)

act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants and for other purposes, approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for issuing military land warrants, shall be extended to the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and the time limited by the said act for the location of unlocated military land warrants, shall be extended to the first day of October thereafter.

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SEC. V. [Five thousand dollars appropriated for the purchase of books for the use of congress.]

ACT of January 26, 1802. 3 Bioren, 445.

An act concerning the library for the use of both houses of congress.

1. SEC. 1. The books and maps purchased by direction of the act of congress, passed the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred, together with the books or libraries which have heretofore been kept separately by each house, shall be placed in the capital, in the room which was occupied by the house of representatives during the last session of the sixth congress.

2. SEC. II. The president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, for the time being, are empowered to establish such regulations and restrictions, in relation to the said library, as to them shall seem proper, and, from time to time, to alter or amend the same: Provided, That no regulation shall be made repugnant to any provision contained in this act.

E. SEC. III. A librarian, to be appointed by the president of the United States solely, shall take charge of the said library, who, previous to his entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bond, payable to the United States, in such a sum, and with such security, as the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, for the time being, may deem sufficient, for the safe keeping of such books, maps, and furniture, as may be confided to his care, and the faithful discharge of his trust, according to such regulations as may be, from time to time, established for

(ACT of March 3d, 1815.)

the government of the said library; which said bond shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the senate.

4. SEC. IV. No map shall be permitted to be taken out of the said library by any person; nor any book, except by the president and vice president of the United States, and members of the senate and house of representatives, for the time being.

5. SEC. v. The keeper of the said library shall receive, for his services, a sum not exceeding two dollars per diem, for every day of necessary attendance; the amount whereof, together with the necessary expenses incident to the said library, after being ascertained by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, for the time being, shall be paid out of the fund annually appropriated for the contingent expenses of both houses of congress.

SEC. VI. The unexpended balance of the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of congress aforesaid, for the purchase of books and maps for the use of the two houses of congress, together with such sums as may hereafter be appropriated to the same purpose, shall be laid out under the direction of a joint committee, to consist of three members of the senate, and three members of the house of representatives.

ACT of May 1, 1810. 4 Bioren, 314.

6. SEC. 1. The president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, for the time being, are hereby authorised to grant the use of the books in the library of congress to the agent of the joint committee of congress, appointed in relation to the library, on the same terms, conditions, and restrictions, as members of congress are allowed to use said books, any thing contained in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

RESOLUTION of May 2, 1812. 4 Bioren, 480.

7. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, for the time being, are hereby authorised to grant the use of the books in the library of congress to the judges of the supreme court of the United States, at the times, and on the same terms, conditions, and restrictions, as members of congress are allowed to use said books.

ACT of January 30, 1815. 4 Bioren, 780.

8. SEC. 1. [The secretary of the treasury directed to pay twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, in treasury notes, for the library of Thomas Jefferson, late president of the United States, for the use of congress.]

ACT of March 3, 1815. 4 Bioren, 829.

9. SEC. I. The president of the United States is authorised to

(ACT of August 7th, 1789.)

cause a proper apartment to be immediately selected and prepared for a library room, and to cause the library lately purchased from Thomas Jefferson to be placed therein during the ensuing recess of congress.

[See CONGRESS 23. ante, page 130.]

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Vide Index, for particular light houses, beacons and buoys.

ACT of August 7, 1789. 2 Bioren, 34.

1. SEC. I. All expenses which shall accrue from and after the fifteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eightynine, in the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, erected, placed or sunk, before the passing of this act, at the entrance of, or within, any bay, inlet, harbour or port, of the United States, for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States: Provided, nevertheless, That none of the said expenses shall continue to be so defrayed by the United States after the expiration of one year from the day aforesaid,* unless such light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, shall, in the mean time, be ceded to and vested in the United States by the state or states, respectively, in which the same may be, together with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and together with the jurisdiction of the same.

2. SEC. III. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide by contracts, which shall be approved by the president of the United States, for building a light house near the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, and for rebuilding, when necessary, and keeping in good repair, the light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers in the several states, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies; and also to agree for the salaries, wages or

* The time was enlarged by the act of July 22d, 1790, until the first day of July, 1791. Further enlarged by the act of March 3d, 1791, until the first of July, 1792. Again enlarged by act of April 12th, 1792, until July 1st, 1793; and by act of March 20, 1793, until July 1st, 1794; and by the act of May 30th, 1796, for two years further.

(ACT of May 13th, 1794.)

hire, of the person or persons appointed by the president for the superintendence and care of the same.

ACT of April 12, 1792. 2 Bioren, 269.

3. SEC. II. The secretary of the treasury is authorised to cause to be provided, erected and placed, a floating beacon, and as many buoys as may be necessary for the security of navigation at, and near the entrance of the harbour of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina: and also to have affixed three floating beacons in the bay of the Chesapeake; one at the north end of Willoughby's Spit, another at the tail of the Horse Shoe, and the third on the shoalest place of the middle ground.

ACT of March 2, 1793. 2 Bioren, 372.

4. SEC. II. The secretary of the treasury is authorised and directed to cause a floating beacon or buoy to be provided and placed on Smith's Point shoal, in the Chesapeake Bay, and a beacon or floating buoy at the south west straddle on the Royal shoal, near Ocracocke inlet, in North Carolina.

ACT of April 5, 1794. 2 Bioren, 388.

5. SEC. 1. The secretary of the treasury is directed to cause to be placed buoys on the rocks called Black Ledge, or South West Ledge, Goshen Reef, Bartlet's Reef, and Race Rock, off the harbour of New London, in the state of Connecticut, at an expense, not to exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars; and to cause to be erected a beacon, and to be placed two buoys, in the harbour of Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire, at an expense not to exceed the sum of three hundred dollars: And, likewise, to cause to be placed in Providence river, in the state of Rhode Island, and in Savannah river, in the state of Georgia, and at the mouth of the same, buoys, not exceeding ten in number, for each river, and at an expense, not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, for each; the same to be placed in such parts of the said rivers as he may judge most advantageous for the navigation thereof, respectively.

ACT of May 13, 1794. 2 Bioren, 406.

6. SEC. 1. As soon as the jurisdiction of so much of the head land of Cape Hatteras, in the state of North Carolina, as the president of the United States shall deem sufficient and most proper for the convenience and accommodation of a light house, shall have been ceded to the United States, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the president of the United States, for building a

(ACT of February 21st, 1795.)

light house thereon, of the first rate, and furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the president for the superintendence and care of building said light house: And the president is hereby authorised to make said appointments. That the number and disposition of the lights in the said light house, shall be such as may tend to distinguish it from others, and, as far as practicable, to prevent mistakes in navigators.

SEC. II. The secretary of the treasury is authorised to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the president of the United States, for building, on an island in the harbour of Ocracocke, called Shell Castle, a lighted beacon, of a wooden frame, fifty-five feet high, to be twenty-two feet at the base, and to be reduced gradually to twelve feet at the top, exclusively of the lantern, which shall be made to contain one large lamp, with four wicks, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies: Provided, That no such lighted beacon shall be erected, until a cession of a sufficient quantity of land, on the said island, shall be made to the United States, by the consent of the legislature of the state of North Carolina.

ACT of May 19, 1794. 2 Bioren, 407.

7. SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the president of the United States, for building a light house on the island of Seguin, near the entrance of the river Kennebec, in the district of Maine, (the commonwealth of Massachusetts having ceded to the United States ten acres of the said island, for that purpose,) and to furnish the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages, of the person or persons who may be appointed by the president for the superintendence and care of the same: And the president is hereby authorised to make the said appointments: The number or disposition of the light or lights in the said light house, to be such as may tend to distinguish it from others, as far as is practicable.

8. SEC. III. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause a beacon to be erected, and three buoys to be placed, at the entrance of Saint Mary's river, in the state of Georgia.

ACT of February 21, 1795. 2 Bioren, 471.

9. SEC. 1. The secretary of the treasury is required to cause to be erected, as soon as may be, a light house near the entrance of the harbour of Georgetown, in the state of South Carolina, at such place, when ceded to the United States, as shall be most convenient for the navigation thereof: And a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars is appropriated for placing buoys on certain shoals

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