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(ACT of March 2d, 1812.)

Massachusetts, of such form and dimensions as he shall deem necessary. And also to cause good and sufficient buoys and beacons to be placed, for the safety of navigation, at or near the entrance of the harbour of Beverly, in Massachusetts.

51. SEC. III. One of the two beacons directed to be erected on the Stony Muscle Bed, near Plymouth harbour, in the state of Massachusetts, by an act which passed the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and eight, is hereby directed to be erected on Beach Point, near the said harbour of Plymouth.

52. SEC. IV. The secretary of the treasury is authorised to cause to be erected and established, under proper regulations, such a 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.

ACT of March 2, 1811. 4 Bioren, 349.

53. SEC. 1. The secretary of the treasury is hereby authorised, on being satisfied that Boon island, in the district of Maine, in the state of Massachusetts, is a fit and eligible site for a light house, and that one ought to be erected thereon, to cause a light house 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.

54. SEC. II. The secretary of the treasury 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.

55. SEC. III. The secretary of the treasury is hereby directed to cause such buoys as he shall deem necessary, to be placed at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in the state of Massachusetts.

56. SEC. IV. It shall be the duty of the 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.

ACT of March 2, 1812. 4 Bioren, 389.

57. SEC. I. The secretary of the treasury is authorised and empowered, under the direction of the president of the United States, to purchase of Winslow Lewis his patent right to the plan of lighting light houses, by reflecting and magnifying lanterns, if the same shall be proved to be a discovery made by him; and to contract with the said Winslow Lewis for fitting up and keeping in repair, any or all the light houses in the United States, or the territories thereof, upon the new and improved plan of the reflecting and magnifying lanterns; or to contract with the said Winslow Lewis

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

for such sum as he may think for the interest of the United States: Provided, The sum so to be allowed shall not, in any case, annually exceed the appropriation made for supplying the light house establishment with oil, in any given year, which has passed for a term not exceeding seven years, the said Lewis covenanting, with sufficient sureties, to fit up and keep in repair all the light houses in the United States, or territories thereof, on the new and improved plan of lighting light houses by reflecting and magnifying lanterns; and the same to furnish and keep in repair for a term of years not less than seven, at the sole expense of the said Winslow Lewis, and to deliver over, at the expiration of the term aforesaid, all the light houses fitted up according to the new and improved plan, to the United States, in good repair, he, the said Winslow Lewis, warranting the same to remain in good repair for seven years more, from and after the expiration of the said contract.

ACT of April 27, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 107.

58. SEC. I. As soon as a cession shall be made by the state of Massachusetts to the United States, of the jurisdiction over the land sufficient for the purpose, the secretary of the treasury shall be and he is authorised to provide, by contract, to be approved by the president of the United States, for building three light houses, viz: one on Race Point, one on Point Gammon, in the town of Yarmouth, and one on the island called Petite Manon, near Naraguages river, in the state of Massachusetts; and to furnish the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the persons who shall be appointed by the president for the superintendence and care of the same; and the president shall be authorised to make the said appointments.

RESOLUTION of January 19, 1819.

60. The president of the United States is hereby requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, Cape Look Out, and Cape Fear, and of the shoals of these capes respectively; and to cause such an examination to be made of these capes and shoals, respectively, as will ascertain the practicability of erecting light houses, beacons or buoys, on or near the extreme points of them, or either of them; and also to cause the latitude and longitude of the said capes, extreme points and shoals, respectively, to be ascertained with as much exactness as may be practicable, and that the results of such surveys and examinations be reported to congress.

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 105.

61. SEC. I. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the president

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

of the United States, for building light houses, erecting beacons or land marks, and placing light vessels or boats, on the following sites or shoals, to wit:

A light house on Long Island Head, and a beacon or land mark on Half Way Rock, in Boston Bay; and also a light house on Bird's Island, in Buzzard's Bay, in the state of Massachu

setts.

A light house on Galloo Island, near the outlet of Lake Ontario, in the state of New York.

A light house, at a proper place, at or between the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit River, in the territory of Michigan.

Three light houses, on the following sites: one on the Bodkin, one on North Point, and one on Sparrow's Point, in the state of Maryland.

A light house on Windmill Point, at the mouth of Rappahannock river, or a light vessel or boat on the Wolf Trap Shoals, if the latter shall be deemed preferable to a light house on Windmill Point; a light house on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth River, and a light vessel, or boat, on Willoughby's Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads, in the state of Virginia: And a beacon, or land mark, on Wolf Island, near the port of Darien, in the state of Georgia.

62. SEC. II. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause three buoys to be placed in such manner as to mark out the channel leading into the harbour of Boston, and one buoy to be placed on West Island Ledge, in Buzzard's Bay; a spindle, or buoy, on the outer rock of the reef running from Cochney's Island to Eastern Norwalk Island; another spindle, or buoy, on the reef running about southwest from the western point of the Western Norwalk Island; and a spindle on the rock off the point of Fairweather Island, in the state of Connecticut: And twenty buoys in the Chesapeake Bay, and Patapsco River, for designating the shoals and channel, in the state of Maryland.

63. SEC. III. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause a pier to be carried out to nine feet water, at the light house, heretofore authorised to be erected at the mouth of the Mississippi, and also that he cause the present wood tower at the Seguin light house, in the state of Massachusetts, to be replaced with one of stone.

64. SEC. VII. The secretary of the treasury, in case he shall deem it expedient and proper, may cause the light house heretofore authorised to be erected on the south point of Sapelo Island, to be changed to, and placed on, Wolfe's Island.

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ACT of February 20, 1811. 4 Bioren, 328.

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An act to enable the people of the territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states; and for other purposes.

1. SEC. I. The inhabitants of all that part of the territory or country ceded under the name of Louisiana, by the treaty made at Paris, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and France, contained within the following limits, that is to say: beginning at the mouth of the river Sabine, thence, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river, including all islands, to the thirty-second degree of latitude; thence, due north to the northernmost part of the thirty third degree of north latitude; thence, along the said parallel of latitude, to the river Mississippi; thence, down the said river, to the river Iberville; and from thence, along the middle of the said river and lakes Maurepas and Ponchartrain, to the gulf of Mexico; thence, bounded by the said gulf, to the place of beginning; including all islands within three leagues of the coast, be, and they are hereby authorised to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they may deem proper, under the provisions, and upon the conditions, hereinafter mentioned.

2. SEC. II. [Representatives to form a convention, to be chosen.]

3. SEC. 1. The members of the convention, when duly elected, are hereby authorised to meet, at the city of New Orleans, on the first Monday of November next; which convention, when met, shall first determine, by a majority of the whole number elected, whether it be expedient or not, at that time, to form a constitution and state government, for the people within the said territory; and if it be determined to be expedient, then the convention shall, in like manner declare, in behalf of the people of the said territory, that it adopts the constitution of the United States; whereupon the said convention shall be, and hereby is, authorised to form a constitution and state government for the people of the said territory: Provided, The constitution to be formed, in virtue of the authority herein given, shall be republican, and consistent with the constitution of the United States; that it shall contain the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty; that it shall secure to the citizen the trial by jury in all criminal cases, and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, con

(ACT of February 20th, 1811.)

formably to the provisions of the constitution of the United States, and that after the admission of the said territory of Orleans as a state, into the Union, the laws which such state may pass shall be promulgated, and its records of every description shall be preserved, and its judicial and legislative written proceedings conducted, in the language in which the laws and the judicial and legislative written proceedings of the United States are now published and conducted: And provided also. That the said convention shall provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting the said territory do agree and declare, that they forever disclaim all right or title to the waste or unappropriated lands, lying within the said territory; and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and, moreover, that each and every tract of land, sold by congress, shall be and remain exempt from any tax, laid by the order or under the authority of the state, whether for state, county, township, parish, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years, from and after the respective days of the sales thereof; and that the lands, belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the lands belonging to persons residing there. in; and that no taxes shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, or into the gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said state as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost or toll, therefor, imposed by the said state.

4. SEC. IV. In case the convention shall declare its assent, in behalf of the people of the said territory, to the adoption of the constitution of the United States, and shall form a constitution and state government for the people of the said territory of Orleans, the said convention, as soon thereafter as may be, is hereby required to cause to be transmitted to congress the instrument by which its assent to the constitution of the United States is thus given and de-' clared, and also, a true and attested copy of such constitution, or frame of state government, as shall be formed and provided by said convention; and if the same shall not be disapproved by congress, at their next session after the receipt thereof, the said state shall be admitted into the union, upon the same footing with the original states.

5. SEC. v. Five per centum of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States, after the first day of January, shall be applied to lying out and constructing public roads and levees in the said state, as the legislature thereof may direct

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