Authorized by act of Congress, August 31, 1852, $30,000.ġ853 – The sites for the light-house at Point au Roche two beacon lights near Point Comfort, New Jersey two beacon lights to mark the main channel in New York bay and two beacons on Staten Island, to serve as range lights for the Swash channel, New York bay, have been selected, the land purchased, and the deeds for the same are in the hands of the district attorney cessions of jurisdiction over the sites having been obtained from the respective State legislatures. The coast survey chart of New York bay accompanying this report will show the practicability of this plan, and also the advantages arising from the placing of the other beacons authorized to be built by act of 31st August, 1852.ġ852 - And be it further enacted, That the sum of $30,000, appropriated by the act approved March 3d, 1851, for the erection of a light-house on Flynn’s Knoll, be, and the same is hereby, authorized to be applied to the erection of two-range beacon lights, for Gedney's Channel, to be placed near Point Comfort, in the State of New Jersey and two-range beacon lights for the Swash channel of the harbor of New York, to be placed on Staten Island, near the Elm Tree beacon, and to be constructed under the direction of the Topographical Bureau, and according to the recommendation of the Light House Board and the Superintendent of the Coast Survey and for a large iron floating bell beacon, to be moored off Flynn's Knoll, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. After renewed efforts by the Light-house Board, without success, to procure the necessary land for placing the beacons, it determined to recommend that the appropriation be made applicable to the erection of two beacons on the New Jersey shore, at the other extremity of the range, as they will there answer the purpose contemplated as a back range. The other was to have been located on the land belonging to the United States in the rear of the fort. Sites were selected by officers of the coast survey, and efforts were made to purchase the necessary land for the one to be placed near the beach, without success.
In 1851 the appropriation for this purpose was increased to six thousand dollars. 1852 – In 1850 an appropriation was made for erecting two beacon-lights near Fort Hamilton, New York, to serve as a range for the main channel.
0 kommentar(er)
