July 25, 1848.
(No. 17.)—A Joint Resolution extending the Time for the Erection of certain Lighthouses.
Sums appropriated for lighthouses not to be carried to the surplus fund until two
years after the first meeting of the legislature of those States in which said lighthouses
are to be located.
1795, ch. 45.
1847, ch. 52.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That so much of the sixteenth section of the act approved March third, seventeen hundred
and ninety-five, entitled “An Act making further provision for the support of public
credit and for the redemption of the public debt,” as requires that sums remaining unexpended for two years after the year of appropriation
shall be carried to the account of the surplus fund, shall not apply to the act approved
March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled “An Act authorizing the erection
of certain lighthouses, and for other purposes,” until two years after the first meeting of the legislature of those States in which
said lighthouses are to be located.
Approved, July 25, 1848.
Printed Document. 1 pages; Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 337