July 10, 1848.
(No. 16.)—Joint Resolution to change the Location of a Lighthouse on Lake Superior, in the State
of Michigan.
Site of the lighthouse authorized by the act of 3d March, 1847, at Copper Harbor,
Lake Superior, to be changed to a more suitable place on said lake.
Proviso.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized (if he deem it expedient)
to change the site of the lighthouse authorized by the act of March third, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, to be constructed at Copper Harbor, Fort Wilkins, Lake Superior,
in the State of Michigan, to a more suitable place on said lake:
Provided, Such change shall not increase the cost of construction so as to exceed the appropriation
made for such purpose by said act.
Approved, July 10, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 337 ,