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Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and more...
Item # 703600
April 28, 1792
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, April 28, 1792
* George Washington - Act of U.S. Congress
* Future presidents John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
The front page has an Act of Congress concerning the creation of light houses, beacons, buoys & public piers, signed in script type by the President: Go. Washington, and in block type by Th. Jefferson and John Adams. They are to be installed at Charleston, and in the Chesapeake at the north end of Willoughby's Spit, at the tail of the Horse Shoe, and the other in between.
This is followed by a brief letter signed in block type: G. Washington, and then two letters signed in type by Th. Jefferson.
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, some discrete archival mends to inside page margins & the spine, nice condition.
AI notes: The Act of Congress approved on April 12, 1792, formally titled “An Act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers,” extended and clarified the federal government’s responsibility for maritime navigation aids established under the original 1789 Lighthouse Act. It authorized the United States to continue funding the maintenance and repair of existing lighthouses, beacons, buoys, stakes marking channels, and public piers through July 1, 1793, even if states had not yet ceded the necessary property or jurisdiction. The law also empowered the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a floating beacon and place additional buoys at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and to install three floating beacons in Chesapeake Bay at strategic points for safe navigation. This act supplemented earlier legislation, ensuring both ongoing federal oversight of navigational safety and the creation of new aids in key ports, and was signed into law by President George Washington.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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