Range Lights at Cape Charles Harbor

51ST CONGRESS, 1st Session.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

REPORT No. 815.

RANGE LIGHTS AT CAPE CHARLES HARBOR.

MARCH 13, 1890. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. BROWNE, of Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT:

[To accompany H. R. 900.]

The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred House bill No. 900, to establish range and other necessary lights at the entrance to the harbor of Cape Charles, in Virginia, have had the same under consideration and respectfully report it back with the recommendation that with amendments it do pass, it being deemed indispensable by the Light-House Board, as appears by the attached letter.

AMENDMENTS.

Amend the title by striking out the words "range and other," and in the third line by striking out the words "range and other," and in the seventh line the word "ten" and insert the word "one," so that the bill when so amended will read as follows:

A BILL to establish necessary lights at the entrance to the harbor of Cape Charles City, in Virginia.

Be it enacted 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 to establish, at and near the entrance of Cape Charles Harbor, in Virginia, such lights as may be deemed necessary: Provided, That the same shall not cost more that one thousand dollars.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, March 7, 1890.

SIR: Your letter of February 25, 1890, from the light-house subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, submitting House bill 900, for lighting the harbor of Cape Charles City, for suggestion, was referred to the Light-House Board, which considered and reported on it at its session of March 3, 1890.

In reply, I have to recommend that this bill be so amended as to provide for the establishment for proper lights for the harbor of Cape Charles City, Va., at an expense not exceeding $1,000.

Respectfully yours,
W. WINDOM,
Secretary.

Hon. T. H. BAYLY BROWNE, M. C.,
Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

Range Lights at Cape Charles Harbor
Washington, D.C.
March 13, 1890