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    USLHB, Bois Blanc

    USLHB, South Manitou

    USLHB, Skillagalee

    USLHB, Presque Isle

    Acknowledging letter concerning the lighthouse accounts. Requiring receipts from the keepers and not from Samuel A. Abbott as their agent. Employing 5 seamen on the lightboat when only 4 were authori

    Enclosing printed circular letter for light keepers requiring them to give due notice to Commissioners of Wrecks of "all vessels wrecked or found in distress"

    Authorized $1,470.83 for expenses: $720.83 for lighthouses expenses; $750 for repairs on the floating light

    Announcement of William D. Wilson's appointment as General Inspector of Lighthouses on Lakes Erie & Huron, and Superintendent of Lighthouses on Lake Michigan from Green Bay to the Head of the Lake. H

    Acknowledges receipt of accounts. Returns voucher for repairing the floating light for which the receipt was not signed.

   

   

    Receipt for 3 casks oil, and 1 box tube glasses

    Receipt for 3 casks oil

    Acknowledges letter reporting that the lighthouse at Bois Blanc "washed down by the water of the Lake" in a storm. Is there a safer location? Cost to rebuild? Was anything preserved? Should get off t

    Accompanying letter requests payment via the Missouri, Capt. Wilkins

    Announces appropriations for lighthouses at mouth of Chicago River, St. Joseph's River, out Thunder Bay Island, light boat for Straits of Mackinac, and buoys on St. Clair Flats.

    Approves tenders for lighthouses at mouth of Chicago River, St. Joseph's River, out Thunder Bay Island, and buoys on St. Clair Flats. Photocopy of the original.

    Employed a blacksmith to repair defective lamps. Oil delivered by schooner Marengo

    Requires reduction in the cost of rations to the light boat, authorizes repairs to light boat and to Thunder Bay light house, requires an update on Presque Isle Light House and Manitou and payments f