Defence of the Right And the Duty of the American Union to Improve Its Navigable
Defence of the Right And the Duty of the American Union to Improve Its Navigable
Samuel B Samuel Bulkley Ruggles
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The first Congress, embracing among their number the very fathers of the Republic, hastened to exercise their constitutional duty. The law of April 7, 1789, being their ninth act, promptly and comprehensively provided, "that all expenses incurred before its passage, for the necessary support, maintenance* and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and for the piers erected, placed or sunk, at the entrance of, or within any bay, inlet, harbor or port of the United Slates, for rendering the... navigation thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out of the Treasury of the United States. " Regarding the Chesapeake Bay, as a portion of the waters of the United States, it then directs a light-house to be erected near its entrance; and thus, the ancient soil of Virginia saw the first national work for the regulation of commerce, erected by the government of this Union. I am painfully aware, that the rapid extension of these structures, has seriously disturbed the ab stract meditations of some of the political philosophers of that venerable commonwealth; but nevertheless, lights and light-houses have made their way, until the whole Atlantic coast is illuminated from the St.
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