Book/Printed Material Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, to inquire into the condition of the light-house establishment of the United States, under the act of March 3, 1851. February 6, 1852. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed
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Image 1 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 32d Congress 1st Session H OF REPS Ex Doc No 55 OF THE OFFICERS CONSTIT IJTIN G TIIE LIG IITH0IJS E B0 ARE CONVENED UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 2 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the …
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 3 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Treasury Department February 4 1852 Sir I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the lighthouse board appointed by the department in pursuance…
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- Date: 1852
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Image 4 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 4 Doc No 55 alarm signals c of determining the materials and mode of Construc tion of procuring them and of the superintendence while under construc tion or of securing the faithful…
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- Date: 1852
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Image 5 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 ready use and include all sea and lake coast bay river and harbor lights and that such distinctive characteristics should be proposed as may be best adapted to the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 6 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 6 Doc No 55 REP OR T Office Lighthouse Board Washington City January 30 1852 Sir The lighthouse board have the honor to submit the report of their investigations and the conclusions…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 7 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 7 ture lighthouse establishment the programme proposed by the board or ganized for the purpose at the head of which was Admiral Rossel of the French navy About this…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 8 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 8 Doc No 55 seen by the board nor have they ever heard that such experiments were made With this exception and the authority of Congress to test Mr Isherwoods plan of…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 9 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 I 9 That the means said to he employed for ventilating are wholly inadequate and contrary to true scientific principles That there is very little attention paid to the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 10 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 10 Doc No 55 f That contractors are not held under a sufficiently rigid superintendence and inspection during the execution of works of construction and repairi That the modern lighthouse towers are…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 11 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 11 adopted on any part of the coast of the United States for rendering naviga tion safe and easy by means of lights beacons buoys c e That lights…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 12 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 12 Doc No 55 changing lights and other aids to navigation without giving ample notice are subjects of grave complaint That there is no good reason why the lightvessels on the coasts…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 13 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 13 That lighthouses and lightvessels are not sufficiently well distinguished by day That the buoys are not properly placed nor replaced when driven from their positions and without delay…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 14 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 14 Doc No 55 that the necessary illuminating apparatus to fit up the lighthouses now au thorized to be built shall be of the lens system That a rigid and frequent inspection…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 15 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 15 lightkeepers and others connected with the service that the general rules and regulations be printed in large type with conspicuous headings and framed so that the keepers may…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 16 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 16 Doc No 55 nels of diir principal bays and harbors especially New York bar and bay Delaware and Chesapeake bays5 C That appropriations be asked for two firstclass lightvessels to be…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 17 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 17 Doc No 55 in the inspectors keepers and others connected with the lighthouse service subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and which when approved shall be respected…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 18 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 18 Doc No 55 tendence of the Secretary of the Treasury to perform all duties relating to the management construction illumination inspection and superintendence of lighthouses lightvessels beacons buoys seamarks and their…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 19 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 19 be performed better and more economically than at present and there would be great saving in the end by affording to Congress estimates for proposed new works rejecting…
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- Date: 1852
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Image 20 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 20 Doc No 55 Scotland c to be performed gratuitously is not so much to be wondered at when we recollect the high standard of excellence it has icacbed through the instrumentality…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 21 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 21 desired to be ascertained in these inspections The results are given ii the notes in the appendix A No 2 c In reference to the condition of the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 22 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 22 Doc No 55 knowledge of the machinery to enable him to perform faithfully these im portant duties endeavors to do so but is wholly unable to adjust the mir rors and…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 23 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 23 Can be made in point of useful and economical effect brilliancy and power to the revolving light The winter oil is generally bad but sometimes is good The…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 24 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … M Doc No 55 Taking the consumption of the smaller lens which was shown to be more brilliant than the first order fixed lens and we shall have the economical effect in…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 25 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 The principal keeper to these lights received the hoard very civilly and answered all the questions propounded to him promptly evinced a great desire to gain information relating to…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 26 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 26 Doc No 55 lighted February 1 1850 without previous knowledge or instruction as to its management but encountered no other difficulty in managing the mechanical or carcel lamp than that arising…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 27 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 27 are not exposed to the weather except occasionally to keep the glass of the lanterns free from sleet and snow or from dampness which may in a great…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 28 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 28 Doc No 55 superintendence the number of persons attached to this isolated position might be lessened without detriment to the service but so long as keepers are compelled to provide themselves…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 29 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 29 Doc No 55 These distances are found by applyingthe hearings on the coast survey chart of Delaware bay These three lights having been watched by the members of the board in…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 30 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 30 Doc No 55 2CATOPTRIC OR REFLECTOR LIGHTS OF THE UNITED STATES VISITED BV THE LIGHTHO JSE BOARD Sandy liuok main and beaconlights New Jersey The first reflector lights visited by the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 31 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 31 The present keeper employs a person a small increase of salary having been allowed him to enable him to do so to assist him in the performance ot…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 32 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc Nq 55 The Sandy Hook main light has had the reputation for a long time of being one of the best reflector lights on the coast of the United States The…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 33 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 Back river lightbaylight reflectors New Point Comfort lightbaylight reflectors iSankaty Head light2d order lens coastlight Brandywine shoal light3d order lens baylight Cape Henlopen lightcoast light reflectors Cape Henlopen beaconbeacon…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 34 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 34 Doc No 55 of proper adjustment to project the rays of emitted light to the best advan tage to the horizon There does not seem to have been a proper regard…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 35 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 35 in light keepingthat they preferred to purchase whiting from their own small means to using a powder which would in a short time render the reflectors almost useless…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 36 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 36 Doc No 55 chor with a long scope of cable the vessel consequently describes a large circle around the anchor destroying in some degree her usefulness as a range and is…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 37 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 37 Among the most prominent of the proposed aids may be named 1 A lightvessel of the first class to be fitted with the best reflector apparatus for the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 38 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 38 Doc No 55 The following extracts and abstracts from the letters of the general su perintendent of lights will give a general idea of the present system The law of August…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 39 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … Doc No 55 39 Oil Cij for the lakes is sent to Buffalo and other points in their vicinity Two kinds of oil are used winter and summer strained sperm oil The…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Image 40 of Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the … 40 Doc No 55 The kind of tower if for difficult locations is sometimes made at this office sometimes by the experienced engineers employed by me for that purpose and in all…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Department of the Treasury
- Date: 1852
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Title
- Report of the officers constituting the Light-house Board, convened under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, to inquire into the condition of the light-house establishment of the United States, under the act of March 3, 1851. February 6, 1852. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed
Names
- United States. Congress. House
- United States. Department of the Treasury
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], 1852.
Headings
- - Independent regulatiry commissions
- - Lighthouses
- - Lightships
- - Management
- - Navigation
- - Aids to navigation
- - Construction
- - Maintenance
- - Repairing
Genre
- Legislative materials
Notes
- - Table of contents follows p. 751.
- - Index precedes p. 756.
- - SERIALSETDELIVERY1
Medium
- 1 online resource (764 p.): illustrations, tables.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF12
- 32-1:H.EX.DOC.55
- Y 1.1/2:642
Digital Id
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.law/llserialsetce.00642_00_00-002-0055-0000
- https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo169441
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2022690647
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- online text