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Weekly National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Congress created a Light-House Board for managing U.S. lighthouses, beacons, and buoys under the Treasury Department. President appointed Navy officers Shubrick and DuPont, Engineer Totten, Topographical Engineer Kenly, and scientists Bache and Henry, with secretaries Jenkins and Hardcasle.
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Congress, at the late session, passed an act creating a Light-House Board, to consist of two officers of high rank of the Navy; one officer of the Engineers of the Army; one officer of the Topographical Engineers, and two civilians of eminent scientific attainments, together with an officer of the Navy and an officer of the Engineers as Secretaries; which Board is to have the entire management of the Light House Establishment and the beacons and buoys in the United States.
The Board is attached to the Treasury Department, and is to conduct its operations under the superintendence and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, who is ex officio President of it.
Agreeably to the provisions of the above Act, the President has made the following admirable selections as members of this highly-important Board, viz:
Captain WM. B. SHUBRICK, of the United States Navy.
Commander SAMUEL F. DUPONT, of the United States Navy.
Brevet Brigadier General JOSEPH G. TOTTEN, of the Engineers.
Lieut. Colonel KENLY, of the Topographical Engineers.
Professor ALEXANDER D. BACHE, Chief of the Coast Survey.
Professor JOSEPH HENRY, of the Smithsonian Institution:
And as Secretaries:
Lieut. THORNTON A. JENKINS, of the United States Navy, and
Brevet Captain EDMUND S. F. HARDCASLE, of the Topographical Engineers.
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Congress passed an act creating a Light-House Board consisting of two high-ranking Navy officers, one Army Engineer officer, one Topographical Engineer officer, and two civilians of eminent scientific attainments, with Navy and Engineer officers as Secretaries. The Board manages the Light House Establishment and beacons and buoys in the United States, attached to the Treasury Department under the Secretary of the Treasury as ex officio President.