"2. do. Boston Bay, 266 2/3 

 doll. 



"3. do. Plymouth, 200 doll. 



"4. do. Portland Head, 160 

 doll. 



"5. do. Conanicut, 160 doll. 



"6. do. New London, 120 

 doll. 



"7- do. Sandy Hook, 



^662/3 doll. 



"To commence from 

 the 1st day of the present 

 Month. — 



"The President thinks 

 it proper that the Keeper 

 of the Light House at 

 Portsmouth be informed, 

 that he must reside on 

 the spot where the Light 

 House is, if he continues 

 in that office, and that he 

 will not be permitted to 

 employ a deputy to take 

 care of the Light House, 

 unless upon some special 

 occasion. 



"Tobias Lkar, 

 "Secretary to the Presi- 

 dent of the United 

 States. " 



The Commissioner of 

 the Revenue in 1797 

 writes to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury regard- 

 ing salaries of keepers : 

 "In the case of Major 

 , there are the ad- 

 vantages of plenty of 

 fuel, without expense, upon the public 

 land, the opportunity to fish for his fam- 

 ily use, or even for sale, a boat to fish in 

 will be furnished for passing to the main, 

 there is a little land for tillage and grass, 

 and for a plentiful garden. The place is 

 represented to be very healthy. ... I 

 have been thus particular because the 

 salaries of keepers appear to have been 

 subjected to some miscalculation on their 

 parts from the unnecessary degree of 

 former standing, which some of the can- 

 didates have had. It is plain at first 

 view, that the above duties are not in 

 their nature adaj^ted to the standing of 

 a field officer, or of a Major of Brigade ' 



A recommendation of a person for 

 a])i)ointment as keeper in 180Q stated that 

 the applicant "being by occupation a 

 mason will engage to keep the Light 



LA.VDING THE RELIKF AT THE EDDVSTOxNE 



The keepers in turn are allowed shore liberty. It is often 

 difficult to land at a wave-swept lighthouse 



House white washed, should he receive 

 the appointment, free from any expense 

 to the Government as long as he is its 

 Keeper." 



THE PETITIONS OF EBENEZER SKIEF, 

 KEEPER OF GAY HEAD LIGIITIIOUSK 



The keeper of Gayhead lighthouse in 

 1805 made this petition for an increase 

 of salary: 



"Gayhead, October 2j, i8oj. 



"Sir: Clay and Oker of different col- 

 ours from which this place derived its 

 name ascend in a Sheet of wind pened 

 by the high Clifts and catch on the light 

 House Glass, which often requires clean- 

 ing on the outside — tedious service in 

 cold weather, and additional to what is 

 necessary in any other part of the Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



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