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CHAP. 136.— An act making appropriations for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of certain works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Rivers and Harbor: That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named :
Improving Richmond Island Harbor, Maine: Completing improvementRichmond Island Harbor. three thousand dollars. 469 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 136. 1881. Improving harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty thousandPortsmouth Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont, ten thousand dollars.Burlington Harbor. Improving harbor at Swanton, Vermont, two thousand live hundred Swanton Harbor.dollars. Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts : Completing improvement,Hyannis-Harbor. live thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts, forty thousandNewburyport Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts, twenty-fiveNantucket Harbor. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars.Plymouth Harbor.Provincetown Harbor. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Improving Little Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, five thousandLittle Narragansett Bay. dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars.Bridgeport Harbor.New Haven Harbor.
Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut, fifteen thousand dollars. Breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut, sixty thousand dollars.New Haven Breakwater.Norwalk Harbor. Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Southport, Connecticut, two thousand five hundredSouthport Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts, one hundred thousandBoston Harbor, etc. dollars; of which sum forty thousand dollars shall be expended in said harbor, thirty-live thousand dollars at the mouth of Charles River in said harbor and up to Watertown, twenty thousand dollars in said Harbor at mouth of Mystic River, and five thousand dollars from said Harbor to Nantasket Beach.
Improving Oakland Harbor, California, sixty thousand dollars; andOakland Harbor. the sums of money heretofore appropriated for this improvement and unexpended are hereby reappropriated ; but the sums so appropriated and reappropriated shall not be available until the right of the United States to the bed of the estuary and training walls of this work is secured, free of expense to the government, in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War. Improving Raritan River, New Jersey, twenty-five thousand dollars ;Raritan River. of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be expended on rocks at Whitebead Sand Dock, and five thousand dollars at South Channel, between Crab Island and South Amboy.
Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut, thirty thousand dollars.Stonington Harbor.Buffalo Harbor.Charlotte Harbor. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York, ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York : Repair of piers, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Echo Harbor, New Rochelle, New York, three thousandEcho Harbor. dollars. Improving Flushing Bay, New York, ten thousand dollars.Flushing Bay. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York, five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York, twenty thousandGreat Sodus Bay Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Olcott, New York, three thousand dollars.Little Sodus Bay Harbor. Deepening and widening the channel in Gowanus Bay and the Harbor of New York, forty thousandOlcott Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound, New York,Channel, Gowanus Bay and New York Harbor.Port Jefferson Harbor. four thousand dollars. Improving harbor of New Rochelle, New York, twentyNew Rochelle Harbor. thousand dollars. 470 Improving harbor at Pultneyville, New York, two thousand dollars.Harbor at Pultneyville.Wilson Harbor.
Improving harbor at Wilson, New York, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Waddington, New York, twoWaddington Harbor. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Ticonderoga River, New York, five thousand dollars.Ticonderoga River.Erie Harbor. Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. Ice-harbor at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, thirty thousand dollars.Marcus Hookiceharbor.Pier, Delaware Bay.Piers, ice-harbor, New Castle. Pier in Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Delaware, ten thousand dollars.
Piers of ice-harbor at New Castle, Delaware ; Completing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars.Annapolis Harbor.Breton Bay. Improving Breton Bay, Leonardtown, Maryland, three thousand dollars. Improving the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown,Washington and Georgetown Harbors and channels.Norfolk Harbor. District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, and its approaches, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For enlargement and improvement, according to the plan and recommendation Oswego Harbor.of the Engineer Department, of harbor facilities at Oswego, New York, including dredging entrance to harbor, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey : Completing improvement,Shrewsbury River. eighty-six thousand dollars; of which sum thirty-six thousand dollars shall be expended on South Branch, and fifty thousand dollars on Main and North Branch. Improving New River from lead mines in Wythe County, Virginia,New River. to mouth of Greenbrier River, twenty-four thousand dollars; of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended in the continuation of the work from the mouth of Greenbrier up, and nine thousand dollars in the continuation of the work from the lead mines in Wythe County down.
Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred andCharleston Harbor. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia, five thousand dollars.Brunswick Harbor.Savannah Harbor and River. Improving Savannah Harbor and River, Georgia, sixty-five thousand dollars ; of which sum one thousand dollars may be applied to payment of damages for land taken for widening the channel opposite Savannah. Improving Apalachicola Bay, Florida, ten thousand dollars.Apalachicola Bay.Tampa Bay.
Improving Tampa Bay, Florida : Completing the deepening of the bar and channel from the bar to the town of Tampa, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama, one hundred thousand dollars.Mobile Harbor. Improving Mississippi River at and near Vicksburgh, and Mississippi River and Harbor.protection of harbor of Vicksburgh, Mississippi, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Orleans, Louisiana, seventy-fiveNew Orleans Harbor. thousand dollars. Improving Galveston Harbor, Texas :
Continuing operations at outerGalveston Harbor. bar, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbors at Ashtabula, Ohio : To secure Ashtabula Harbor.a sixteen-foot channel, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio, seven thousand dollars.Black River Harbor.Cleveland Harbor.Fairport Harbor. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio, three thousand dollars.Huron Harbor.
Ice-harbor at mouth of Muskingum River, Ohio, Ice-harbor, Muskingum River.thirty thousand dollars. 471 Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio, five thousand dollars.Harbors at—Port Clinton ;Sandusky City;Toledo;Vermillion ;Michigan City ; Improving harbor at Sandusky City, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vermillion, Ohio, two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana : Continuing operations at outside harbor, twenty thousand dollars ; for continuing improvement on the inner harbor, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois, thirty thousand dollars.Calumet;Chicago. Improving outside harbor at Chicago, Illinois : Dredging in outer harbor and constructing exterior breakwater, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Galena River and Harbor, Illinois, twelve thousand dollars.Galena River and Harbor.Rock Island Harbor, Monongahela River. Improving harbor at Rock Island, Illinois, six thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars ; but this sum shall not be expended until the Monongahela Navigation Company shall have undertaken in good faith the building of lock and dam number seven, at Jacob’s Creek, and until said company shall, in manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War, give assurance of their ability and purpose to complete the same.
Improving Shenandoah River, West Virginia, two thousand five hundredShenandoah River, dollars; but this sum shall not be expended, nor shall the sum heretofore appropriated therefor be expended, until any corporate rights or franchies that may exist over said river shall have been relinquished to the United States to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War. Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.Waukegan Harbor.Ice-harbor, Saint Louis.Memphis Harbor.
Ice-harbor at Saint Louis, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor and the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor and river at Au Sable, Michigan, six thousandAu Sable Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Charlevoix, Michigan, ten thousandCharlevoix Harbor.Cheboygan Harbor.Frankfort Harbor.Harbors at—Grand Haven ;Black Lake. dollars. Improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black Lake, Michigan : Continuing operations for completion of old project, six thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan,Harbor of refugeGrand Marais ;Lake Huron.Harbors at—Ludington ;Manistee;Manistique; twenty thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Lake Huron, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Manistique Harbor, Michigan : Completing improvement, one thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan, one thousand dollars.Monroe;Muskegon ;Ontonagon ;Pentwater. Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pentwater, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.Harbor of refuge, Portage Lake.Saint Joseph Harbor and River.
Improving river and harbor at Saint Joseph, and water-channel leading up to Benton Harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugatuck, Michigan, five thousand Saugatuck Harbor.South Haven Harbor.White River Harbor,dollars. Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan, five thousand dollars Improving harbor at White River, Michigan, seven thousand five hundred dollar’s. 472 Improving Grand River from its mouth to the city of Grand Rapids,Grand River. Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Continuing improvement of Clinton River, Michigan, eight thousandClinton River. dollars. Removing bar at ice-harbor of refuge at Belle River, Michigan, sevenIce-harbor refuge, Bello River, removing bar.Ahnapee Harbor. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin, eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Green Bay,Green Bay Harbor.Kenosha Harbor. Wisconsin, live thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin, five thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; of Ohio River, Davis Island Dam.which sum one hundred and fifty thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the engineers, be expended on Davis Island Dam, and two hundred thousand dollars on the *Proviso*.river from its mouth to its head : *Provided*, That fifty thousand dollars of the last-named sum may, in the discretion of the engineers, be expended on Indiana Chute; and fifty Indiana Chute.thousand dollars of the last named sum, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be applied to the completion of the work on Grand Chain.Grand Chain.Harbors at—Manitowoc ;Menomonee ;Milwaukee;
Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Menomonee, Wisconsin, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Extension and repairs of piers and dredging, eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin,Port Washington; seventeen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin, six thousandRacine; dollars. Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin : Repairs, dredging,Sheboygan; and extension of piers, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Superior Bay, Wisconsin: Dredging for improvement of Superior Bay.natural entrance and for repairing existing works, ten thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin, ten thousandSturgeon Bay Canal harbor of refuge.Two Rivers Harbor.Oconto Harbor. dollars. Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oconto, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fort Madison, Iowa,Fort Madison Harbor. two thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving harbor at Muscatine, Iowa, two thousand five hundred dollars.Muscatine Harbor.Harbors at—Grand Marais ; Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, forty thousand dollars.Duluth ;Wilmington ; Improving harbor at Wilmington, California, thirty-three thousand dollars Improving Humboldt Harbor and Bay, forty thousand dollars.Humboldt. Improving Cathance River, Cathance River.Maine, six thousand dollars. Improving the “Gut”, opposite Bath, Maine, five thousand dollars.“Gut,” opposite Bath, Me.Kennebunk River, Improving Kennebunk River, Maine :
Completing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Lubec Channel, Maine, forty-fiveLubec Channel. thousand dollars. Improving Exeter River, New Hampshire, fifteenExeter River—“Ox Bow.” thousand dollars; of which sum an amount not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be available immediately, to be used in act pairing title to land used in the cutoff at “ Ox Bow ”. Improving Lamprey River, New Hampshire, below New Market, tenLamprey River. thousand dollars. Improving Winnipiseogee Lake, New Hampshire:
Completing improvement, two thousandWinnipiseogee Lake.*Proviso*. five hundred dollars : *Provided*, That no right to raise or lower the water-level of said lake is hereby granted to any person or corporation. Improving Otter Creek, Vermont, two thousand dollars.Otter Creek. 473 Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts, nine thousand dollars.Merrimac River.Taunton River. Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island,Providence River and Narragansett Bay.Potonowut River.Milwaukee Bay. sixty thousand dollars.
Improving Potonowut River, Rhode Island, five thousand dollars. Improving Milwaukee Bay, for purposes of harbor of refuge, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers: RemovingMississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers. snags, wrecks, and other obstructions, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; of which sum eighty thousand dollars shall be expended on the Mississippi River, eighty thousand dollars on the Missouri River, and. twenty-five thousand dollars on the Arkansas River.
And the work herein provided for shall be prosecuted at all seasons of the year, and especially between the first day of July and the first day of November of each year: *Provided*, That so much of said sum of eighty thousand dollars hereby appropriated to the Missouri River as may be necessary shall*Proviso*. be expended in the construction of a snag and dredge boat to be used in said river, the balance of said eighty thousand dollars to be expended in operating said boat. Improving Chippewa River, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars ; butChippewa River.1879, ch. 181,Stat., 20, 372. this sum is appropriated subject to the same conditions and limitations imposed by section one of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for the improvement of rivers and harbors, relating to said Chippewa River.
Improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Connecticut, thirtyConnecticut River. thousand dollars ; of which sum ten thousand dollars shall be used to continue the work in progress on the bar at the mouth of the river, and three thousand dollars in dredging the channel below Rocky Hill. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut, two thousand dollars.Housatonic River.Thames River.New London Harbor. Improving Thames River, Connecticut, thirty thousand dollars. Improving New London Harbor, Connecticut, four thousand three hundred dollars.
Removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, New York, East River, Holl Gate, removing obstructions.Buttermilk Channel.Hudson River.two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Hudson River, New York, fifteen thousand dollars.Cheesequake’s Creek.Cohansey Creek.Elizabeth River.Passaic River, Improving Cheesequake’s Creek, New Jersey, five thousand dollars. Improving Cohansey Creek, New Jersey, seven thousand dollars.
Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey, four thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey, from Pennsylvania Railroad bridge to its mouth, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Rahway River, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars.Rahway River.South River.Wood bridge Creek. Improving South River, New Jersey, six thousand dollars. Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey ; Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Allegheny River from mouth of French CreekAllegheny River. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, forty thousand dollars.Schuylkill River.Delaware River. Improving Delaware River below Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River between Trenton, New Jersey, and Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, ten thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River near Cherry Island Flats, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River at Schooner Ledge, Pennsylvania and Delaware, forty thousand dollars. Improving Broadkiln River, Delaware, five thousand dollars.Broadklin River. 474 For the improvement of the Mississippi River, in accordance with theMississippi River.Ex.
Document 58, 2d Sess. 46 Cong. plan therefor recommended in Executive Document number fifty-eight, second session Forty-sixth Congress, by the Mississippi River Commission, to be expended by the Secretary of War, with the advice and under the supervision of said commission, the sum of one million dollars. And it shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration, and of the Secretary of War to extend operations, under their supervision, to tributaries of the Mississippi River to the extent, and no further, that may be necessary in the judgment of said commission to the perfection of the general and permanent improvement of said Mississippi River ; but this clause shall not be construed to interfere with the prosecution by the War Department of the improvement of said Mississippi River and its General and permanent improvement.tributaries under general appropriations made therefor : *Provided*, That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used in the repair or construction of levees for the purpose of preventing injury to lands by overflow, or for *Proviso*.any other purpose whatever except as a means of deepening or improving the channel of said river.
And it shall be the duty of said commission to make report, on or before the first day of January next, to the Secretary of War, for transmission by Report.him to Congress, of a detailed statement of the work done, and of the expenditure made from the sum hereby appropriated, with their judgment upon the effect of such work, and the general practicability and estimate of the total cost of such improvements along said river from Cairo to the head of the passes. Improving Broad Creek from its mouth to Laurel, Delaware, ten thousandBroad Creek. dollars.
Improving mouth of Duck Creek, Delaware, three thousand dollars.Duck Creek.Mispillion Creek. Improving Mispillion Creek, Delaware, three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Choptank River between Denton and Greensborough, Maryland,Choptank River. five thousand dollars. Improving Elk River, Maryland, five thousand dollars.Elk River.Secretary Creek.Threadhaven Creek. Improving Secretary Creek, Maryland, three thousand dollars. Improving Threadhaven Creek for three miles below Easton, Maryland three thousand dollars.
Improving Wicomico River belowWicomico River. Salisbury, Maryland : Completing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Chester River from Spry’s Landing to Chester River.Crumpton, Maryland, six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving water-passage between Deal’s Island and Little Deal’s Island,Water passage, Deal’s Island. Maryland, five thousand dollars. Improving Appomattox River, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars to be expended Appomattox River.on the improvement of the river and harbor at Petersburg, Virginia.
Improving Blackwater River, Virginia, one thousand five hundredBlackwater River. dollars. Improving Chickahominy River, Virginia, two thousand dollars.Chickahominy River.Dan River. Improving Dan River between Danville, Virginia, and Madison, North Carolina, eight thousand dollars. Improving James River, Virginia, sixty thousand dollar’s.James River.Mattaponi River. Improving Mattaponi River, Virginia, three thousand three hundred dollars. Improving mouth of Nomoni Creek, Virginia, two thousand dollars.Nomoni Creek.North Landing River.
Improving North Landing River, Virginia and North Carolina, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Nottaway River, Virginia, two thousand dollars.Nottaway River.Pagan Creek.Pamunkey River. Improving Pagan Creek, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Improving Pamunkey River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. Dredging a channel through the flats in front of Mount Vernon, Virginia,Channel at Mount Vernon, Va. one thousand five hundred dollars. 475 Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.Rappahannock River.Staunton River.
Improving Staunton River, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Improving Totuski River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars.Totuski River. Improving Urbana Creek, Virginia, four thousand dollars.Urbana Creek.York River. Improving York River at West Point, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing operationsBaltimore Harbor. for the shortening and deepening the channel to twenty-seven feet at mean low water, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improving Elk River, West Virginia, five thousand dollars.Elk River.Great Kanawha River.Guyandotte River. Improving Great Kanawha River, and operation of works, West Virginia, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Guyandotte River, West Virginia, three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia, forty thousand dollar’s :Little Kanawha River.*Proviso*.Little Kanawha Navigation Company.Cape Fear River. *Provided*, That no tolls shall be collected by the Little Kanawha Navigation Company for that part of the river improved by the general government.
Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina, from the ocean to Wilmington, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Improving the Cape Fear River from Wilmington to Fayetteville, North Carolina, thirty thousand dollars : *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*. of War is directed to expend of the money hereby appropriated, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to extinguish any claim of right held by any company or corporation, to take tolls or make charges for the navigation of so much of said river as is above described ; *And provided further*,*Proviso*.
That said claim of right shall be extinguished and released on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty one, and no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the improvement of said river until such claim of right is wholly extinguished and released : *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be*Proviso*. taken or held as a waiver on the part of the United States to the exclusive control of navigation of said river relieved from any charges or tolls imposed by any company or corporation.
Improving Currituck Sound, Ooaiyok Bay, North River and Bar,Currituck Sound. North Carolina, thirty .thousand dollars. Improving French Broad River, North Carolina, five thousandFrench Broad River. dollars. Improving Neuse River from its mouth to head of navigation, NorthNeuse River. Carolina, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina, eight thousandPamlico and Tar Rivers. dollars. Improving Scuppemong River, North Carolina, one thousand dollars.Scuppernoug River.Trent River.Yadkin River.
Improving Trent River, North Carolina, five thousand dollars. Improving Yadkin River, North Carolina, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Contentnia Creek, North Carolina, ten thousand dollars.Contentnia Creek.Beaufort Harbor.Lillington River.Ashley River. Improving Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Lillington River, North Carolina, three thousand dollars. Improving Ashley River, South Carolina, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina, between Little Bluff Great Pedee River.and Cheraw, six thousand dollars.
Improving Waceemaw River, South Carolina, from its mouth up Waccemaw River.to Waccemaw Lake, North Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Improving Town Creek, in North Carolina, one thousand dollarsTown Creek.Chattahoochie River.. Improving Chattahoochie River, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars. 476 Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama, sixty thousandCoosa. River. dollars. Improving Flint River, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars.Flint River.Ockmulgee River.Oconee River. Improving Ockmulgee River, Georgia, five thousand dollars.
Improving Oconee River, Georgia, two thousand five hundred dollars ; of which sum one thousand five hundred dollars to be expended between Dublin and Oconee Bridge. Improving Oostenaula and Coosawattee Rivers, Georgia, one thousandOostensula mid Coosawattee Rivers.Savannah River. dollars. Improving Savannah River above Augusta, Georgia, eight thousand dollars. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida, one thousand five hundredApalachicola River. dollars. Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama, up to Newton,Choctawachee River. ten thousand dollars.
Improving entrance to CumberlandCumberland Sound.Escambia River. Sound, between Amelia and Cumberland Islands, in Florida and Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Escambia River, Florida and Alabama, five thousand dollars. Improving Saint John’s River, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars.Saint John’s River.Pea’s Creek.Withlacooche River. Improving Pea’s Creek, in Florida, seven thousand dollars. Improving Withlacooehe River, in Florida, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Suwanee River, Florida, three thousand dollars.Suwanee River.Volusia Bar.Alabama River.Big Sunflower River.Noxubee River.Pascagoula River.Pearl River. Improving Volusia Bar, Florida, five thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Alabama River, Alabama, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi, four thousand dollars. Improving Noxubee River, Mississippi, eight thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi, four thousand dollars.
Improving Pearl River below Jackson, Mississippi, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, from Jackson to Carthage, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Tallahatchee River, Mississippi, three thousand dollars; of Tallahatchee River.which sum two thousand dollars shall be expended above the mouth of Cold Water River to Batesville. Improving Tombigbee River above Columbus, Mississippi, one thousandTombigbeo River. dollars. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi, six thousand dollars.Yazoo River.Amite River.Bayou Courtableau.
Improving Amite River, Louisiana, five thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Courtableau from Port Barre to Atchafalaya, Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Bayou Teche from Saint Martinville toBayou Teche. Port Barre, Louisiana, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana : Completing improvement, eight thousand eight hundredBayou Terrebonne. dollars. Removing raft in Red River and closing Tone’s Bayou, Louisiana,Red River. ten thousand dollars.
Removing obstructions from Red River, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause a thorough survey’ to be made of the mouth of Red River, and a plan for its permanent improvement to be reported to Congress on or before the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, with estimates of cost; and said survey and plan to be paid for out of the unexpended balance already appropriated for the mouth of Red River. Improving Tangipahoa River, Louisiana,Tangipahoa River.Vermillion River. two thousand dollars.
Improving Vermillion River, Louisiana: Completing improvement, four thousand nine hundred dollars. 477 Improving Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama and Mississippi,Warrior River. to be expended in the same proportions as the appropriation under the act of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, twenty-live thousand dollars. Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, up to Rockport and Corpus Christi,Aransas Pass. Texas, eighty thousand dollars. Improving channel over bar at mouth of Brazos River, Texas, fortyBrazos River, channel at mouth of.Pass Cavallo Inlet. thousand dollars.
Improving Pass Cavallo Inlet into Matagorda Bay, Texas, sixty thousand dollars. Improving ship-channel, Galveston Bay, Texas, fifty Ship-channel, Galveston Bay.Neches River.thousand dollars. Improving Neelies River, Texas, three thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass and Blue Buck Bar, Texas, one hundred and fifty Sabine Pass and Blue Buck Bar.thousand dollars. Improving Narrows of Sabine River above Orange, Texas, andSabino River. to deepen channel at its mouth, seven thousand dollars.
Improving Trinity River, Texas, ten thousand dollars.Trinity River.Arkansas River. Improving Arkansas River between Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Wichita, Kansas, twenty-four thousand dollars. Improving Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, twenty-three thousand dollars. Improving Black River, Arkansas and Missouri, six thousand dollars,Black River. to be applied from Poplar Bluff. Improving Fourche Le Fevre River, Arkansas, three thousand dollars.Fourche Lo Fevre River. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana, twelve thousandOuachita River. dollars.
Improving Saline River, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.Saline River.White River. Improving White River between Jacksonport and Buffalo Shoals, Arkansas, eight thousand dollars. Improving White and Saint Francis Rivers, Arkansas, eight thousand dollars. Improving Big Hatchee River, Tennessee, three thousand five hundredBig Hatchee River dollars. Improving Caney Fork River, Tennessee, four thousand dollars. Improving Clinch River Tennessee, three thousand dollars.Caney Fork River.Clinch River.Cumberland and River.
Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: From Nashville to Kentucky State line, fifteen thousand dollars; from Kentucky line to Smith’s Shoals, fifteen thousand dollars ; at Smith’s Shoals, completing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Duck River, Tennessee, three thousand dollars.Duck River.French Broad River. Improving French Broad River above Knoxville, Tennessee, threeHiwassee River. thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Hiwassee River, Tennessee, one thousand five hundred dollars.Obed’s River.Tennessee River. Improving Obed’s River, Tennessee, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Tennessee River above Chattanooga, Tennessee, seven thousand dollars. Improving Red River from its mouth to Port Royal, in Montgomery Red River.County, Tennessee, five thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, including Muscle ShoalsTennessee River including Muscle Shoals. and shoal at Reynoldsburgh ;
Tennessee and Alabama, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Kentucky River from its mouth to Three Forks, Kentucky,Kentucky River. one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Big Sandy River from Catlettsburgh, Kentucky, to headBig Sandy River. of navigation, fifty thousand dollars ; of which sum forty-six thousand dollars shall be expended at Louisa, and four thousand dollars in the continuation of works on the upper river. 478 Improving Sandusky River, Ohio seven thousand live hundred dollars.Sandusky River.Wabash River.
Improving Wabash River, Indiana, fifty thousand dollars, one-half of which is to be used on the river above Vincennes. Improving White River, Indiana, from Wabash River to Portersville, and to falls onWhite River. West Fork, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Illinois River, Illinois, two hundred andIllinois River. fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at and above Alexandria, Missouri,Mississippi River. six thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at or near Cape Girardeau and Minton’s Point, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Mississippi River from Des Moines Rapids to mouth of Illinois River, Illinois and Missouri, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and the sums of money heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the Mississippi between the Illinois and Missouri Rivers, and unexpended, are hereby reappropriated, and shall be applied to the improvement of the harbor and Mississippi River at Alton. Improving Mississippi River between mouths of the Illinois and Ohio Rivers, Illinois and Missouri, six hundred thousand dollars.
Removing bar in Mississippi River opposite Dubuque, Iowa, five thousand dollars. Completion of work of removing sandbar in Mississippi River opposite Guttenberg, Iowa, five thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at Natchez and Vidalia, Mississippi and Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River above Falls of Saint Anthony, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Des Moines Rapids, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, two hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Quincy Bay, Illinois, ten thousand dollars.Quincy Bay. Annual expense of gauging the waters of the Mississippi RiverGauging waters of Mississippi River.1871, Res. 40,Stat. 16, 598.Upper Mississippi River. and its tributaries: Continuing observations of the rise and fall of the river and its chief tributaries, as required by joint resolution of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, five thousand dollars. Improving Upper Mississippi River : Operating snag-boat and building lightdraught steamer, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Rock Island Rapids, Mississippi River, Iowa and Illinois:Rock Island Rapids. Completing improvement, eight thousand dollars. Improving Des Moines Rapids,Des Moines Rapids.Des Moines Rapids Canal.Saint Mary’s Falls Canal.Saint Clair Flats Canal.Louisville and Pert land Canal.Osage River. Iowa and Illinois, twenty-five thousand dollars. And hereafter, for the purpose of operating and keeping in repair the Des Moines Rapids Canal, and Saint Mary’s Falls Canal, and Saint Clair Flats Canal, and the Louisville and Portland Canal, the Secretary of War is authorized to draw his requisition on the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, which requisition shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Improving the Osage River, Kansas and Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Cuivre River, Missouri, from mouth to Chain of Rocks, and removingCuivre River. snags and obstructions, five thousand dollars. Improving Gasconade River, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.Gasconade River.Missouri River. Improving Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River from Kansas City to its mouth, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Brownville, Nebraska, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Missouri River at Cedar City, Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars. 479 Improving Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and at Omaha, Nebraska, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska City, Nebraska, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, ten thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at or near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, eight thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at and near Glasgow, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Missouri River at and near Kansas City, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Lexington, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at and near Saint Joseph, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa: For improvement of channel, seven thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Vermillion, Dakota, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Missouri River above mouth of Yellowstone River, Dakota, forty thousand dollars. Survey of Missouri River from its mouth to Fort Benton, Montana:Survey of Missouri River. Continuing survey above Sioux City, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars.Detroit River. Improving Saginaw River, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.Saginaw River. Improving Saint Mary’s River and Saint Mary’s Falls Canal,Saint Mary’s River and Saint Mary’s Falls Canal.
Michigan : Completing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Repairs and contingencies of public works at Saint Anthony’s Falls, Minnesota : To meet repairs necessary, Saint Anthony’s Falls.present and prospective, fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be available immediately after the passage of this act. Improving Saint Croix River below Taylor’s Falls, Wisconsin, eight Saint Croix River.thousand dollars. Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and Dakota, eighteenRed River of the North. thousand dollars.
Constructing a lock and dam at Goose Rapids, on the Red RiverGoose Rapids. of the North, Minnesota and Dakota, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Yellowstone River, Montana and Dakota, twenty thousandYellowstone River. dollars. Continuing improvement at the entrance of Coos Bay Harbor, Oregon,Coos Bay Harbor. thirty thousand dollars. Canal around Cascades of Columbia River, Oregon, one hundredCanal, Cascades of Columbia River.Upper Columbia River. thousand dollars. Improving Upper Columbia River, including Snake River, Oregon, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, from Portland,Lower Willamette. Oregon, to the sea, including bar at mouth of Columbia River, Oregon, forty-five thousand dollars. Improving Upper Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon, fifteen Upper Willamette.thousand dollars. Improving Petalumas Creek, California, eight thousand dollars.Petalumas Creek.Sacramento River.San Joaquin River. Improving Sacramento River, California, sixty thousand dollars. Improving San Joaquin River, California, forty thousand dollars : ten thousand dollars of which amount may be used in the discretion of the engineer in the improvement of Mormon Slough.
Examinations and surveys at South Pass of Mississippi River: To Examinations and surveys at South Pass of Mississippi River.ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and main- 480 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 136. 1831. tained from time to time by James B. Eads at South Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War to report during the maintenance of the work, ten thousand dollars ; and also to ascertain by soundings whether and to what extent, within a distance of five miles from the present mouth of the river at the South Pass, the gulf has filled up by deposits from the river since the construction of the Eads jetties.
Improving Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Wisconsin, one hundred andFox and Wisconsin Rivers. twenty-five thousand dollars; of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be expended in continuing the improvement of the Wisconsin River, and seventy-five thousand for continuing the improvement of the Fox River. Improving Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, twelve thousand dollars.Calcasieu Pass and River. Improving Calcasieu River, Louisiana, from Phillips Bluff to its mouth, three thousand dollars.
Improving Savannah River, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars.Savannah River, Mississippi River. Improving Mississippi River at Andalusia, Illinois, six thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at Louisiana, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Repairing breakwater on the Saint Croix River near Calais, four thousand dollars.Saint Croix River. Improving Altamaha River, Georgia, five thousand dollars.Altamahaha River.Wappoo Cut.Neabsco Creek.Bayou Bartholomew. Improving Wappoo Cut, South Carolina, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Neabsco Creek, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Bartholomew, Louisiana and Arkansas, eight thousand dollars. Improving TensasTensas River.Bayou Black.Bayou Boeuf.Current River. River, Louisiana, three thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Black, in Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana, five thousand dollars. Improving Current River, Missouri and Arkansas, from Doniphan to its mouth, two thousand dollars. Improving Rancocas River, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars.Rancocas River.Christiana River.
Improving Christiana River and Wilmington Harbor, Delaware : Deepening the channel and improving the harbor of Christiana River from the Delaware River to and above the city of Wilmington, in accordance with the surveys and plans of the United States Engineer Department, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Chester Creek, Pennsylvania, three thousand dollars. Chester Creek.Improving Mattawan Creek, Mattawan Creek.Raritan Bay.New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Raritan Bay, New Jersey, from Perth Ambos’ and South Amboy Newport Harbor.to the main ship-channel off Great Kiln, fifty thousand dollars.
Improving Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, twenty-five thousand dollars.Tradewater River. Improving Tradewater River, Kentucky, open navigation, three thousand dollars.Cumberland River. Improving Cumberland River, Kentucky, above mouth of Jelico, ten thousand dollars.Buffalo Bayou. Improving Buffalo Bayou, Texas: To secure a channel of one hundredKewanee Harbor.Niagara River. feet, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Kewanee Harbor,Portland Harbor.Scituate Harbor. Wisconsin, five thousand dollars.
Improving Niagara River, New York, five thousand dollars. Improving Portland Harbor, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Scituate Harbor,Moosabec Bar.Wareham Harbor.Canarsio Bay.Sheepshead Bay. Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars Improving Moosabec Bar at Jonesport, Maine, ten thousand dollars. Improving Wareham Harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. Improving Canarsie Bay, New York, five thousand dollars. Improving Sheepshead Bay, New York, five thousand dollars. 481 Improving Salem River, New Jersey, three thousand dollars.Salem River.Susquehanna River.
Improving Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, above Richards’ Island, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving-Susquehanna River above and below Havre de Grace, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Archer’s Hope River, Virginia, five thousand dollars.Archer’s Hope River.Wateree River. Improving Wateree River, South Carolina, eight thousand dollars. Improving Santee River, South Carolina, by deepening and straightening its outlet to Winyah Bay through Mosquito Creek, twenty-two thousand dollars.
Improving Pensacola Harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars.Santee River. Improving Tchefuncte River, Louisiana, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Tickfaw River, Pensacola Harbor.Tchefuncte River.Louisiana, two thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche by connecting same with Grand Lake at Charenton, Tickfaw River.Bayou Teche.Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving bar and harbor at Brazos Santiago, Texas, seventy-five thousandBrazos Harbor. dollars. Improving Yallabusha River, Mississippi, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Tchula Lake, Mississippi,Yallabusha River. three thousand dollars. For the expenses of operating and maintaining the Louisville and PortlandTchula Lake.Louisville and Portland Canal. Canal for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, forty-two thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available. Improving entrance to Yaquina Bay, Oregon, ten thousand dollars. Improving Cowlitz River, Yaquina Bay.Cowlitz River.Washington Territory, one thousand dollars.
Of the amount now available for the improvement of Bayou La Fourche,Pier at Donaldsonville, removal of. Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of brick pier at Donaldsonville. Improving Richmond Harbor, Kennebec River, Maine, ten thousandRichmond Harbor, Kennebec River. dollars ; of which sum six thousand dollars shall be expended for wing-dams and dredging at the head of Swan’s Island and at Hatch’s Rock, and four thousand dollars in dredging and deepening the channel at the foot of Swan’s Island according to the plan recommended by Lieutenant Russell.
For reservoirs upon the headwaters of the Mississippi River and itsReservoirs upon headwaters of Mississippi River. tributaries, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and this sum, together with the sum of seventy five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the construction of a dam at Lake Winnibigoshish, shall be expended at such places on said headwaters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as the Secretary of War shall determine: *And it is provided*,*Proviso*.Damages to private property compensated for under State laws.
That compensation for any private property taken or appropriated for any of said improvements, and all damages to private property caused by the construction of any of said dams, by How age or otherwise, shall be ascertained and determined under and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such private property is situated. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directedRights of Indians preserved and protected. to ascertain what, if any, injury is occasioned to the rights of any friendly Indians, occupying any Indian reservation, by the construction of any of said dams, or the cutting or the removing of trees or other materials from any such reservation for the construction or erection of any of said dams, and to determine the amount of damages payable to such Indians therefor ; and all such damages to private property and to friendly Indians, when ascertained and determined in the manner herein directed and provided, shall be paid by the United States: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.
That such damages shall not exceed ten per centum of the sums hereby and heretofore appropriated for the construction of said reservoirs. 482 Improving Sumpawamus Inlet, New York, five thousand dollars.Sumpawamus Inlet.Saint Jerome’s Creek Harbor. Improving the harbor at the entrance of Saint Jerome’s Creek, Maryland, six thousand five hundred dollars. For the improvement of Saint Jones River, in the State of Delaware,Saint Jones River. five thousand dollars. Such parts of the money appropriated by this act for any particularPurchase of sites for locks and dams. improvement requiring locks and dams as may be necessary in the prosecution of such improvement may be expended in the purchase, voluntary or by condemnation, as the case*Proviso*. may be, of necessary sites: *Provided*, That such expenditure shall be under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso*.of War: *And provided further*, That if the owners of such lands shall refuse to sell them at Title, how perfected.reasonable prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined and the title and jurisdiction procured in the manner Manner of making improvements.prescribed by the laws of the State in which such lands or sites are situated.
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein appropriated for improvements, other than surveys and estimates, in carrying on the various works, as far as can be without actual detriment to the interest of the government, by contract. Where such works cannot be done by contract without injury to the public interest, they may be prosecuted by hired labor. Where said works are done by contract, such Proposals.Contracts after advertisement.Lowest bidder.contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe ; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of the work according to such contract, and for the proper payment of all liabilities incurred in the prosecution thereof for labor and material.
Sec. 2. That the joint resolution approved July twentieth, eighteen1868, Res. 60.Stat., 15, 258.Amended.Bridge across the Mississippi at Rock Island.Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.Rates of freight per car. hundred and sixty-eight, authorizing the construction of the bridge over the Mississippi River “to connect the island of Rock Island with the cities of Davenport and Rock Island”, is hereby so amended as to require the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company to charge for any cars carrying freight other than those passing over its own road, and for its own cars when carrying freight for other roads, which it may carry across said bridge, a sum not exceeding three dollars for every loaded car, two-fifths of which sums shall be paid by said railroad Company into the Treasury of the United States each month; and the monthly returns thus made shall be in such form, and with such authentication, as the Secretary of War shall direct.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed, at his discretion,Examinations and surveys. to cause examinations or surveys, or both, and estimates of cost of improvements proper, to be made at the following points, namely : Harbor of San Luis Obispo, California. Tombigbee River, Mississippi, from Fulton to Warren’s Mill. The Chattahoochee River, in Georgia, between West Point and Bolton, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, so as to complete the survey of that portion of said river.
Bear Creek, running into Yazoo River. Harbor at Port Henry, on Lake Champlain. Frankford Creek from its mouth in the Delaware River to Frankford Avenue. Five Mile Point, above Bridesburg, Delaware River. Mouth of the Mispillion, Delaware. Mokelnmne River, California, from its mouth at or near Woodbridge. New York Bay between Sandy Hook and Coney Island Point. Newton Creek, Camden County, from Delaware River to head of navigation. Mantua Creek, Gloucester County, from Delaware River to head of navigation.
Maurice River from Delaware Bay to Millville, Cumberland County. Salem and Cohansey Rivers, New Jersey. 483 Completing survey of Harlem River and through the Harlem KilnsExaminations and surveys—Continued. to the East River. Survey for harbor of refuge in Lake Pepin, at Stockholm, Wisconsin, and Lake City, Minnesota. Beaver Bay, Minnesota, to ascertain the cost and practicability of making it a harbor of refuge. Grand Portage Bay and Wanswau-goising Bay, Minnesota, to determine which, if either, should be made a harbor of refuge.
Sackett’s Harbor, New York. Matagorda Bay at the mouth of Saint Mary’s Bayou, near the town of Matagorda, Texas. Harbors of Madison and Clinton, Connecticut. Edgartown Harbor and South Beach, Massachusetts. Staunton River from Brook Neal, in Campbell County, to mouth of Pig River, Virginia. Roanoke River from Weldon North Carolina, to Clarksville, Virginia. Bear Creek, running from Northeast Mississippi into the Tennessee River. To deepen the channel of the Harrisecket River from Weston’s Point to Freeport Landing in Freeport, Maine.
The channel of Broad Creek on the west side of Kent Island, Maryland. Harbor of Brunswick, on the Androscoggin River. Buzzard’s Bay and Barnstable Bay, Massachusetts, at the entrance of the proposed Cape Cod Canal. Sabine Pass, Texas, through Sabine Lake and River to Orange and Sabine Lake, and the Neelies River to Beaumont, to ascertain the cost and practicability of a deep-water channel from Sabine Pass to Orange and Beaumont. Old Town Creek, Mississippi. Bar at mouth of Winyah Bay, near Georgetown, South Carolina.
Little Red River in Arkansas. And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be made ex aminations and surveys, or both, and estimates of the cost of the further improvements necessary to be made in the Savannah River and Harbor to increase the depth of the water in said river and harbor from the bar up to the city to twenty-two feet, and to make an estimate of the cost of widening the channel of the. Savannah River opposite the city to six hundred feet of uniform depth with the balance of the channel.
Young’s, Lewis’ and Clarke’s, and Skipanon Rivers, entering into Young’s Bay, in the county of Clatsop, near mouth of Columbia River, Oregon. Snake River from Lewiston to the mouth of Salmon River, Idaho Territory. Corsica Creek, Maryland. Harbor at mouth of Cedar River, on Green Bay, Michigan. Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts. Merrimac River from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Manchester, New Hampshire. Channel between islands of North Hero and South Hero, Lake Champlain. Little Tennessee River from its mouth on the Holston or Big Tennessee River to the mouth of Tellico River.
Dog Island Harbor, harbor of Key West, Crystal River, La Grange Bayou up to Freeport, Manatee River, and Crooked River, Florida. Indian River, Florida, at the north end, in view of opening a passage into the lagoon one-half mile east. From a point between Ellis Island and the docks of New Jersey Central Railroad to a point between Bobbins’ Reef Light and Constable Hook, in waters of New York Bay, New Jersey. Big Black River, Mississippi. Outlet of harbor of Ship Island. 484 Harbor at Boloxi, Mississippi.Examinations and surveys—Continued.
Harbor at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Upper thoroughfare leading into Tangier Sound, Deil’s Island, and Rock Creek, Maryland. Fish Bend, near Fort Chartres, in the Mississippi River. Murder Kiln, Delaware. Delaware River. Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, in the vicinity of 'Washington, district of Columbia, with reference to the improvement of navigation, the establishment of the harbor-line, and the raising of the flats, so far as their improvement may be necessary to the improvement of navigation and the establishment of the harbor-line.
Mouth of Cedar River, Green Bay, Michigan. Greenport Harbor, New York. Survey for harbor of refuge at New Buffalo, Michigan. The headwaters of the Cannon River, in Minnesota, with a view that the same may be added to the reservoir system of the Upper Mississippi. The water connection between the Waccamaw and Cape Fear Rivers, with the view of ascertaining if a continuous inland water connection cannot thereby be established. Toledo, Ohio, for a straight channel to Lake Erie. For harbor at Caseville, Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron.
The Calumet River from South Chicago to the village of Pullman, on Lake Calumet. For a further survey of James River, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability and cost of procuring a channel of twenty-five feet at full tide from Richmond to the month of the river Survey of Upper Machodoc Creek, a tributary of Potomac River. Survey of Urbana Creek, a tributary of Rappahannock River, from the village of Urbana to the Oaks. The harbor of Mamaroneck, New York. Cumberland River at Smith’s Shoals, in the State of Kentucky, to ascertain the practicability and the cost of a canal, with locks and dams, from the head to the foot of said shoals.
The harbor at the Delaware Breakwater, and the entrance thereto. Indian River, in the State of Delaware, from its mouth to Millsborough. Survey of the Clarion River from its mouth to Ridgway, Pennsylvania. From Brazos de Santiago through Laguna Madre to Point Isabel, Texas, to ascertain the cost and practicability of a deep-water channel from the anchorage at Brazos de Santiago to the railroad wharf at Point Isabel. Survey for breakwater and harbor of refuge at Milford Connecticut.
Entrance to Gray’s Harbor, Washington Territory. Between Baker’s Bay and Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory, for canal for lightdraught vessels. Missouri River at or near Arrow Rock. For survey of Nishnabotana from Hamburg, Iowa, to its junction with the Missouri. Skipton Creek, Maryland. Bush River, Maryland, from Harford Furnace to Chesapeake Bay. Licking River from its mouth to Falmouth, in Kentucky. Oregon Inlet, in Dare County, in North Carolina. Survey of Chehalis River, in Washington Territory.
Whiteoak, Meherrin, and New Rivers, in North Carolina. Sec. 4. That for the examinations and surveys herein provided for,Appropriation.Report. and for incidental repairs of harbors for which there is no special appropriation, the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated ; and in every case where examinations or surveys are made, the report thereon shall embrace such information concerning the commercial importance, pres- 485 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 136, 137. 1881. ent and prospective, of the improvement contemplated thereby, and such general commercial statistics as the Secretary of War may be able to procure. Approved, March 3, 1881.