Chapter 211. making appropriations for the construction, repair, completion, and preservation of certain works on rivers and liarbers, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 211.— An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, completion, and preservation of certain works on rivers and liarbers, and for other purposes.June 14, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public works on rivers and harbors.Appropriations. That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the construction, repair, completion, Harbors in States of: .Maine.and preservation of the public works hereinafter named:
Improving the gut opposite Bath, Maine: Continuing improvement, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Belfast, Maine: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving Richmond Island Harbor, Maine: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. For the completion of the improvement of Lubec Channel, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement,New Hampshire. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont:
Continuing improvement,Vermont. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Swanton, Vermont: Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Continuing operations,Massachusetts. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: Maintenance and annual repairs, five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Connecticut. ten thousand dollars. Improving Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Milford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; and so much of said appropriation as shall be necessary therefor shall be.so expended as to have the channel six feet deep a£ low water between the steamboat landing in said Norwalk and Long Island Sound. Improving harbor at Southport, Connecticut:
Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars. 181 Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement,Harbors—Continued.New York ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Repair of piers, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Echo Harbor, New Rochelle, New York: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York:
Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oak Orchard, New York: Continuing operations, five hundred dollars. Improving Cathance River, Maine, ten thousand dollars.Cathance River, Maine.New York. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement, ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Plattsburg, New York: For dredging, one thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound, New York: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pultneyville, New York: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement,Eric Harbor, Pennsylvania. twenty-five thousand dollars. Constructing pier in Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Delaware: ContinuingDelaware pier. operations, ten thousand dollars. Piers of ice-harbor at New Castle, Delaware:
Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: To dredge the barChristiana River. and channel at the mouth of the Christiana River, and make such survey as may be necessary to determine the site of such works as may be necessary for the permanent improvement of said river: Continuing operations, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing operations,Maryland. one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Breton Bay, Leonardtown, Maryland:
Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown,District of Columbia. District of Columbia: Continuing the improvements, including the removal of rocks, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, and its approaches: ContinuingVirginia. improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Onancock, Virginia: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina:
Continuing improvement,South Carolina. one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah and Savannah River, Georgia: ContinuingGeorgia. improvement, sixty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida: Continuing improvement,Florida. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama:
Continuing improvement,Alabama. one hundred and twenty-five, thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at and near Vicksburg, and protectionMississippi River at Vicksburg. of harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. 182 Improving harbor at New Orleans, Louisiana: Continuing improvement,Harbors—Con’d.Louisiana.Texas. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving outer bar, Galveston Harbor, Texas: Continuing operations, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: Continuing operations, twentyOhio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: Continuing operations, one thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: Continuing operations, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars.
Ice-harbor at mouth of Muskingum River, Ohio: Continuing operationsIce-harbor, Muskingum River. fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: Continuing operations five thousand dollars. Improving and surveying harbor at Sandusky City, Ohio: Continuing operations, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor to the depth of sixteen feet at Toledo, Ohio: Continuing operations, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vermillion, Ohio: Continuing operations, two thousand dollars.
Improving outside harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: ContinuingIndiana. operations, forty thousand dollars; to be used and expended in improving the inner harbor, the additional sum of fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: Continuing improvement,Illinois. twenty thousand dollars. Improving outside harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement, including commencement of construction of exterior breakwater, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Galena River and Harbor, Illinois: Continuing improvement,Galena River. twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor and the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee:Mississippi River at Memphis. Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor and river at Au Sable, Michigan: ContinuingMichigan. operations, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black Lake, Michigan: Continuing operations, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlevoix, Michigan:
Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts, seventy-five thousandMassachusetts. dollar’s; of which sum thirty thousand dollars shall be expended in the said harbor; twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars at the mouth of Charles River in said harbor and up to Watertown; seventeen thousand five hundred dollars in said harbor at mouth of Mystic River, and five thousand dollars from said harbor to Nantasket Beach. Improving harbor at Chebeygan, Michigan:
Continuing operations,Michigan. six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan: Continuing operations, fifty thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Lake Huron: Continuing operations, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: Continuing operations, eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: For repairs of existing work, one thousand dollars. 183 Improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan:
Continuing operations, twoHarbors—Continued. thousand dollars. Improving Manistique Harbor, Michigan, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: Continuing operations, seven thousand live hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars; of which sum two thousand dollars shall be expended in dredging. Improving harbor at Pentwater, Michigan: Continuing operations, four thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Lake Michigan:
Continuing operations, ten thousand dollars. Improving river and harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan, including channel leading up to Benton Harbor: Continuing operations eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugatuck, Michigan: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at White River, Michigan: Continuing operations, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin:
Continuing improvement,Wisconsin. seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars’. Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Continuing operations, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor a Menomonee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Continuing operations, ten thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing operations, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Shebeygan, Wisconsin: Repairs and dredging, . seven thousand dollar’s. Improving Superior Bay, Wisconsin: Dredging for improvement of natural entrance, and for repairing existing works, five thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at entrance of Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said*Proviso*. sum shall not be expended until any private or corporate right which may exist to impose charges for the use of said harbor shall have been relinquished in manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War.
Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Bush Chute and harbor of Burlington, Iowa: ContinuingIowa. operations, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Muscatine, Iowa: Continuing the improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota: Continuing the improvement,Minnesota. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: Continuing the improvement, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Kennebunk River, Maine:Rivera: Continuing operations, twoKennebunk. thousand dollars. For improving Exeter River, in the State of New Hampshire, twentyEster. thousand dollar’s. Improving Otter Creek, Vermont: Continuing improvement, two thousandOtter Creek. dollars. 184 Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts,Rivera—Cont’d. fifty thousand dollars. Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts: ContinuingMerrimac. operations, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island:
Continuing improvementProvidence. sixty thousand dollars. Improving Little Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Connecticut River, below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Connecticut. ten thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Housatonic. two thousand dollars. Constructing breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing operations, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Thames River, Connecticut:
Continuing improvement,Thames.twenty-five thousand dollars; of which sum, two thousand five hundred dollars shall be expended in the removal of rocks and sand from New London Harbor. Removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, New York: ContinuingEast River and Hell Gate.East Chester Creek.Hudson. improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement, three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Hudson River, New York:
Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Cohansey Creek, New Jersey: ContinuingCohansey Creek. improvement, four thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, seven thousand fiveElizabeth. hundred dollars. Improving Manisquan River, New Jersey: Continuing Manisquan.improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River above Newark, New Jersey: Passaic.Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars Improving Rahway River, New Jersey:
Continuing improvement,Rahway. ten thousand dollars. Improving Salem River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, three thousand Salem.dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Shrewsbury. thirty thousand dollars. Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Woodbridge Creek.South. . five thousand dollars. Improving South River, Middlesex County, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan, five thousand dollars, to be expended in extending piers or dredging, at discretion of Secretary of War.
Improving navigation of Allegheney River from mouthAllegheny. of French Creek to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, forty thousandSchuylkill. dollars. Improving Delaware River, below Bridesburg, Pennsylvania: ContinuingDelaware. improvement, eighty-five thousand dollars; of which sum forty thousand dollars shall be expended at or near Petty’s Island, between said island and Philadelphia, and ten thousand dollars at or near Smith’s Island, between Philadelphia and Camden, through the sand-spit.
Improving Delaware River, between Trenton, New Jersey, and Brides-burg, Pennsylvania: Continuing operations, ten thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River at Schooner Ledge: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, near Cherry Island Flats: Continuing improvement one hundred thousand dollars. 185 Improving Mispillion Creek, Delaware: Continuing improvement, fourRivers—Cont’d.MispillionCreek.Wicomico. thousand dollars. Improving Wicomico River, Maryland, below Salisbury:
Continuing operations, five thousand dollar’s. Improving harbor at Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars.Annapolis Harbor.Potomac. Dredging a channel in the Potomac River, through the flats in front of Mount Vernon, Virginia: Continuing operations, three thousand dollars. Improving Appomattox-River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Appomattox. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Blackwater River, Virginia: Continuing operations, threeBlack water. thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Chickahominy River, Virginia: ContinuingChickahominy. operations, two thousand dollars. Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousandJames. dollars. Improving New River, from mouth of Wilson, in Grayson County,New. Virginia, to mouth of Greenbrier River, twenty-four thousand dollars; of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be expended in the continuation of the work from the mouth of Greenbrier, up; seven thousand dollars in the continuation of the work formerly prosecuted on the river in Wythe County, and five thousand dollars between the lead mines in Wythe County and the mouth of Wilson, in Grayson County.
Improving Raritan River, New Jersey, one hundred thousand dollars;Raritan. of which sum seventy thousand dollars shall be expended in the removal of rocks at Whitehead’s sand-dock, and thirty thousand dollars for dredging the shoals at the Middle Ground. Improving mouth of Nomoni Creek, Virginia: Nomoni Creek.Continuing operations, five thousand dollars. Improving North Landing River, Virginia and North Carolina: Continuing improvement, North Landing.fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Rappahannock. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Staunton River, Virginia: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five Staunton.hundred dollars. Improving Urbana Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Urbana Creek. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Great Kanawha River and operation of works,Great Kanawha. West Virginia: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Guyandotte River, West Virginia:
Continuing improvement,Guyandotte. two thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, seventyCape Fear. thousand dollars. Continuing improvement of Currituck Sound, Coanjok Bay, and North River Bar, North Carolina:Currituck Sound. Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.North River Bar. Improving French Broad River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, three, French Broad River.thousand dollars. Improving Neuse River, North Carolina, from its Neuse.mouth to the head of navigation:
Continuing improvement, forty-five thousand dollars. Improving Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina:Pamlico and Tar Rivers. Continuing operations, nine thousand dollars. Improving Scuppernong River, North Carolina:Scuppernong. Continuing improvement, one thousand dollars. Improving Trent River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, tenTrent. thousand dollars. Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia: Continuing improvement, twentyChattahoochee. thousand dollars. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama:
Continuing improvement,Coosa. seventy-five thousand dollars. 186 Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement, twentyRivers—Cont’d.Flint. thousand dollars; of which sum ten thousand dollars shall be expended below Albany, and ten thousand dollars between Albany and Montezuma. Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: ContinuingOcmulgee. operations, seven thousand dollars. Improving Oconee River, Georgia: Continuing Oconee.operations, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Oostenaulaand Coosawattee Rivers, Oostenaula and Coosawattoe.Georgia:
Continuing operations, two thousand dollars. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida: Continuing improvementApalachicola., two thousand dollars. Improving Apalachicola Bay, Florida, ten thousand dollars. Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabamaup to Newton: ContinuingChoctawhatchee. operations, seven thousand dollars. Improving inside passage between Fernandina and Saint John’s, Florida: Passage between Fernandina and Saint John’s.Continuing improvement, at such point as may be selected by the chief engineer, and approved by the Secretary of War, seven thousand dollars.
Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement, twenty-fiveAlabama. thousand dollars. Improving Warrior and Tombigbec Rivers, Alabama and Mississippi,Warrior and Tombigbee. forty-seven thousand dollars; of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be expended on the Warrior, twelve thousand dollars on the Tombigbee between Columbus and Vienna, and fifteen thousand dollars on the Tombigbee below Vienna. Improving Tombigbec River above Columbus, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, four thousand dollars.
Improving Big Sunflower River Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Big Sunflower. eight thousand dollars. Improving Coldwater River, Mississippi: Continuing Coldwater.improvement, four thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, twentyPascagoula. thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, from Jackson to Carthage: Con tinning improvement,Pearl. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: ContinuingYazoo. improvement, twelve thousand dollars.
Improving Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana: Continuing Bayou La Fourche.improvement, five thousand dollars. Removing obstructions from Red River, Louisiana: Continuing operations, including Red River.construction of snag-beat, sixty thousand dollars. Removing raft in Red River and closing Tone’s Bayou, Louisiana:Tone’s Bayou.Continuing operations, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Tallahatchee River, Mississippi: ContinuingTallabatchee. improvement, nine thousand dollars, of which sum four thousand dollars shall be expended below Coldwater and five thousand dollars between the mouth of Coldwater and Batesville.
Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, up to Rockport andAransas Pass and Bay. Corpus Christi, Texas: Continuing improvement, sixty-five thousand dollars. Improving Neehes River, Texas: Continuing operations, Neehes.five thousand dollars. Improving Pass Cavallo Inlet into Matagorda Bay,Pass Cavallo Inlet. Texas: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving ship-channel, Galveston Bay: Continuing improvement, fifty thousandGalveston Bay. dollars. Improving Sheepshead Bay, New York, three thousand dollars.Sheepshead Bay.Canarsie Bay.Nottoway River.Rockland Harbor, Maine.Flushing Bay.*Proviso*.
Improving Canarsie Bay, New York, ten thousand dollars. Improving Nottoway River, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Improving Rockland Harbor, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Flushing Bay, New York, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the judgment of the engineer in charge this expenditure 187 can be made without serious detriment to property interests on theRivers—Cont’d. Newtown side. Improving Narrows of Sabine River, above Orange, Texas, and toSabine River. deepen channel at its mouth:
Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass and Blue Buck Bar, Texas: Continuing Sabine Pass.improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing operations, four thousandTrinity. dollars. Improving Arkansas River between Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Wield ta,Arkansas. Kansas: Continuing the improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Fourche Le Fevre River, Arkansas: Continuing Fourche Le Fevre.L’Anguille.improvement, four thousand dollars.
Improving L’Anguille River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: ContinuingOuachita. improvement, eight thousand dollars. Improving White and Saint Francis Rivers, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, twelve White and Saint Francis.thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River, above Nashville, Tennessee, as follows: From NashvilleCumberland. to Kentucky line, fifteen thousand dollars; from Kentucky line to Sunth’s Shoals, ten thousand dollars; at Smith’s Shoals, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Cumberland River, below Nashville, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Hiawassee River, Tennessee: Continuing operations,Hiawassee. three thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River, above Chattanooga: Continuing the improvement, ten thousandTennessee. dollars. Improving Tennessee River, below Chattanooga, including Muscle Shoals, Duck River Shoal, and shoal at Reynoldsburg: Continuing operations, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, from Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to head ofBig Sandy. navigation, fifty-five thousand dollars; of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be expended in the construction of works at Louisa, according to the recommendation of William E.
Merrill, major of Engineers, in his annual report, dated August twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and five thousand dollars in the further improvement of the upper river. Improving Kentucky River from its mouth to Three Forks: Continuing operations, one Kentucky.hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River: Continuing the improvement, two hundredOhio. and fifty thousand dollars; of which sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on Davis Island Dam, and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on the river from its mouth to its head: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That ten thousand dollars of the last-named sum may, in the discretion of the engineers, be expended on Indiana Chute: *And provided further*, *Proviso*.That twenty-five thousand dollars of the sum for the improvement of the Ohio River shall be applied to continuing the improvement at Grand Chain on said River. Improving Wabash River, Indiana: Continuing improvement, twenty-five Wabash.thousand dollars. Improving Sandusky River, Ohio: Continuing improvement, tenSandusky. thousand dollars.
Improving White River, Indiana, from Wabash River to Portersville,White. and to the falls on West Fork: Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Illinois River: Continuing improvement, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, of which sumIllinois. one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on locks and dams and ten thousand dollars for dredging. Improving Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers: Removing Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas.snags, wrecks, and other obstructions, two hundred thousand dollars; of which sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on the 188 Mississippi River, sixty-five thousand dollars on the Missouri, and thirty-fiveRivers—Cont’d. thousand dollars on the Arkansas.
Improving Mississippi River, between the mouths of the Illinois andMississippi. Ohio Rivers: Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be expended at Kaskaskia Bend, and fifteen thousand dollars may be expended on Harbor at Alton.Cuivre.the harbor at Alton. Improving Cuivre River, from mouth to Chain of Rocks, and removing snags and obstructions, two thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River, above the Falls of Saint Anthony:
Continuing improvement,Mississippi. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River, from Saint Paid to Des Moines Rapids: Continuing*Proviso*. improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *provided*, That three thousand five hundred dollars of said sum may, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, be expended in closing the slough at*Proviso*. the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers: *Provided further*, That three thousand dollars of the foregoing sum shall be used in dredging the western channel at or near Guttenberg, Iowa.
Improving Mississippi River, from Des Moines Rapids to mouth of Illinois River: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at Quincy, Illinois: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Removing bar in the Mississippi River, opposite Dubuque, Iowa: Continuing operations seven thousand dollar’s. Improving Rock Island Rapids, Mississippi River: Continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars. Improving Des Moines Rapids: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.
Operating the canal at Des Moines Rapids: Continuing operations ofOperating the canal at DesMoines Rapids.Annual expense of ganging the Mississippi.1871, Res. 40, Stat., 16,598.Upper Mississippi and operating snag-beat.Osage River. the canal, thirty thousand dollars. Annual expense of gauging the waters of the 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-beat, eight thousand dollars. Improving the Osage River, Kansas and Missouri: Continuing the improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas: Continuing operations,Missouri. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Cedar City: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and at Omaha, Nebraska: Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Missouri River at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska City, Nebraska: Continuing operations, fourteen thousand dollars. Improving the Missouri River at Brownville, ten thousand dollars. Improving the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, ten thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at or near Fort Leavenworth: Continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at and near Glasgow: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at and near Kansas City:
Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars; which sum may be expended on either side of the river, in the discretion of the engineer. Improving Missouri River at and near Saint Joseph: Continuing operations, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa: Continuing operations, eight thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Vermillion, Dakota: Continuing the improvement, ten thousand dollars. 189 Improving Missouri River, above mouth of the Yellowstone River:River—Cont’d.
Continuing the improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: Continuing operations, fiftyDetroit. thousand dollars. Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: Continuing operations, fifteenSaginaw. thousand dollars; of which sum ten thousand dollars shall be expended for removal of bars at the lower end of the river and in deepening the channel from the mouth of the river out into the bay. Improving Saint Clair Flats, Michigan: Repairs of canal, two thousand Saint Clair Fiats.Chippewa Riverfive hundred dollars.
Improving the Chippewa River, Wisconsin; Continuing the improvement, ten thousand dollars; but 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 improvement1879, ch. 181,[Stat., 20, 372](/us/stat/20/372).Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. of livers and harbors, relating to said Chippewa River. Improving Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be expended in continuing the improvement of the Wisconsin, and seventy-five thousand dollars for continuing the improvement of the Fox River; of which last sum three thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the engineers, be expended at the mouth of Fond du Lac.
Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and Dakota: ContinuingRed River of the North. improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Repairs and contingencies of public works at Saint Anthony’s Falls,Saint Anthony’s Falls. Minnesota: To meet repairs necessary, present and prospective, ten thousand dollars. Improving Upper Red River, Arkansas, from Fulton to the head ofUpper Red River.Saint Croix. the raft: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Saint Croix River, below Taylor’s Falls:
Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars, of which sum three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the engineers in charge may be necessary, shall be expended in the improvement of the slough on the east side of said river, known as the canal between Four-Mile Island and the foot of the Saint Croix Boom. Improving Lower Clearwater River, Idaho: Continuing operations, Lower Clear-water.Cascades of Columbia.Upper Columbia and Snake.Upper Willamette and Yamhill.Lower Willamette and Columbia.five thousand dollars.
Constructing canal around Cascades of Columbia River: Continuing operations, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Upper Columbia River, including Snake River: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Upper ’Willamette and Yamhill Rivers: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, from Portland, Oregon, to the sea, including the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River: Continuing improvement forty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Sacramento River, California: Continuing improvement,Sacramento. forty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, California: Continuing improvement,Wilmington, Cal., harbor.Surveys South Pass, Mississippi. thirty-five thousand dollars. Examinations and surveys of South Pass of Mississippi River: To ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at the South Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War to report during the maintenance of the work, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving the channel of Susquehanna River above and below Havre Susquehanna.de Grace, and to complete the work at the Fishing Battery light-station near Spesutia Island, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Improving and operating Saint Mary’s River and Saint Mary’s FallsSaint Mary’s River and Canal.Acceptance of public works authorized. Canal, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States from the State of Michigan the Saint Mary’s Canal and the public works 190 thereon: *Provided*, Such transfer shall be so made as to leave the UnitedRivers—Cont’d.*Proviso*.
States free from any and all debts, claims, or liability of any character whatsoever, and said canal after such transfer shall be free for public *Proviso*.use: *And provided further*, That after such transfer the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized to draw from time to time his warrant on the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the actual expenses of operating and keeping said canal in repair. Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York, sixty thousand dollars.Buttermilk Channel.Ashley River.Elk.Cheese quake’s Creek.Vermillion.Bayou Terrebenno.Bayou Teche.
Improving Ashley River, South Carolina, one thousand dollars. Improvement of Elk River, Maryland, ten thousand dollars. Improving Cheesequake’s Creek, New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Vermillion River Louisiana, five thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Terrebenne, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, from Saint Martinsville to Port Barre, Louisiana six thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Corn-tableau, from Port Barre to Atchefalaya, Louisiana,Bayou Cour tableau. seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, from Richards’ IslandSusquehanna. up, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction of harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan, Grand Marais Harbor.Pearl River.ten thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River below Jackson, Mississippi, thirty thousandYadkin. dollars. Improving Yadkin River, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars;White. six thousand dollars of which may be expended for the removal of dams. Improving White River above Buffalo Shoals, Arkansas, twenty thousandSaint Francis. dollars.
Improving Saint Francis River between Wilkesburg andWhite. Lester Landing, Arkansas, five thousand dollars. Improving White River between Jacksonport and Buffalo Passaic.Shoals, Arkansas, five thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey, from Pennsylvania RailroadArkansas. bridge to its mouth, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, twenty-five thousand dollars.Mississippi. Improving Mississippi River at Natchez and Vidalia, forty thousandSkagit. dollars.
Improving Skagit River, Washington Territory, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Amite River, Louisiana, eight thousand dollars. Taunton River.Improving Newtown Creek, New York, ten thousand dollars. Improving Pagan Creek, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Improving Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts, seven thousandAmite.Newtown Creek.Pagan Creek.Scituate Harbor. five hundred dollars. Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts, seventeen thousand Block Island Harbor.Stonington Harbor.Broadkiln River.Duck Creek.Broad Creek.five hundred dollars.
Improving Block Island Harbor, Rhode Island, six thousand dollars. Improving Stonington Harbor, Connecticut twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Broadkiln River, Delaware, five thousand dollars. Improving the mouth of Duck Creek, Delaware, five thousand dollars. Improving Broad Creek from its mouth to Laurel, Delaware, five thousand dollars. Improving Northeast River, Maryland, five thousand five hundredNortheast River. dollars. Improving Treadhaven Creek, Maryland, for three Treadhaven Creek.Choptank River.miles below Easton, three thousand dollars.
Improving Choptank River, between Denton and Greensbero, Maryland, five thousand dollars. 191 Improving Secretary Creek, Maryland, three thousand dollars.Rivers—Cont’d.Secretary Creek.Dan River. Improving Dan River, between Danville, Virginia, and Madison, North Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Improving Elk River, West Virginia, five thousand dollarsElk.Escambia.. Improving Escambia River, Florida and Alabama, eight thousand dollars. Improving Suwannee River, Florida, five thousand dollars.Suwannee.Tampa Bay.
Improving Tampa Bay, Florida, deepening the bar and channel from the bar to the town of Tampa, ten thousand dollars. Improving Tangipahoa River, Louisiana, five thousand dollarsTangipahoa.Brazos.. Improving channel over bar at mouth of Brazos River, Texas, including a report upon the capacity of the harbor at the mouth of the Brazos and its adaptability as a harbor of refuge and naval station, forty thousand dollars. Improving Saline River, Arkansas, seven thousand five hundred dollarsSaline River..
Survey of Missouri River, from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, thirtyMissouri River, survey authorized. thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in protecting the work done on said river at or near Sioux City, Iowa. Improving Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at and above the city of Alexandria, Mississippi River.Caney Fork.Obed’s River.Monongahela.Missouri, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Caney Fork River, Tennessee, six thousand dollars. Improving Obed’s River, Tennessee, four thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia, at or near Laurel Run, according to plan recommended by engineer in charge, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia, building Little Kanawha.additional lock and dam, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Wilson Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.Wilson Harbor.Waddington Harbor.San Joaquin River.Mattaponi.
Improving Waddington Harbor, New York, three thousand dollars. Improving San Joaquin River, California, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Mattaponi River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Petalumas Creek, California,Petaluma s Creek.Cowlitz. eight thousand dollars. Improving Cowlitz River, Washington Territory, two thousand dollars. Improving Big Hatchie River, Tennessee, ten thousand dollars.Big Hatchie.Mississippi. Improving Mississippi River at or near Cape Girardeau and Minton’s Point, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Gasconade River Missouri, removing snags, five thousandGasconade. dollars. Improving Black River, Arkansas fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Noxubee River, Mississippi, twelve thousand dollars.Black River.Noxubee.Mississippi. Improving Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving and surveying Winnipiseogee Lake, New Hampshire, five thousand dollars. Improving Duck River, Tennessee, seven thousand dollars. Improving Waccemaw River, South Carolina, from the mouth up to Waccamaw Lake, North Carolina, fifteen Winnipiscogeo Lake.Duck River.Waccemaw River.Great Pedee.thousand dollars.
Improving Great Pcdee River, South Carolina,Totusky River. seven thousand dollars. Improving Totusky River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving York River at West Point, Virginia, ten thousand dollars.York.Pamunkey. Improving Pamunkey River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollar’s. 192 Improving French Broad River, Tennessee, between Knoxville andRivers—Cont’d.French Broad. the mouth of Big Creek, ten thousand dollars. For repair of pier in Rocky River, Ohio, four thousand dollars.Repairs of pier, Rocky River.Ice-harbor, Saint Louis.*Proviso*.
For ice-harbor at Saint Louis, Missouri, fifty thousand dollars: *provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended until a beard of engineers shall have been convened and determined upon a plan for the construction of the work. Improving harbor at Rock Island, Illinois, six thousand dollars.Rock Island Harbor.Marcus Hook, ice-harbor. For ice-harbor at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, commencing enlargement of piers and dredging, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Shenandoah River, West Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.Shenandoah.Connecticut.
Improving Connecticut River, between Hartford and Holyoke, fifteen thousand dollars. For protecting Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, one thousandRock Island bridge,*Proviso*. dollars: *Provided*, Said sum shall not be expended until the Rock Island Railroad Company shall have contributed a like sum for said purpose. For harbor at Waukegan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided, *Waukegan Harbor.*Proviso*.That this sum shall not be expended until a beard of three engineers shall have been convened and selected the site, and until the same and a free right of way to all points of the harbor shall have been transferred or relinquished, free of cost to the United States.
Improving Clinch River, Tennessee, ten thousand dollars; of whichClinch River. sum six thousand dollars shall be expended above Haynes, in Claybern County, and four thousand dollars below said point. Improving Oakland Harbor, California, sixty thousand dollars; andOakland Harbor. the sums of money heretofore appropriated for this improvement and unexpended are hereby reappropriated, butReappropriation. the sums so appropriated and reappropriated shall not be available until the rightof 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 Sullivan’s Island for protection of Charleston Harbor, South Sullivan’s Island.Carolina, five thousand dollars. Improving channel between Staten Island and New Jersey, at Elizabethport, twentyChannel between Staten Island and New Jersey.Missouri River. nine thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River at Lexington, Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to assign an engineer fromKewaunee Harbor. the Corps of Engineers of the United States to prepare a plan and advise with the local engineer in the expenditure of such sum as may be appropriated by the local authorities for the improvement of the harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
Improving Volusia Bar, Florida, five thousand dollars; and the SecretaryVolusia Bar. of War is hereby authorized to make such special contract for the prosecution of this work as may, in his judgment, best promote the interests of the government.. The balance in hand, after payment of any existing liability, collected Louisville and Portland Canal, tolls.heretofore as tolls on the Louisville and Portland Canal, or which may hereafter be so collected prior to the passage of an act to make said canal free to the public, is hereby authorized to be expended for its *Proviso*.improvement: *Provided*, Such expenditure shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
Improving Yellowstone River, Montana and Dakota, fifteen thousandYellowstone. dollars. Improving harbor at Brazos Santiago, Texas, twenty-five thousandBrazos Santiago Harbor. dollars. For continuing the improvement of Sebewaing Harbor, Michigan,Sebewaing Harbor. seven thousand dollars. 193 For improvement of the entrance to Yaquina Bay,Yaquina Bay. Oregon, forty thousand dollars. For improvement of the mouth of Coquille River, Coquille River.Oregon, ten thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River, above Augusta, Georgia, sixteen thousand dollars.Savannah.
Improving the entrance to Cumberland Sound, between Amelia andCumberland Sound. Cumberland Islands, in the States of Florida and Georgia, according to the plans and estimates of General Gillmore, the chief engineer, reported to this Congress, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Saint John’s River, Florida, by deepening the bar at theSaint John’s River. mouth thereof, according to the report of the Chief of Engineers made to the Secretary of War and reported to this Congress, one hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars.
For the reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi River, to be Headwaters of Mississippi.used in the construction of a dam at Lake Winnibigoshish, *Proviso*.seventy-live thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all injuries occasioned to individuals by overflow of their lands shall be ascertained and determined by agreement or in accordance with the law’s of Minnesota, and shall not exceed in the aggregate five thousand dollars. Such parts of the money appropriated by this act for any particularGeneral provisions. 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 may be, of necessary sites: *Provided*, That such expenditure shall be under the direction*Proviso*.*Proviso*. of the Secretary of War: *And provided further*, That if the owners of such lands shall refuse to sell them at reasonable prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined and the title and jurisdiction procured in the manner 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 Contracts.on the various works as far as can be, without 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 doneHired labor.Advertisement. by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and Perform an co and payment for a 11 material and labor to be secured.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;Work on Groat Kanawha excepted from paragraph. but this clause shall not be so construed as to prevent the continuance of work on the Great Kanawha by hired labor, unless the Secretary of War is satisfied that the public interest requires such change.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed, at his discretion,Surveys, examinations, and estimates of cost of improve in cuts proper to be made. to cause examinations or surveys, or beth, and estimates of cost of improvements proper, to be made at the following points, namely: Tallapoosa River, from the junction of Coosa up to Tallassee, Alabama. New Rochelle Harbor, Westchester County, New’ York, from City Island to the town of New’ Rochelle. Bronx River, or West Farms tidewater creek, from its mouth in the city of New’ York, Mattawan Creek, from Raritan Bay channel to Central Railroad bridge, head of navigation.
Malden River, Massachusetts. For improving Richmond Harbor on the Kennebec River, Maine. Clinch River, in the counties of Hancock, Hawkins, and Claiberne, Tennessee, and Scott and Russell Counties, Virginia. Powell River, in the counties of Hancock and Claiberne, Tennessee, and Lee County, Virginia. 194 Holston River, in the counties of Sullivan, Hawkins, Grainger, and Surveys and examinations—Continued.Hamblen, Tennessee, and Washington and Scott Counties, Virginia. Ticonderoga River, New York.
Edistoe and Salkiehatchie Rivers, in South Carolina. Georgetown Harbor, South Carolina. Lynch’s River, South Carolina. Wateree River, from Camden, South Carolina, to its mouth. Black River, from Kingstree, South Carolina, to its mouth. Rancocas River, from the Delaware River to Pemberton, Burlington County, New Jersey. Absecom Inlet, Atlantic County, New Jersey. Bayou Bartholomew, Tensas River, and Bayou Macon, Louisiana. Sandusky River, near Freemont, Ohio. Chagrin River, Ohio.
Ice-harbor, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. Toledo Harbor, Ohio, for depth of sixteen feet. Tallapoosa River, from the city of Montgomery to Tallassee. Neabsco Creek, a tributary of the Potomac. Maumee River, Ohio, from Perrysburg to the city of Toledo. Mississippi River, at Saint Genevieve, Missouri. Missouri River, at Boonville, Missouri. Saint Francis River, from Greenville. Youghiogheny River, to begin at its mouth at McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and end at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Cape Fear River, North Carolina, between Wilmington and Fayetteville, with the view of ascertaining cost and practicability of clearing away logs and overgrowing trees and of dredging out such shoals as now interfere with commerce, itemizing cost of each separately. Town Creek, North Carolina: To ascertain cost of taking out suchshoals as interfere with ordinary river steamboat traffic. For the reopening of the Santee Canal. For the improvement of Wappoo Cut, South Carolina. Calcasieu River, Bayous Plaquemine, Black, Grand Caillon, Little Caillon, Andre, Fusilier, Grand Lake, Little Lake, and Barataria Bay, from New Orleans to Grand Pass.
For Snake River in Minnesota. The headwaters of the Savannah River, in connection with the headwaters of the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers, with a view of ascertaining if a summit level can be seemed of the waters of these respective streams, so as to unite them by a canal; that is to say, to ascertain if the waters of the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers can be united with the water’s of the Savannah River by means of a canal. The Savannah River, from Savannah to Augusta, Georgia.
The Altamaha River, Georgia. The Canoochee River, Georgia. Romney Marsh, near Dobey, and the mouth of Jekyl Creek. Niagara River, at the mouth of the Tonawanda Creek, New York. At Port Day, above the Falls of Niagara, New York. Shark River, New Jersey. Perth and South Ambey to main ship-channel off Great Kills, Raritan Bay. Improving the bayou south of Milwaukee Harbor for additional purposes of a harbor of refuge at Milwaukee; also, Milwaukee Bay. Finhollaway River, Florida.
Aucilla and Wacissa, Florida. Chipola River, Florida. Oeolockonneo River, Florida. Holmes Creek, Florida. Potomac River at the mouth of Pohick Creek. The bars at the entrance of Annapolis Harbor, with a view to ascer- 195tain the character of jetties necessary to render the proposed improvementSurveys and examinations—Continued. permanent. For Hempstead Harbor in the State of New York. Sumpawaums Inlet, Long Island, New York. For waterway connecting Jamaica Bay with Cornell’s Landing in the State of New York.
Saint Francis River, from Greenville, Missouri, to the Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Railroad. Currant River, from Van Buren, Missouri, to its mouth in Arkansas. Chicago River, from its mouth to the junction of the North and South Branches. Grand River below Grand Rapids, Michigan. Swan Creek, Lake Saint Clair, Michigan. South Fork of the Cumberland River, Kentucky. Red River, from Port Royal, Montgomery County, Tennessee, to its mouth. Mouth of Narraguagus River at. Milbridge, Maine.
Cahaba River, Alabama, from its mouth, in Dallas County, to the northern line of Bibb County. Empire Bay, Lelanawau County, Michigan. Mississippi River, at Andalusia, Illinois. Missouri River, at Yankton, Dakota. Upper Red River of the North, between Fargo, Dakota., and Breckinridge, Minnesota. Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, from Berwick’s Bay to mouth of Red River. Ice harbor at the head of Delaware Bay, near Morris Liston’s, on Reedy’s Island. Delaware River, survey of. Tradewater River, Kentucky, Harbor at Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
Ogdensburg Harbor, New York. Maramec River, Missouri, from the mouth to the point opposite Maramec Iron Works, Missouri. Mississippi River, at Louisiana, Missouri. Obion River, Tennessee. South Forked Deer River, Tennessee. North Forked Deer River, Tennessee. That part of the North Branch of the Chicago River lying in the town of Lake View. Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana, from its mouth to Franklinton. Bogue Falia, Louisiana, from its mouth to twenty-five miles above Covington.
West Pearl River. Pass Manchac and Bayou Manchac, Louisiana, from its mouth to the Mississippi River. Mississippi River, at Sauk Rapids, near the city of Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Grand River, below Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gowanus Bay, New York. Grass River, at Massena, Saint Lawrence County, New York. Missouri River, from Tuque Creek to one mile west of Charette Creek, Warren County, Missouri. Cache River, Arkansas, a tributary of White River. The Bay, a tributary of Saint Francis River, Arkansas.
Mouth of Grand River and Missouri River, at Brunswick, with reference to beat-landing at Brunswick, Missouri. Buffalo Bayou, Texas, from Simm’s Bayou to the mouth of White Oak Bayou at Houston. Return estimates of the cost of a channel twelve feet deep and one hundred feet wide, also a channel twelve feet deep and one hundred and fifty feet wide. Mouth of Currioman Bay, Virginia. 196 East Bay and Blackwater River, Florida.Surveys and examinations—Continued. Tho Ohio River, at the head of Hurricane Island and Elizabethtown, Illinois.
Chester and Bidley Creeks, near their outlets into the Delaware River, Pennsylvania. Saint Mary’s River, from the town of Saint Mary’s to its mouth, Ohio. Minnesota River, near the village of Belle Plain, with a view to prevent the breaking away of the banks of the narrow neck of land opposite said village and injury to the navigation of said river, in Minnesota. The Nomoni River, from the ferry across the same to the head of tidewater. The Appoquinimink Creek, Delaware. Patchogue River, New York.
For opening channel between Lloyd’s Harbor and Cold Spring Bay, New York. Stillaquandsh River, Nooksack River, and Snohomish River, in Washington Territory. Wareham Harbor, Massachusetts. Red Bank Creek, Pennsylvania, from its mouth on the Allegheny River, to Brookville. Saint Jones Creek, in Kent County, Delaware, and Little Creek, in Kent County, Delaware. Clinton River and Lake Saint Clair, at the mouth of Clinton River, Michigan. For the construction of two icebreakers in the Ohio River, near the West Virginia shore, and below the railroad bridge crossing said river at Parkersburg.
Ice-harbor at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Christiana River, Delaware, from the Delaware Railroad bridge, to the mouth of the river, with an estimate of the cost of procuring a mean depth of fifteen feet in the channel thereof. For the opening of a ship-canal across the Charleston Neck, South Carolina. Chester River, between Kirby’s Landing and Spry’s Landing, Maryland. Water-passage between Deal’s Island and Little Deal’s Island, Maryland. Bœuf River, North Louisiana. Potowomut River, Rhode Island.
For a harbor on Lake Michigan, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin. For the opening of steamboat communication from the Saint John’s River, Florida, by way of Topokalija Lake, to Charlotte Harbor or Pease Creek. The Missouri River at Niobrara, Nebraska. Pocosson and Lillington Rivers, and Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be made suchDebris from mines. examination and surveys as may be necessary to devise a system of works to prevent the further injury to the navigable waters of California from the debris from the mines, and the estimates of the cost of such works, and report the result of such examinations, surveys, and estimates of cost of proposed works made in pursuance hereof to Congress at its next session.
The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an examination toHumboldt Bay, Cal. be made to determine the work necessary to be done, and the cost of the same, to improve the channels inside the bar of Humbeldt Bay, California. That for the purpose of making a survey to ascertain the practicabilityShip-canals. and cost of construction of a ship-canal from Lake Erie, by the Maumee and Wabash Valleys, in the bed of the old Wabash and Erie Canal, or with any variation therefrom that may prove feasible, to the navigable waters of the Wabash River; also for a survey and estimate of cost of 197 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 211, 212. 1880. a similar canal from Junction City, on the Wabash and Erie Canal, toSurveys and examinations—Continued. the Ohio River, by way of the Miami and Eric Canal, or any variation in route to produce the most practical and least expensive ship-canal from Lake Erie to the navigable waters of the Ohio River by the above routes, the estimates in each case to be for a water channel and locks of the same size and capacity as those of the present enlarged Erie Canal in New York.
Sinslaw Bay, Oregon. Of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars herein appropriated for surveys and examinations, the sum of fifteen thousand dollar’s may be expended in the completion of the survey of the reservoir system on the headwaters of the Mississippi River, including Rock River, in Wisconsin and Illinois. Sec. 3. That for the examinations and surveys herein provided for,Appropriation for surveys, &c. and for incidental repairs of harbors, for which there is no special appropriation, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollar’s is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and in every case where examinations or surveys arc made, the report thereon shall embrace such information concerning the commercial importance, present and prospective, of the improvement contemplated thereby, and such general commercial statistics, as the Secretary of War may be able to procure.
Sec. 4. Whenever hereafter the navigation of any river, lake, harbor, orNavigation obstructed by sunken vessels or watercraft. bay, or other navigable water of the United States, shall be obstructed or endangered by any sunken vessel or watercraft, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, upon satisfactory information thereof, to cause reasonable notice, of not less than thirty days, to be given, personallyNotice given to persons interested to remove same, or by publication, at least once a week in the newspaper published nearest the locality of such sunken vessel or craft, to all persons interested in such vessel or craft, or in the cargo thereof, of the purpose of said Secretary, unless such vessel or craft shall be removed as soon thereafter as practicable by the parties interested therein, to cause the same to be removed.
If such sunken vessel or craft and cargo shall not be removed by the parties interested therein as soon as practicable after the date of the giving of such notice by publication, or after such personal service of notice, as the case may be, such sunken, vessel or craft shall be treated as abandoned and derelict, and the Secretary of War shall proceed to remove the same. Such sunken vessel or craft and cargo and all property therein when so removed shall, after reasonable notice of the time and place of sale, be sold to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, and the proceeds of such salesRemoval.Sunken vessels, cargoes, and all property removed by the government to be sold and proceeds de-Çositod in the ’roasury to credit of a fund for removal of obstructions. shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of a fund for the removal of such obstructions to navigation, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be paid out for that purpose on his requisition therefor.
The provisions of this act shall apply to all such wrecks whether removed under this act or under any other act of Congress. Such sum of money as may be necessary to execute this section of this act is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury Appropriation.of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the requisition of the Secretary of War. Approved, June 14, 1880.