Chapter CIII. making additional appropriations for certain harbours, and removing obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four
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Chap. CIII.— An Act making additional appropriations for certain harbours, and removing obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.June 28, 1834. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for harbours and rivers. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, viz:
For piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, ten thousand three hundred Kennebunk river. dollars. 703TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 103. 1834. For the breakwater at the mouth of Merrimack river, three thousand Merrimack river. eight hundred and sixty dollars. For the preservation of Plymouth beach, two thousand dollars.Plymouth beach. For the preservation of the beach at Provincetown harbour, Massachusetts, Beach at Provincetown. four thousand four hundred dollars. For the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, ten thousand Breakwater at Hyannis. dollars.
For improving the harbours of Newcastle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and New Castle, Marcus Hook, and Port Penn. Port Penn, in the Delaware river, six thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars. For carrying on the improvement of Ocracok inlet, North Carolina, Ocracok inlet. fifteen thousand dollars. For improving Cape Fear river below Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear river. five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars. For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi. rivers, fifty thousand dollars.
For completing the improvement of St. Mark’s river and harbour, St. Mark’s. Florida, four thousand six hundred dollars. For improving the harbour of Chicago, Illinois, thirty-two thousand Chicago harbour. eight hundred and one dollars. For the piers at La Plaisance bay, Michigan, four thousand eight hundred La Plaisance piers. and ninety-five dollars. For improving the navigation of Red river, fifty thousand dollars.Red river. For carrying on the Delaware breakwater, two hundred and seventy Delaware breakwater. thousand dollars.
For filling up and securing a breach in the south embankment at Presque Isle. Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, three thousand and forty-five dollars. For improving the harbour at Mobile, in removing the bar at the Mobile harbour. entrance of the harbour called Choctaw Pass, ten thousand dollars. For improving the navigation of the river Savannah, in removing the Savannah river. obstructions in said river from the city of Savannah to its mouth, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing and securing the works at Oswego harbour, New Oswego harbour.
York, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the improvements at Big Sodus bay, New York, on Big Sodus bay. the present plan, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing the works at Gennessee river, New York, on the present Gennessee river. plan, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the improvements of Black Rock harbour, New York, Black Rock harbour. twelve thousand dollars. For completing the works at Buffalo, New York, twenty thousand Buffalo. dollars. For continuing the improvements at Dunkirk harbour, New York, four Dunkirk harbour. thousand dollars.
For securing the works at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand Presque Isle. dollars. For completing and securing the works at Cleveland harbour, Ohio, Cleveland harbour. thirteen thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. For repairing and securing the works at Grand river, Ohio, ten thousand Grand river. dollars. For securing the works at Black river, Ohio, five thousand dollars.Black river. For extending and securing the works at Huron river, Ohio, six thousand Huron river. seven hundred dollars.
For continuing the improvements at Ashtabula creek, Ohio, five thousand Ashtabula creek. dollars. And for defraying the expense of surveys pursuant to the act of the Surveys under act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46, &c. thirtieth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, including arrearages for eighteen hundred and thirty-three, twenty-nine thousand dollars, 704TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1834. of which sum five thousand dollars shall be appropriated and applied to geological and mineralogical survey and researches.
To rebuild the monument on Steele’s ledge, in Penobscot bay, four Steele’s ledge. thousand six hundred dollars. For the continuation of the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river. Cumberland river, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department. Approved, June 28, 1834.