Chapter CLXXI. to provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
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Chap. CLXXI.— An Act to provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.July 7, 1838. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, viz:
For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago harbor. thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the construction of a harbor at Michigan City, Indiana, Michigan City harbor. sixty thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents; For continuing the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth St. Joseph pier or breakwater. of the river Saint Joseph, Michigan, fifty-one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars; For the continuation of the works at the harbor near the mouth of Harbor near the mouth of the river Raisin. the river Raisin, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Black Harbor at the mouth of Black river. river, in Jefferson county, State of New York, twenty-two thousand four hundred and one dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor at Whitehall, in the Whitehall harbor. State of New York, fifteen thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the channel at the mouth of Genesee river. Genesee river, in the State of New York, twenty-five thousand dollars; For continuing the removal of obstructions at Black river, Ohio, five Black river. thousand dollars;
For continuing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of the Huron river. Huron river, in Ohio, five thousand dollars; 269TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 171. 1838. For continuing the improvement of the navigation at the mouth of Vermillion river. Vermillion river, Ohio, twenty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents; For continuing the improvement of Cleaveland harbor, Ohio, fifty-one Cleaveland harbor. thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars;
For continuing the removal of obstructions at Cunningham creek, Cunningham creek. Ohio, five thousand dollars; For continuing the removal of obstructions at Ashtabula creek, Ohio, Ashtabula creek. eight thousand dollars; For continuing the removal of obstructions at Conneaut creek, Ohio, Conneaut creek. eight thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Presque isle, Pennsylvania, Presque isle harbor. thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of Dunkirk harbor, New York, ten Dunkirk harbor. thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Portland, Lake Portland harbor, N. Y. Erie, New York, thirty-five thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor at Cattaraugus creek, Cattaraugus creek harbor. Lake Erie, New York, thirty-two thousand four hundred and ten dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Salmon river, Lake Salmon river harbor. Ontario, New York, thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the construction of a breakwater at Plattsburg, New Plattsburg breakwater.
York, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Oak Oak Orchard creek harbor. Orchard creek, New York, five thousand dollars; For continuing the pier at Kennebunk, Maine, eight thousand dollars;Pier at Kennebunk. For continuing the improvement of Big Sodus bay, New York, ten Big Sodus bay. thousand dollars; For continuing the pier and mole at Oswego harbor, New York, Oswego harbor. forty-six thousand and sixty-seven dollars;
For continuing the construction of a breakwater at Burlington, Vermont, Breakwater at Burlington. fifty thousand dollars; For continuing the breakwater on Stanford’s Ledge, Portland harbor, Breakwater on Stanford’s Ledge. Maine, twenty-six thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars; For continuing the breakwater at Hyannis harbor, Massachusetts, Breakwater at Hyannis. eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; For continuing the breakwater at Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, twenty Breakwater at Sandy Bay. thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the channel of the river Thames, River Thames. leading into Norwich harbor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars; For improving the harbor of Westport, Connecticut, four thousand Westport harbor. seven hundred and eighty-two dollars; For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Hudson Hudson river. river, above and below Albany, in the State of New York, one hundred thousand dollars; to be expended according to the plan and estimate recommended by the Secretary of War;
For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington harbor. nine thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor of New Castle, Delaware, New Castle harbor. eleven thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars; For continuing the Delaware breakwater, one hundred and fifty Delaware breakwater. thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore harbor. twenty thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the navigation of Cape Fear river, Cape Fear river. below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars; For opening a passage of fifty yards wide, and seven feet deep, at low 270 water, between the town of Beaufort and Pamlico sound, North Carolina, Opening passage between Beaufort and Pamlico sound. and for improving New river, twenty-five thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of Pamlico, or Tar river, below Tar river. Washington, North Carolina, five thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvements of the inland channel between St. Inland channel between St. Mary’s and St. John’s. Mary’s and St. John’s, Florida, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For continuing the improvements at Dog river bar, and Choctaw pass, Dog river bar and Choctaw pass. in Mobile harbor, fifty thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the Cumberland river, in Kentucky Cumberland river. and Tennessee, below Nashville, twenty thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the Ohio river, between the falls Ohio river. and Pittsburgh, fifty thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Mississippi rivers, from Louisville to New Orleans, seventy thousand dollars; For continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river, above the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. mouth of the Ohio, and of the Missouri river, twenty thousand dollars; For continuing the removal of obstructions in Grand river, Ohio, ten Grand river. thousand dollars; For continuing the works at Buffalo harbor, twenty thousand five Works at Buffalo harbor, &c. hundred dollars; and for erecting a mound or sea-wall along the peninsula which separates Lake Erie from Buffalo creek, to prevent the influx at the lake over said peninsula, forty-eight thousand dollars;
For continuing the preservation of Plymouth beach, two thousand Plymouth beach. four hundred dollars; For continuing the preservation of Provincetown harbor, four thousand Provincetown harbor. five hundred dollars; For continuing the preservation of Rainsford island, seven thousand Rainsford island. three hundred and fifty-three dollars; For continuing the sea-wall for the preservation of Fairweather island, Fairweather island. and repairing the breakwater near Black Rock harbor, Connecticut, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Bass Harbor at the mouth of Bass river. river, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the breakwater of Church’s cove, town of Little Breakwater of Church’s cove. Compton, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand dollars; For the protection and improvement of Little Egg harbor, ten thousand Little Egg harbor. dollars; For improving the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances Entrances of Dismal Swamp canal. of the Dismal Swamp canal, ten thousand dollars;
For the improvement of the navigation of Savannah river, Georgia, Savannah river. fifteen thousand dollars; For the improvement of the Arkansas river, forty thousand dollars;Arkansas river. For removing the sand-bar occasioned by the wreck in the harbor of Removal of sand-bar in New Bedford harbor. New Bedford, the unexpended balance of an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, being seven thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-seven 1836. ch. 363. cents.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the appropriation heretofore Deepening of shoal in Appalachicola harbor, &c. made of ten thousand dollars, for removing the mud shoal, called the Bulkhead, in the harbor of Appalachicola, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the deepening of the straight channel in the same harbor. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That of the several sums appropriated by the first section of this act, which exceed twelve thousand dollars each, one half thereof, if the public service require it, shall be paid Disposal of appropriations. out during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to be applied to the objects as above specified, and the other half in like manner, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
Approved, July 7, 1838.