# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 78

Chap. LXXVIII.—An Act for improving certain harbours, and the navigation of certain rivers and creeks, and for authorizing surveys to be made of certain bays, sounds, and rivers, therein mentioned.
Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
Maine.In the state of Maine, one thousand two hundred dollars, for building a pier, on Steels’ Ledge, near the harbour of Belfast.
Massachusetts.In the state of Massachusetts, three thousand five hundred dollars, for the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbour.
Delaware.In the state of Delaware, twenty-two thousand dollars for building piers, at proper sites, in the river Delaware, at New Castle, and three thousand dollars for repairing the old piers at the same place, and deepening the water around them.
Ohio.In the state of Ohio, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, to remove obstructions at the mouth of Grand River; twelve thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Ashtabula Creek; two thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Cunningham Creek; and five thousand dollars for the same purpose, in Huron River; and four hundred dollars for making a survey of Sandusky Bay, to ascertain the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof, and of placing buoys therein.
Maine.In the state of Maine, two hundred dollars for making a survey to ascertain the practicability and utility of removing obstructions to navigation in the Pisquataqua river, and the expense of effecting the same.
Massachusetts.In the state of Massachusetts, five hundred dollars for making surveys of the following places, to wit: the flat on the north-west side of the harbour of Edgartown, to ascertain the practicability of building a light-house thereon, and the utility of the same to navigation, and of preventing the said harbour from being filled up with sand.
The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river, and the practicability of deepening the channel over the same, and the harbour of Hyannis, in the Vineyard Sounds, to ascertain what improvements can be made in the same for the safe anchorage of vessels, and the expense of effecting, severally, these objects.
Connecticut.In the state of Connecticut, four hundred dollars for making a survey of Saugatuck river and harbour, and to ascertain the expediency and expense of removing the obstructions to the navigation thereof, and of facilitating the commercial intercourse between the port of Saugatuck and the city of New York.
New York.In the state of New York, two hundred dollars for making a survey of Oswego bay and harbour, for ascertaining the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof.
Pennsylvania.In the state of Pennsylvania, one hundred dollars, to defray the expense of a survey of the public piers at Chester, in the river Delaware, in order to determine the expediency of accepting the cession thereof made by the state of Pennsylvania, and the expense of repairing the same.
North Carolina.In the state of North Carolina, one thousand dollars for making a survey of the Swash, in Pamtico Sound, near Ocracock Inlet, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the channel through the same can be deepened; and also one of Cape Fear River, below the town of Walmington, [Wilmington,] for the same purpose, and also for a survey of Roanoke Inlet and sound, with the view of ascertaining the practicability of making a permanent ship channel between Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, at Roanoke Inlet, or elsewhere, and a statement of the costs of effecting, severally, these objects.
Alabama.In the state of Alabama, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of removing the obstructions and deepening the harbour of Mobile.
Michigan.In the territory of Michigan, two hundred dollars for making a survey of La Plaisance bay, to ascertain the expediency of improving the navigation thereof, and the expense of effecting the same.
Sums herein appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein appropriated be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 20, 1826.