# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 73

Chap. LXXIII.—An Act to authorize the improving of certain harbours, the building of piers, and for other purposes.
Sums respectively appropriated.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, respectively appropriated, to be applied under ​the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the objects hereinafter mentioned; that is to say:
For removing the sand bar, &c.For removing the sand bar at or near the mouth of Merimack river in the state of Massachusetts, by erecting piers, or other works, thirty-two thousand one hundred dollars.
Preservation of Deer island.For the preservation of Deer island, in Boston harbour, in the state of Massachusetts, eighty-seven thousand dollars.
Piers near Stonington harbour.Towards erecting piers, or other works, at or near Stonington harbour, in the state of Connecticut, for the purpose of making the same a good and secure harbour, twenty thousand dollars.
Repairing piers at Port Penn, &c.For repairing the public piers at Port Penn, Marcus Hook, and fort Mifflin, four thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars.
Purchasing a dredging machine, &c.For purchasing a dredging machine, to be worked by steam, and employing the same for the removal of the shoals forming obstructions to the navigation near Ocracock Inlet, in the state of North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
Removing the sand bar in Black river.Towards removing the sand bar at or near the mouth of Black river, in the state of Ohio, by the erection of piers, or other works, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Obstructions in Apalachicola river.For removing obstructions in the Apalachicola river, in the territory of Florida, three thousand dollars.
Improving the navigation of Red river, &c.For improving the navigation of Red river, through, or around, that part of it called the Raft, situated in Louisiana and Arkansas, twenty-five thousand dollars, three thousand dollars in addition to a former appropriation for clearing out and deepening the harbour of Sackett’s Harbour.
A survey of the harbour of Nantucket, &c.For making a survey of the harbour of Nantucket, and the passage leading to it, and an estimate of the cost of improving and making the harbour a good and secure one, three thousand dollars.
Survey of Genessee river, &c.For making a survey of Genessee river and harbour, in the state of New York, and estimates of the cost for improving the same, three hundred dollars.
Surveying the mouth of Sandy Creek, &c.For surveying the mouth of Sandy creek, which discharges itself into Mexico bay, on Lake Ontario, in the state of New York, for the purpose of constructing a harbour at that place, and ascertaining the cost of the same, three hundred dollars.
A survey of the southern shore of Lake Ontario, &c.For making a survey and examination of the southern shore of Lake Ontario, in the state of New York, between Genessee and Oswego rivers, with a view to improvement of the most accessible and commodious harbours on the frontier, by erecting piers, or other works, and estimates of the costs of the same, four hundred dollars.
Deepening the pass au Heron.For deepening the channel through the pass au Heron, near the Bay of Mobile, eighteen thousand dollars.
Deepening Pascagoula river.For deepening the channel at the mouth of Pascagoula river, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum before appropriated for that object.
Obstructions in the Wabash river.For surveying the obstructions to the navigation of the Wabash river, between its mouth and Eel river, five hundred dollars.
Mississippi and Ohio rivers.Towards improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Removing obstructions.For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataqua river, eight thousand dollars.
Deepening the channel in St. Mary’s harbour, &c.For deepening the inland passage, or present channel, for navigation between the St. John’s river in Florida, and St. Mary’s harbour, in Georgia, the sum of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Survey of the river St. Marks.For a survey of the river and harbour of St. Marks, in Florida, with a view to the practicability and expense of deepening the same, the sum of five hundred dollars.
Erecting a pier, &c. at Allen’s rocks.For erecting a pier and a beacon thereon, at or near a ledge of rocks called Allen’s rocks, in Warren river, the sum of four thousand dollars.
Approved, May 23, 1828.