Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-07-06
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AN ACT TO improyethe Navigation of the Ono
and Mississippi Rivers.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House
Of REPRESENTATIVES, of The United States
ofAmerica in Congress assembled, That
the President OF the United States be, and
he is hereby, authorized TO cause the
navigation ofthe Ohio River to be inn
proved over the following sand bars, or
either Of them, at his discretion, 10 wit
the sand bar which crosses said river,
ono milo and quarter below Flint ISL
and the sand bar two miles above
French Island the bar Just belowH en-
derson: the bar below Straight Island
the bar below Willow Island in the
Mississippi bend; aud the bar oppo-
site to Lower Sn,ithland, below Cum ber-
land Island and, tor the purpose of as
pertaining and directing the best method
oil carrying the provisions OF this effect,
he may employ any OF the engineers in
the public service which be may
deem proper: Provided nevertheless,
That two experiments shall FIRST be made
upon two OF the said bars, and if, in his
Judgment, they shall be successful, then,
and not otherwise, he is hereby author
lied 10 cause improvement to be made
upon the remaining bars.
Sec. 2. Ind be it further enacted,
That, for the purpose Of Improving the
navigation Of the Mississippi River, from
the mouth of the Missouri 10 New Or
leans, and of the Ohio River from Pits
burgh TO itsjunction with the Mississippi,
the President of the United States is
hereby authorized to take prompt and
eifectua measures for the removal OF all
trees which may be fixed in the bed of
said river; aud, for this purpose, he is
authorized to procure and provide, in
that way which, in his discretion, may be
most eligible, the requisite water craft,
machinery, implements, aud force, To
raise all such trees, commonly called
" planters, sawyers, or snass'" as may be
found in the current oil tho said rivers at
the lowest stage of water, and to saw or
cut them off, as near as practicable to
the bottom OF the stream and where
trees are found upon sand bars, upon the
points of islands, or near the bark of the
river, which may, at the lowest stage of
the water, endanger the safety of naviga-
ting said river, they shall, in like man
ner, be cut, removed, or sawed off; and
all roots or limbs belonging to those
parts of said trees, which are fastened in
the earth, shall be carefully cut away.
Sec. 5. .dna be it further enacted,
That, for the purpose OF carrying into eff
feet the provisions OF this act, the sum Of
seyeNy.ivo thousand dollars be, and IS
hereby, appropriated. And the President
oft United Statesis hereby authorized
70 draw, frem time TO time, on the Urea.
sury, for such parts, or at any one time for
the whole, of said sum, as ho shall ludge
the service requires which said sum
shall he paid out Of any money in the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. Ind be it farther enacted,
That, the President be, and he is hereby,
requested to cause to be laid before
Congress, as soon as convenience will
permit afterthc commencement of each
session, a statement Of the proceedings
under this act, that Congress may be
enabled TO adopt such further measures
as may, from time to time, be necessary,
under existing circumstances.
Washington, May, "a 1924.
Approved: JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT explanatory Of an Act entitled An
Act to provide for the extinguishment of the
debt due to the United States by the pur-