Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-07-13
[PupLrc No. ST.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain Inter-
nal Improvements for the year one thousand eight
bundled and thirty-two.
Be IL enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatipes Of The United States of America in Con-
gresS assembled, That the following sums be ap.
propriated for the purpose of making the improve
ments hereinafter enumerated, viz:
For removing distractions to the navigation of
Kennebeck river, at Lovejoy's Narrows, Maine,
including balance of former appropriations, of
two thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dol.
lars and sxtyeght hundredths, carried to the sur
plus fund, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For repairing Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts,
two thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For further protection and preservation of the
Beach at Provdencetown, Massachusetts,, four
thousand six hundred dollars.
For deepening the channel through the Pass au
Heron, Alabama, being the balance of the appro-
pration of one thousand eight hundle cd and twenty
eight, carried to the surplus fund first January one
thousand eight hundred and thrty-one, SIX thou
sand and fifty dollars.
For deepening the channel at Pascagoula river,
being the balance of the appropriation of one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-five, carried to the
surplus fund the 6Ist of January ,eone thousaad
eight hundred and~thirty, fifteen thousand nine
hundred dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Red river,
appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-eght, carried to the surplus fund, two thou.
sand six hundred and twenty.eght dollars, and the
further sum of twenty-thousand dollars.
For carrying on the work Of the Delaware break
water, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary Of War to pay Lucius
W. Stockton the amount expended by him on the
repairs Of the Cumberland Road, during the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-onc, five
thousand eight hundred and sixty eight dollars.
For completing the repairs Of the United States
military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee,
four thousand dollars.
For completing the same from ST. Augustine to
Tallahassee, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the completion of the improvement of the
harbor and river st. Marks, in Florida, as recon-
mended by the Chief Engineer, four thousand five
hundred dollars.
For completing repairs to piers, at the entrance
OF hennebunk river, Maine, one thousand seven
hundred dollars.
For removing distractions in the Berwick
branch of the Pscataqua river, two hundred and
fifty dollars.
For completing the sea wall for the preservation
OF Deer island, Boston harbor, sixty thousand dol
lars.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis har
bour, Massachusetts, seven thousand six hundred
dollars.
For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket
harbor, six thousand dollars.
For completing the breakwaer and dyke, and
deepning the channel, in the harbor of Mills river
IN Connecticut, four thousand four hundred and
ninety dollars and forty-threc cents,
For the completing the pier and mole at o.
wego, New York, nineteen thousand dollars.
For removing distractions at the mouth of BIG
Sodus bay, New York, seventeen thousa and dollars.
For improving the entrance of Gennesee river,
sixteen thousand dollars.
For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo
haIbor, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
For the work at Black Rock harbor New York
five thousand one hundred dollars.
For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk
harbor, New York, ten thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For completing the improvement of the harbor
of Pressure Isle, Pennsylvania, four thousand five
hundred dollars.
For improving the harbors of New Castle,
Marcus Hook, Chester and Port Penn, on the Del.
aware, ten thousand dollars.
For carrying on the work for the improvement
of Ocracoke inlet, North Carolina, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For improving Cape Fear river, below Whining
ton, North Carolina, twenty-eight thousand dol.
lars.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Mis-
souri,, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dol.
lars.
And the President of the United States is here
by authorized to extend the improvement of the
steam boat navigation from Pittsburg to the Cum
berand road, at Brow nsvlle, upon such plan as he
may approve, under the provisions of the act of
May twenty-four, eighteen hundred and twenty.
four; and that the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the pro-
visions OF the act of twenty-fourth May, one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty -four, entitled An
act to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mis-.
ssslppi rivers, so as TO embrace in its operations
the river Missouri; from its junction with the Mis-
sssippi to the mouth of the Kansas river and also
the Upper Mississippi river from st. Louis, in Mis-.
souri, to Galena, in Illinois, with power to remove
all distractions in the channel of said river be-
tween those points; and that the povsions of the
act approved twenty=fourth May, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty -four, entitled can act
to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Missis.
sippi rivers" be extended so as to include, in its
operation, the improvement of the Mississippi from
New Orleans to the Gulf Of Mexico, and the deem
enng of the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi.
For improving the navigation of the Arkansas
river, fifteen thousand dollaIs pror;deJ 'Vbo