Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-04-17
APPROVED, March 2, 1888.


PUBLIC, No. %
AN ACT making APPROXIMATIONS for carving on
certain works heretofore c. mmenced for ihe i'm
provement of harbors and rivers and, also, for
tinuing and repairing the Cumberland road, and
certain territorial reads.
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentative. OF the United States of America Congress
assembled, That the following sums OF money be, and
the same are hereby appropriated for carrying
completing certain works and roads heretofore
menced, to be paid out fany money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
For carrying on the Delaware breakwater, two
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For removing a sand bar at the mouth of Black
river, OF 10 two thousand four hundred dollars.
For a Ter head at Cunningham creek, Ohio, five
hundred dollars
For completing the removal of distractions dt the
mouth of Ashtabua creek, Ohio three thousand fonr
hundred dollars.
| For completing the improvement of the harbor
of Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, six thousand dollars
For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo
harbor, New York, thirty-one Thousand seven hun
Idred dollars
j For improving the entrance of Gennessee, river,
New York, fifteen thousand dollars
For removing distractions at the mouth of Big So
'us bay, New York, fifteen thousand dollars.
| For completing the pier and mole at Oswego, New
York, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
| For the completion of the breakwater at the mouth
of the Merrimack river, four thousand nine hundred
dollars
| For repairing Plymouth beach, six hundred dol
lars.
For the breakwater at Hyans Massachusetts, five
thousand dollars,
For improving the harbors of New Castle, Marcus
hook Chester, and Port Penn, in the Delaware fonr
thousand dollars.
For carrying on the improvement of Ocracocke
inlet, North Carolina, sixteen thousand seven hun-
ldred dollars.
For improving Capefear river, below Wilmington,
North Carolina, twenty eight thousand dollars.
For Improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missou
.r,,,A fxt hnnea md co
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saginaw
bay, fifteen thousand dollars.
For completing the improvement of Saint Marks
river and harbor in Florida, in addition to the
pended balance of former appropriations, thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For the road from Detroit to Grand river of lake
Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit towards Chi
cage, in the territory of Michigan, eight thousand
dollars.
For paying the balance due the commissioner for
surveying and marking the road from La Plasance
bay to ntersect the road to Chicago, within the ter
ritory Michigan six hundred and eight dollars and
Iseventy-s six cents.
For making the said road, fifteen thousand dollars.
For completing the Improvement Of the inland
channel between Saint Mary's and Saint Johns in
Florida, nine thousand dollars.
For the completion of the removal of distractions
in the harbor and river Appilachoola, i'll Florida
according to the report and estimate of the engineer
Lieutenant Long, eight thousand seven hundred dol
lars including the unexpended appropriation of last
year.
For repairing the Cumberland road east of the
Ohio, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
For continuing the Cumberland road in Ohio
west of Zanesviile hundred and thirty thousand
dollars
For continuing the Cumberland road in the State
of Indiana, one hundred thousand dollars
For Continuing the Cumberland road in Illinois,
seventy thousand dollars.
For repairs Of the Cumberland road in Virginia,
thirty-our thousand four hundred and forty dollars
For payment of balance due the commissioner
under the act of third March, thousand eight
hundred and twenty five Tor marking out road to
the confines of New Mexico, one thousand five hun
dred and four dollars and ffty-four cents.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making
examinations and surveys under the act of the thr
tieth of APRIL one thousand eight hundred and twen-
ty four, twenty five thousand dollars.
For payment of balance due Joseph c. Brown for
running the western boundary of the state of Missou-
RI, one hundred and forty dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Sc
sretarv Of War be, and he is hereby, authorized BY
and with the appreciation Of the President of the
United States to change the location of the route of
he Cumberland road, near Cumberland and Wills
mountain, according to the survey and report there
m of CAPTAIN Deafeld, Of the corps of Engineers
Approved, March Q, 1888.
Pubic, No. 49,
AN ACT making appropriations for the puhIs
building, aud for other purposes