The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-05-24


April next all laws enacted whereby seamen
are required TO pay twenty cents month, or
their employers arc required 10 retain that sum
out of their wages, TO create a fand Tor tho sick
and disabled seamen shall be suspended for one
year, during which no such exlction shall be
made and that instead of said tax there be ap-
propriGted. out ofany money in the Trsasury,
not otherwise appropriated, the sum Of s so. .009
TO be disbursed IN the samo manner as the sum
above mentioned Pr0pided, however thai sea-
men and watermen, who have not contributed
to said fund. may receive reliefto such extent
and under such regulations as the President Of
the United States shall direct.
For continuing the Improvement Of the har-
Dor of Baltimore, Maryland, fifteen thousand
dollars;
For continuing the removal Of obstructions
at Ocracoke inlet, Nodh-Carolina, twelve
thouspud aud fifty dollars;
For continuing the improvement Of the ma
vigation of Capo Fear river, below Wimingt) IN,
North Carolina, ten thousand dollars
For opening passage offlty yards wide and
seven feet doep at low water between the
town OF Beaufort and Pamlico sound, North
Carolina and for improving New river, in ad-
dition to two sums five thousand dollars each
appropriated at the last session of Congress,
for the harbor of Beaufort and for New river,
twenty thousand dollars
For continuing the improvements of tho in
land channel between Saint Mary's and Saint
Johns, Florida. five thousand dollars
For continuing the improvement ofthe Cum
berland river, in Kentucky ana Tennessee, ac-
cording TO the report of Col. Albert, u. 5. En-
gneer, dated Feb. 23d, 1885, of the survey of
said river, fifty five thousand dollars.
For continuing the removal of distractions
in the Red river, sixiy-ive thousand dollars
For continuing the improvement ofthe OHIO
river, between the falls and Pittsburg, sixty
thousand dollars
For continuing the improvement of the M
vigation ofihe Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from
Louisville to Ncw-Orleans sixty thousand dolls.
For continuing the works for the removal Of
the distractions to the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi river at lis mouth, $4,000.
For continuing the works for the removal
or the distractions to the navigation fthc Ar
kansas river, in addition to the uneXpended
balance Of $4,000, the sum Of twenty-five
thousand dollars;
For continuing the improvements of the
Mississippi nyor above the mouth of tho Ohio,
and Of the issouri river, forty thousand dolls.
For tho erection ofa pier IN tho Mississippi
river, near Saint Louis, including the sum Of
last session of Congress, fifty thousand dollars ;
For improving the navigation of the Ohio,
Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, and to replace
the steam snag boat Archimedcs, sunk in the
Mississippi river IN Nov. last, twenty three
thousand dollars
For continuing the survey of Black and
White rivers in AFHansas and Missouri, one
thousand dollars
For making survey from the southern de-
bouchc of tho Dismal Swamp canal. down the
Pasquotank yer TO Elizabeth, thence TO Croa-
tan Sound, Pamlco and other sounds, near the
coast of North-CarolIna, and thence by the
most practicable route TO Wngaw bay, in
South Carolina. with Wow TO determine the
practlcahllity of opening an inland communi-
cation Tor steam navigation, from the Chesa-
peake bay to Charleston, S. G.. ten thousand
dollars;
Forimproving the harbor Of New. Brunswick
New-Jcrsey, by removing tho distractions in
tho Raritan river, in addition to tho appropria-
ton Of July 4, 1886, six thousand nine hundred
and sixty-thrco dollars;
SEC. =. And6e IL further enacted, That when
the corporate authorities of the town of Alex
andria shall deposito tho stock held by then
Of the Alexandria Canal company,in tho hands
oftbc Secretary ofthc Treasury, with proper
ind competent instruments and conveyance
in law to vest the same in tho Secretary of the
Treasury aud his successors in office, for and
on behalf oitho u. States, to bo held in trust.
poets as tho stocks held in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal by tho several cities of this Distric
were required to ne held IN ana by virtue OF inc
act ap ,rovod on the 9TH day ofJunc, 1886 en-
titled An act for the relief of the several cor.
pora,e cities of the District of Columbia" that
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he 'is
hereby, authorized and directed TO advance, out
OF any moneys in tho Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to the Alexandria Canal com
pany, from time TO time, rs tho progress of the
work may require the same, such sums of money
not exceeding three hundred thousand djllars
as may be necessary to complete the SAID cana
TO the town and harbor of Alexandria Proui
dcd That tho Alexandria Canal company, IN
the construction of the remaining piers, obut
monts and works OF their aqucduct over the
Potomac river, are hereby prohibited aud re
strained from throwing earth or clay into the
open river, and are required with tho none!
furnished by this bill to remove all earth an'
clay, before deposited by them in the river.
JAMES X. POLK,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
w. X. KING,
President Of The Senate. pro. tcmpore.