The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-09-29
BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF TIE UNITED STATES
Passed during the Firsi Session Of The Thirty
first Congress.
GPUBLIo Acr-No. 5s.1

improvement of certain harbors and
rivers
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums of money be, and the
same are hereby appropriated, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and to be ex-
pended under the superintendent of the
Secretary of War, for the following pur-
poses, to wit
For the continuation of the Delaware
break-water, thirty thousand dollars.
For the construction of harbor on
the east side of Reedy island, Port Penn.
Delaware, fifty-one thousand and ninety
dollars.
For the repairs of the works at the
harbor of Chester, on the Delaware river,
five thousand dollars.
For the removal of Instructions in the
Savannah river, at place called the
Wrecks, and the improvement of the
navigation of said river, forty thousand
dollars
For continuing the improvement of the
navigation of the Hudson river, above
and below Albany, and not above Troy,
fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the naviga-
ton of the Mississippi river, below the
rapids, ninety thousand dollars; the o.
hio. including the repairs of the dam at
Cumberland island, ninety thousand dol
lars; the Missouri, and the Arkansas
rivers, each forty thousand dollars and
for the construction and repair of snag
boats. dredge-boats, discharging scows
and machinery to be used on the Mis-
sissippi, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, and
other western rivers, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of the James
and Appomatox rivers, below the cities
of Richmond and Petersburg, forty-ive
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Rock Riv-
er rapids, and the Des Moines rapids i'll
the Mississippi river, at the lower chain
one hundred thousand dollars.
For opening ship channel of sufficient
capacity to accommodate the wants of
commerce through the most convenient
pass leading from the Mississippi river,
into the Gulf of Mexico, seventy five
thousand dollars. And it shall be the
duty of the Secretary of War to apply
said moneys to the opening of said ship
channel by contract and at an early day
in the next session of Congress to report
the progress of the work, the amount ne
cessary to complete it, and an estimate
of the annual cost of keeping said chan
mel open and any contract made shall
be limited to the amount hereby appro-
priated.
For removing the raft of Red river,
one hundred thousand dollars and that
the Secretary of War be authorized to
contract with the lowest responsible bid
der, within this appropriation, for the
removal Of said raft after reasonable pub
lie notice.
For the improvement of the naviga
tion of the Colorado river, Texas, twenty
thousand dollars.
For the survey of the Trinity river
Texas, including the bar at the mouth
three thousand dollars.
For breakwater at Richmond Island
harbor, and repairing the breakwater il
Portland harbor, Maine, ten thousand
dollars.
For removing the rocks obstructinl
the navigation near Falls island, Cobs
cook bay, Maine, five thousand dollars
For a survey in reference to the con
strtuction ola breakwater on the eastern
side of the Island of Martinicus, Maine
one thousand dollars
For the protection of Great Brewster
island, in the harbor of Boston, thirt,
thousand dollars.
For the preservation of Cape Cod har
Dor, at and near Provincetown, Massa
chusetts, five thousand dollars.
For repairing the breakwater at Fly
annis harbor, Massachusetts, five thou
sand dollars
For the preservation of Great Wood
Hole harbor, two thousand five hundreC
dollars.
For survey in reference to the con
struction of a breakwater at East Den
mis-, Barnstable bay Massachusetts, ON
thousand five hundred dollars
For repairing the injuries done to tn
Government works on Plymouth beach
in the great storm of eighteen hundred
and ffty-one, five thousand dollars.
For survey in reference to the i'm
provement of the harbor of Sctuate. il
conncxion with the North river, Massa
chusetts, one thousand dollars.
For the removal of Middle Rock, des
ignated on the chart Rocky buoy, in tn
; harbor of New Haven, Connecticut. 81,
thousand dollars,
For removing a rock near the moutI
of the Sekonk river harbor of Provi
: dence, Rhode Island, five thousand dol
lars.
For the further improvement of tn
harbor of New York, by removing tn
rocks at He'll Gate and Diamond Rect
in the East river, twenty thousand dol
lars.
For survey of the harbor of Por
jefferson, New York, with reference t.
the improvement thereof twelve hun
dred dollars
For the removal of the bar at tn
junction of the Passaic and Hackensacl
rivers, in Newark bay, New Jersey, tel
thousand dollars
For the survey of Cranbury inlet
Barnegat bay, New Jersey, in referenc
to its improvement, one thousand dol
lars.
, For the improvement of the Patapsc
river, from Fort Nc Henry to the moutl
Of said river, twenty thousand dollars.