New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-22

mouth of the Saint Johns river, Florida.
! fifteen thousand dollars.
| For i,nprovement of the Usage river.
| Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Improvement of the harber at Du-
lutb. Minnesota, sixty thousand dollars.
For improvement of the Willamette river,
above Oregon city, Oregon, sixteen thou
sand dollars.
For examination and surveys for i'm
provement on the northern and northwest
ern lakes and rivers, and the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, and for contingencies of
rivers and harbors not provided for in this
act one hundred and seventy-hve thousand
dollars. asss.s.-. -.
SEC. 2. That all moneys heretofore appro-
priated for the improvement OF the Tennes-
see river. and still unexpended, shall be ex-
pended, under the direction of the Secretary
of War, for the repairs and completion of
the works heretofore begun between Knox
vile and Chattanooga, and for the continu
alton of the works now in progress below
Chattanooga, including the Muscle shoals
SEC. 3. That the Secretary of War is
hereby directed to cause examinations or
surveys, or BOTH to be made at the follow
ing points, namely: At Galveston harbor,
from the outer bar up to the Red Fish bar,
on or nearest TO the west shore; at Mssis-
sippi city, for harbOr on Mississippi sound;
at Black river, Missouri, to Poplar bluff; at
Van Buren,; at Otter Creek. Vermont: at
Norfolk harbor, Virginia; at Eureka barbor,
and at Santa Cruz, California; at Passaic
river, between Newark and Passaic, New
Jersey: for ship canal from the head of
Sturgeon bay, Wisconsin, on the line now
opened across the portage through the
timber to the shore of Lake Michigan with
estimates for constructing the same one
hundred feet wide and thirteen feet deep;
or OF EhaStap iD1a NaIx-
at Port Chester harbor, New York: at
Rondout harbor. Hudson river, New York.
at Maumee river, above Toledo, Ohio
at FOurche La Faiye river, Arkansas; for
resurveying of Monroe harbor Michigan;
for survey and estimate for removing
middle ground at the mouth of Black
river, in Saint Clair river, Michigan; harbOr
at Stonnington, Connecticut; at Grand
Marias, Michigan; at Neabaseo bay, Vir
ginia at Accotink bay, Virginia; at Savan-
nah harbor, Georgia; at Wells harbor,
Maine; at COosa river, Alabama; at Hunt
ingtOn harbor, on south coast of Long
Island sound; and to complete the survey
of the Cumberland river, and the resurvey
of the Tennessee river, from Browns ferry
to Florence, Alabama; at Choctawhatchee
river, Florida; at AGuia creek, Virginia;
for survey of White river. from Buffalo
shoals to the mouth of James fork, Missou-
ri for the survey Of the Wabash river, from
its mouth to the city OF Lafayette; for sur
vey of the MOnOngahela river, from New
Geneva, in Pennsylvania, to Morgantown,
in West Virginia; for a survey beginning at
vor near Guntersille, on the Tennessee
river, to the headwaters of the Warrior
and Coosa rivers, in Alabama, with the
view OF determining the practicability of
uniting the waters of the Tennessee river
with the waters of the Warrior or Coosa
river for the purposes of navigation, and
estimates for necessary locks and dams to
extend the navigation on said river to the
last named place; for examination and sur
vey Of the EtOwah river, from its mouth up
to Gainesville, Georgia, and also for ex-
animation and survey of Atchafalaya bay
and Calcasieu pass, Louisiana; of the Cos
tenaula river; from Rome, Georgia, up to
the mouth of the Coosawattee; at Chatta-
hOochee river, below Columbus, Georgia; at
the mouth of the Saint Johns river, from the
outer bar TO jacksonville Florida; at the
mouth OF the St. Marks river, from
Spanish Hole TO st. Marks, Florida; at
Apalachicola bay, Florida; at Tampa bay,
at Tampa, Florida; for resurvey of Fifteen
mile falls; at Elizabeth and Nansemond
rivers, Virginia; at Camden, Arkansas, to
Trinity, Louisiana, on Ouachita river; at
GOldsboro, North Carolina, to the mouth of
Neuse river; at the mouth of Licking river,
Kentucky, for harbor of refuge; for survey
of Cape Fear and Deep rivers, as far up as
La Grange, North Carolina at
Cuivre river, Missouri, from it's mouth
TO Moscow Mills; at Bayou Bartholomew,
from it's mouth to the Arkansas State
line; for the examination and survey of
the Tangipahoa and Tchefuncta rivers, in
the State of Louisiana; for the survey of
Horse Shoe shoals, in the Delaware river
below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for the
survey of the harbor of NOrwalk. Connect
cut; for surveying the mouths of Quantico
and Choppa Wamasic bays, Virginia;
for examination and survey of Red
river, from the mouth to point
above the raft in Louisiana.
SEC. 4. That the unexpended balances of
appropriations made by the act approved
July eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy,
entitled "An act making appropriations for
the repair, preservation, and completion of
certain public works in rivers and harbors,
and for other purposes" for the fiscal year
ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
are hereby re-appropriated for
the purposes therein specified; provided,
that any part of the appropriations made by
this act may, at the discretion of the Secre- |
tary of War; be applied during the current |
fiscal year.
Approved March 3, 1871.
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