New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-29


| dollars.
| For improvement of Pawcatuck river,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, ten thou
sand dollars. E
For improvement of. Thames river, Con-
| necticut fifteen thousand dollars.
| For improvement of Connecticut river,
above Hartford and below Holyoke, twenty
| thousand dollars.
For improvement of Connecticut river,
below Hartford, thirtysive thousand dol
| lars. ~,
/ For improvement of New Haven harbor.
/ Connecticut, forty thousand dollars. 8,
| For improvement of the Housatonic
| river, Connecticut, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Bridgeport harbor,
| Connecticut, twenty thousand dollars. =
For improvement of Taunton river, Mas
| sachusetts, ten thousand dollars. IL
| For Improvement of Hyannis harbOr,
Massachusetts,, ten Thousand dollars
| For improvement of Provihcet0wn har-
| Dor, Massachusetts, six thousand dollars.
| For improvement of Plymouth harbor,
Massachusetts,, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Boston harbor, Mas
| sachusetts, one hundred thousand dollars.
| For Improvement of Merrimac river, above
| Haverhi1l, Massachusetts, twenty-five thou
| sand dollars. " d-5f s11 - o.; q as q
| For Improvement of Kennebunk river,
| Maine, five thousand dollars. ' 70
| For improvement of Saco river, Maine,
| fifteen thousand dollars.
! For improvement of Portland harbor,
| Maine, forty thousand dollars. -
For improvement of the Coeheco river,
| within the town of Dover New Hampshire,
| ten thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Kennebec river,
above Hallowell, Maine, ten thousand dol
lars.
For improvement of Kennebec river, be-
tween Gardiner and Richmond, Maine, five
thousand dollars. ....'....t.,
For improvement of navigation at the
Gut" opposite Bath, Maine, six thousand
five hundred dollars.
For improvement of the Penobscot river,
at Bangor, and below, Maine, fifty thousand
dollars.
For improvement of Union river, Maine,
fifteen thousand dollars. rr-. AZ
For improvement of Royals river, Maine,
ten thousand dollars. h1a a- -s-772i
For improvement of Narragaugus river,
Maine, twelve thousand dollars. -
For Improvement of Sullivan river
Maine, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement OF White, Black and
Little Red rivers. in the State of Arkansas,
ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Saint Francis river,
in the State of Arkansas, ten thousand dol
lars.
For improvement of the Little Missouri
river, in the State of Arkansas, ten thou
sand dollars.
For Improvement of the Cumberland
river below Nashville, Tennessee, thirty
thousand dollars. .-..-
For improvement of Galveston harbor,
Texas, twenty thousand dollars.
. For construction of breakwater at VIII
mington harbor, California, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For improvement of Umpqua river, Ore
gon, twenty-five thousand five hundred
dollars - n rgs " r rv al
For Improvement of Mobile harbor, Ala
bama, fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the bar at the
mouth of the Saint Johns river, Florida,
fifteen thousand dollars, .......
For improvement of the 0sage river,
Missouri twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of the harber at Du-
luth, Minnesota, sixty thousand dollars.
Forimproyement of the Willamette river,
above Oregon city, Oregon, sixteen thou
sand dollars
Fer 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-iye thousand
dollars.
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 Missis- |
sippi city, for harbor on Mississippi soand; |
at Black river, Missouri, to Poplar bluff; at |
Current river, Missouri, from its mouth to |
Van Buren; at Otter Creek, Vermont: at |
Norfolk harbor, Virginia. at Eureka harbor, |
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; |
at East Chester creek or inlet, New York; |
at Port Chester sharbor, New York; at |
RondOut harbor. Hudson river, New York; |
at Maumee, river above Toledo, Ohio |
at Fourche La Faive river, Arkansas; for |
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
lngtOn 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 Aqua 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 survey beginning at
vor near Guntersille, on the Tennessee
river, to the htadwaters 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
10 Gainesville, Georgia, and also for ex-
animation and survey of Atchafalaya bay
md Calcasieu pass, Louisiana; of the Oos-
5enaula river; from Rome, Georgia, up to
he mouth of the Coosawattee; at Chatta-
loochee river, below Columbus, Georgia; at
5he mouth of the Saint Johns river, from the
,uter 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,
1t Tampa, Florida; for resurvey of Fifteen
nile falls: at Elizabeth and Nansemond
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