New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-11

| 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 sound;
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 barbor,
and at Santa Cruz, California; at Passaic
river, between Newark and Passac, 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 harbOr, New York; at
ROndout harbOr. Hudson river. New York;
at Maumee river, above Toledo, Ohio !;
at FOurche La Faive 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 Neabasco 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, Nilsson
ri; for the survey of the Wabash river, from
its mouth to the city of Lafayette; fer sur
vey of the MonOngahela river, from New
Geneva, in Pennsylvania, to Morgantown,
in West Virginia; for survey beginning at
or near Guntersville, 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
Apalachcola 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 its mouth
to Moscow Mills; at Bayou Bartholomew,
from its 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. Connecti-
cut; for surveying the mouths of Quantico
and ChOppa Wamasic bays, Virginia;
for examination and survey of Red
river, from the mouth to a 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 IAN 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
seventy-one, 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.