Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-08
LAWS OF THE United STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty-hrst
,2IIfCongress. athc /3i-'eh
5pUBLrstfED ny AUTHORITY.l

fPUBLIsiED ny AGTHORITY.l
lGEsEKAL j rttE-7 No. sol
AN ACT making appropriations for the repair,
preservation, and completion OF certain pub
| lie works on rivers and harbors, and for other
/ purposes. hae ne17 a. t.e'is5
/ BE it enacted 81 the Senate aud House of Rep
rcsentatspes Of fkc IIpitsd States o. America IL,
/ Conoress asss,r6ted,s Fhat the following sums of
money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be
paid out Of any money in the treasury not 9TH
eryiss apgToITsts 70 BE- sSRSRasd under the
pair, preservation, and completion of the fol-
lowing public works hereinafter named:
/ mllseAS. Continued 9 80
/ For IMPROVEMENT of Connecticut river, above
Hartford and below Holyoke, twenty thousand
dollars = - :E.s > gET5Bfs-5 !g1i ,
| For improvement of Connecticut river, below
Hartford. thirty 1--WE thousand dollars. .h.
Connecticut, forty thousand dollars.
/ For Improvement of the Housatonc river,
| Connecticut; fifteen thousand dollars. ss5I y
FOR in,pIovenient of gepott harbors Con-
| necticut, twenty thousand dollars.
| For improvement of Taunton river, Massa-
chusetts, ten thousand dollars.
| For imprevement Of Hyannis harbor. Massa-
cbusetts. ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Provincetown harbor,
| Massachusetts, six thousand dollars. .sga i.D1
For Improvement of Plymouth harbor, Mas
| sachusetts,. ten thousand dollars. FsFFECE
For Improvement of Boston harbor, Massa-
chusetts, one hundred thousand dollars. r3r3
For improvement of Merrimac river, above
Haverhill, Massachusetts,, twenty-five thousand
dollars. .,r,r-,.,t..
For improvement of Kcnh chunk river,
Maine, FIVE thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Saco river, Maine, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Portland harbor, Name
FORTY, fhor1 60 nd dOllare
For i'm provement Of the Cocheco river, with
| in the town of Dover, New Hampshire, ten
thousand dollars. .Ft.
For Improvement of Kennebec river above
| Hallowelf, Maine, ten thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Kennebec river, between
| Gardiner and Richmond, Maine, five thousand
| dollars.
For Improvement of navigation at the Gut I" ;
| opposite Bath, Maine, six thousand i've hundred
dollars. - F1islaif 9ai& q tl.'2ssh 90.
| For Improvement Of the Penobscot river, at
Bangor, and below, Maine, fifty thousand dol
Fer,improvement of Union river, Maine, if
teen thousand dollars Is Maine ten
! thousand dollars. ~ - sSsAh
/ For Improvement of Narragaugus river.
Maine twelve thousand dollars, 2 az 2, - - s.
| For impeachment of Sullivan river. Maine,
| ten thousand dollars.
Red rivers, in the State5of Arkansas, ten thou
sand dollars.
For Improvement Of Saint Francis river, in
the State of Arkansas, ten thousand dollars.
Forimprovement of the Little Missouri river,
in the State of Arkansas, tan thousand dollars
i For Improvement of the Cumberland river
below, Nashville, TENNESSEE, thirty thousand
For Improvement Of Galveston harbor Texas,
twenty thousand dollars @~ - @ -
/ For construction, Of breakwater at Whining.
ton harbor, California, two hundred thousand
For improvement Of tho Umpqua river, Ore.
gon, twenty-five thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For the Improvement of the bar at the mouth
of the Saint Johns river, Florida, fifteen thou
For Improvement Of Mobile harbor, Alabama,
fifty thousand dollars =. ..
| Forimproyement Of the Usage river, Missouri
twenty-five thousand dollars.
| For improvement of the harbor at Du Lutn
Minnesota, sixty thousand dollars.
For ;aaproyement of the Willamette river
abovs Oregon city, Oregon. sixteen thousand
dollars. -o @.
ment on the northern and northwestern lakes
and rivers. and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
and for contingencies OF rivers and harbors no
provided for in this act, one hundred ane
seventy-fi five thousand dollars. -
SEC q That all moneys heretofore appro
priated for the Improvement Of the Tennessee.
river, and still sunexpended, shall be expended
under the direction of the Secretary Of War, fo
the repair and completion of the works hereto
fore begun between Knoxville and Chattanooga
and for the continuation of the works now II
progress below Chattanooga, including tn
Muscle shoals Y q -a'i ha asesl-
SEC 8: That the Secretary of Warts hereb.
directed to cause examinations or surveys, o
both, to be made at the following points, name
": At Galveston harbor, from the outer ba
up to the Red Fish bar, on or nearest to tn
west shore; at Mississippi city, for harbor o
Mississippi sound at Black river, I'd issouTi, 7
Poplar bluff at Current river Missouri, f5o sI
its mouth to Van Buren, at Otter creek, VeI
mont az Norfolk harbor, Virginia at Eurek
harbor, and at Santa Cruze, California at Tas