New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-24

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fifteen thousand dollars.
For Improvement Of the Usage river.
| Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Improvement of the barber at Du-
| luth, Minnesota, sixty thousand dollars.
For Improvement of the Willamette river,
above Oregon city, Oregon, sixteen thou
sand dollars.
| Fen, examination and surveys for i'm
! proyement 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 N this
| act, one hundred and seventy-nye thousand
dollars.
SEC. ?. That all moneys heretofore appro-
| priated for the improvement OF the Iennes-
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 Wal is
| hereby directed to cause examinations or
SURVEYS, or both, TO be made at the follow
ing points, namely: At Galveston harbor,
froni the outer bar up to the Red Fish bar,
on or nearest to the west shore; at Mlss1s-
| sippi city, for harbOr on Mississippi sound;
at Black river, Missouri, to Poplar bluff: at
Current river, Missouri, from its mouth 10
Van Buren,; at Otter Creek, ermoR 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;
at East Chester creek or inlet, New YORK;
at Port Chester harbor, New York; at
Rondout harbor. Hudson river, New York;
l.at Maumee river, above Toledo, ONO;
at Fourche La Faive river, Arkansas; Tor
resurveying of Monroe harbor, Michigan;
for survey and estimates tor removing
middle ground at the mouth OF Black
river, in Saint Clair river, Michigan; haroor
at Stonnington, Connecticut; at Grand
Marias, Michigan; at Neabasco bay, Viz
ginia; at AccOtink bay, Virginia; at Savan-
nah harbor, Georgia; at Wells harbor,
Maine; at Coosa river, Alabama; at fIunV-
ington harbor, on south coast OF Long
Island sound; and to complete the survey
of the Cumberland river, and the resuryey
of the Tennessee river, from Browns terry
to Florence, Alabama; at Choctawhatchee
river, Florida; at Aqua creek, Virginia;
for survey of White river. from Batalo
shoals to the mouth of James fork, Mlssou-
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 MorgantoWh,
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 practlcaDLlty 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 10
extend the navigation on SAID river tothe
last named place: for examination and sur
vey of the Etowah river, from it's mouth up
to Gainesville, Georgia, and also Tor ex'
animation and surrey of Atchatalaya bay
and Calcasieu pass, Louisiana; OF the Oos-
tenaula river: from Rome, Georgia, up to
the mouth of the COosawattee; at Chatta.
hoochee river, below Columbus, Georgia; al
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; al
Analachicola bay, Florida; at Tampa bay
at TAMPA. Florida; for resurvey OF Fifteen
mile falls: at Elizabeth and Nansemond
rivers, Virginia; at Camden, Arkansas, tC
Trinity, Louisiana, on Ouachita river; a.
Goldsboro, North Carolina. to the mouth O.
Neuse river; at the mouth of Licking river
Kentucky, for harbor Of refuge; for survey
of Cape Fear and Deep rivers, as far up az
La Grange, North Carolina a
Cuivre river, Missouri, from its mouti
to Moscow Mills; at Bayou Bartholomew,
from it's mouth to the Arkansas Stats
line: for the examination and survey O
the Tangipahoa and T~chefuncta rivers, II
, the State of Louisiana; for the survey o
, Horse Shoe shoals, in the Delaware river
below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for tn
survey of the harbor of Norwalk. Connect
| cut; for surveying the mouths OF Quantic'
.and Choppa. Wamasic bays, Virginia
l for examination and survey OF Red
l river, from the mouth 10 a pom
above the raft in Louisiana.
SEC. 4. That the uneXpended balances o
appropriations made by the act adproye'
July eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy
( entitled IAN act making appropriations TO
7 the repair, preservation, and completion o
certain public works in rivers and harbors
and for other purposes" for the fiscal yea
ending June thirty, eighteen hundred an
, seventy-one, are hereby r~e-appropriated TO
the purposes therein specified; provided
!, that any part of the appropriations made b.
| this act may, at the discretion OF the Seere
tary of War, be applied during the curren
, fiscal year.
Approved March 3, 1871.
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