New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-21
Connecticut, nfteeen thousa,s5

harbor, Connecticut, 1fteeen Thousand
dollars 1851
For improvement of Cooheco river With
the town of Dover, New Hampshire, tpn
thousand dollars. 70"
For Improvement of Black River harbo,
Ohio, twenty thousand dollars
For surveys and examinations, with
view to the Improvement Of rivers and bo.s
bors, one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. O''
SEC. 2. That the Secrt tary of War ia hos,
by directed to cause examinations or snS
veys, or both, to be made at the follow.
points, namely: At keyport harbor, Ness
Jersey; channel between Staten island aps
New Jersey; at Cohansey creek, New low au
sey; at Bear creek, Lake Ontario. Eew
| York; at Waddington harbor, New Yors".
for breakwater at Rouses point on T,aL1,
| Champlain, New York; at Port Austin snS
Port Crescent Michigan; at the mouth Of
| PensaUkie river, Wisconsin; at Waukegon
| harbor, Illinois; the Machias river MafS"%"a
| at Wexford harbor and Newport harhov
Rhode Island; the east side of ProyidenoI,
river, between Fields point and Fox Dont
| Rhode Island; as Port Oxford, OREGON -.
| Estero bay, San Louis, Obispo county. CaE
| fornia; the mouths of Nomoni creek ana
| Occoquan river, Virginia; the bay or sonnS
from Delaware line through Worcester
county to Chlueoteague iulet, Viz
gina. with q view to an inlet at -.
near place called the Hommacks; for
ship canal between the waters of Galves
ton bay and Saline Lake, Texas: Cbestor
river at Kent island narrows. MarvlanI.
st. Francis river, from GreenYille down
Missouri; GasConade river Missouri: Tom
blg0ee river, between Fulton and Column.
bus, mississippi; harbor of Cedar Keys and
channel to same, Florida; Mantle river
Connecticut; the bars at the outlet of So
blne pass, Texas; the Mississippi river. M.
tween the mouth of the Missouri river and
the mouth of the Ohio river: west end of
the pass at and Near Bio Buck point. Texas.
the bar at the mouth of Sabine river. in
SABINE lake, and to extend up the main
channel OF said river to the town of ReIzora.
at the mouth OF the Nuohes river. in Sahjne ,
lake, and to extend up the main channel of
said river to the town of Boonville, at the
point where the Angelica river falls into
the Nuches river, and to extend up the
main channel of said river to the town Of
PattOnia, Texas at the mouth of the Trim
ity EVER, in Galveston bay, and to extend
up the main channel of said river to the
town OF Magnolia, Texas; Washington har
Dor, North Carolina, EdentOn harbor, North
Carolina; mouth of MackAy's- creek, North
Carolina; Chippewa river, up to Chippewa
tails, Wisconsin,; harbOratSwanton,V Vermont.
harbor at Galveston, Texas; at Apalachicols
river, from Chattahooche Florida. to Ana
1S*SIASO1"J ehe SAdtJStuOOCuG IlRBF, GT0En
Columbus, Georgia, to Chattahooche, Flor
ida; at Flint river, from Albany, Georgia,
to ChattahOoChe, Florida: for survey of
breakwater at Milford, Connecticut; mouth
OF Pine river, Michigan; the harbor of San
Diego, California; mouth of Grand Calumet
river, Indiana; Great Kanawha river, from
the great falls to the mouth, West Virginia:
to complete the survey of the James river
and Kanawha canal; for survey of Camden
larbor, Maine; for a sea wall or break water
at Trinidad harbor, California; of the chan
lel and bank at entrance of Salem harhOr.
IN Merrimack river, Massachusetts,, from
dayerhlll to Newburyport, including Duck
Hole and Currier shoals; the New river,
rom the mouth of Greenbrier, in West Viz
ytnia to the lead mines, in Wythe county,
virginia; at st. Helena bar, in the Columbia
liver, Oregon; for survey for the removal
II wrecks Of gunboats, steamers and other
Instructions placed in YaZoo river during
he war, and for the resurvey of Savannah
larbor; the Delaware river between Tran-
on and Easton; for the survey of the river
It. Mary's in Ohio and Indiana; for the
urvey OF the Minnesota river above the r.
mouth of the Yellow Medicine Minnesota,
Sec. B. That in the examinations or sur
'eys OF all points mentioned in the fore
,olng section, the Secretary of War be di-
ected to ascertain, as far as practicable,
he amount of tonnage of commercial bHsi,
less during the previous year at each point.
ogether with such other facts as bear upon
he question of the contemplated improve
lent, and that he communicate the same.
ogether with his report of the examination
+ survey Of such point, to Congress: pro-
Ided, that so much of the amount here
nth appropriated for the survey of rivers
nd harbors as is requisite for contingent
les may be used for said purpose.
Approved June 10, 1872.