The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-05-16

dollars.
For the Improvement of Merrimat
river. Mi>sachuset twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For the Improvement oi Boston har
hor. Massachusetts, inWlndiug Deel
aud IdWeil'> islands, one hundred ant
tiffy Thousand do! !ar..
For the Improvement ut the Sontl
channel at tile entrance Of Duxbnry
haiior, Massachusetts,. ten thousand
dollars.
For tn. improvement of Plymouth
hmrbor. Massachusetts. three thousand
dollars.
For the Improvement OF Province
town lrbor, Massachusetts,. six thou.
sand dollars.
For the Improvement of IIvauniS
larlor Massachusetts. ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Warelanl
hArtor, Massachusetts,. ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Taunton
river. Massachusetts, ten thousand dol
lars.
For removing sand-bar forming at
the entrance of Salem lmrhor. MaSSa-
chusctts. fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Lower
Willamette aud Columbia rivers, from
Portland. Oregon, to the sea, twenty
Thousand dollars.
For the impro, cement of the Upper
Willamette river, Oregon, three thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of lrakwater
ut Wilmington, CaitorNia, one hun.
dred and fifty tltOuSlId.d0.arS.
For surveys aad examinations. and
contingencies Of river' AID h1rhor.
one hundred and twe.,tf five tnnuanG
dollars.
Sec. 2, That the Secretary of War
is hereby directed to cauSe examina-
tionS or surveys, or both, to be made
at the following points, namely: At
the outlet of Point Judith Lake,
Rhode Island at Crow shoals. DeIa-
ware bay, near Cape May light, New
jersey, for an artificial lm'lIor or
breakwater; Harlem river lrar the
East river. New York, for removal Of
rocks therefrOm; Of the piers and con
meeting bridges ut Chester, PennSyl-
vaDia the Ptllobscot river. from Old
town to Medway and vicinity, Maine;
the Galela river, from it, mouth to
upper bridge in city of Galelm. Iii
noiS; the lmrbor at Fail River. Massa-
chuIetts, for removal of rocks there
from: at Woods hole. Blzxarl'S Bay.
Massachusetts. for removal Of rocks
theretrOm Old House channel to man
channel Of Pamlico sornd. North Car
olina; the harbor of Washington.
North Carolina at bayou Lafouvhe.
Louisiana, from Lafourche crossing to
the mouth; from mouth of Red river
down Atclafalaya river to Bra>hear.
IN Louisiana at the entrance to Mat
agorla hay and the channel to Indi-
anola, Texas; Pine river. Saint Clair
county. Michigan Monistilue harbor.
Lake Michigan; SeMwaing river.
Michigan; Yamhill river, Oregon ;
the mouth of the CoquilIe river. Ore
gon; Red river, frOm Morehead to
Pembim at the mouth of kewannee
river, Wisconsin: ut Elk river. Mary
land below Elkton; at Raritan river.
New Jersey. below New Brunswick,
including the shoals called the Middle
Ground; in Youghiougheny river,
Pennsylvania; ArooStOok river. Maine,
for Improvement Of the channel at
San Antonio creek, San Francisco bay,
Santa Cruz, California
Estero bay, near Santa Barbara. Cali
fornia. And not to exceed five thou
sand dollars of the above apprOpria-
ton may be expended in an exploa-
ti0n of routes for the extension of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal to the
Ohio river by the north and south
of the Potomac river.
For connecting the inland waters
along the margin of the Gulf OF Mex
leo. from DOnaldsonvile. in Louis
lana, to the Rio Grande river, in
Texas. by cuts and canals. not to ex-
ceed twenty thousand dollars of the
herein appropriated for sur
veyS of rivers and harbors at Great
Pee Dee river, from Pine Bluff to
Cheraw. South Carolina /; at Ashley
river, South Carolina; at Cleveland,
Ohio, for the construction of a harbor
of refuge at Forked Deer river, be-
low DyerSburg, Tennessee; at harbor
at Wilson, on Lake Ontario. New
York; at East Pascagoula harbor,
Mississippi sound at Portsmouth har-
Dor, New Hampshire. for breakwater
between Gerrish's island and Wood
III Ipswich bay. Massachu-
setts, at IIodgkins' cove. to ascertain
the practicability of a harbor of refuge
by building a refuge there.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War
is hereby authorized and required to
detail from the engineer corps one or
more engineer, whose duty it shall be
to inquire into and report upon the
pmcticapility of bridging, consistent
with the interests of navigation, the
channel between Lake Huron and