The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-07-10
T. "A w S
OF THE
UNITED s tat e S.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. GIL
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND
CONGRESS.

AN ACT making appropriations for the repair
preservation and completion of certain publ
works on rivers and harbors, and for othe
purposes.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of Represen
tatives of tie United States Of america an Congre
assembled That the following sums of money be
and are hereby. appropriated, to be paid out {
any money in the treasury not otherwise appre
priated 10 be expended under the direction c
the Secretary of War, for the repair, preservatio
and completion of the following public work
hereinafter named:
For the purpose of dredging out the bay Q
from the natural entrance ofthe docks Superio
and Du Luth and preserving both entrances from
the lake thereto, one hundred thousand dollars
For the improvement of Marquette harbor
Michigan. fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of Menomonee harbor
Michigan and Wisconsin, twenty five thousau
dollars.
For the Improvement of Green Bay harbor
Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Two Rivers harbor
Wisconsin, twenty five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Manitowoc harbor
Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. t
For the improvement of Sheboygan harbor
Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars
For the improvement of Port Washington
harbor, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars
For the improvement of Milwaukee harbor
Wisconsin, ten Thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Racine harbor, Wis
cons1n, twenty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Chicago harbor, Hi
nois ninety thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Calumet harbor, Hi
nois forty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Michigan city harbor
Indiana fifty thousand dollars
For the improvement of the Fox and Wiscon-
sin rivers. three hundred thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of Manistee harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Ludington harbor,
Michigan. twenty five thousand dollars.
Fer the improvement of the harbors of Wash.
ington and Georgetown, District of Columbia,
fifty thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of the Great Kanawha
river. West Virginia, twenty five thousand dol
lars.
For the improvement of White river harbor;
Michigan, seven thousand dollars.
For the improvement OF Frankfort harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Grand Haven harbor,
Michigan, seventy five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Black Lake harbor,
Michigan, twelve thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Saugatuck harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Michigan twenty thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Monroe harbor, Mich
igan, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Cheboygan harbor,
Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. =
For the improvement of St. Mary's Falls canal,
two hundred thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of st. Clair river, at the
mouth of Black river fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of harbor Of Refuge, on
LAKE Huron, seventy five thousand delars.
For the Improvement of PentWater harbor,
NJ iehigan, twenty thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of st. Clair Flats canal,
one hundred thousand dollars
For the Improvement of Toledo harbor, Ohio,
one hundred thousand dollars
For the Improvement of Sandusky city harbor,
Ohio, twenty FIVE thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of Vermillion harbor,
Ohio, twelve thousand dollars.
Fol the Improvement of Blackriver harbor,
Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Cleveland harbor,
Ohio, one thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Ashtabula harbor
Ohio, sixteen thousand dollars
For the improvement of Conneaut harbor
Ohio, four hundred dollars.
For the improvement of Dunkrk harbor, New
York, forty thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of Buffalo harbor, New
York, seventy five thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Olcott harbor, New
York, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Oak Orchard harbor
New York. ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement Of Pultneyville harbor,
New York ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Little Sodus harbor,
New York fifteen thousand dollars.
For the Improvement Of Oswego harbor, New
York, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Washington harbor,
New York, ten thousand dollars.
For the Improvement Of Ogdensburgh harbor,
New York, six thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Plattsburgh harbor,
New York. ten thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of AQUA creek, Virginia,
two thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the mouth of Occoquan
river, Virginia five thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of the mouth of Nomoni
creek, Virginia, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Rappahannock
river below Fredericksburg, Virginia, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of James river, Virginia.
seventy five thousand dollars
For the Improvement Of the south branch Of
Elizabeth river, Virginia, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
For the improvement of the Appemattox rive
L
lars.
For the improvement of Nansemond river, yir-
ginia, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Roanoke river below
Weldon, North Carolina ten thousand dollars
For the Improvement of Cape Fear river below
Wilmington, North Carolina, one hundred thou
saud dollars.
For the Improvement Of Wilmington harbor,
Delaware, six thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of the channel of tbs
Delaware river,at Fort Mifflin bar, fifty thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the channel of the
Delaware river at and near the Horse Shoe
shoals, fifty thousand dollars; the work not tf be
commenced until an examination and survey has
been made by board Of engineers of the Uni
ted States army, appointed by the Secretary of
War, and q favorable report upon the feasibility
and expense of the PLAZA adopted for the proven
ton and removal of the distractions
For the improvement of the channel of the
Sehuylkill river, Pennsylvania, forty thousand
dollars, Of which amount portion shall be us ed
for commencing the removal of the rocks at and
near South street wharf
For the improvement Of the Broadkiln river
Delaware, ten thousand dollars
For building an additional pier for the ice har-
Dor at New Castle, Delaware, twenty thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of South river, New Jer
sey, five thousand dollars
/, For the improvement of the North and Soutf
branches of Shrewsbury river, New Jersey, Gy,
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Delaware river be
tween Trenton and Bordentown, New Jersey
fifteen thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Hudson river
New York, forty thousand dollars.