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OUR RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Principal Objects Appropriated for in Il
House, With Amounts.

Principal Objects Appropriated for In the
House, With Amounts.
The principal amounts appropriated
in the Rivers and Harbors bill passed in
the House, and the proposed improve
ments are as follow
For Baltimore harbor, $4,000; for
James river, Virginia, $40, 900; for Ap-
pomattox river, Virginia, 100000; for
Great Kanawha river, West Virginia,
1922, 900; Cape Fear river, North Caro-
lima, 1856, 1000; Norfolk harbor, Virginia,
$1,000; Savannah harbor, $40, 900;
Charleston harbor, S., 1000; Cedar Keys,
Florida, 500, 900; Chattahoochee river,
Alabama, $4,000; Alabama river, $685.
600; the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers,
Alabama, $40, 900; ship channel in Gal
weston Bay, $75, 900; the Mississippi and
Arkansas rivers, $3.50, 900; the Missouri
river, $4,000; survey OF the Missouri
river, $5O,000; entrance to Galveston
harbor, s125, 600: Sabine Pass, Texas,
$25, 900; Yazoo river, Mississippi, S25,-
900; removing the Red river raft, $24,-
900; White and st. Francis rivers, Ar
kansas, $75, 900; Missouri river, opposite
st. Joseph, $4,000; Missouri river, at
Nebraska City, 800, 1000; mouth OF Red
river, Louisiana, $4,000; removing
snags from the Red river, 1926, 900; Rock
Island rapids, $30,000; Illinois river,
$4,000; Mississippi river, (between the
mouths of the Ohio and Illinois, $24O,-
900; ditto, (between st. Paul and Des
Moines Rapids, $3.50, 900; the Missouri,
(above the Yellowstone,) $50, 900; the
Missouri, Cat Omaha City, $50, 900;
Cumberland river, Tennessee, (above
Nashville, } $50, 900; ditto, (below Nash
vile, S45, 900: Red river of the North,
Minnesota, 100000; Tennessee river,
(above Chattanooga 5000; Tennes
see river, (below Chattanooga, $500,
900; Coosa river, Georgia and Alabama,
$4,000; Wabash river, Indiana, $50,
900; Duluth harbor, $50, 900; Sturgeon
river, from Pittsburgh to its mouth,
$500, 900; New Orleans harbor, $50, 600;
Monongahela river, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 1926, 900; Michigan City
harLor, Indiana, $75, 900; Oakland har-
bor, California, $80,000; Fox and Wis
consin rivers, $3.50, 900; Chicago harbor,
S75, 900; St. Mary's river and canal,
Michigan, sits, 900; Harbor of Refuge.
Lake Huron, 100000; Detroit river,
Michigan, 100000; Saginaw river,
Michigan, $lOO, 900; S25,OOO; Toledo
harbor, Ohio, $50, Raritan river,
New Jersey, 5000, 900; wharf, landing
and channel at Memphis, $46, 900; Cleve-
land harbor and breakwater, 800, 600;
Erie harbor, Pennsylvania, $25, 900;
Buffalo harbor, New York, $50, 600;
Oswego harbor, New York, 800, 1000;
Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers,
Oregon, $50, 900; canal around the CAS-
cades of the Columbia river, $75, 900;
Galena river and harbor, Illinois, $780,
900; Mississippi river at Vicksburg,
$40, 900; the Neuse river, North Caro-.
lima, $4,000; Currituck Sound, North
Carolina. $4,000; Harlem river, New
York, $3.50, 900; Boston Harbor, $780,
600; Providence river and Narragansett
Bay, $50, 900; Staten Island Sound, $l5,
900; Washington and Georgetown har-
bors, $50, 900; Connecticut river below
Hartford, $50, 1000; Hudson river, New
York, $40, 900; East river and He'll Gate,
Few York. $3.50, ,000; Rondout harbor,
New York, $4,000; Burlington and
Swanton harbors, Vermont, 800, 900 each;
piers ir Delaware Bay, near Lewes,
500, 900; Schuykill river, Pennsylvania,
$50, 900; Delaware river, below Brides
burg, 100000; Delaware river between
Trenton and White Hill, SIC, 900; Shrews-
bury river, north and south branches,
$4,000; Des Moines Rapids, $95, 600;
Upper Mississippi, from the mouth OF
the Illinois, 81, 800.
The bill leaves it discretional with the
Secretary of War whether he shall have
the work done by contract or hired
labor. It also appropriates $3.50, 600 for
surveys of other rivers and harbors
DESIGNATED in the bill.