Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/1194

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1 156 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 425. 1899. Florida 1··Lom1>A. East Pass, at the entrance of Carrabelle Harbor, Florida, with a view to obtaining a channel depth of twenty-two feet at mean low water. Ocklockonnee River. Bay at Hudson, Pasco County. Inside passage through Sarasota Bay to Lemon Bay. Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor, with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty-four feet of water over the bar at the entrance of the harbor and eighteen feet thence up to Punta Gorda. Kissimmee River and connecting lakes and canals ilowing into Lake Okechobee, thence down the Caloosahatchee River to the Gulf of Mexico, with a view to improving the navigation of the channels therein. Punta Rassa: Inside passage to Charlotte Harbor. Orange River: To its confluence with Caloosahatchee and thence to Gulf of Mexico. Crystal River: From the town of Crystal River to its entrance in the Gulf of Mexico. Georgia- GEORGIA. _ Brunswick, Georgia: Inner harbor, with a view of determining what improvement thereof is desirable in the interest of commerce and the · cost thereof. Illinois. ILLINOIS. Survey of Ohio River from Mound City, Illinois, to Cairo, Illinois: With a view to ascertain what improvement, if any, is desirable with a view to the protection of the banks and levees on the Illinois side. Survey with a view to ascertain what, if anything, should be done to stop the caving of the banks of the Ohio River, at or near New Liberty, in Pope County, Illinois, and to prevent said river from cutting into a slough and chain of lakes at said point, together with the cost thereofl \‘Vaukegan Harbor, with a view to obtaining a channel three hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep. . Survey and estimate of cost for the improvement of the channel and to prevent the cutting and caving of the bank of the Mississippi River on the Illinois side thereof; at or near Wagners Landing, in Jackson County, below Rockwood, Illinois. Improving Chicago River, in Illinois: Survey and estimate of cost for a channel twenty-one feet deep from its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue, on the North Branch, so far as may be permitted by existing docks and wharves, exclusive of cost of removing or constructing bridges or piers or lowering tunnels; audthe aforesaid depth of twenty-one feet is hereby adopted as the project depth for the improvement in lieu of that fixed by the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six: Provided, That all the work of removing and reconstructing bridges and piers and lowering tunnels necessary to permit a practicable channel with said depth to be obtained shall be done, or caused to be done, by the city of Chicago without expense to the United States. Survey of the Mississippi River at or near Beach Ridge, Illinois: With a view to ascertain whether there is danger of said river breaking through into Cache River, and whether it is desirable to make further specilic appropriations to protect the bank of the Mississippi River at said place; and, if so, the cost thereof. Survey of the Mississippi River between Station Eighteen hundred and forty, as established by Government survey reported in Executive House Document Number One hundred and eleven, third session Fifty- third Congress, and the railroad embankment at the railroad bridge crossing in front of Quincy, Illinois, with a view to preventing the filling up of Quincy Bay by sediment carried by the river in times of high water.