580 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 7 90. 1900. The San Joaquin River and the waterways connecting the same gith th;) Straits of Carquines, extending from the town of Antioch to uisun oint. . Oakland Harbor: With a view to the improvement of said harbor to meet the needs of present and prospective commerce from the western end of the tidal canal to dee water in San Francisco Ba , includin P Y S the excavation of a tidal basin. ` °°““°°‘i°“‘· CONNECTICUT. Branford Harbor: D°1’“"°""· DELAWARE. Smyrna River: With a view to securing two short cresscuts to shorten the distance from the head of navigation to Delaware Bay. Mispillion River, from its mouth to the ead of navigation. m°'*"“· FLORIDA. Carrabelle Harbor: G°°’gi“· GEORGIA. Savannah Harbor: With a view to a reexamination of the plan for deepening said harbor as submitted in the Report of the Chief of En `neers for eighteen hundred and eight -eight a e ten hundred gl _ g g Y g > P g an fifty-nme, and a report as to what changes or modifications, if an§i£&·§ necesiqlary to carry out said plan. away arrows: . Preliminary examination and survey of the Skiddaway Narrows, connecting the Isle of Hcsipe River with Burnside River, for a channel seventy-five feet wide an six feet deep at mean low water. 11¤¤·>i¤- I ILLINOIS. ,.,§§g’f" m“‘°*“· °*°·· Ulpper Illinois River and Des Plaines River: . Further surveys. That the board of three en ineers, a ointed b the Secretar of etc b Board of En- g y y gméerg aumomea. War, in pursuance of a paragraph in the river and harbor Act approved V°’·3°·¥’·u“· March third, eighteen hundred and ninet -nine to make a surve and _ , 8 _ Y > Y estimates of cost of the improvement of the Upper Illinois River and the lower Des Plaines River in Illinois, with a view to the extension of navigatmn from the Illinois River to Lake Michigan at or near the pity of Hhicago, is literebgauthorized to 1i;port the estimates of cost or a c anne ten eet ee and for a c nnel twelve feet deep and for a channel fourteen feet dleep through said proposed route, and that the said estimates cover and include a proper connection at Lockport with the sanitary and ship canal which has been constructed the ganggary dgsrict §f&)Ch1c?{go. The said dboaxizd oi enginaepsfis aglso ur er au orize ma e a survey an es ima e o cos or e improvementeof the Lower Illinois River from the end of said proposed route to the mouth of said river, for channels ten, twelve, and Hmm lqurtegn lflepgii deep, rgspectgy, and to report the estimates of cost .1, 5 _ thereo : prfart _ , That surveys and estimates of cost V;;v3I;i155 shall be made in pursuance of the provisions_contained in the Act Ex' m' aforesa1d, and esgecially in accordance Wlth section twenty-two of sa1d p° s’° ‘ Act: Andprorvi d further-, That said surveys shall be commenced and the expenses for said surveys and reports shall be_ paid as follows: Any unexpended balance of the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars not required for the completion o the survey already contained in said Act shall- be first applied and used, and no further expense shall ` be incurred for such estimates and surveys without the further direction of Congress, and the Secretary of War shall ascertain and report
