Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 35 Part 1.djvu/846

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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 264. 1909. 829 Salem River, from the month to Salem. Rancocas River, from the mouth to Mount Holl . Hackensack River, with a view to providing a channel sixteen feet deep from Newark Bay to Little Ferry and twelve feet deep from Little F er? to Anderson Street Brid in the town of Hackensack. Passaic iver, with a view to extending continuous navigation from the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge to the city of Paterson. hNewark Bay, with a view to securing a channel along the eastern s ore. . Mantua Creek, with a view to continuing improvement to the head of navigation. NEW YOBK. New York. Sterling Basin, Greenport Harbor. Flushing Bay, with a view to securing increased depth to the head of navigation. Huntington Harbor. Stonybrook Harbor, including Porpoise Channel. f Indian Creek, Jamaica Bay, with a view to obtaining a depth of six eet. Shiepshead Bay, with a view to obtaining an increased depth at its mont . East River, including Little Hell Gate. Mamaroneck Harbor, with a view to deepening the channel to not less than twelve feet. Harlem River, with a view of straightening the channel at the curve near the Johnson Iron Works. Bay Ridgeand Bed Hook channels New York Harbor, with a view ‘ to the removal of the shoal between these channels and the deep water of the bay and the construction of a breakwater or quay extending from Red Hook Point on and along the westerly side of said shoal as it now exists, for the purpose of providing protection to that part of the harbor against the effects of westerly winds. Hudson RIVBY at Coeymans, with a view to securing a suitable width and depth in the channel along the village front behind the government dike; also at Albany, with a view to roviding additional area of navigable depth at the mouth of Island Heck and vicinity, for the benefit of eneral commerce and the makin up of barge tows; also at Troy, wign a view to widening the channegbe ow Adams street. Hudson River, with a view to providing a channel not less than two hundred feet wide and twelve feet deep at all stages from deep water in the lower river to Waterford, inc uding a lock and dam at Troy suitable in size for all probable purposes of navigation and commerce to and from the Barge Canal. Plattsburg Harbor. Charlotte Harbor. Wilson Harbor. Oak Orchard Harbor. Buifalo Harbor, with a viewto widening the channel at the entrance of the inner harbor, and also an estimate of the cost of the removal of the lNatson elevator site, exclusive of the cost of acquiring title to the same. Buffalo Harbor, with a view to widening and improving the entrance to Erie Basin. Dunkirk Harbor. The Secretary of War is hereb directed to report as soon as he is satisfied that the cit of New York is prepared to undertake the work to be done by it preliminary to or contemporaneous with any dredging to be done by the United States Government as recommended in the 80893-—voL 35, PT 1—09——~·i4