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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 860, 866. 1888. 433 WISCONSIN. Sgyégggggutinued. Centreville Creek, Manitowoc County. Raci11e Harbor, enlarging and deepening channel. Kenosha Harbor, for refuge. Harbor at mouth of Fond du Lac River, in Lake Winnebago. Oconto Harbor. channel sixteen feet deep and seventv-five feet wide from piers to first contour in river at Spies Slough. U For a survey of Minnesota Point, at Superior, at the west end of Lake Superior, to ascertain what, if anything, should be done to preserve the same from the inroads of the Lake, and for the protection of the harbor, together with the cost thereof. Menomonee Harbor, from the waters of Green Bay to N. Ludington and Company’s mill, Wisconsiii, for a channel sixteen feet deep and two hun red feet Wide. Sec. 14. For examinations, surveys, and contingencies, and for in- Appropriation for cidental repairs, for which there is no special appropriation, for rivers s“"`°’yS’ “°‘ and harbors, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That Pr¤vi·=<>¤- no survey shall be made of any harbors or rivers until the Chief of Engineers shall have directed apreliminary examination of the same 1;¥<·=l*¤$¤{;¤‘¥ Hemiby the local engineer in charge of the district, or an engineer detailed fgrdosliirvey, made b°` for the purpose; and such local or detailed engineer shall report to said Chief of Engineers, whether, in his opinion, said harbor or river is worthy of improvement, and shall state in such report fully and particularly the facts and reasons on which he bases such opinion, including the present and prospective demands of commerce ; and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Engineers to direct the making of such survey, if, in his opinion, the harbor or river proposed to be surveyed be worthy of improvement by the General Government; and he shall report to the Secretary of War the facts, and what public necessity or convenience may be subserved thereby, together with the full reports of the local engineer: And provided further, That Cmm.l,etc.,projects. the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the construction or improvement of any waterway, harbor or canal mentioned in this act unless or ucptil theéwgrk of construe- R8 f tion shall have been actually appro riate for. ai reports of pre- W; 9 Hemmiliminary examinations and survey;) shall be made to the House of iiglyiiinzgdimmous m Representatives, and are hereby ordered to be printed when so made. Received by the President July 31, 1888. [Norn BY THE DEPARTMENT or STAT1¤1.-—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approve , and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 866.-An act to correct the enrollment of an act approved March third, August 13.1888. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to amendsections one, two, ‘ three, and ten of an act to determine the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States, and to regulate the removal of causes from the State courts. and for other purposes, approved March third. eighteen hundred and seventy-five." Ba it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-resevviatires of the United Slutes of America in Congress assembled, That the act ap- frgggggg gmyguscs proved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled v¤1.z4.¤¤.a·rs,p.ss2, "An act to amend sections one, two, three, and ten of an act to deter- °·“‘°“"°d· mine the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States, and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, and for other STAT 1.-voL xxv-28