Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 5.djvu/166

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Whitehall harbor.For improving the entrance of Whitehall harbor, on Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars.

Ice-breaker, Staten Island.For building an ice-breaker on Staten island, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

New Jersey.
New Brunswick harbor.
For improving the harbor at New Brunswick, by removing the obstructions in the Raritan river, according to a plan reported to the War Department by Hartman Bache, seven thousand dollars.

Little Egg harbor.For the protection and improvement of Little Egg harbor, according to the plan reported to the War Department, five thousand dollars.

Survey of Crow Shoal.For a survey of Crow Shoal in Delaware bay, to ascertain the expediency of constructing a breakwater or artificial harbor, one thousand dollars.

Pennsylvania.
Chester harbor.
For repairs at the harbor of Chester, three thousand dollars.

Delaware river, near Fort Mifflin.For removing the bar on the river Delaware, in the neighborhood of Fort Mifflin, with the view of improving the harbor of Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars.

Delaware.
Wilmington harbor.
For improving the harbor of Wilmington, by removing the bar at the mouth of Christiana river, according to the plan recommended by Hartman Bache, of the engineer corps, fifteen thousand dollars.

Maryland.
Baltimore harbor.
For deepening the harbor of Baltimore, twenty thousand dollars.

Survey, Chesapeake bay.For a survey of the head waters of Chesapeake bay, pursuant to a resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, five hundred dollars.

Virginia.
Survey of James river.
For a survey of James river, with the view of improving the harbor of Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Channels of Dismal Swamp Canal.For improving the navigation of the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal Swamp canal, fifteen thousand dollars.

N. Carolina.
Shoal in Pamtico river.
For removing a sand shoal in |Pamptico river, five thousand dollars, by means of the dredging machine now in operation at Ocracock inlet.

Shoal in New river.For removing the oyster shoal in New river, Onslow county, by means of the dredging machine now in operation in the collection district of Wilmington, five thousand dollars.

Beaufort harb’r.
S. Carolina.
To improve the harbor of Beaufort, five thousand dollars.

Survey Georgetown harbor.For a survey of the bar and harbor at Georgetown, one thousand dollars.

Georgia.
Removing Brunswick bar.
For the removal of the Brunswick bar, with the view of improving the harbor of Brunswick, ten thousand dollars.

Ohio.
Mouth of Vermillion river.
For constructing two piers and improving the navigation at the mouth of Vermillion river, ten thousand dollars, according to the plan reported to the War Department.

Indiana.
Michigan city harbor.
For the construction of a harbor at Michigan city, according to the plan reported to the War Department, twenty thousand dollars.

Louisiana.
Mouth of Mississippi river.
For increasing the depth of water in the mouth of the Mississippi river, by closing some of the passages leading out of it, or by cutting a ship channel, or by any other means which shall be deemed expedient by the Secretary of War, with the approbation of the President of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars; the said sum to be expended in whole or in part, as may be thought proper by the War Department, after the necessary survey shall have been made.

Missouri.
Pier near St. Louis.
For a pier to give direction to the current of the Mississippi river, near the city of St. Louis, fifteen thousand dollars.

Survey of rivers in Arkansas and Missouri.For the survey of Saint Francis, Black, and White rivers, in Arkansas and Missouri, to determine upon the expediency of removing the natural rafts thereon, one thousand dollars.

Florida.
Removing Bulk Head shoal.
For removing a mud shoal, called the Bulk Head, in the channel from East Pass to Appalachicola, ten thousand dollars.

Michigan.
Mouth of St. Joseph river.
For the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth of the river Saint Joseph, twenty thousand dollars.