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Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Ashley River, South Carolina, one thousand dollars. Improvement of Elk River, Maryland, ten thousand dollars. Improving Cheesequake's Creek, New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Vermillion River, Louisiana, five thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, from Saint Martinsville to Port Barre, Louisiana, six thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Courtableau, from Port Barre to Atchefalaya, Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, from Richards' Island up, fifteen thousand dollars.

Construction of harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Pearl River below Jackson, Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars.

Improving Yadkin River, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars; six thousand dollars of which may be expended for the removal of dams. Improving White River above Buffalo Shoals, Arkansas, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving Saint Francis River between Wilkesburg and Lester Landing, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.

Improving White River between Jacksonport and Buffalo Shoals, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.

Improving Passaic River, New Jersey, from Pennsylvania Railroad bridge to its mouth, thirty thousand dollars.

Improving Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Mississippi River at Natchez and Vidalia, forty thousand

dollars.

Improving Skagit River, Washington Territory, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Amite River, Louisiana, eight thousand dollars.
Improving Newtown Creek, New York, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Pagan Creek, Virginia, five thousand dollars.

Improving Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Block Island Harbor, Rhode Island, six thousand dollars.

Improving Stonington Harbor, Connecticut, twenty-five thousand dol

lars.

Improving Broadkilu River, Delaware, five thousand dollars.

Improving the mouth of Duck Creek, Delaware, five thousand dollars. Improving Broad Creek from its mouth to Laurel, Delaware, five thousand dollars.

Improving Northeast River, Maryland, five thousand five hundred dol

lars.

Improving Treadhaven Creek, Maryland, for three miles below Easton, three thousand dollars.

Improving Choptank River, between Denton and Greensboro, Maryland, five thousand dollars.

Improving Secretary Creek, Maryland, three thousand dollars.

Improving Dan River, between Danville, Virginia, and Madison, North Carolina, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Elk River, West Virginia, five thousand dollars.

Improving Escambia River, Florida and Alabama, eight thousand dollars.

Improving Suwannee River, Florida, five thousand dollars.

Improving Tampa Bay, Florida, deepening the bar and channel from the bar to the town of Tampa, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Tangipahoa River, Louisiana, five thousand dollars.

Improving channel over bar at mouth of Brazos River, Texas, including a report upon the capacity of the harbor at the mouth of the Brazos and its adaptability as a harbor of refuge and naval station, forty thousand dollars.

Improving Saline River, Arkansas, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Survey of Missouri River, from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, thirty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in protecting the work done on said river at or near Sioux City, Iowa.

Improving Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Mississippi River at and above the city of Alexandria, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Caney Fork River, Tennessee, six thousand dollars.
Improving Obed's River, Tennessee, four thousand dollars.

Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia, at or near Laurel Run, according to plan recommended by engineer in charge, twenty-five thousand dollars.

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Improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia, building additional lock and dam, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Wilson Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Waddington Harbor, New York, three thousand dollars. Improving San Joaquin River, California, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Mattaponi River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Petalumus Creek, California, eight thousand dollars. Improving Cowlitz River, Washington Territory, two thousand dollars. Improving Big Hatchie River, Tennessee, ten thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at or near Cape Girardeau and Minton's Point, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving Gasconade River Missouri, removing snags, five thousand dollars.

Improving Black River, Arkansas fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Noxubee River, Mississippi, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, twenty-five thou sand dollars.

Improving and surveying Winnipiseogee Lake, New Hampshire, five thousand dollars.

Improving Duck River, Tennessee, seven thousand dollars.

Improving Waccemaw River, South Carolina, from the mouth up to Waccamaw Lake, North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina, seven thousand dollars. Improving Totusky River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving York River at West Point, Virginia, ten thousand dollars. Improving Pamunkey River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dol

lars.

Improving French Broad River, Tennessee, between Knoxville and the mouth of Big Creek, ten thousand dollars.

For repair of pier in Rocky River, Ohio, four thousand dollars.

For ice-harbor at Saint Louis, Missouri, fifty thousand dollars: Pro. vided, That no part of this sum shall be expended until a board of engineers shall have been convened and determined upon a plan for the con struction of the work.

Improving harbor at Rock Island, Illinois, six thousand dollars.

For ice-harbor at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, commencing enlargement of piers and dredging, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Shenandoah River, West Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Connecticut River, between Hartford and Holyoke, fifteen thousand dollars.

For protecting Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, one thousand dollars: Provided, Said sum shall not be expended until the Rock Island Railroad Company shall have contributed a like sum for said pur

pose.

For harbor at Waukegan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall not be expended until a board of three engineers shall have been convened and selected the site, and until the same and a free right of way to all points of the harbor shall have been transferred or relinquished, free of cost to the United States.

Improving Clinch River, Tennessee, ten thousand dollars; of which sum six thousand dollars shall be expended above Haynes, in Clayburn County, and four thousand dollars below said point.

Improving Oakland Harbor, California, sixty thousand dollars; and the sums of money heretofore appropriated for this improvement and unexpended are hereby reappropriated, but the sums so appropriated and reappropriated shall not be available until the right of the United States to the bed of the estuary and training-walls of this work is secured, free expense to the government, in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War.

Improving Sullivan's Island for protection of Charleston Harber, South Carolina, five thousand dollars.

Improving channel between Staten Island and New Jeresy, at Elizabethport, twenty-nine thousand dollars.

Improving Missouri River at Lexington, Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to assign an engineer from the Corps of Engineers of the United States to prepare a plan and advise with the local engineer in the expenditure of such sum as may be appropriated by the local authorities for the improvement of the harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

Improving Volusia Bar, Florida, five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to make such special contract for the prosecution of this work as may, in his judgment, best promote the interests of the government.

The balance in hand, after payment of any existing liability, collected heretofore as tolls on the Louisville and Portland Canal, or which may hereafter be so collected prior to the passage of an act to make said canal free to the public, is hereby authorized to be expended for its improvement: Provided, Such expenditure shall not exceed sixty thousand dol

lars.

Improving Yellowstone River, Montana and Dakota, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Brazos Santiago, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of Sebewaing Harbor, Michigan, seven thousand dollars.

For improvement of the entrance to Yaquina Bay, Oregon, forty thousand dollars.

For improvement of the mouth of Coquille River, Oregon, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Savannah River, above Augusta, Georgia, sixteen thousand dollars.

Improving the entrance to Cumberland Sound, between Amelia and Cumberland Islands, in the States of Florida and Georgia, according to the plans and estimates of General Gillmore, the chief engineer, reported to this Congress, thirty thousand dollars.

Improving Saint John's River, Florida. by deepening the bar at the mouth thereof, according to the report of the Chief of Engineers made to the Secretary of War and reported to this Congress, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi River, to be used in the construction of a dam at Lake Winnibigoshish, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That all injuries occasioned to individuals by overflow of their lands shall be ascertained and determined by agreement or in accordance with the laws of Minnesota, and shall not exceed in the aggregate five thousand dollars.

Such parts of the money appropriated by this act for any particular improvement requiring locks and dams, as may be necessary in the prosecution of such improvement, may be expended in the purchase, voluntary or by condemnation, as the case may be, of necessary sites: Provided, That such expenditure shall be under the direction of the Secretary of War: And provided further, That if the owners of such lands shall refuse to sell them at reasonable prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined and the title and jurisdiction procured in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State in which such lands or sites are situated.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein appropriated for improvements, other than surveys, and estimates in carrying on the various works as far as can be, without detriment to the interest of the government, by contract. Where such works cannot be done by contract, without injury to the public interest, they may be prosecuted

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