HOUSE BILL REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING ACT, APPROVED JULY 25, Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. AN ACT Making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction and superintendence of the Secretary of War, for the repair, preservation, and completion of the following works heretofore commenced under the authority of law, and for the other purposes hereinafter named-that is to say: For improvement of Superior City harbor, in the State of Wisconsin, thirty thousand dollars. For improvement of Wisconsin river, forty thousand dollars. For improvement of Ontonagon harbor, Lake Superior, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Eagle harbor, Lake Superior, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Marquette harbor, Lake Superior, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Green Bay harbor, Wisconsin, thirty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of Chippewa river, five thousand dollars. For improvement of Monitowoc harbor, Wisconsin, thirty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of Saint Croix river, five thousand dollars. For improvement of Sheboygan harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Milwaukee harbor, Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of Racine harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Kenosha harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor of Chicago, Illinois, forty-eight thousand dollars. For improvement of Michigan City harbor, Indiana, thirty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor of Saint Joseph, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of South Haven harbor, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Grand Haven harbor, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Muskegon harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of White River harbor, Michigan, seventyfive thousand dollars. For improvement of Pentwater harbor, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of Pere Marquette harbor, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Manistee harbor, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Aux Becs Scies, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Saugatuck harbor, Michigan, thirty thousand dollars. For improvement of the Saint Mary's river, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Au Sable river, Lake Huron, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Saint Clair Flats, Lake Saint Clair, two hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of Sandusky river, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars. For improvement of Harbor at Cleveland, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Conneaut harbor, Ohio, eleven thousand dollars. For improvement of Erie harbor, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Dunkirk, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Buffalo, New York, fifty thousand dollars. For improvement of Olcott harbor, New York, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Charlotte, New York, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Little Sodus, New York, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Oswego harbor, New York, sixty thousand dollars. For improvement of the harbor at Wilson, Niagara county, New York, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Plattsburg harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Whitehall, New York, ten thousand dollars. To improve the Tennessee river from its mouth to Florence, Alabama, fifteen thousand dollars. To improve the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Decatur, Alabama, ninety thousand dollars. For improvement of harbor at Burlington, Vermont, forty thousand dollars. For improvement of the Upper Mississippi river, and removing snags and dredging, sixty thousand dollars. For construction of dam and lock at Little Falls, Minnesota river, thirty thousand dollars. For improvement of the Des Moines rapids, nine hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of the Rock Island rapids, two hundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi river, one hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For improvement of the Upper Missouri river, sixty thousand dollars. For improvement of the Illinois river, from its mouth toward La Salle, one hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of the Ohio river, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand dollars may be applied under the direction of the Secretary of War, in experimenting upon and testing the value of shifting sluices and their applicability to said improvement. For improvement of the Patapsco river, below Fort McHenry, thirty thousand dollars. For improvement of the Susquehanna river, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of the Hudson river, New York, one hundred thousand dollars. For removing obstructions in East river, including Hell Gate, three hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of Westport harbor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Connecticut river, Connecticut, twenty thousand dollars. For removal of Middle Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, fifteen thousand dollars. For improvement of Pawtucket harbor, eight thousand dollars. For improvement of Plymouth harbor, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. For construction and preservation of sea-walls at Great Brewster island, ten thousand dollars. For building walls and improvements at Deer and Lovell's islands, in Boston harbor, ten thousand dollars. For preservation and improvement of Boston harbor, one hundred thousand dollars. For improvement of Taunton river, Massachusetts, thirteen thousand dollars. For completion of the breakwater connecting Richmond island and Cape Elizabeth, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Saco river, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement of Kennebec river, Maine, three thousand dollars. For improvement of Penobscot river, Maine, thirty thousand dollars. For improvement of navigation at the "Gut," opposite Bath, Maine, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement of Union river, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For construction of breakwater at Block Island, Rhode Island, seventy-four thousand dollars. For improvement of Willamette river, Oregon, twenty-five thousand dollars. For removal of Blossom Rock, in the harbor of San Francisco, sixty thousand dollars. For survey of Northwestern lakes, seventy-five thousand dollars. For examination and surveys on western and northwestern rivers, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For examination and surveys on the Atlantic coast, thirty thousand dollars. For examination and surveys on the Pacific coast, twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments, five thousand dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward completing the Louisville and Portland canal, in accordance with the plans and estimates made in the report of General Godfrey Weitzel, Passed the House of Representatives June 30, 1868. EDWARD MCPHERSON, Clerk. By CLINTON LLOYD, Chief Clerk. Statement showing the works of river and harbor improvement to which the appropriation of $1,500,000 made by the foregoing act, approved July 25, 1868, was distributed, and the amount allotted to each work. Tennessee River from its mouth to Florence, and from Chattanooga to Decatur, Alabama___. 85,000 Upper Mississippi River, snag boats and dredge boats__ 26, 000 Total 1,500,000 Rock Island Rapids, Mississippi River. Saco River, Maine.. [No. 76.] Joint Resolution In relation to surveys and examina- July 27, 1868. tions of rivers and harbors. Vol. 15, p. 262. War to state certain facts, with reports of etc., of rivers, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War shall cause to be prepared Secretary of and submitted to Congress, in connection with the reports to Congress of examinations and surveys of rivers and harbors hereafter made by order of Congress, full statements of all examinations, existing facts tending to show to what extent the general etc. commerce of the country will be promoted by the several works of improvements contemplated by such examinations and surveys, to the end that public moneys shall not be applied excepting where such improvements shall tend to subserve the general commercial and navigation interests of the United States. Approved, July 27, 1868. July 27, 1868. [No. 80.] Joint Resolution Giving the assent of the United Vol. 15, p. 263. States to the construction of certain wharves in the harbor of Oswego, New York. Preamble. Assent by Congress to owners of lots in Oswego, WHEREAS the common council of the city of Oswego, in the State of New York, by resolutions unanimously adopted April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, in pursuance of the authority granted them by the legislature of New York in the charter of said city, have given permission to the owners of lots eleven and twelve, also of lots thirteen, fourteen, eighty-one, and eighty-two, and of lots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, in fortification block number two, in the first ward of said city, to construct wharves in front of said lots, seventy feet in width, and extending northerly so that the north end of said wharves may be on a line with the north line of the Ontario elevator pier, but not less than two hundred and fifty feet distant from the nearest point of the United States pier, which wharves will extend into the navigable waters of said harbor: Therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of the United States be, and the same is hereby, given, so far as Congress has power to give the N. Y., to con- same, to the owners of the lots above mentioned, to construct said wharves in accordance with the terms of said resolutions, subject, however, to the approval of the engineer department of the army. struct wharves. Approved, July 27, 1868. Apr. 10, 1869. for rivers and CHAP. 19.-An Act Making an appropriation for the improvement of rivers and harbors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Appropria. That the sum of two million dollars [] is hereby appropreservation.priated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen etc., of works hundred and sixty-nine, and the year ending June thirty, harbors. eighteen hundred and seventy, to be expended for the repair, extension, preservation, and completion of works for the improvement of rivers and harbors under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause such expenditures to be made so as best to subserve the interests of commerce; and he is required to report to Congress, at the opening of its December session, all expenditures made under the provisions of this act up to that time in detail. Approved, April 10, 1869. How to be expended. Report to Congress at December session. a For statement showing allotment of funds under this appropriation see page 177. |