RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATION ACT.

[GENERAL NATURE-No. 61.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, 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 of the Secretary of War, for the repair, preservation, and completion of the following public works hereinafter named:

For the purpose of dredging out the Bay of Superior from the natural entrance to the docks of Superior and Du Luth, and preserving both entrances from the lake thereto, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Marquette Harbor, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Menomonee Harbor, Michigan and Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Green Bay Harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Two Rivers Harbor, Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Manitowoc Harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Sheboygan Harbor, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Port Washington Harbor, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Racine Harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Chicago Harbor, Illinois, ninety thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Calumet Harbor, Illinois, forty thousand dol

lars.

For the improvement of Michigan City Harbor, Indiana, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, three hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Manistee Harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Ludington Harbor, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the harbors of Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Great Kanawha River, West Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of White River Harbor, Michigan, seven thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Frankfort Harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Black Lake Harbor, Michigan, twelve thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Saugatuck Harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of South Haven Harbor, Michigan, twenty thonsand dollars.

For the improvement of Monroe Harbor, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Cheboygan Harbor, Michigan, fifteen thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Saint Mary's Falls Canal, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Saint Clair River, at the mouth of Black River, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Harbor of Refuge, on Lake Huron, seventyfive thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Pentwater Harbor, Michigan, twenty thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Saint Clair Flats Canal, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Toledo Harbor, Ohio, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Sandusky City Harbor, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Vermillion Harbor, Ohio, twelve thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Black River Harbor, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, one thousand dol lars.

For the improvement of Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, sixteen thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, four hundred dollars. For the improvement of Dunkirk Harbor, New York, forty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Buffalo Harbor, New York, seventy-five thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Olcott Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Oak Orchard Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Pultneyville Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Little Sodus Harbor, New York, fifteen thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of Oswego Harbor, New York, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Waddington Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Ogdensburgh Harbor, New York, six thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Plattsburgh Harbor, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Swanton Harbor, Vermont, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the removal of a sand-bar in the harbor at the mouth of Black River, New York, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the improvement of Peconic River, Long Island, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Burlington Harbor, Vermont, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the preservation of the falls of Saint Anthony, Minnesota, and the navigation of the Mississippi River above the same, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Minnesota River, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That one-half of said sum shall be expended between the mouth of the Yellow Medicine and Minnesota Falls on said river.

For construction of the lock and dam on the Mississippi River, at Meeker's Island, Minnesota, according to the surveys and plans of the War Department, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That all rights and claims in and to the land-grant made to the State of Minnesota for the above work, by act approved July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be fully relinquished to the United States before any of this appropriation is expended.

For the improvement of the Upper Mississippi River, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Illinois River, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids, Mississippi River, four hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Rock Island Rapids, Mississippi River, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Harbor of Refuge at the entrance of the Sturgeon Bay Canal, forty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers, one hundred thousand dollars.

For improvement of Yazoo River, forty thousand dollars.

The ten thousand dollars appropriated at the second session of the Forty-second Congress for the improvement of the Tombigbee River shall be expended in the State of Mississippi.

For the improvement of the Osage River, Missouri, twenty-five thou sand dollars.

For the improvement of the White and Saint Francis Rivers, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Ouachita River, in Louisiana, sixtythousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri River and the mouth of the Ohio River, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Ohio River, two hundred thousand dollars. And that Godfrey Weitzell, of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, in charge of the Louisville and Portland Canal, is hereby empowered and directed, subject to the approval of the Chief of Engineers of said corps, to adjust and pay, out of any money appropriated for the improvement of said canal, to J. C. Dennis any legal or equitable

claims he may have against the United States arising out of work done by him under Hugh McGliney and Company's contract to perform work on said canal, in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-one and eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and said Godfrey Weitzell is further authorized and directed to pay to said J. C. Dennis, in addition to the amount above provided for, such other sums as said Weitzell shall find that said Dennis is legally or equitably entitled to as assignee of Hugh McGlincy and Company for work done by said Dennis on said improvement: Provided, That such sums shall not exceed the amount due and owing by the Government of the United States for work done under said contract of Hugh McGlincy and Company, and that the sums thus received of Weitzell shall be in full of the claim of said McGliney and Company under their contract, and in full of the claim of said Dennis as the assignee of said firm.

For completing the Louisville and Portland Canal, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to assume, on behalf of the United States, the control and management of the said canal in conformity with the terms of the joint resolution of the legislature of the State of Kentucky, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at such time and in such manner as in his judgment the interests of the United States, and the commerce thereof, may require; and the sum of money necessary to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry this provision into effect is hereby appropriated: Provided, That after the United States shall assume control of said canal, the tolls thereon on vessels propelled by steam shall be reduced to twenty-five cents per ton, and on all other vessels in proportion.

For the improvement of the Upper Monongahela River, near Morgantown, West Virginia, sixty-six thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Wabash River, Indiana and Illinois, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Tennessee River below Chattanooga, including the Muscle Shoals, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the Tennessee River above Chattanooga, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For removing the raft in Red River, Louisiana, eighty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Cypress Bayou, and construction of dams, and dredging at the foot of Soda Lake, Texas, fifty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Mobile Harbor and Bay, Alabama, one hundred thousand dollars.

For completing work now in progress in improving Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Savannah Harbor and River, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Saint John's River, Florida, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the entrance to the harbor of Baltimore, in Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay, two hundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Wicomico River, Maryland, five thousand dollars.