[PUBLIC-No. 259.] An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation 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 immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving breakwater at the mouth of Saco River, Maine: Continuing improvements and repairs, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at York, Maine: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Camden, Maine, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Back Cove, Portland Harbor, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockport, Maine, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement on the enlarged plan, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving the channel between the islands of North Hero and South Hero, Lake Champlain, Vermont, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gordon's Landing, Lake Champlain, Vermont: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvements, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; one half of which shall be used in widening the main ship channel at the "upper and lower middle;" and so much thereof as may be necessary may be expended in extending the sea-wall at Gallup's Island. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars; a part of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used at the Point of Pines and in the western channel leading thereto, and a portion in the basin enclosed by the wharves of said city of Lynn. Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, six thousand dollars; a part of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the improvement in said harbor of Goose Point Channel to the port of Kingston and North Plymouth. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: To complete, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Scituate, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars." Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: Dredging Harbor Cove and removing ledge and boulders obstructing the approach to the wharves between Harbor Cove and Pew Wharf, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wareham, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Bedford, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Hingham, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars, a part of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to straighten the channel from the wharf to the end of Ragged Island. Improving harbor at Winthrop, Massachusetts: For dredging, one thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For protection of Chops at the mouth of the harbor, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, seven thousand dollars. Improving national harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manchester, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Block Island, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars; of which sum six thousand dollars are for inner harbor, four thousand dollars for breakwater, and five thousand dollars for removing sand bar at entrance of harbor. Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized to expend such portion of said sum as he may deem advisable above the bridges across the stream emptying into said harbor. Improving harbor at Black Rock, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Chief of Engineers may, if deemed necessary, relocate the western breakwater; and the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to expend any portion of said sum in commencing its construction. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: Continuing improve ment, twenty-eight thousand dollars; twenty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended in dredging and deepening the channel in the lower harbor up to Wilson's Point. Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut, eight thousand dol lars. Improving harbor at Stamford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Five Mile River, Connecticut, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milford, Connecticut: To complete improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sheepshead Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving breakwater at Rouse's Point, New York: Continuing improvement, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Canarsie Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs, forty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving channel at Gowanus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, by deepening to twenty-one feet mean low water and widening the channel to four hundred feet on the northerly side from the foot of Percival street, along the wharves to the twenty-threefeet curve, opposite the entrance to the Erie Basin, sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty-four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, sixteen thousand dollars. And the Engineer in charge, with the approval of the Secretary of War, may use such part of this appropriation for dredging and deepening the channel and harbor, as he may deem proper. Improving harbor at Greenport, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oak Orchard, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ogdensburgh, New York, including the clearing out of the mouth of the Oswegatchie River: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Olcott, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs, one hundred thousand dollars; of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be used in removing the east break water at the mouth of the river. Improving harbor at Plattsburgh, New York: To complete improvement, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: To complete improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sackett's, New York: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Tonawanda Harbor and Niagara River, New York, as per report of engineer in charge, dated December twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilson, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Glen Cove, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Rochelle, New York: Continuing improvement, the balance remaining on hand from former appropriations to be expended in pursuance of the project adopted in eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Improving_channel between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, by dredging fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey: Dredging and straightening channel near Staten Island bridge, and removing the point of land westerly of same, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Raritan Bay, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, twenty-three thousand dollars. For the preservation and protection of the peninsula of Presque Isle, Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers, January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and in accordance with such plans as the Secretary of War may prescribe, sixty thousand dollars. Improving the harbor of Philadelphia: For the removal of Smith's Island, and Windmill Island, in the State of Pennsylvania, and Petty's Island, in the State of New Jersey, or such parts of them and the shoals adjacent thereto as may be required, and for the improvement of the harbor between the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended until the title to the lands forming said islands shall be acquired and vested in the United States without charge to the latter beyond three hundred thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated. Improving ice-harbor at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving ice-harbor at New Castle, Delaware: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing improve ment, and widening channel to six hundred feet, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Breton Bay, Maryland: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cambridge, Maryland, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norfolk and its approaches, Virginia: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving approach to Norfolk Harbor, and the United States navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia: Continuing improvement between Lambert's Point and Fort Norfolk, ten thousand dollars; and the balance of one hundred and nine thousand dollars of former appropriations made under this head and available July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby authorized to be expended according to the modified plan of the engineer in charge. Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina : Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving the inland water-way between Beaufort and New River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving the inland water-way between New Berne and Beaufort, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charleston, including Sullivan's Island, South Carolina: Continuing improvements, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars may be expended on Mount Pleasant shore of inner harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Improving harbor at Georgetown, South Carolina: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to examine the plan submitted by Captain William H. Bixby, United States Army Engineers, under date of January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the improvement of said bay. The said board shall report to the Secretary of War, who shall lay its report before Congress at its next session, with the views of himself and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the expenditure of this appropriation. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: To complete existing project, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Augustine, Florida, thirty-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to examine into the expediency of further improving the harbor of San Augustine, Florida, upon the plan submitted by Lieutenant William M. Black, United States Army Engineers, under date of December twelfth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven. The said board shall report to the Secretary of War, who shall lay its report before Congress at its next session, with the views |