of himself and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon.

Improving harbor at Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Tampa Bay, Florida, from outer bar to Mangrove or Bushy Point, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving entrance to harbor at Key West, Florida, twenty-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 entrance to the harbor at Key West, Florida, upon the plan_submitted by Lieutenant William M. Black, United States Army Engineers, under date of May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; the said Board shall report to the Secretary of War, who shall lay its report before Congress at its next session, together with the views of himself and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon.

Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, on enlarged project for securing a channel twenty-three feet deep and two hundred and eighty feet wide, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Biloxi Bay, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Aransas Pass and Bay up to Rockport and Corpus Christi, Texas: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Brazos, Santiago Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improvement of entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Sabine Pass, and Blue Buck Bar, Texas: Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving ship-channel in Galveston Bay, Texas, from Morgan's Cut to Bolivar Channel: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at mouth of Black River, Ohio: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: Continuing improvement on the last plan projected, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars; of which so much as may be necessary may be expended in deepening the river. That the owners of dock property abutting on Grand River, at the mouth thereof, shall have the right to load and unload coal, ore, and other freight over so much of the east Government pier as lies north of the present low-water mark, under such limitations as to time and use as shall be approved by the Secretary of War, on the payment of such compensation as the Secretary of War shall determine.

Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: Continuing improvement, six thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Vermillion, Ohio: For preservation of piers, one thousand dollars.

For ice harbor at the mouth of Muskingum River, Ohio: To complete, sixty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: Continuing improvement by a straight channel from Sandusky City to the entrance of Sandusky Bay, pursuant to the last plan of the engineers, forty thousand dollars; of which five thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in improving the old channel.

Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: Continuing improvement of the Maumee River, by a straight channel, pursuant to the last plan of the engineer in charge, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For clearing the old channel, five thousand dollars.

Improving outer harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improvement, ninety thousand dollars.

To complete inner harbor at Michigan City, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: To complete improvement, twenty thousand four hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Charlevoix and entrance to Pine Lake, Michigan, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: Continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Ludington, Michigan: Continuing improvement, sixty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to accept the deed tendered by the Pere Marquette Lumber Company, of Ludington, Michigan, of three and thirty-one hundredths acres of land.

Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Black Lake, Michigan: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan: For repairs and for dredging at mouth of river, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: Continuing improvement, forty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Pentwater, Michigan: Continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Michigan: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Sand Beach, Michigan: Continuing improvement, seventy thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars; five thousand dollars to be used in improving the water channel leading up to Benton Harbor.

Improving harbor of Saugatuck, Michigan: To repair and maintain, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars; three thousand dollars of which shall be used in deepening the channel of Black River from the inner termini of the piers to the highway bridge.

Improving harbor at White River, Michigan: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the question of harbor limits has been settled to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War.

Improving harbor at Thunder Bay, Michigan: Continuing improvement, the balance available from former appropriations shall be expended in dredging the entrance channel from the bay into the river.

Improving harbor at Au Sable, Michigan: Continuing improvement, the balance available from former appropriations shall be expended in dredging the mouth of Au Sable River.

Improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; and so much of the act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the improvement of rivers and harbors as relates to the harbor of Ahnapee is hereby amended by striking out the words "but no part of said sum is to be expended until the wharfage over the Government pier at that port shall be made free."

Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: Continuing improvment, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Menomonee, Wisconsin: For repairs and dredging, nine thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement on bay and harbor, seventy thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Oconto, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars; eighteen thousand dollars of which appropriation shall not be available, until the city of Oconto has caused repairs to be made, to the satisfaction of the engineer in charge, to the old part of the pier built by private enterprise.

Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Superior Bay and Saint Louis Bay, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement on the enlarged project, sixty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota: Continuing improvement, eighty thousand dollars; of which sum one-half shall be expended on the harbor basin and new channel east of Rice's Point, and in the preservation and maintenance of the canal and piers at the harbor entrance, and in the purchase of a steam launch; and the other half of said sum shall be expended on the channel west of Rice's Point, and from thence along the northern shore of Saint Louis Bay to Grassy Point; and the Government of the United States hereby accepts from the city of Duluth the grant and conveyance made by said city, by deed dated January ninth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, of the following described real estate, to wit: All the tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Saint Louis and State of Minnesota described as follows, to wit: Lots two hundred and forty-seven, two hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and forty-nine, two hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty-one, two hundred and fifty-two, two hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and fifty-four, two hundred and fifty-five, two hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and fifty-seven, two hundred and fifty-eight, two hundred and fifty-nine, and two hundred and sixty Minnesota avenue, Upper Duluth, the same being the ground on which is located the canal entrance and piers to the harbor of Duluth.

Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: Continuing im-provement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Agate Bay, Minnesota: Continuing improve-ment, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Pro-vided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until the twelve acres of land necessary to said improvement shall have been conveyed to the United States free of expense, and such conveyance has been approved by the Secretary of War, after the Attorney-General of the United States shall have certified to the Secretary of War that the title is perfect.

Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; which sum, or any part thereof, may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of War, on the training walls and channel.

Improving harbor at Red Wood, California: To complete, seven thousand four hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Wilmington, California: Continuing improvement, ninety thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at San Diego, California: For repairs, onethousand dollars.

Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California, by the construction of a breakwater on the reef to the plane of mean low water, according to the plan of W. H. Benyaurd, major of engineers, dated January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twentyfive thousand dollars.

Improving entrance to harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Yaquina Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon, five thousand two hundred dollars.

Improving Lubec Channel, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving Penobscot River, Maine: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars; twenty thousand dollars of which sum to be expended between Bangor and Crosby's Narrows, and thirty thousand dollars between Bucksport and Winterport, according to the last plan of the engineer in charge if approved by the Secretary of War.

Improving Narragaugus River, Maine: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Saco River, Maine: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Bagaduce River, Maine, three thousand dollars.

Improving Kennebec River, Maine, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Moose-a-Bec Bar, Maine: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Cocheco River, New Hampshire: To complete, nine thousand dollars.

Improving Bellamy River, New Hampshire, ten thousand dollars. Improving Otter Creek, Vermont: Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Ipswich River, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Powow River, Massachusetts, for dredging, three thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall not be expended until the towns of Amesbury and Salisbury, or either of them, shall have caused such a draw to be placed in the present bridge over said river, as may be approved by the Secretary of War.

Improving Pawtucket River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars.

For removing Green Jacket Shoal, Providence River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut, thirty-five thousand dollars; twenty-five thousand dollars of which may be expended in commencing the construction of a breakwater at the mouth of said river.

Improving Thames River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars, which may be expended at any point between

Norwich and New London.

Improving East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars; of which ten thousand dollars may be used in dredging and otherwise deepening and improving the harbor at Peekskill.

Improving Newtown Creek and Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars, a portion of which may, in