IOWA.

For a survey and examination of the Mississippi River at and near the head of Beaver Island, at Clinton, Iowa, to determine what is necessary to remove the sand-bars there formed and forming, so as to make navigable and protect the entrance to the western channel, and the channel itself that runs between Beaver Island and the Iowa shore.

Harbor at Owensboro.

KENTUCKY.

Big Sandy River from Catlettsburgh to Pikeville, on Louisa Fork, and to the mouth of Pond Creek on Tug Fork.

LOUISIANA,

Bayou Teche, from mouth to Saint Martinsville.

Atchafalaya River, from Berwick's Bay to Gulf of Mexico, to secure a channel of twenty feet depth.

Mouth and Passes of Calcasieu River.

Bayou Terrebonne, for continuing dredging three miles above Houma.

Harbor of Baton Rouge.

Tangipahoa River.

Bayou Dorcheat, from Lake Bisteneau to the Arkansas line.
Tchefuncta and Bogue Falia.

Bayou Chitta.

Bayou des Glaises, with a view to establishing locks.

Bayou Saint John, from head of navigation to Lake Pontchartrain.

Bayou Lafourche, from Donaldsonville to Gulf.

Amite River.

Bayou Manchac.

Bayou Teche, with a view to putting in locks.

Tickfaw River.

Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Black, with the view of opening a shorter water-way between Mississippi River and Berwick's Bay, Texas and Mexico.

MARYLAND.

Eastern Branch of Potomac River.

Wicomico River.

North East River.

Manokin River.

Warwick River.

Wetypkin River.

Chester River, between Crumpton and Jones' Landing.

South East River.

La Trappe River.
Still Pond Harbor
Tuckahoe River.
Sassafras River.
Elk River.

Taunton River.

Cohasset Harbor.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Weymouth River.

Goose Point Channel, Plymouth Harbor, to public wharf at King

Cranes and Waters Rivers of Essex Branch.

Martha's Vineyard, inner and outer harbor at Edgarton.

Stage Harbor at Chatham.

Westport Harbor, and East and West Branch of Westport River. Malden River, as to straightening, widening, and deepening the channel.

MISSISSIPPI.

Gulf Port Harbor, with a view to obtaining a twenty foot channel two hundred feet wide to approach the shore as near as practicable. Leaf River, from its mouth to mouth of Bowie Creek, near the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad.

Chickasahay River, from its mouth to Enterprise.

Bluff Creek, from its mouth to the head of navigation.

Tombigbee, between Vienna and Cotton Gin, with a view of obtaining continuous navigation.

Bogue Phalia, especially the part known as the Narrows, with view to its improvement.

Duluth.

MINNESOTA.

MICHIGAN.

False Presque Isle Harbor, Lake Huron, for a harbor of refuge. Au Gres River, to deepen channel to village of Au Gres to ten feet in depth.

Black River, Lake Superior, to deepen channel to depth of sixteen feet and constructing a breakwater.

Detroit River, at Gross Point, to dredge channel now in use to depth of twenty feet.

Petoskey Harbor, for breakwater and harbor of refuge.

Thunder Bay River, Alpena, for sixteen foot channel from mouth to one mile above.

Au Sable River at Au Sable, with view of twelve foot channel and breakwater.

Port Austin, for breakwater.

Lexington, for breakwater.

Forestville, for breakwater.

Black River, at Port Huron, to deepen channel from mouth to Grand Trunk railroad bridge to depth of eighteen feet.

Pine River, at Saint Clair City, to deepen channel from mouth to. Belknap's brick-yard to depth of sixteen feet.

Quanicassee River, to deepen channel from mouth to village of Sebewaing to twelve feet.

Port Sanilac, for harbor of refuge.

Saugatuck Harbor, to obtain channel of navigable width, with a minimum depth of fifteen feet and reconstructing piers.

Monroe Harbor, to deepen channel to sixteen feet.

Grand River, from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan: For channel of navigable width, minimum depth of ten feet.

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Algonac on St Clair River, with view of uniting north and south channels between Clark and Harsems Islands.

Monhegan Island Harbor.

Belfast Harbor.

MAINE.

Harbor and channel at Pembroke.

Union River and Union River Bay.

Harrissecket River.

Saint Croix River: Resurvey.

Medomac River.

Pleasant River, from Columbia Falls to its mouth.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a survey to be made of the Osage River, Missouri, from its mouth up to the first shoal, and five miles above the same, and to report an estimate, based on such survey, of the cost of constructing one lock and dam within the limits of said survey, and the effect upon the navigation of said river, of constructing said lock and dam. Missouri River at Miami.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Cocheco River, from Dover to its mouth.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a survey to be made of the Hampton River in New Hampshire, and to direct the engineer making the survey to report as to the most feasible, economical, and suitable plan for improving the same.

NEW MEXICO.

Rio Grande River, from Embudo to El Paso, Texas.

NEW YORK.

Water-way around Niagara Falls, of capacity and facilities sufficient to float merchant ships and ships of war of modern build, drawing twenty feet of water, said water-way to commence in a navigable part of Niagara River, in Niagara County, at or near Tonawanda, and to end in the navigable waters of said river below said falls, or in navigable waters connected therewith. For the purposes hereof the Secretary of War, in his discretion, may take into consideration and revise the surveys and estimates of such a waterway heretofore made by Brevet Colonel C. E. Blunt, of the United States Corps of Engineers, in compliance with a joint resolution of the Congress approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Plattsburgh: For extension of three hundred feet on north end of the breakwater.

Fort Pond Harbor, Montauk.

East Rockaway Creek, Long Island.
Brown's Creek, Saysville.

Port Jefferson Inlet.

Wappinger's Creek, from Wappinger's Falls to its mouth.
Tarrytown Harbor.

East Rockaway Creek.

Salmon River, from railroad bridge at Fort Covington to the international line, with a view of deepening the channel to seven feet. Black River, from Brownville to Lake Ontario.

Cape Vincent Harbor, to establish a breakwater.

Shoals between the Sister Islands and the cross-over light in Saint Lawrence.

Larchmont Harbor.

A ship channel between Jersey City and Ellis Island.

Harbor of refuge at Frontberg, on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Genessee River, from a point south of the present harbor and above the village of Charlotte, extending southerly a distance about three thousand feet.

Channel connecting Irondequoit Bay with Lake Ontario, for harbor of refuge at Irondequoit Bay.

Harbor at Troutberg.

Harbor, mouth of Salmon River, Lake Ontario.

Lake George, with view of placing buoys and improving channel. The East River, with a view to the removal of a ledge of rocks in the same, from the foot of Broome street to the foot of Twenty-third street in New York City. This survey to be made notwithstanding any other survey heretofore made.

Alloway Creek.

Little Salem Creek.

NEW JERSEY.

Hackensack River, from the lower bridge at the town of Hackensack to the Erie Railway Bridge.

From the pier Lithe to the main channel, a distance of about sixteen hundred and fifty feet, and seven hundred feet north by northeast from Ellis Island for a ship channel or basin between the deep water of Hudson River and Ellis Island.

White Oak River.

North East River (Cape Fear).

Waterway, between New River and Swansboro.

Mackey's Creek.

Pasquotank River, above the mouth of Turner's Cut.

Cape Fear River, North Carolina, from Wilmington to the ocean, with an estimate of the cost of its improvement, with a navigable channel twenty feet deep at mean low water.

Ocracoke Inlet.

Tar River, fron Tarboro to Rocky Mount.

OHIO.

Conneaut Harbor, for deepening and widening channel.

Cowles Creek or Geneva.

Mouth of Chagrin River, near Willoughby.
Muskingum River, from Zanesville to Dresden.

Siuslaw River and bar.

Clackamas River.

Tualatin River.

OREGON.

The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineers from the United States Army whose duty it shall be to thoroughly examine the obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River at The Dalles and Celilo Falls, and at Three and Ten Mile Rapids, and to report to the Secretary of War, on or before the first Monday in December next, as to the feasibility and advisability of overcoming such obstructions by means of a boat-railway at The Dalles and Celilo Falls, and by widening, to a navigable status for large tonnage river boats, the channel of said river at Three and Ten Mile Rapids, accompanied by careful and detailed plans, with estimates of the cost and a statement as to the usefulness of such improvements to navigation and of their relations and value to commerce; and said board shall also report, at the same time, as to any other plan or project for overcoming said obstructions at said points, whereby said obstructions to navigation may be removed, which in the judgment of said board may be deemed either more desirable than the above or worthy of consideration by the Secretary of War and Congress, and shall report detailed plans, with estimates of the cost of such proposed improvement or improvements, and as to their relations to commerce and usefulness to navigation; and said board shall report which of said projects is by it deemed most advisable. And the Secretary of War shall transmit said report to Congress, at its next session, with his own views and those of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of making said examination and survey and the expenses of said board.

Nehalem Bay and bar.

Young's River and its tributary Klaskuine River.

Umpqua River, in the State of Oregon; separate surveys and estimates to be made, first, of that portion of such river between Scottsburgh and the mouth; and second, of that portion between Scottsburg and Hart's Rapids, near Elkton.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Broad and Saluda River, above Columbia.

Beaufort River, from a point three miles south of the town of Beaufort through to Coosaw River, with view to its improvement, especially at Brickyard.

Ashepoo River, from the Charleston and Savannah Railroad bridge, six miles down the river, with view to removing obstructions and shoals caused by sunken vessels.

Connect North Edisto and South Edisto Rivers by Saint Pierre River and South Creek.

Savannah River, as to whether the damage to the Vernezobie Freshet Bank in eighteen hundred and eighty-seven was caused by the work at cross-tides, and whether the maintenance of said bank is essential to the success of the work at cross-tides, and what will be