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 FORTY- FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 240, 241. 1870. 227 known as the Hog`? Back. fox- the purpose of removing the same ; at the raguth of Oconto rxvcr, WISCODSID; at the mouth of the Ahucpcc river, xsconsm ; at Chapel harbor, on the Delaware river, Pennsylvania; at Alpcgnalmrbor, ll/hchngan; at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, North Carolma; for ship·canal rgule from Hennepin, on the Illinois river, to Rock Igland, on the Mxssxsgxppx river, via Geneseo, by the most direct and fcasxble mute; at Pscomc river below Riverhead, New York ; at the entrance to? Port Jr?H`ers0n harbor, on the south side of Long Island sound ; at Rocky rxver, Qhm ; at Salm5m river, Lake Ontario, New York; at the mouth 0F Two luvcrs, W1sc0¤1s1n ; at the mouth of Trinity river, Texas; at Dclawarc r1ven·, between the city of Trenton and Bordentown; at Shrewsbury rxvey, New Jersey; at. the mouth of Sabine river, Texas ; at French Broad rnver, Tennessee; at Pme river, Saginaw buy, Michigan;
 * 2; Brazos, San Jago, Texas; at the mouth of Muskingum riyer, Ohio; at

oucester harbor, Massachusetts; at the harbor of Cambridge and the harbor of Queenstown, Maryland ; at the mouth of the Apulachlcola river, Fl0r1da ; at Nags head, m North Carolina, with a view of reopening the old mlet near that place ; survey of the Wabash river, from its mouth to the town of Wabasln, Indiana; for the survey of the Willamette river, above Oregon exty, Oregon; For the survey of the Umpqua river, Oregon. Sec. And be at further enacted, That. the sum of forty-two thousand Ship canal in [and] muq l1undred dollars be paid out of any money ip the treasury §:;“g§‘;‘;;;:L not otncrwmc approprmtcdntu llc expended under the direction of the bay, Secretary of ¥Vax·, to the widening and deepening the ship canal in the 1?atapsc0 rxvcr and Chesapeake bay, leading toward the harbor of Baltxmore. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twelve thousand Mmm of the dilllgrs, og RD); ur52}ppr0pria;cd money in the treasury, be paid and ap- $¤5<l¤¤h¤¤¤¤ p xc, un cr t, nc nrcction 0 the Secretary of Wm· to deepen the harbor nw" or waters at the mouth of the Susquehanna river., Sec. 5. Am? be it further enacted, Thnt the Secretary of War js Engmeersw hereby authorized and required to detail three engineers, whose duty it f)fQ";‘;;‘£m shall be to eicamme all bridges now erected, or in process of erection, me 6hio river, across the Ohm river, and to report whether, in their opinion, such bridges, gxegziggg Ol; arly of them, as now constructed, or proposed to be constructed, do or °b,u€,ct°d,hcm w1ll xntgrfcrc with the free and safe navigation of said river; and if they by, &c. door wxll so interfere, to report also what extent of span and elevation above water wnll be required to prevent obstruction to navigation, and their estimate of the cost required to change such bridges now built, or being built, to such width of span and elevation above the water as will prevent obstruction to navigation, such report to be made and communicated to the next session of C0ugress. APPROVED, July 11, 1840. CHAP. CCXLI. - An»Act making Appmpriationsjixr the Service of the Past-Office De- July 11, 1870. partment during thejiscal Year ending June zhiméth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. ’ " """ ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, A£P¥`°P\`;%Yi0¤$ and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post—OHYce Qgpufféfmfe Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 1B36.ch.2l'0. seventy-cnc, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues V°l· V- P- *°· of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six : For transportation of the mail inland, including pay of mail messen- Inland mmls. gcrs, route agents, mail route agents, local agents, postal railway clerks, and baggage masters, thirteen million five hundred und sax thousand cirrht; hundred and ninety-three dollars. °For transportation of the foreign mail, four hundred and eighty thousand Foreign mails. dollars.