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 196 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 211. 1880. S¤¤V<>y¤ and 0K- East Bay and Blackwater River, Florida. _ “·mi“”i°“‘*C°“‘ The Ohio River at the head of Hurricane Island and Elizabethtown, “““°‘*· mmm. ' Chester and Ridley Creeks, near their outlets into the Delaware River, Pennsylvania. _ _ ` Saint Mary’s River, from the town of Saint Mary’s to its mouth, Ohio. . Minnesota River, near the village of Belle Plain, with a view to prevent the breaking away of the banks of the narrow neck of land opposite said village and injury to the navigation of said river, in Minnesota. The Nomoni River, from the ferry across the same to the head of tide-water. The Appoquinimink Creek, Delaware. Patchogue River, New York. _ For opening channel between Lloyd’s Harbor and Cold Spring Bay, New York. _ _ Stillaquamish River, Nooksack River, and Snohomish R1ver,1n Washington Territory. Wareham Harbor, Massachusetts. Red Bank Creek, Pennsylvania, from its mouth on the Allegheny River, to Brookville. Saint Jones Creek, in Kent County, Delaware, and Little Creek, in Kent County, Delaware. Clinton River and Lake Saint Clair, at the mouth of Clinton River,. Michigan. For the construction of two ice-breakers in the Ohio River, near the West Virginia shore, and below the railroad bridge crossing said river at Parkersburg. Ice-harbor at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Christiana River, Delaware, from the Delaware Railroad bridge, to the mouth of the river, with an estimate of the cost of procuring a mean depth of fifteen feet in the channel thereof. For the opening of a ship-canal across the Charleston Neck, South Carolina. I Cdhester River, between Kirby’s Landing and Spry’s Landing, Mary- an. 1a’V(Vater-passage between Deal’s Island and Little Deal’s Island, Mary- n . Boeuf River, North Louisiana. Potowomut River, Rhode Island. For a harbor on Lake Michigan, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin. For the opening of steamboat communication from the Saint J ohn’s Rive? Florida, by way of Topokalija Lake, to Charlotte Harbor or Pease ree . The Missouri River at Niobrara, Nebraska. Pocosson and Lillington Rivers, and Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina. pcbris from The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be made such ¤¤¤¤¤· examination and surveys as may be necessary to devise a system of works to prevent the further injury to the navigable waters of California from the debris from the mines, and the estimates of the cost of such works, and report the result of such examinations, surveys, and estimates of cost of proposed works made in pursuance hereof to Congress at its next session. Humboldt Bay, The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an examination to 0*1- be made to determine the work necessary to be done, and the cost of the game, to improve the channels inside the bar of Humboldt Bay, Caliornia. Ship·canals. That for the purpose of making a survey to ascertain the practicability and cost of construction of a ship-canal from Lake Erie, by the Maumee and Wabash Valleys, in the bed of the old Wabash and Erie Canal, or with any variation therefrom that may prove feasible, to the navigable. waters of the Wabash River; also for a survey and estimate of cost of A