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 FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 211, 212. 1880. 197 a similar canal from Junction City, on the Wabash and Erie Canal, to Siuveys and oxthe Ohio River, by way of the Miami and Erie Canal, or any variation ,*??”m°·**°”°—C°”‘ in route to produce the most practical and least expensive ship-canal mu°d‘ from Lake Erie to the navigable waters of the Ohio River by the above routes, the estimates in each case to be for a water channel and locks of the same size and capacity as those of the present enlarged Erie Canal in New York. Sinslaw Bay, Oregon. Of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars herein appropriated for surveys and examinations, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars may be expended in the completion of the survey of the reservoir system on the headwaters of the Mississippi River, including Rock River, in Wiscoiisin and Illinois. Sine. 3. That for the examinations and surveys herein provided for, Appropriation and for incidental repairs of harbors, for which there is no special appro- f°" ““"°Y°· &°· priation, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and in every case where examinations or surveys are made, the report thereon shall embrace such information concerning the commercial importance, present and prospective, of the improvement contemplated thereby, and ueh general commercial statistics, as the Secretary of War may be able to procure. Sec. 4. Whenever hereafter the navigation of any river lake, harbor, or Navigation obbay, or other navigable water of the United States, shall be obstructed ¤'¤m°*° by ¤¤¤k°¤ or endangered by any sunken vessel or water-craft, it shall be the duty  °“` W““' of the Secretary of War, upon satisfactory information thereof, to cause ' reasonable notice, of not less than thirty days, to be given, personally Notice given to or by publication, at least once a week in the newspaper published near- P<>1`¤<>¤¤ 1¤’¤¤¤¢¤*¤¤d est the locality of such sunken vessel or craft, to all persons interested t" “““°"° “‘"“°· in such vessel or craft, or in the cargo thereof, of the purpose of said Secretary, unless such vessel or craft shall be removed as soon thereafter as practicable by the parties interested therein, to cause the same to be removed. If such sunken vessel or craft and cargo shall not be removed by the parties interested therein as soon as practicable after the date of _ the giving of such notice by publication, or after such personal service of notice, as the case may be, such sunken_ vessel or craft shall be treated as abandoned and derelict, and the Secretary of War shall proceed to re- Removalmove the same. Such sunken vessel or craft and cargo and all property Sunken vessels, therein when so removed shall, after reasonable notice of the time and °’:f)g‘;‘;:» *;*;:1 0: gd place of sale, be sold to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, and the gy P ng g,,vm,_ proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United ment to be sold States to the credit of a fund for the removal of such obstructions to and proceeds denavigation, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be paid g,;;;;,? ° °Q,0’gm*g’§ out for that purpose on his requisition therefor. The provisions of this of E iQ',,, fo, M_ act shall apply to all such wrecks whether removed under this act movn.1 or obstrucor under any other act of Congress. Such sum of money as may be timenecessary to execute this section of this act is hereby appropriated, out Amireprietienof any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the requisition of the Secretary of War. Approved, June 14, 1880. CHAP. 212.-An act to change the name of yacht Niantic to that ofHi1degarde. June 14, 1880. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tim United States of America in Congress assembled, That authority is hereby Yacht Nimtic. _ given to the owner of the yacht now known as the N1ant1c of New York to change the name of said yacht to that of Hildegarde. Approved, June 14, 1880.