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 1`ORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. (Ju. 375. 1882. 207 Improving Key West Harbor, Florida., especially the northwest chan- Key Wm Harucl, twentytive thousand dollars. bm`- Improving Manatee River, Florida., twelve thousand dollars. Manatee River. Improving Caloosahatcheo Rxvcr, Flomda, five thousand dollars. R_C¤1o¤¤aha.mhee, IVBT. Improving Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts, sixty thousand dollars. Lynn Harbor. lmproving Little Tennessee River, Tennessee, five thousand dollars. R_Littla Tennessee IVGI'. Improving White River above Buifalo Shoals, Arkansas, four thou- Wnim River. sand dollars. I gnproviug Chehalis River, Washington Territory, three thousand Cbchalis River. c dollars. Improving Grcénporb Harbor, New York, tem thousand dollars. b°G1-oeupon Har- ' X`. Improving Hay Lake Channel of tho Sault Sainte Marie River, via HayLuk¤C1;¤¤- tbc Middle Nccbish, two hundred thousand dollars, of which amount ”°1'?‘S*}'}" S‘“”*° the sum of ten thousand dollars may be expended in improving the East M°"° m` "' Necbish changed. · Improving cyport Harbor, New Jersey from the Kc port Steamboat, _ Com pan 5 ’s Wharf to Raritan Bay Channel; thirty thousgrnd fourhundred K Won Hmm uml seventy-tive dollars. Improving Maurice River, New Jersey, three thousand dollars. Mnurico River. Improving Mantua Creek, New Jersey, three thousand dollars. Mmm, cmk. Improving Woodbury Crock, New Jersey, five thousand dollars. W ,, o d I, u 1. y Improving Racoon River, New Jersey, three thousand dollars. Cr;:,},,,,, m,,,._ Improving North Branch of Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, iiftccn North 1;,,,,,,;, thousand dollars. Spsquohanna Improving Clinton Harbor, Connecticut, three thousand dollars. méam H,,b,,,._ Improving South Forked Deer River, Tennessee, three thousand South porké.; d0u2¤l1'8.- Door River. Improving Old Town Creek, Mississippi, three thousand dollars. gldyowu gmk Improving M0u0ugahcln‘Ri\·cr, West Virginia: Continuing improve- M,,,,,,,, gahola ment, twenty-five thousand dollars. River. For continuing the practical tcsh of the Hume invented by M. J. Adams mam Hume_ the said test to be made under the supervision and direction of · Adams, eight thousand dollars. · ‘ That the Secretary of War bc, and be is hereby, authorized and di- Survgy and 100,,. rcctcd to survey and locate a canal from a point on the Illinois River tion or canal frqm at or ucar the town of Hennepin, by the most practicable and conven-  ° ’ g°{*P°P’P» isnt route, to the Mississippi River at or above the city of Rock Island, m;;" to with a. branch canal or feeder from the most practicable aud convenient si pgkgvcr at Rgck point on Rock River to the most practicable and convenient point 011 IsRmd,wi¤hbm¤¤b the main Iiuc of said canal. Said canal and said branch shall not be f°°d°'·°*°· less than seventy feet wide at the watcr·linc, and not less than seven feet in depth of water, with locks not less than one hundred and fifty feet in length and twenty-one feet in width, and with a capacity for . vessels of at least two hundred and eighty tons burden; and for that purpose the Secretary of War shall have power and authority, by ongincers and agents employed by him, to enter upon any lands for the purpose of making the necessary preliminary examinations and surveyszmd the cost of construction, the annual cost of maintenance, and economy of use of said canal, when completed, shall be estimated aud accompany the said surveys; and the Secretary of War shall cause to bc made by skillihl engineers of the Army a survey of the Illinois and Sun-cyqgmsma. Michigan Ghana} connecting the Illinois River with Lake Michigan at md Michigan cn- Chicago, and estimates of the cost of enlarging the same so as [:0 001*- ¤•·* *°°*I PT °‘ respond in dimensions with the proposed canal between Hcmncpm and * tha Mississippi River, and to report to the neat session of Congress the cost of anhu- 'ng said uma}, and the construction of the canal between Hennepin sngthe Mississippi River and the right of way therefor- and hirthepnrpososof thisparsgmph thesmndthirtytheusanddo , nrsnm¤ahzberon£asmayb•moc¤n•ary·,ishcm¤byapmnr¤v1i$•¤¤d· PW- P~¤i•<>·