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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 907. 1890. 461 MONTANA. Montana. Missouri ltiver, between Sioux City and Fort Benton. F Missouri River, between Great Falls and canyon next below Stubbs erry. Tongne River, with a view of determining the practicability and approximate cost of straightening the channel of said river, imme- ` diately west of Miles City and north of the Northern Pacific rail- ‘ road track. Nebraska and South Dakota, Missouri River from the mouth of the Big Sioux River to the north line of the State of South Dakota. Yellowstone River, from its mouth to the mouth of Tongue River. Clark’s Fork of the Columbia River (by whatever name called) from the international boundary line to the mouth of the Big Blackfoot River, in the State of Montana. NEW YORK. New York. Buttermilk channel and Gowanus Bay channels in New York Harbor, with a view of straightening the same by removing the Shoals opposite the southeast side of overnor’s Is and, protecting the channels by a sea-wall on GOVGIDOIJS Island, and to provide for the full width thereof a uniform depth of twenty-six feet at mean low water throughout these channels along the w arves of Brooklyn from a point opposite Wall Street Ferry to the foot of Bryant Street, Brookl n. Bay Bidge channel, with a view of removing the Shoal and providing a uniform depth of twenty-three feet at mean low water o - 'te the Bay Ridge shore to the twenty-three—foot curve in tlib New York harbor. Hudson River - at Cornwall from the Moodna River, otherwise known as Murderer’s Creek, to the channel or deep water of the Hudson River. Inner Bay near mouth of Saranac River at Plattsburgh, for harbor of refmge. · Sag arbor, Suffolk County, for breakwater. Princess Bay, Staten Islan, for breakwater. Peconic River, Suffolk County, and Mattituck Bay, Suffolk County, for breakwater. _ From Main channel from J amaica Bay easterly to Long Beach Inlet, for canal. _ Cham lin’s Creek, in town of Islip; _ e That the Secreta of War is authorized and directed to algzoint aboard of three officers of the Corps of Engineers, United tates Army, whose dnt it will be to thoroughly examine the obstructions to navigation in the Hudson River between New York City and the State dam at Troy, New York, and report a project and estimate of the cost of widening and deepening said river between New York City and the city of Alban, and also between New York City and the State dam at the city of '1{oy for the navigation of sea-going vessels drawing twenty feet of water, and. also a separate estimate of the expense of improving the river between Coxsackie and the State dam at Troy, to such an extent as to secure a navigable channel twelve feet dee at mean low water. Said board shall aeompany their report with a statement as to the usefulness of such improvements and of their relations and value to commerce, and of the advisability of entering upon the same at this time; and the Secretary of War shall transmit said rgorts to Congress with his own views and those of the Chief of ngineers United States Army thereon, and the expenses of said board shall be paid out of the impropriation made in this act for the improvement of the Hudson iver, not to exceed ten thousand dollars.