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 464 FIFTY·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 907. 1890. Nottoway River, from mouth of river to Courtland. West Neck River, to and be ond Dozier’s Bridge. Western Branch of Elizabeth River. Upper Machodoc Creek. Crane’s Creek. N andua Creek. - Piscataway Creek. wmvuym WEST VIRGINIA. Elk River, with a view of improving the same by locks and dams. wuungwn. - WASHINGTON. N ooksack River, Skagit, Snohomish, D’Wamish, Black, Puyallup, Nasel, North, Gray’s, Deep, Skamakawa, and Crooked Rivers. t0S(ray’s Harbor and Bar, and extending up Chehalis River to Monno. ‘ Gray’s River, for snagging; Swinomish Slough, with the view of constructing a shi channel through the same, connecting Saratoga Passage Skagit Pay with · Padilla Bay, and to report the most suitable and feasible plan for making such improvement, with the cost of the same. Sh water Bay, from and including its entrance, to South Bend, about two miles up the Willapah River, and from said South Bend, about ten miles up said river, to Woodward’s Landing, with a view to improvingthe same for navigation. Olyménia arbor, from dee water in Budd’s Inlet to Fourth Street ridge in the city of D1 pia, and separately from said bridge to the mouth of the Des Clllrutes River at Tumwater and to report as to the most practical and convenient channel and the most feasible, economical, and suitable plan for improving the same for navigation by the class of vessels employed on Puget Sound, and also to cause to be made an estimate of the cost of each of such improvements. Columbia River, from the mouth of Willamette River to the u per lilrnits df the city of Vancouver, with a view of establishing a dhipc anne. For a ship channel between Port Townsend Bay, Puget Sound and Oak Bay. . Whunm. WISCONSIN. Allonez Bay at the west end of ·Lake Superior, also the Nemadji River for a distance of four miles above its mouth, with a view of determining the best method of improving and making them available as a portion of the harbor system of the city of Superior. Harbor at Hudson, with aview to prevent the city eing cut off from the navigable channel of the Saint Croix Lake, as a result of the Government dike now constructed at that point, and with a view to the feasibility of conducting the waters of illow River past the city of Hudson into the navigable channel of the lake. hhltinh and Karr- VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. Potomac River, up to the City of Washington, with the view of _ removing obstructions and deepening the channel. ,,§?,‘§*§c"{"°“ °°' SEO. 18. That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies, and for incidental repairs, for which there is no special appropriation, _ for rivers and harbors two hundred and twenty-five thousand dol-
 * 'm°f“f•*· _ larsc Provided, That no survey shall be made' of any harbors or
 * g_m*·gg·;:;‘rm“w nvers until the Chief of Engineers shall haw e directed a preliminary