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 FIFTY-THIRD CON GRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 299. 1894. 355 Ice harbor at the mouth of the Muskingum River, Ohio: For the M¤¤ki¤g¤m River, completion of the ice harbor at the mouth of the Muskingum River in mit? tum at Ohio, and for the completion of the lock machinery at Taylorsville, i l Ohio, the sum of thirteen thousand dollars remaining to the credit of the Taylorsville lock appropriation is hereby appropriated, and the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to require the necessary changes to be made in the county bridge at Taylorsville and in the bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company at Marietta, Ohio, necessary to make said bridges conform to and accommodatc the commerce of said river and to the improvements made therein by the United States, and to use for that purpose so much of the innds for the care and maintenance of public works as may be necessary to complete and perfect such changes, requiring that the county commissioners of Muskingum County and the managers of the railway line aforesaid shall construct the superstructure of the draws in said bridges, under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, and maintain the same in good order to protect the navigation of said river; and a survey shall be made of said river from Zanesville to Dresden with a view to its improvement. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cmu .;.mMm¤_z appoint a board of three engineers of the Army, whose duty it shall be {5§‘!F§,_E"° ‘"“l °h"’ to survey the Miami and Erie Canal, the Ohio Canal and such branches Q··¤¤¤i¤¤i<>¤ tv ¤¤— thereof and such river and stream channels as may in their judgment a°ii;'»`i,”;‘i»¤?p°rt °°‘ form available portions of a continuous canal connecting the waters of Lake Erie with the Ohio River through the State of Ohio, and to report as to the feasibility and advisability of improving and widening such canal to seventy feet at the water line, and deepening the same to seven feet, and by construction of new locks not less than one hundred and fifty feet in length and twenty-one feet in width, with a capacity for vessels of at least two hundred and eighty tons burden, and to report to the next session of Congress with detailed plans and an estimate of the cost of such improvement; and twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the cost of said survey, is hereby appropriated: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to p,,,,,:,.,_ commit the Government to proceed with the construction of said b,Q3gf;’“°*i°¤ ¤°* improvement. ' Improving Ohio River, Ohio: Continuing improvement, two hundred om River. and fifty thousand dollars, of which twelve thousand dollars shall be used in continuing the work at Shawneetown; twenty-five thousand Snwueewwn. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in preventing the cutotf threatened at the peninsula near Evansville, Indiana; eighteen F*¤¤¤*‘*“¤· l¤··*· thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be V necessary, in constructing an additional ice pier at Middleport, Ohio, M*‘*‘“°¥’°"· O‘"°· pursuant to the plans of the Chief of Engineers, and in enlarging and - improving the ice pier at Pomeroy, Ohio, and in constructing an ice I°“ *’*°"‘ pier at or near Syracuse, Ohio, or at or near Hartford, West Virginia, upon the plans heretofore adopted for such piers in the Ohio River. The precise points for the construction of said piers at said localities shall be fixed by the Secretary of War so as to best accommodate the commerce of those sections of said river. Improving Ohio River by the construction of a movable dam at or gllggsiggggm below the mouth of Beaver River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improve- ‘ ment, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: Continuing improvement, sagasaw navel-, forty thousand dollars, of which sixteen thousand dollars, or such less M °*" sum as may be necessary, shall be expended on the river above Bay City. Improving Saint Clair Flats Ship Canal, ldichigan; All work per- Csagirngilinr rim taining to this canal is hereby declared to be embraced withm the %‘h,,;m,r},;w,,,;_ project adopted by the Act approved July thirteenth, eighteen hun- Vol.27.p.108. dred and ninety-two, and the Secretary of War is directed to perform the same in accordance therewith.