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 584 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 7 90. 1900. Galveston Bay: With a view to widening, deepening, and extendin the present channel from a point where it now is of sufficient width and depth to a point opposite Twentieth street; thence to a point opposite Thirty-fifth street; thence to a point opposite Fifty-first street, with a report as to the relative importance of the respective sections. {gse for survey and making plans for improvement of inner harbor o alveston. Sabine Pass: With a view to widening and Straightening the main ship channel and increasing the depth, if necessary, from a point one iiholpsand feet north of the United States life-saving station to Sabine a e. · Brazos River from its mouth to the city of Waco: With a view to procuring a navigable depth of four, five, and six feet, first, from its mouth to the town of old ashington, in Washin ton County; second, from saidtown of old Washington to the city of %Vaco. In case a Su1·- vey is made, the report thereon shall show the most advantageous depth to each point, and whether a system of locks and dams will be necessary, and if so, the cost and location of same. vugmm. vrnemm. Quantico Creek: ° · V Norfolk: To remove barand secure depth of twenty-eight feet at point between the twenty-eight foot channe and the pier of the Southern Railway Company near Norfolk, Virginia. Appon1§attoxbRiver: Resurvey and estimate for the deflection of the river at eters urg. Pagan River from Smithfield, Vir inia, to James River, with a view to securing a channel eighty feet wide and ten feet deep at mean low tide, or such improvement as may be found expedient. Chesconnessex Creek, an estuary of the Chesapeake Bay running up into hang os; the zvipstern side of Accomac County, Virginia, with a v1ew o re ging e same. Wsshingm. wAsmNeToN. Tacoma Harbor: A. Snake River, in the States of Idaho and Washington from the head of navigation on said river to the point of junction with the Columbia River, with a view to improving said rive1·. Wisconsin. - WISCONSIN. _ Manitowoc Harbor: With a view of making a harbor of refuge with a depth of not less than twenty feet. Sturgleon Bay and Lake Michigan Shi Canal: With a view to deepening the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michi an Ship Canal to eighteen feet; said im(provement to begin at the gake Michigan end of said waterway an to continue throughout the length of Said canal and in the waters of Sturgeon Bay so far as is necessary to secure a navigable ghaplnel havingfaélepth pgf eighteen feet of water from Lake Michigan o the waters o reen a . ` M¤W¤¤k¤¢ ¤¤=*>¤¤- Milwaukee _Harbor: With a view to necessaryéenlargement and suit- _-Sryggimr m_m_ able protection therefor: .P¢·o»mZaZed, however-, hat at the following mmm oulysf named localities preliminary examinations only shall be made: Mahon garliloiii Igelaware; Long Prairie River, and its sources; Sioux River, out a ota. M‘§;€g*s{*,$1l,S,g’§(§;,P°SS· Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his disremiusniouoghms cretion, to terminate the contract heretofore entered into with the °°“m°° "“°h°““°°‘ late James B.`Eads for the maintenance of the channel through the South Pass of the Mississippi River, in pursuance of an Act of Congress approved March thir, eighteen hundred and seventy-1'ive, enti- Vol. 18, p.4cs. tied " ‘n Act authorizing James B. Eads and others to construct