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amount expended by him on the repairs of the Cumberland road, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For completing the repairs of the United States’ military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, four thousand dollars.

For completing the same from St. Augustine to Tallahassee, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the completion of the improvement of the harbour and river Saint Marks, in Florida, as recommended by the chief engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For completing repairs to piers at the entrance of the Kennebunk river, Maine, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataqua river, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For completing the sea-wall for the preservation of Deer Island, Boston harbour, sixty thousand dollars.

For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, seven thousand six hundred dollars.

For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket harbour, six thousand dollars.

For completing the breakwater and dyke, and deepening the channel, in the harbour of Mill river, in Connecticut, four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and forty-three cents.

For completing the pier and mole at Oswego, New York, nineteen thousand dollars.

For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York, seventeen thousand dollars.

For improving the entrance of Genessee river, sixteen thousand dollars.

For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo harbour, ten thousand three hundred dollars.

For the work at Black Rock harbour, New York, five thousand one hundred dollars.

For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk harbour, New York, ten thousand two hundred dollars.

For completing the improvement of the harbour at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, on the Delaware, ten thousand dollars.

For carrying on the work for the improvement of Ocracoke inlet, North Carolina, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.

And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to extend the improvement of the steamboat navigation from Pittsburg to the Cumberland road, at Brownsville, upon such plan as he may approve, under the provisions of the : and that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the provisions of the act of twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “,” so as to embrace in its operations the river Missouri, from its junction with the Mississippi to the mouth of the Kansas river; and, also, the Upper Mississippi river from St. Louis, in Missouri, to Galena, in Illinois, with power to remove all obstructions in the channel of said river between those points; and that the provisions of the act, approved twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four-entitled