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For improving the entrance of Whitehall harbor, on Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars.

For building an ice-breaker on Staten island, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For improving the harbor at New Brunswick, by removing the obstructions in the Raritan river, according to a plan reported to the War Department by Hartman Bache, seven thousand dollars.

For the protection and improvement of Little Egg harbor, according to the plan reported to the War Department, five thousand dollars.

For a survey of Crow Shoal in Delaware bay, to ascertain the expediency of constructing a breakwater or artificial harbor, one thousand dollars.

For repairs at the harbor of Chester, three thousand dollars.

For removing the bar on the river Delaware, in the neighborhood of Fort Mifflin, with the view of improving the harbor of Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars.

For improving the harbor of Wilmington, by removing the bar at the mouth of Christiana river, according to the plan recommended by Hartman Bache, of the engineer corps, fifteen thousand dollars.

For deepening the harbor of Baltimore, twenty thousand dollars.

For a survey of the head waters of Chesapeake bay, pursuant to a resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, five hundred dollars.

For a survey of James river, with the view of improving the harbor of Richmond, five hundred dollars.

For improving the navigation of the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal Swamp canal, fifteen thousand dollars.

For removing a sand shoal in |Pamptico river, five thousand dollars, by means of the dredging machine now in operation at Ocracock inlet.

For removing the oyster shoal in New river, Onslow county, by means of the dredging machine now in operation in the collection district of Wilmington, five thousand dollars.

To improve the harbor of Beaufort, five thousand dollars.

For a survey of the bar and harbor at Georgetown, one thousand dollars.

For the removal of the Brunswick bar, with the view of improving the harbor of Brunswick, ten thousand dollars.

For constructing two piers and improving the navigation at the mouth of Vermillion river, ten thousand dollars, according to the plan reported to the War Department.

For the construction of a harbor at Michigan city, according to the plan reported to the War Department, twenty thousand dollars.

For increasing the depth of water in the mouth of the Mississippi river, by closing some of the passages leading out of it, or by cutting a ship channel, or by any other means which shall be deemed expedient by the Secretary of War, with the approbation of the President of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars; the said sum to be expended in whole or in part, as may be thought proper by the War Department, after the necessary survey shall have been made.

For a pier to give direction to the current of the Mississippi river, near the city of St. Louis, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the survey of Saint Francis, Black, and White rivers, in Arkansas and Missouri, to determine upon the expediency of removing the natural rafts thereon, one thousand dollars.

For removing a mud shoal, called the Bulk Head, in the channel from East Pass to Appalachicola, ten thousand dollars.

For the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth of the river Saint Joseph, twenty thousand dollars.