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water, between the town of Beaufort and Pamlico sound, North Carolina, and for improving New river, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvement of Pamlico, or Tar river, below Washington, North Carolina, five thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvements of the inland channel between St. Mary’s and St. John’s, Florida, twenty-nine thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvements at Dog river bar, and Choctaw pass, in Mobile harbor, fifty thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvement of the Cumberland river, in Kentucky and Tennessee, below Nashville, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvement of the Ohio river, between the falls and Pittsburgh, fifty thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from Louisville to New Orleans, seventy thousand dollars;

For continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river, above the mouth of the Ohio, and of the Missouri river, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing the removal of obstructions in Grand river, Ohio, ten thousand dollars;

For continuing the works at Buffalo harbor, twenty thousand five hundred dollars; and for erecting a mount of sea-wall along the peninsula which separates Lake Erie from Buffalo creek, to prevent the influx at the lake over said peninsula, forty-eight thousand dollars;

For continuing the preservation of Plymouth beach, two thousand four hundred dollars;

For continuing the preservation of Provincetown harbor, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For continuing the preservation of Rainsford island, seven thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars;

For continuing the sea-wall for the preservation of Fairweather island, and repairing the breakwater near Black Rock harbor, Connecticut, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;

For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Bass river, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars;

For continuing the breakwater of Church’s cove, town of Little Compton, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand dollars;

For the protection and improvement of Little Egg harbor, ten thousand dollars;

For improving the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal Swamp canal, ten thousand dollars;

For the improvement of the navigation of Savannah river, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars;

For the improvement of the Arkansas river, forty thousand dollars;

For removing the sandb-bar occasioned by the wreck in the harbor of New Bedford, the unexpended balance of an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made, being seven thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-seven cents.

. And be it further enacted, That the appropriation heretofore made of ten thousand dollars, for removing the mud shoal, called the Bulkhead, in the harbor of Appalachicola, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the deepening of the straight channel in the same harbor.

. And be it further enacted, That of the several sums appropriated by the first section of this act, which exceed twelve thousand dollars each, one half thereof, if the public service require it, shall be paid out during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to be applied to the objects as above specified, and the other half in like manner, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

, July 7, 1838.