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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 929. 1886. 327 Improving San Joaquin River and Stockton and Mormon Slouglis, Sun J<>:»quin Calilbruia: Continuing improvement, eighteen thousand seven liundred Ri""? S°°°k“°" and tlfty dollars. ggslgbsi ""‘ ° " Improving canal at the Cascades, Oregon : Continuing improvement, Canal at ousone hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, ¢¤¢1¢=¤, Omg- Improving theUpper Columbia Bfivexgineluding Snake River, Oregon Columbia River. and Washington Territory: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. ‘ Improving the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Lower Willamette River, and Columbia River below Port- Willamette uml land, Oregon: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars- Columbia Rivers. of which sum twenty-one thousand dollars for a snag-boat to be used S¤¤¤-\w¤t- on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, and five thousand dollars to be expended on the river in front of Portland. Improving the Upper Willamette River above Portland, Oregon: _Willamet te Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. E1::!'- ¤b°'¤ P°¤'*·- Improving Coquille River, Oregon: Continuing improvement, twenty Coqnille River. thousand dollars. Improving Chehalis River, Washington Territory: Continuing im- Chchalis River. provement, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cowlitz River, Washington Territory: Continuing improve- Cowlitz River. ment, two thousand dollars. Improving Skagit, Steilaquamish, Nootsack, Snohomish, and Sno- Skagit, Smiluqualmie Rivers, Washington Territory: Continuing improvement, ten °1“‘a"'°g‘· ,1;* °9 if thousand dollars. y ’ B32q,';:',;,",,; ° IVOIB. Improving Missourilliver from its mouth to Sioux City: Continuing im- Missouri River. provement, including necessary work at Omaha, Atchison, Saintkloseph, Fort Leavenworth Reservation, Arrow Rock, Kansas City, Plattsmouth, Brownsville, and Nebraska City, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with plans and estimates to be furnished by the Missouri River Commission. Improving Missouri River from Sioux City to Fort Benton: Continu- From Sioux City ing improvement, sixty thousand dollars, under the direction of the Sec- *° F°"" B°“*°“· retary of War. _ For removing obstructions in the Missouri River, twenty-two thousand R°”!°‘" “ 8 ° b· tive hundred dollars. °°'°°"°"°‘ Improving the Ohio River: Continuing improvement, three hundred Ohh Ri""'- and seventy-tive thousand dollars; out of which sum thnrty-seven thou- ° sand five hundred dollars are to be expended at Grand Chain in removing rocks and other obstructions to navigation at that locality; also eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars may be expended in constructing or aiding in the construction of such an embankment on the south side of the Great Miami River, near its junction with the Ohio, as may be necessary to confine the waters of the Great Miami in great floods to the general course of its channel at or near the Ohio, to the end that the formation of the bar in the Ohio River now forming and obstructing navigation may be arrested · also thirty-seven thousand ilve hundred dollars, or so much thereoi as may be necessary, of said appropriation shall be expended in constructing tlve ice-piers, pursuant to me-pier; the present or prospective plans of the Chief ot Engineers, at or near the following places, to wit: One at Pomeroy, Ohio ; one at Mnddlcport, Ohio; one at Gallipolis, Ohio; and one at Irouton, Ohio; undone a:" _ or near Ashland, Kentucky, on the south side of the Ohio Biver: Pro- P*•¤·•••- vided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to obtain, if he can do so without cost to the United States, perpetual Riparian rigiiui. leases or convcyances of the riparian rights of the property-owners at each of said localities, in the event said ice·prer|, pr any one of them, shall be located where there is no improved landing-place: And pmddod_furtI•cr, @4: at lowlities where there are improved landings he