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]_ 160 FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 425. 1899 ¤<>¤¤1¤<>¤¤•¤¤• sourn cxnonnu. Sampit River: From its mouth at the twenty-foot depth at low water in Winyah Bay to its head of navigation, with the view of dredging shoals and removing other obstructions. Wee Tee Lake, Williamsburg County: From its junction with the Santee River to a point called the Blutl, with a view to make it navigable for steamboats. _ Lynch’s River: From the railroad bridge at Eilingham to its mouth at junction of Great Pee Dee River, with a view to procuring a depth of three feet at mean low water. The waterways and low-lying marsh lands or rice lands between the North and South Santee rivers, with a view to extending the Estherville Minim Creek Canal in a southerly direction to Alligator River. The waterways between Charleston Harbor and Alligator Creek, with a view to ascertaining the present cost of the improvement thereoil Tennessee. TENNESSEE. Little Tennessee River: For its survey from its mouth to the slate quarries on Abram’s Creek. Holston River: For its survey from its mouth to Kingsport. Richland River: From its mouth to Dayton. Powell’s River: For its survey from its mouth to Kyle’s Ford. Hiawassee River: For its survey from its mouth to the mouth of the Ocoee River. Tam _ TEXAS. Harbor at Alligator Head, in Matagorda Bay, and the harbor at Brazos Santiago, oil` Point Isabel, Texas, with plans and estimates for the removal of the bars at said harbors to furnish an inlet to each of said harbors to permit ocean-going vessels to enter said harbors with necessary depths of channel. ‘ Clear Creek. Dickinson Bayou. Highland Bayou. Turtle Bayou. .. Oyster Creek. Chocolate Bayou. Bostrop Bayou. East Bay Bayou. Colorado River. - San Bernard River. Caney Creek. For a canal ten feet deep and one hundred feet wide around the raft in the Colorado River, in Matagorda County. Bed River, from the mouth of the Kiamitia River to the mouth of Blue River. Virginia. VIRGINIA. Channel at Middle Ground Bar, in the harbor of Hampton Roads, with a view to determining what amount of dredging is necessary over said bar to secure a channel nve hundred feet wide and thirty feet deep at mean low tide. To dredge channel leading to Tangier Island, in Tangier Sound, and ascertain most feasible channel for improvement. To remove bar at the mouth of J ackson’s Creek, in Middlesex County. James River: With a view of ascertaining what expenditure will be ‘ mcelssary to continue improvement to the head of navigation at the oc ·s. To improve mouth or entrance t0· Carters Creek, Lancaster County.