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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 425. 1899. 1],59 Bay, with a view to obtaining of a twenty-one foot channel, by way of Staten Island Sound from New York Bay to Raritan Bay. Passaic River: With the view of ascertaining the cost and feasibility 0f_ extending a ten-foot channel of suitable width from Center·street bridge to the Montclair Railway Bridge, and also as to the feasibility and cost of affording a channel twelve feet in depth from Centerstreet bridge to Staten Island Sound. Also an examination of said river from Montclair Railway Bridge to the city of Paterson.' Tuckerton Creek. NEW YORK. V » New York. San gerties Harbor: With a view of extending the improvement from the westerly end of the south dike westerly to the “Point of Bocks;” also with a view to removing the loose rock from the channel, and plontironuing the depth of twelve feet, at low water, toward the head of the ar r. Dunkirk: Survey for easterly breakwater. Bay Shore, Long Island: With a view to constructing a breakwater. Patchogue River. Three Mile Harbor, Long Island. Sag Harbor. Tonawanda Harbor, Erie County, and Tonawanda Creek from Niagara River to the State dam. ' Patchogue River: With a view to deepening the channel from Fire Island Inlet to Patchogue to a depth of eight feet, with a channel eighty feet in width. Diamond Reef and Coenties Reef in East River, with a view to their removal. New Rochelle Harbor. West Chester Creek. Tarrytown H arbor. Port Chester Harbor. OREGON. Oregon. Snake River: That portion of the Snake River extending from the town of Asotin, in the State of Washington, to Pittsburg Landing, in the State of Oregon. Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers below Portland, Oregon: Survey and estimate of the cost of obtaining a channel depth of twenty- five feet at low water from Portland to the mouth of the Columbia ' River. The canal and locks situated on the west side of the Willamette River, at Willamette Falls, in Clackamas County: With a view to ascertaining the desirability of their condemnation and purchase by the United States. Mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washingt,on3 Survey and estimate with a view to obtaining a channel of forty feet depth at lowest low water, and a report as to the desirability of such improvement. PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsylvania. Youghiogheny River: With a view to the improvement of said river by locks and dams from West Newton to the mouth of said river at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. RHODE ISLAND. R1=¤<1¤I¤1¤¤•i- Pawtucket River. Providence harbor and river: As to the advisability of dredging that portion of the flats therein between Wilkesbarre Pier, Kettle Point, and the present ship-channel, to a depth of twenty-ive feet at mean low water, to provide increased anchorage grounds, and a project for such improvement, with the probable cost thereof