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The Presidentof the UnitedStates autho-rized to improvethe steam-boatnavigation fromPittsburg toBrownsville ,and to extendthe provisionsof the act of24th May, 1824,ch. 139, so asto embrace cer-tain parts of therivers Missouri and Mississippi .
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 153. 1832.
amount expended by him on the repairs of the Cumberland road, duringthe year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand eighthundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For completing the repairs of the United Stales’ military road be-tween Pensacola and Tallahassee , four thousand dollars.
For completing the same from St. Augustine to Tallahassee , two thou-sand five hundred dollars.
For the completion of the improvement of the harbour and riverSaint Marks, in Florida , as recommended by the chief engineer, fourthousand five hundred dollars.
For completing repairs to piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river,Maine , one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataquariver, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the sea-wall for the preservation of Deer Island, Bos-ton harbour, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts ,seven thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket harbour, six thou-sand dollars.
For completing the breakwater and dyke, and deepening the channel,in the harbour of Mill river, in Connecticut , four thousand four hundredand ninety dollars and forty-three cents.
For completing the pier and mole at Oswego, New York , nineteenthousand dollars.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York ,seventeen thousand dollars.
For improving the entrance of Genessee river, sixteen thousand dol-lars.
For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo harbour, ten thou-sand three hundred dollars.
For the work at Black Rock harbour, New York , five thousand onehundred dollars.
For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk harbour, NewYork , ten thousand two hundred dollars.
For completing the improvement of the harbour at Presque Isle, Penn-sylvania , four thousand five hundred dollars.
For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester,and Port Penn, on the Delaware , ten thousand dollars.
For carrying on the work for the improvement of Ocracoke inlet,North Carolina , twenty-two thousand dollars.
For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina ,twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.
And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to ex-tend the improvement of the steamboat navigation from Pittsburg to theCumberland road, at Brownsville , upon such plan as he may approve,under the provisions of the act of May twenty-four, eighteen hundredand twenty-four: and that the President of the United States be, and heis hereby, authorized to extend the provisions of the act of twenty-fourthMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act toimprove the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,” so as to em-brace in its operations the river Missouri, from its junction with the Mis-sissippi to the mouth of the Kansas river; and, also, the Upper Missis-sippi river from St. Louis, in Missouri, to Galena, in Illinois , with powerto remove all obstructions in the channel of said river between thosepoints; and that the provisions of the act, approved twenty-fourth May,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act to improve