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A Bill
making appropriations for the preservation, repair and completion of certain harbor improvements on the northern Lakes.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that a sum of money be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, sufficient for the following purposes—:
For the continuation of the breakwater structure at Burlington, on Lake Champlain, ten thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the breakwater structure at Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and working of the steam dredge on Lake Champlain, ten thousand dollars
For the improvement of the harbor at Port Ontario on Lake Ontario, five thousand dollars.
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For the improvement of the harbor at Oswego, on Lake Ontario, twenty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Big Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario, five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of the Gennessee river, on Lake Ontario, twenty thousand dollars.
For the construction of a dredge boat for Lake Ontario, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Buffalo, on Lake Erie, one hundred thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Erie, on Lake Erie, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving Grand River harbor, on Lake Erie, five thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Cleveland, on Lake Erie, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Sandusky city, on Lake Erie, ten thousand dollars.
For improving the River Raisin harbor, on Lake Erie, fifteen thousand dollars.
For constructing a dredge boat to be used on Lake Erie, twenty thousand dollars.
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For improving the harbor at St Joseph, on Lake Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Michigan city, on Lake Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Milwaukie, on Lake Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Chicago, on Lake Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
For constructing a dredge boat to be used on Lake Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Racine, on Lake Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improving the harbor at Southport, on Lake Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For constructing a dredge boat to be used on Lake Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.
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A Bill
making appropriations for the preservation, repair & completion of certain harbor improvements on the northern lakes.
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Refer to Com. on Commerce.
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Amt [?]0. dischd
from all. CW [Tom?]
& lie
64 HR.
Commerce [...?]
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R. McClelland
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H.R. 656
December 11, 1848
Mr McClelland on leave introduced the following bill which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
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A Bill
(see title within)