Chap. 118.—JOINT RESOLUTION memorializing the Congress of
the United States for an Appropriation to Deepen the Waters in the
Ohio and Kanawha Rivers.

Approved February 23, 1875.

1. Whereas the select committee of the senate of the
United States on transportation routes to the seaboard has
reported that to secure from Pittsburg to Cairo a depth of
six feet of water at all seasons, is believed by the committee
to be one of the most important works for which the na-
tional government can appropriate money, and also, that the
Ohio river is one of the most iniportant highways of com-
merce on this continent; and

2. Whereas the same committee recommend that the Ka-
pawha river, from its mouth to the Great Falls, shall be so
improved as to insure the same depth at low water as is pro-
posed to be secured on the Ohio, namely, six feet at its
owest stages, and that the expenditure for such improve-
ment shall constitute a part of the cost of the improvement
of western rivers, recommended in the report of the com-
mittee; and ,

3. Whereas the engineers of the United States have re-
ported a plan by which this six feet of water at all seasons
can be secured, both in the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, and
the chief of engineers United States has asked congress to
make appropriations for the purpose of beginning this im-
portant work; therefore,

Resolved, That our senators and representatives in con-
gress are requested t6 use their best efforts to obtain the ap-
propriations asked by the chief of engineers of the United
States for the work on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.