Act of Congress.Appropriation.Remarks.March 3, 1827,$30,000.00March 3, 1835,50,000.00July 2, 1836,20,000.00March 3, 1837,60,000.00July 7, 1838,50,000.00June 11, 1844,100,000.00March 3, 1847,6,479.25August 30, 1852,90,000.00June 23, 1866,172,000.00Allotment of money already appropriated, for improving Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio Rivers.June 23, 1866,80,000.00Allotment for snag boats and apparatus for improving western rivers.March 2, 1867,100,000.00July 25, 1868,85,000.00Allotment for repair, preservation, extension, and completion of river and harbor works.July 11, 1870,50,000.00March 3, 1871,50,000.00June 10, 1872,200,000.00March 3, 1873,200,000.00June 23, 1874,150,000.00March 3, 1875,300,000.00August 14, 1876,175,000.00June 18, 1878,300,000.00June 18, 1878,50,000.00Harbor of refuge at or near Cincinnati.March 3, 1879,250,000.00June 14, 1880,250,000.00March 3, 1881,350,000.00March 21, 1882,100,000.00Continuing work on Davis Island dam.August 2, 1882,350,000.00August 2, 1882,16,000.00Harbor of refuge near Cincinnati, Ohio.July 5, 1884,600,000.00July 5, 1884,17,000.00Same.August 5, 1886,375,000.00August 11, 1888,380,000.00September 19, 1890,300,000.00January 19, 1891,2,128.87Relief of Stubbs & Lackey. Treasury settlement No. 2593.July 13, 1892,360,000.00August 18, 1894,250,000.00June 3, 1896,250,000.00July 1, 1898,15,000.00Allotment for restoring levee and banks of Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Ill.March 3, 1899,375,000.00June 13, 1902,359,000.00Amount appropriated, $400,000; $41,000 being for Falls of Ohio River, at Louisville, Ky.——————Total,$6,565,608.12
Total of appropriations, 1827-1902,$6,565,608.12Total of allotments, 1827-1898,352,000.00Received from sales, 1866-1893,7,790.50———————$6,925,398.62Appropriations not drawn, 1827, 1852,5,023.47Allotments not drawn, 1866, 1868,43,134.60Returned by Treasury settlements,30.07Amounts transferred to other works,125,168.44———————173,356.58———————Total,$6,752,042.04[84]
[1]Transactions American Philosophical Society(new series), vol. iv, pp. 369-370.
[1]Transactions American Philosophical Society(new series), vol. iv, pp. 369-370.
[2]Bonnécamps’s journal was accompanied by a MS. map drawn by himself upon which were marked all the places mentioned in his journal of this expedition (1749). This map was preserved in the archives of the Department of the Marine with his journal but disappeared between 1892 and 1894 and its location today is unknown.
[2]Bonnécamps’s journal was accompanied by a MS. map drawn by himself upon which were marked all the places mentioned in his journal of this expedition (1749). This map was preserved in the archives of the Department of the Marine with his journal but disappeared between 1892 and 1894 and its location today is unknown.
[3]Warren, Pennsylvania; O. H. Marshall’s “Céloron’s Expedition,”Magazine of American History, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).
[3]Warren, Pennsylvania; O. H. Marshall’s “Céloron’s Expedition,”Magazine of American History, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).
[4]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 165.
[4]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 165.
[5]Historic Highways of America, vol. iii, pp. 71-72.
[5]Historic Highways of America, vol. iii, pp. 71-72.
[6]Brokenstraw Creek.
[6]Brokenstraw Creek.
[7]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 17.
[7]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 17.
[8]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, pp. 18-19.
[8]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, pp. 18-19.
[9]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 165.
[9]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 165.
[10]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 21.
[10]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 21.
[11]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 167.
[11]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 167.
[12]For a sketch of Indian occupation of the Allegheny Valley seeHistoric Highways of America, vol. iii, pp. 59-62.
[12]For a sketch of Indian occupation of the Allegheny Valley seeHistoric Highways of America, vol. iii, pp. 59-62.
[13]Franklin, Pennsylvania.
[13]Franklin, Pennsylvania.
[14]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 24.
[14]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 24.
[15]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 169.
[15]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 169.
[16]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 25.
[16]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 25.
[17]Id., p. 25. Parkman places Attiqué on the site of Kittanning, Pennsylvania (See Parkman’sMontcalm and Wolfe, vol. i, p. 45). This view is supported by Lambing (Catholic Historical Researches, January 1886, pp. 105-107, note 6).
[17]Id., p. 25. Parkman places Attiqué on the site of Kittanning, Pennsylvania (See Parkman’sMontcalm and Wolfe, vol. i, p. 45). This view is supported by Lambing (Catholic Historical Researches, January 1886, pp. 105-107, note 6).
[18]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 26.
[18]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 26.
[19]This letter, dated August 6, with two others, all bearing the signature of Céloron, has been preserved in the archives of the State of Pennsylvania. For copy of translation see Rupp’sEarly History of Western Pennsylvania, p. 36.
[19]This letter, dated August 6, with two others, all bearing the signature of Céloron, has been preserved in the archives of the State of Pennsylvania. For copy of translation see Rupp’sEarly History of Western Pennsylvania, p. 36.
[20]Queen Alliquippa.
[20]Queen Alliquippa.
[21]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 27.
[21]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 27.
[22]Toner’sJournal of Colonel George Washington, 1754, pp. 157-158. In this article it was demanded that the English should not return across the Allegheniesfor one year.
[22]Toner’sJournal of Colonel George Washington, 1754, pp. 157-158. In this article it was demanded that the English should not return across the Allegheniesfor one year.
[23]Shenango, in English accounts.
[23]Shenango, in English accounts.
[24]O. H. Marshall’s 14 Céloron’s Expedition,’Magazine of American History, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).
[24]O. H. Marshall’s 14 Céloron’s Expedition,’Magazine of American History, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).
[25]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 39.
[25]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 39.
[26]The location of the burial places of Céloron’s leaden plates as given in Darlington’sFort Pitt, which would naturally be considered authoritative, are inexplicably contradictory.
[26]The location of the burial places of Céloron’s leaden plates as given in Darlington’sFort Pitt, which would naturally be considered authoritative, are inexplicably contradictory.
[27]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 40.
[27]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 40.
[28]Id., p. 40.
[28]Id., p. 40.
[29]Id., pp. 40, 41.
[29]Id., pp. 40, 41.
[30]St. Yotoc was probably a corruption of Scioto. Father Bonnécamps calls it Sinhioto. It was near the present site of Alexandria, Ohio, at the mouth of the Scioto River.
[30]St. Yotoc was probably a corruption of Scioto. Father Bonnécamps calls it Sinhioto. It was near the present site of Alexandria, Ohio, at the mouth of the Scioto River.
[31]Rivière Blanche was a name given by the French to several streams which contained unusually clear waters. From distances mentioned this was probably the Little Miami. Dunn (History of Indiana, p. 65, note 1) thinks it was the present White Oak Creek.
[31]Rivière Blanche was a name given by the French to several streams which contained unusually clear waters. From distances mentioned this was probably the Little Miami. Dunn (History of Indiana, p. 65, note 1) thinks it was the present White Oak Creek.
[32]Rivière à la Roche (Rocky River) was the present Great Miami. It was called the “Rocky River” because of its numerous rapids.
[32]Rivière à la Roche (Rocky River) was the present Great Miami. It was called the “Rocky River” because of its numerous rapids.
[33]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 183.
[33]Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 183.
[34]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 52.
[34]Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’sFort Pitt, p. 52.
[35]Historic Highways of America, vol. vi, ch. i.
[35]Historic Highways of America, vol. vi, ch. i.
[36]The St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 1.
[36]The St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 1.
[37]Id., p. 3, note 1.
[37]Id., p. 3, note 1.
[38]Id., vol. ii, p. 4, note.
[38]Id., vol. ii, p. 4, note.
[39]Id., p. 5, note.
[39]Id., p. 5, note.
[40]Id., p. 5, note. Legally John Emerson had no rights northwest of the Ohio River; but as an exponent of the American idea he had a sort of justification; see Professor Frederick J. Turner’s studies,American Historical Review, vol. 1, pp. 70-87, 251-268.
[40]Id., p. 5, note. Legally John Emerson had no rights northwest of the Ohio River; but as an exponent of the American idea he had a sort of justification; see Professor Frederick J. Turner’s studies,American Historical Review, vol. 1, pp. 70-87, 251-268.
[41]The MS. Harmar Papers;St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 7, note 1.
[41]The MS. Harmar Papers;St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 7, note 1.
[42]The rights to certain lands on the upper Muskingum Valley, where David Zeisberger had located the Moravian towns in 1773, were vested in the Moravian Church. Gnadenhutten, Ohio, was, technically, the first white settlement in Ohio after the French locations along the Lakes. King’sOhio, p. 119.
[42]The rights to certain lands on the upper Muskingum Valley, where David Zeisberger had located the Moravian towns in 1773, were vested in the Moravian Church. Gnadenhutten, Ohio, was, technically, the first white settlement in Ohio after the French locations along the Lakes. King’sOhio, p. 119.
[43]Hinsdale’sOld Northwest(1888), pp. 290-292.
[43]Hinsdale’sOld Northwest(1888), pp. 290-292.
[44]Historic Highways of America, vol. viii.
[44]Historic Highways of America, vol. viii.
[45]The Navigator(fifth edition), Pittsburg, 1806.
[45]The Navigator(fifth edition), Pittsburg, 1806.
[46]“Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state. So firmly are they rooted, that the largest boat running against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat.“Sawyers, are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and rather of a less size, yielding to the pressure of the current, disappearing and appearing by turns above water, similar to the motion of a saw-mill saw, from which they have taken their name.“Wooden-Islands, are places where by some cause or other, large quantities of drift wood, has through time, been arrested and matted together in different parts of the river.”
[46]“Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state. So firmly are they rooted, that the largest boat running against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat.
“Sawyers, are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and rather of a less size, yielding to the pressure of the current, disappearing and appearing by turns above water, similar to the motion of a saw-mill saw, from which they have taken their name.
“Wooden-Islands, are places where by some cause or other, large quantities of drift wood, has through time, been arrested and matted together in different parts of the river.”
[47]Harris’sTour(1805), p. 38.
[47]Harris’sTour(1805), p. 38.
[48]Harris’sPittsburgh Business Directory for the year 1837, pp. 178, 287.
[48]Harris’sPittsburgh Business Directory for the year 1837, pp. 178, 287.
[49]Id., p. 277.
[49]Id., p. 277.
[50]The American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 271.
[50]The American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 271.
[51]Historic Highways of America, vol. i, p. 57.
[51]Historic Highways of America, vol. i, p. 57.
[52]See note 55.
[52]See note 55.
[53]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 64-67.
[53]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 64-67.
[54]American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 63.
[54]American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 63.
[55]Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. iv, p. 183; xii, p. 400; vii, p. 371.
[55]Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. iv, p. 183; xii, p. 400; vii, p. 371.
[56]An itinerary of the route from New Orleans northward is given inThe Navigator(1817), p. 306. For a description of the journey seeAmerican Pioneer, March, 1842.
[56]An itinerary of the route from New Orleans northward is given inThe Navigator(1817), p. 306. For a description of the journey seeAmerican Pioneer, March, 1842.
[57]American Pioneer, vol. ii, pp. 163-164.
[57]American Pioneer, vol. ii, pp. 163-164.
[58]Harris:Tour, pp. 30-31; cf. p. 139 where the author states the historical succession of river craft as: canoe, pirogue, keel-boat, barge, and ark.
[58]Harris:Tour, pp. 30-31; cf. p. 139 where the author states the historical succession of river craft as: canoe, pirogue, keel-boat, barge, and ark.
[59]Interview with William DeForest published in the CincinnatiCommercial Gazette, May, 1883.
[59]Interview with William DeForest published in the CincinnatiCommercial Gazette, May, 1883.
[60]Dr. S. P. Hildreth’sPioneer History, p. 205.
[60]Dr. S. P. Hildreth’sPioneer History, p. 205.
[61]Collins’sHistory of Kentucky, vol. ii, pp. 113-114.
[61]Collins’sHistory of Kentucky, vol. ii, pp. 113-114.
[62]Burner’sNotes, p. 400.
[62]Burner’sNotes, p. 400.
[63]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, p. 64.
[63]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, p. 64.
[64]Butler’s Journal for October 9, 1785,The Olden Time, vol. ii, p. 442. Cf.Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. xi, p. 13, note.
[64]Butler’s Journal for October 9, 1785,The Olden Time, vol. ii, p. 442. Cf.Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. xi, p. 13, note.
[65]Harris’sPittsburgh Business Directory (1837), pp. 276-277.
[65]Harris’sPittsburgh Business Directory (1837), pp. 276-277.
[66]Harris:Tour, p. 43.
[66]Harris:Tour, p. 43.
[67]Id., pp. 52-53.
[67]Id., pp. 52-53.
[68]Id., pp. 140-141.
[68]Id., pp. 140-141.
[69]The Navigator(1811), p. 69.
[69]The Navigator(1811), p. 69.
[70]The Navigator, (1811), pp. 31-33.
[70]The Navigator, (1811), pp. 31-33.
[71]The authority for these and many of the following facts is derived from aMemorial of the Citizens of Cincinnati to the Congress of the United States Relative to the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Cincinnati, 1844.
[71]The authority for these and many of the following facts is derived from aMemorial of the Citizens of Cincinnati to the Congress of the United States Relative to the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Cincinnati, 1844.
[72]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 62-63.
[72]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 62-63.
[73]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 78-79.
[73]Cassedy’sHistory of Louisville, pp. 78-79.
[74]Collins’sHistory of Kentucky, vol. ii. p. 147.
[74]Collins’sHistory of Kentucky, vol. ii. p. 147.
[75]Id., p. 251.
[75]Id., p. 251.
[76]House Reports39th Congress, Second Session, Ex. Doc. 56, part 2, p. 323.
[76]House Reports39th Congress, Second Session, Ex. Doc. 56, part 2, p. 323.
[77]Memorial of the Citizens of Cincinnati to the Congress of the United States, 1844, p. 39.
[77]Memorial of the Citizens of Cincinnati to the Congress of the United States, 1844, p. 39.
[78]Id., p. 38.
[78]Id., p. 38.
[79]Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1902, Appendix H. H., p. 1978.
[79]Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1902, Appendix H. H., p. 1978.
[80]Id., p. 1980.
[80]Id., p. 1980.
[81]House Records, 41st Congress, Third Session, Ex. Doc. no. 72, p. 4.
[81]House Records, 41st Congress, Third Session, Ex. Doc. no. 72, p. 4.
[82]Id., p. 5.
[82]Id., p. 5.
[83]House Reports 39th Congress, Second Session, Ex. Doc. 56. Part II, p. 262.
[83]House Reports 39th Congress, Second Session, Ex. Doc. 56. Part II, p. 262.
[84]Report of the Chief of Engineers U. S. Army, 1902, Appendix D. D., p. 1846.
[84]Report of the Chief of Engineers U. S. Army, 1902, Appendix D. D., p. 1846.