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The Arkansas Advocate
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
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A recent congressional law includes appropriations for Red River: $40,800 to continue removing obstructions in Louisiana and Arkansas Territory, and $30,000 for constructing and operating a boat to prevent new accumulations within the Great Raft area.
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In the law which passed at the last session of Congress, making additional appropriations for the Delaware breakwater, the following highly important items are to be found, for the benefit of Arkansas and Louisiana:
For continuing the removal of obstructions in Red river, Louisiana, and Territory of Arkansas, forty thousand eight hundred dollars.
For constructing a boat to prevent a new accumulation of obstruction in said river, within the old limits of the Great Raft, so called. Fifteen thousand dollars, and the additional sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to work and support the same.—Ark. Gaz.
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Primary Location
Red River, Louisiana And Territory Of Arkansas
Event Date
Last Session Of Congress
Outcome
$40,800 for continuing removal of obstructions; $15,000 for constructing a boat and $15,000 for its operation to prevent new accumulations in the great raft area
Event Details
Congress passed a law making additional appropriations, including items for removing obstructions in Red River benefiting Arkansas and Louisiana, and constructing a boat to prevent new obstructions within the old limits of the Great Raft.