Email Record: New York and New Jersey channels. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of New York and New Jersey channels, with a view to securing a ship channel of increased width and depth necessary for the purposes of commerce from lower New York Bay, through Raritan Bay, Arthur Kill, Staten Island Sound, channel north of Shooters Island, and Kill Van Kull, to upper New York Bay.