Email Record: Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, reports on examination and survey of New York Harbor, N. Y., with a view to securing increased width and depth of water from a point at or near Southwest Spit, northwest of Sandy Hook, N. J., through lower New York Bay, Raritan Bay, and the channel between New Jersey and Staten Island, N. Y., to the channel in Upper New York Bay.