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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · July 13, 1892 · Chapter 158

Chapter 158. making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works or rivers and harbors, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 158.— An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works or rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.July 13, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations for rivers and harbors. That the following stuns of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named:Harbors.
Improving harbor at Camden, Maine: Continuing improvement,Camden. Me. twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: Continuing improvement,Rockland, Me. thirty thousand dollars. Improving Mooseabec Bar, Maine: Continuing improvement,Mooseabec Bar, Me. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at York. Maine: Completing improvement,York, Me. nine thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Completing improvement,Portland, Me. thirty thousand dollars.
Improvement of channel in Back Cove, Portland Harbor, Maine: Continuing improvement,Back Cove, Portland, Me. twenty thousand dollars. For construction of breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Maine: Continuing improvement,Mount Desert to Porcupine Island. Me., breakwater. fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Belfast, Maine: Continuing improvement,Belfast. Me. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement,Little Harbor, Me. thirty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Boston, Mass. by deepening and widening the main channel to a depth of twenty-seven feet and a width of one thousand feet, three hundred thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the further prosecution of the work in Nantasket Beach Channel, and twenty-five thousand dollars in extending main ship channel from its termination at the southeast corner of Grand Junction wharf eastwardly towards Jeffrey’s Point.
Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Lynn. Mass. ten thousand*Proviso*. dollars: *Provided*, That the whole or any portion of this appropriation may be expended on the Western channel in the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving harbor of refuge at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Nantucket, Mass. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Newbury port, Mass. twenty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Plymouth, Mass. nine thousand five hundred dollars. For maintenance of works in harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts,Provincetown, Mass. one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Wareham, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Wareham, Mass. seven thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars. Improving harbor at Hingham, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Hingham, Mass. three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts:
Continuing improvement,Hyannis, Mass. six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vineyard Haven. Massachusetts; Continuing improvement,Vineyard Haven, Mass. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving national harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Mass. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Gloucester, Mass. forty thousand dollars. 89 Improving harbor at Manchester, Massachusetts:
Completing improvement,Manchester, Mass. six thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving Harbor at New Bedford, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,New Bedford, Mass. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving inner harbor at Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Marthas Vineyard, Mass. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Salem, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Salem, Mass. fourteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Westport, Massachusetts:
Completing improvement,Westport, Maas. one thousand dollars. Improving Canapitait Channel, Massachusetts, between the islands of Cuttyhunk and Neshawana, completing improvement,Canapitait Channel, Mass. four thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Scituate, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Scituate, Maas. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Winthrop, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Winthrop, Mass. three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kingston, Massachusetts, and theKingston, Mass. approaches to the public wharves of said port and of North Plymouth, ten thousandNorth Plymouth, Mass. dollars.
Improving harbor at Block Island, Rhode Island: Completing improvement,Block Island, R. I. twenty-four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, includingNewport. R. I. the removal of the spit at the south end of Goat Island, Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Constructing harbor of refuge at Point Judith. Rhode Island: ContinuingPoint Judith, R. I. Harbor of refuge. *Proviso*. Contracts. construction, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may, from time to time, be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate, one million and oneLimit. hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving entrance to Point Judith Pond, west of Point Judith,Point Judith Pond R. I. Rhode Island, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement.Bridgeport, Conn. between Inner Beacon and Naugatuck wharf, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black Rock, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Black Rock, Conn. five thousand dollars. Constructing breakwaters at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing construction, one hundred and twentyNew Haven.
Conn., breakwaters. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut: Completing improvement,Stonington, Conn. twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Clinton, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Clinton. Conn. two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Five-mile River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Five-mile River, Conn. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Duck Island, on Long Island Sound,Duck Island, Conn. Connecticut: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,New Haven, Conn. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Stamford, Connecticut: Fifteen thousand dollars,Stamford, Conn. not less than one-half of which shall be expended on the East Branch. Improving harbor at Cos Cob and Miamus River, Connecticut,Cos Cob and Miamus River, Conn. seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement,Buffalo, N. Y. three hundred thousand dollars.
Constructing breakwater at Rouses Point, New York: CompletingRouses Point, N. Y. improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. 90 Improving harbor at Canarsie Bay, New York: Continuing improvement,Canarsie Bay, N. Y. live thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement,Charlotte, N. Y. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement,Dunkirk. N. Y. twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York:
Continuing improvement,Flushing Bay, N. Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Glen Cove, New York: Continuing improvement,Glen Cove, N.Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving Gowanus Bay channels, New York: Continuing improvement,Gowanus Bay, N. Y. one hundred thousand dollars, for distribution by allotment between the Red Hook and Gowanus Creek channels, at the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving Bay Ridge channel, Gowanus Bay, New York Harbor, New York: Completing improvement,Bay Ridge channel, ninety-eight thousand six hundred dollars.
Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement,Great Sodus Bay, N. Y. fifteen thousand dollars Improving harbor at Greenport, New York: Completing improvement,Greenport, N. Y. eleven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: For maintenance of existing works and deepeningLittle Sodus Bay, N. Y. of channel, six thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improvement,Ogdensburg, N.Y. forty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement,Oswego, N. Y. forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: For repairs to existing works,Rondout, N. Y. five thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement,New York, N.Y. one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: To maintain the dike in repairSaugerties, N. Y. and to remove the rocky points near the shore end of the north dike, five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement,Port Chester, N. Y. five thousand dollars. Improving Tonawanda Harbor and Niagara River, New York: Continuing improvement,Tonawanda Harbor, Niagara River. N.Y. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving channel between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Channel, Staten Island and New Jersey. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey:
Continuing improvement,Arthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Huntington. New York: Continuing improvement,Huntington. N. Y. five thousand dollars. Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, oneButtermilk Channel. N. Y. hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Jefferson Inlet, New York: Continuing improvement,Port Jefferson, N.Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pultneyville. New York: Continuing improvement,Pultneyville, N.
Y. one thousand dollars. Improving Jamaica Bay, New York: Completing improvementJamaica Bay, N. Y. in accordance with plan numbered three of Lieutenant-Colonel Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, submitted December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, nine thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Improving harbor at Raritan Bay, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Raritan Bay, N.J. forty thousand dollars, one-half of which, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, may be used in dredging bar between South Amboy and Great Beds Light.
Improving Keyport Harbor, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Keyport, N. J. five thousand dollars. 91 Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement,Erie, Pa. forty thousand dollars. The material removed in improving the harbor of Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pa. and New Jersey, in accordance with the plan adopted by Congress in the act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, under appropriations heretofore made, or any part of said material, may be deposited in any place or places approved by the engineer officerDeposit of material. in charge of the work: *Provided*, That the full amount of material*Proviso*. to be deposited and spread on League Island, as provided for underLeague Island. the existing contract, shall be so deposited and spread before the completion of the work covered by the contract; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with this provision are hereby repealed.
Improving Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: Continuing improvement,Delaware Breakwater, Del. fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: Continuing improvement,Wilmington, Del. forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cambridge, Maryland: Completing improvement,Cambridge, Md. seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Removal of draw. That no part of said sum shall be expended above the bridge until the draw in said bridge shall have been widened sufficiently to accommodate the commerce on the river.
Improving harbor at Norfolk, and its approaches, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Norfolk, Va. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Onancock, Virginia: Completing improvement,Onancock, Va. six thousand five hundred and eleven dollars. Improving harbor at Cape Charles City, Virginia, and its approaches;Cape Charles City, Va. Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars, to be expended in dredging and for such protective works as are recommended by the engineer: *Provided*, That before any Government money shall be expended*Proviso*. in the improvement of this harbor or any of its approaches, the owners of the basin forming the harbor and the channel or canalUse of basin. leading thereto, or connecting said harbor withe Cherrystone Inlet, shall execute, or cause to be executed, and file with the Secretary of War an instrument in writing satisfactory to the said Secretary of War, giving to any and all vessels, upon any and all occasions for all time to come, the right to enter and remain in said harbor and transact business therein without charge, except legitimate, usual and reasonable wharf charges to be determined by the Secretary of War in eventWharf charges. of disagreement and shall further legally dedicate or cause to be dedicated to public use an approach to the wharves of said harbor from the nearest public highway of not less than forty feet in width, to be approved by the Secretary of War.
Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Beaufort, N. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charleston, including Sullivan Island andCharleston, S. C. Mount Pleasant Shore, South Carolina: Continuing improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts*Proviso*. may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such Contracts.materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million nine hundred andLimit. fifty three thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Georgetown, South Carolina: Completing improvement,Georgetown, S. C. twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Winyaw Bay, S. C. one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: Completing improvementBrunswick, Ga. twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Cumberland Sound, Ga. one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. 92 Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia:
Continuing improvement,Savannah, Ga. three hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of WarContracts. for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two Limit.million eight hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Darien, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Darien, Ga. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Apalachicola Bay and river, Florida: ContinuingApalachicola Bay and River, Fla. improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement,Pensacola. Fla to obtain twenty-four feet of water by dredging, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Tampa Bay, Florida: Completing improvement,Tampa Bay, Fla. ten thousand dollars.
Improving entrance to harbor at Key West, Florida: Continuing improvement,Key Went. Fla. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saint Augustine, Florida: Completing improvement,Saint Augustine. tenFla. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement,Mobile, Ala. two hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That contracts may be entered into Contracts.by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to Limit.time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million one hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, Louisiana: Continuing improvement,Calcasieu River, La. one hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used on the inner bars. Improving and maintaining ship channel in Galveston Bay, Texas,Galveston Bay, Tex. from Bolivar Channel through Morgan’s Cut and the channel constructed through Morgan’s Point to the San Jacinto River:
Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement,Sabine Pass, Tex. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving channel in West Galveston Bay, in accordance with planWest Galveston Bay, Tex. recommended by Major Charles J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, submitted December twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Twenty-two, Fifty-second Congress, first session, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: Continuing improvement,Ashtabula, Ohio. seventy thousand dollars, a portion of which may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War in removing the ledge of rocks on the west side of the river channel inside the mouth. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant permission, under such regulations and orders as may be prescribed by him, to the Lake Shore and Michigan Removal of part of pier.Southern Railway Company to remove so much of the easterly Government. pier at the port of Ashtabula as, in his judgment may be removed *Proviso*.without detriment to the navigation and commerce of the port: *Provided*, That said railway company shall, at its own cost and expense, Construction of new pier.construct a pier further eastward on its own ground, to answer the purpose of the one removed; the new pier to be constructed under plans to be approved by the Secretary of War.
And the space between where the old pier was and the new pier shall be dredged to a depth to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, at the expense of said company, and be maintained at such depth by said company; and the Use by Government vessels.Government of the United States shall, at all times, have the use of said substituted pier for its own vessels free of cost or charges. 93 Improving harbor at the mouth of Black River, Ohio: ContinuingBlack River, Ohio. improvement, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: Continuing improvement, oneCleveland, Ohio. hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing improvement, thirty-fiveFairport, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: Continuing improvement, fifteenHuron, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: Completing improvement,Sandusky, Ohio. forty-one thousand seven bundled and twelve dollars, a part of which may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in removing shoal at outer approach to harbor.
Improving harbor at Toledo—straight channel through MaumeeToledo, Ohio. Bay—Ohio: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars, a part of which may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in removing shoal in old channel, and in extending the improvement up the Maumee River. Improving harbor at Vermillion, Ohio: For repairs and dredging,Vermillion, Ohio. two thousand dollars. Improving Conneaut Harbor, Ohio: For relocation of channel andConneaut, Ohio. construction of new piers (Scheme B, of Engineer’s report), forty thousand*Post*, p. 474. dollars.
Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: Continuing improvement,Port Clinton, Ohio. ten thousand dollars, of which one thousand two hundred dollars are to be paid to Charles Roose, of Oak Harbor, Ohio, in full satisfaction forCharles Roose. the necessary portion of the sand beach adjoining the inner Payment to.end of the west revetment at Port Clinton Harbor, as recommended by the War Department, and in compliance with the settlement authorized by the act of Congress entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction,Vol. 24, p. 314. repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
Improving outer harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improvement,Michigan City, Ind. thirty thousand dollars. Improving inner harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Completing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Calumet Harbor, Illinois: For maintenance of existingCalumet, Ill. works, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Completing improvement, seventy-twoChicago, Ill. thousand dollars; and the engineer in charge of the harbor is directed, in his next report, to submit what, if any, improvement should be made by the Government, in Chicago River, and the cost of same.
Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: Continuing improvement,Waukegan, Ill. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlevoix and entrance to Pine Lake, Michigan:Charlevoix, Mich. Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: Continuing improvementFrankfort, Mich. and repairs, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvementGrand Haven, Mich., ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan:
Continuing improvement,Grand Marais, Mich. thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: Continuing improvementsManistee, Mich. and for repairs, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of thisProviso. sum shall be used in aid of the inner navigation until the city authorities, or private owners, have taken proper steps to prevent erosion ofProtection of banks. the banks and the washing of silt into the bed of the river. Improving harbor at Holland (Black Lake), Michigan:
ContinuingHolland, Mich. improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan: Continuing improvementMonroe, Mich. and maintenance, ten thousand dollars. 94 Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Muskegon, Mich. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Ontonagon, Mich. twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pentwater, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Pentwater, Mich. five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor of refuge at Sand Beach, Michigan: For repairs,Sand Beach. Mich. custody, control of harbor, dredging and beginning construction of permanent superstructure, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saint Joseph, including Benton Harbor Canal,Saint Joseph, Mich. Michigan: Continuing improvement, sixty thousand dollars, of which one thousand dollars may be expended on the Saint Joseph River, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. The Cincinnati.
Wabash and Use of dam.Michigan Railroad Company, owners of the lands abutting on the north side of Saint Joseph River and harbor, shall have the right to load and unload freight over the east three hundred feet of the wing dam or wall constructed at the entrance to Benton Harbor Canal, in the harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan, under such regulations and orders as may be approved by the Secretary of War; said right to be at any time revocable by him or Congress, after twenty days’ notice to said company: and in consideration thereof the said railroad company shall, at their own proper cost and expense, rebuild, repair, renew, and protect the said three hundred feet of wing dam; all such rebuilding, repairs, and renewals to be done under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army.
Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvementSouth Haven, Mich. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at White Lake, Michigan: Continuing improvement,White Lake, Mich. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Marquette, Mich. eighty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: Continuing improvements,Ludington, Mich. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Petosky, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Petosky, Mich. twenty thousand dollars, which amount, together with the sum Vol. 26, p. 433.appropriated for this harbor in the act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be used in the improvement of the harbor according to the plans for the smaller of the two projects submitted in the report of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and printed in the annual report for eighteen hundred and ninety, pages twenty-six hundred and seventy-four and twenty-six hundred and seventy-five.
Improving harbor at Saugatuck, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Saugatuck, Mich. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Ahnapee, Wis. seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin, twenty-five thousandGreen Bay, Wis. dollars, to be expended on the existing project and in securing a sixteen-foot channel, in accordance with the recommendation of Major James F. Gregory, Corps of Engineers, submitted under date of February *Proviso*.twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: *Provided*, That five thousand Fox River.dollars of said sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended on the Fox River, below De Pere, Wisconsin.
Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Kenosha, Wis. fifteen thousand dollars, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars of which may be expended in dredging the inner harbor. Improving harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Kewaunee, Wis. thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Manitowoc, Wis. and maintenance, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Continuing improvement,Milwaukee, Wis. seventy-five thousand dollars. 95 Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Completing improvement,Milwaukee, Wis. fourteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: Completing improvement,Port Washington, Wis. six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Racine. Wig. twenty-five thousand dollars Improving harbor at Superior Bay and Saint Louis Bay, Wisconsin:Superior and Saint Louis bays, Wis.
Continuing improvement, seventy thousand dollars, a portion of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in dredging in Superior Bay along the dock line between the Quebec Channel and the main channel opposite the base of Connors Point, Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Sheboygan, Wis. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement,Ashland, Wis. forty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin:
Continuing improvement,Two Rivers, Wis. three thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin:Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis. For maintenance of channel and piers, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oconto, Wisconsin: To maintain works, threeOconto, Wis. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, including repairs to theDuluth. Minn. canal, piers, the channel on the north shore of Saint Louis Bay, and the Saint Louis River, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the channel of Saint Louis River above Grassy Point, And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an investigation to be madeInvestigation of title to land occupied by canal, etc. into the question of ownership of the ground on which is located the canal, canal entrances, and piers in this harbor, with the view of determining whether the grant and conveyance made by the city of Duluth, dated January ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to the United States, and accepted by the United States in the river and harbor actVol. 25, p. 407. of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, covers the same in full, and make report thereof to Congress, and should it appear that a portion of the ground on which is located said canal, canal entrances, and piers has not yet been vested in the United States, to make such recommendations as may be necessary to the end that all the ground pertaining to said canal, canal entrances, and piers may become the property of the United States.
Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: Continuing improvement,Grand Marais, Minn ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Agate Bay, Minnesota: Continuing improvement,Agate Bay, Minn. thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing improvement,Humboldt, Cal. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of WarContracts. for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million five hundredLimit. and sixty-five thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvement,Oakland, Cal. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, California: Completing improvement,Wilmington, Cal. fifty-one thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Diego, California: Continuing improvement,San Diego, Cal. fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California: Continuing improvement,San Luis Obispo, Cal. thirty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appointExamination for deep-water harbor, San Pedro or Santa Monica, Cal., to be made. a boar d of five engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty 96 it shall be to make a careful and critical examination for a proposed deep-water harbor at San Pedro or Santa Monica bays, and to report as to which is the more eligible location for such harbor in depth, width, and capacity to accommodate the largest oceangoing vessils and the commercial and naval necessities of the country, together with an Report.estimate of the cost.
Said board of engineers shall report the result of its investigations to the Secretary of War on or before the first of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for said purpose. Improving entrance and harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement,Coos Bay, Oregon. two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Yaquina Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement,Yaquina Bay, Oregon. eighty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Tillamook Bay, Oregon; fifteenTillamook Bay, Oregon. thousand dollars. Improving Gray’s Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington,Grays Harbor. Chehalis River. Wash. fifty thousand dollars. Improving Olympia Harbor, Washington, thirty-five thousandOlympia. Wash. dollars.Rivers. Improving Bagaduce River, Maine: Continuing improvements,Bagaduce River. Me. five thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: Continuing improvement,Kennebec River, Me. one hundred thousand dollars, of which not exceeding five thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended between the cities of Augusta and Waterville.
Improving Narraguagus River, Maine: Continuing improvement,Narraguagus River, Me. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Penobscot River, Maine: Continuing improvement,Penobscot River, Me. forty thousand dollars Improving Saco River, Maine, including breakwater: Continuing improvement,Saco River, Me. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Harraseeket River, Maine: Completing improvement,Harraseeket River, Me. sixteen thousand dollars. Improving Bellamy River, New Hampshire:
Continuing improvement,Bellamy River, N.H. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cocheco River, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement,Cocheco River, N. H. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Otter Creek, Vermont: Completing improvement,Otter Creek. Vt. ten thousand dollars. Improving Powow River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Powow River, Mass. four thousand dollars. Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Taunton River, Mass. seven thousand dollars.
Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Merrimac River, Mass. *Proviso*. Reappropriation. Vol. 26, p. 436. one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the amount appropriated in act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for improving Merrimac River at Mitchell’s Falls, may be applied to the general improvement of the river in the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving Ipswich River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Ipswich River, Mass. two thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Weymouth River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Weymouth River, Mass. ten thousand dollars. Improving Mystic and Malden rivers, Massachusetts,Mystic and Malden rivers. Mass. ten thousand dollars. Improving Essex River, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars,Essex River. Mass. Improving Pawtucket River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement,Pawtucket River, R. I. thirty five thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement,Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R.
I. fifty thousand dollars. Improving Green Jacket Shoal, Providence River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement,Green Jacket Shoal, ten thousand dollars. 97 Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island: Completing improvement,Pawcatuck River, R.I. three thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing Connecticut River, Conn.improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut; Continuing improvement,Housatonic River, Conn. twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Thames River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement,Thames River, Conn. thirty thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied for improvement in that portion of New London Harbor known as Shaw’s Cove. Improving Mystic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, tenMystic River, Conn. thousand dollars. Improving Saugatuck River, Connecticut; seven thousand dollars toSaugatuck River. Conn. be expended in the improvement of the natural channel.
Improving Hudson River, New York, by extension of project of improvementHudson River. N. Y. adopted in eighteen hundred and sixty seven, so as to provide for a channel twelve feet deep and four hundred feet wide from Coxsackie to the foot of Broadway, Troy, and thence twelve feet deepCoxsackie to Troy dam. and three hundred feet wide to the State dam at Troy, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That contracts*Proviso*. may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materialsContracts. and work as may be necessary to carry out the plan recommended by Board of Engineers, United States Army, dated October first, eighteen hundred and ninety one, and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Twenty-three, Fifty-second Congress, first session, for the improvement of the Hudson River, as above stated, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed inLimit. the aggregate two million two hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and six dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Newtown Creek and Bay, New York: Continuing improvementNewtown Creek and Bay, N. Y. thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement, oneHarlem River, N. Y. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving East River and Hell Gate, New York: Removing obstructions, oneEast Biver and Hell Gate, N. Y. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Brown’s Creek, Sayville, Long Island, New York: Continuing improvement,Browns Creek, N.Y. five thousand dollars.
Improving Great Chazy River, New York: Continuing improvement,Great Chazy River, N. Y. five thousand dollars. Improving narrows at Lake Champlain, New York: To complete improvement,Lake Champlain Narrows. N. Y. eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving shoal between Sister Islands and Cross-Over Light, Saint Lawrence River, New York: Continuing improvement,Saint Lawrence River, N. Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving Patchogue River, New York: Continuing improvementPatchogue River, N.
Y. eight thousand dollars. Improving Niagara River, from Tonawanda to Port Day. New York,Niagara River, N.Y. to secure channel eight feet deep at mean lake level, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Passaic River, N.J. forty-five thousand dollars. Improving Raritan River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Raritan River. N.J. forty thousand dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Shrewsbury River, N.
J. ten thousand dollars. Improving South River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,South River, N. J. seven thousand dollars. Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Alloway Creek, N.J. three thousand dollars. Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Elizabeth River, N.J. five thousand dollars. 98 Improving Mattawan Creek, New Jersey: Completing improvement,Mattawan Creek, N.J. nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Improving Rancocas River, New Jersey:
Continuing improvement,Rancocas River, N.J. five thousand dollars. Improving Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, N. J. three thousand dollars. Improving Goshen Creek, New Jersey,Goshen Creek, N. J. three thousand dollars. Improving Salem River, New Jersey, two thousand live hundred dollars,Salem River, N.J. to be expended above the canal. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, Continuing improvement,Allegheny River, Pa. twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: Completing improvement.Schuylkill River, Pa. forty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Improving Delaware River from Trenton to its mouth,Delaware River, Pa. and N.J. Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. For continuing construction of dam at Herr’s Island, Allegheny River. Pennsylvania,Herr’s Island Dam, Allegheny River, Pa. forty thousand dollars. Improving Appoquinimink River, Delaware:
Continuing improvement,Appoquinimink River, Del. five thousand dollars. Improving Smyrna River, Delaware: Continuing improvement,Smyrna River, Del. three thousand dollars. Improving Murderkill River, Delaware;Murderkill River, Del. Broad Creek River, Del. Mispillion River, Del. seven thousand dollars. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware, five thousand dollars. Improving Mispillion River. Delaware, according to project recommended by William F. Smith, United States agent, in his letter of November fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, twelve thousand dollars.
Improving the inland water way from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, toInland waterway, Delaware and Chincoteague bays. *Proviso*. Delaware Bay at or near Lewes, to be used from Delaware Bay to Indian River: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars: Right of way.*Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the right of way is secured without cost to the United States. Improving Choptank River, Maryland: Continuing improvement,Choptank River, Md. three thousand dollars Improving Susquehanna River, Maryland and Pennsylvania:
Continuing improvement,Susqnehanna River. Md. and Pa. four thousand dollars, to be expended above Havre de Grace. Improving Chester River, Maryland: Continuing improvementChester River, Md. three thousand dollars. Improving Elk River, Maryland: Continuing improvement,Elk River, Md. five thousand dollars. Improving Manokin River, Maryland: Continuing improvement,Manokin River, Md. Seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Northeast River, Maryland: Completing improvement,Northeast River, Md. two thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Improving Wicomico River, Maryland: Continuing improvement,Wicomico River, Md. six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Patapsco River, Baltimore Harbor. Maryland: For dredgingPatapsco River, Md., Baltimore Harbor. a channel one hundred and fifty feet wide at bottom and of a depth of twenty-seven feet mean low water from the main ship channel to Curtis Bay, in accordance with recommendation of Colonel William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, submitted December thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Improving Warwick River, Maryland: In accordance with recommendationWarwick River, Md. of United States Agent W. F. Smith, submitted August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, six thousand dollars Improving Latrappe River, Maryland, in accordance with recommendationLatrappe River, Md. of United States Agent W. F. Smith, submitted July thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia:
ContinuingPotomac River, D.C. improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. 99 Improving Appomattox River, Virginia: Completing improvement,Appomattox River. Va. fifteen thousand and eighty dollars. Improving Nansemond River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Nansemond River, Va. ten thousand dollars. Improving Chickahominy River, Virginia: Completing improvement,Chickahominy River, Va. five thousand dollars. Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,James River. Va. two hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Mattaponi River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Mattaponi River. Va. four thousand dollars, of which one thousand five hundred dollars shall be expended between Aylett’s and Guinea’s bridges. Improving Nomini Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Nomini Creek, Va. ten thousand dollars. Improving Pamunkey River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Pamunkey River Va. three thousand dollars. Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Rappahannock River, Va. twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Urbanna Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvementUrbanna Creek. Va. three thousand dollars. Improving York River, Virginia: Continuing improvement,York River, Va. thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Aquia Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Aquia Creek, Va. five thousand dollars. Improving Occoquan Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement,Occoquan Creek. Va. five thousand dollars. Improving Lower Machodoc Creek, Virginia,Lower Machodoc Creek. Va. Elk River, W. Va. three thousand dollars.
Improving Elk River, West Virginia, two thousandGreat Kanawha River. W. Va. *Proviso*. Contracts. five hundred dollars. Improving Great Kanawha River, West Virginia; continuing improvement,Limit. two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the revised project of improvement of January eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety two, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million eighty thousand seven hundredGauley River, XV.
Va. dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Guyandotte River, West Virginia: For maintenance,Guyandotto River, W. Va. two thousand dollars, Improving Gauley River, West Virginia: Continuing improvement,Monongahela River, W. Va. three thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia: Continuing improvement,Waterway, Bean-fort to New River, N. C. twenty-five thousand dollars, for beginning work on lock and dam number ten. Improving inland water way between Beaufort Harbor andLock woods Folly River, N.
C. New River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement; ten thousand dollars. Improving Lockwoods Folly River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,North East (Cape Fear) River, N. C. three thousand dollars Improving North East (Cape Fear) River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Ocracoke Inlet, N. C. five thousand dollars Improving Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Pasquotank River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Pasquotank River, N.
C. three thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina, above Wilmington: Continuing improvement,Cape Fear River, N. C. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina, at and below Wilmington: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Contentnia Creek, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Contentnia Creek, seven thousand dollars. Improving Neuse River. North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Neuse River, N. C. fifteen thousand dollars. 100 Improving New River.
North Carolina: Continuing improvement,New River, N. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving Roanoke River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Roanoke River. N. C. fifty thousand dollars Improving Trent River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Trent River, N. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Yadkin River, North Carolina: Completing improvement,Yadkin River, N.
C. five thousand dollars. Improving Lumber River, North and South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Lumber River, N. C. and S. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Fishing Creek, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Fishing Creek, N. C. five thousand Vol. 20, p. 441.dollars, and a former appropriation of ten thousand dollars. together with this, may be expended whenever draws are provided in such bridges as are, in the opinion of the engineer in charge, unreasonable obstructions to navigation.
Improving Block River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement,Block River, N. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving inland water route from Norfolk Harbor. Virginia, toWaterway, Norfolk. Va., to Albemarle Sound, N. C. Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, through Currituck Sound: Continuing improvement, nine thousand dollars. Improving Edisto River, South Carolina: Completing improvement,Edisto River, S. C. seven thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars. Improving Great Peedee River, South Carolina:
Continuing improvement,Great Peedee River, S. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving Santee River, South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Santee River, S. C. thirty thousand dollars, to be used in snagging and in making new cut between Estherville and Minim creek. Improving Waccamaw River, North and South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Waccamaw River, S. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving Wappoo cut, South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Wappooent, S. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving Wateree River, South Carolina:
For maintenance,Wateree River, S. C. two thousand five hundred ollars. Improving Congaree River, South Carolina: Continuing improvementCongaree River, S. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Mingo Creek, South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Mingo Creek. S. C. three thousand dollars. Improving Little Peedee River, South Carolina: Continuing improvement,Little Peedee River, S. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Clark River, South Carolina: Completeing improvement,Clark River, S.
C. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Beaufort River, South Carolina: Completeing improvement,Beaufort River. S. C. twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Altamaha River, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Altamaha River. S. C. fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama; Continuing improvement,Chattahoochee River. Ga. and Ala. twenty-five thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars are to be used on that portion of the river between West Point and Franklin.
Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Flint River, Ga. fifteen thousand dollars, of which four thousand dollars are to be expended between Albany and Montezuma, and eleven thousand below Albany. Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Ocmulgee River, Ga. twenty-five thousand dollars, of which twelve thousand five hundred dollars are to be expended between Macon and Hawkinsville, and the like sum below Hawkinsville. Improving Oconee River, Georgia:
Continuing improement.Oconee River, Ga. twenty-five thousand dollars, of which live thousand dollars are to be expended between Milledgeville and the Central Railroad bridge. 101 Improving Savannah River, between Augusta and Savannah: ContinuingSavannah River, Ga. improvement, thirty-five Augusta to Savannah.thousand dollars. Improving Jekyl Creek, Georgia: Continuing improvement, sevenJekyl Creek, Ga. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Coosa River in Georgia and Alabama, between Rome,Coosa River, Ga. and Ala.
Georgia, and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad bridge in Alabama: Continuing improvement, one hundred and thirty thou sand dollars. Improving Coosa River between Wetumpka, Alabama and the East Coosa River, Ala.Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad bridge: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars, and the restriction as to the size of the locks to be constructed on the Coosa River, placed in the riverLocks. and harbor act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninetyVol. 26, p. 442. is hereby repealed.
Inside water route between Savannah. Georgia, and Fernandina.Water way. Savannah. Ga., to Fernandina, Fla. Savannah River. Ga., above Augusta. Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River, Georgia, above Augusta, ten thousand dollars. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida, including Lee’s Slough andApalachicola River, Fla. its connection with the Chipola River, and from said connection to the mouth of the Chipola River: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.
Improving Caloosahatchee River, Florida, For maintenance,Caloosahatchee River. Fla. one thousand dollars. Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida, and Alabama, ContinuingChoctawhatchee River. Fla. and Ala. *Proviso*. Draw bridge. improvement, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended above Hollis Bridge until a draw approved by the Secretary of War is put in said bridge. Improving Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Florida: Continuing improvement,Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Fla. eight thousand dollars, of which three thousand dollars are tor snag boat and five thousand dollars for operating the same.
Improving Manatee River, Florida: Continuing improvement, sixManatee River, Fla. thousand dollars. Improving the channel over the bar at the mouth of the Saint JohnsSaint Johns River, Fla. River, Florida: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twelve-thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be enterd*Proviso*. Contracts. into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry out the project of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and eighty-fourLimit. thousand five hundred dollars exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Suwanee River, Florida: Continuing improvement, threeSuwanee River, Fla. thousand dollars. Improving Volusia Bar, Florida: For repairs, one thousand dollars.Volusia Bar, Fla. Improving Ocklawaha River, Florida: For maintenance, one thousandOcklawaha River, Fla. dollars. Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement, twoSarasota Bay, Fla. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Indian River, Florida, between Goat Creek and JupiterIndian River. Fla. Inlet, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended until the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company surrenders and relinquishes to the United States all the rights and privileges which it now holds under State Charter along the entire route.
Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement,Alabama River, Ala. seventy thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior River, Alabama, from Tuscaloosa to DanielsBlack Warrior River, Ala. Creek: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Cahaba River, Alabama: Continuing improvement, sevenCahaba River, Ala. thousand five hundred dollars. 102 Improving Tombigbee and Warrior Rivers, Alabama, from mouth ofTombigbee and Warrior Rivers, Ala. Tombigbee River to Tuscaloosa:
Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars, of which one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars are to be expended on the Tombigbee River and seventy five thousand dollars on the Warrior River, and so much of said sums as may be necessary is authorized to be expended in acquiring by purchase or condemnation, under the laws of Alabama, the lands needed in making such improvements. Improving Tombigbee River from Fulton to Columbus: ContinuingTombigbee River, Ala. improvement, six thousand dollars.
Improving Tombigbee River, from Demopolis, Alabama, to Columbus, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, thirty five thousand dollars. Improving Tombigbee River, from Walker’s Bridge to Fulton: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Big Sunflower River, Miss. five thousand dollars. Improving Noxubee River, Mississippi: For maintenance,Noxubee River, Miss. three thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi:
Continuing improvement,Pascagoula River, Miss. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Edinburg and Carthage: For maintenance,Pearl River, Miss. five hundred dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Carthage and Jackson: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, below Jackson: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Steele’s Bayou, Mississippi Continuing improvement, twoSteele’s Bayou, Miss. thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Tchula Lake, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Tchula Lake, Miss. three thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Yazoo River, Miss. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Tallahatchee River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Tallahatchee River, Miss. five thousand dollars, of which amount two thousand dollars may be used in the improvement of said river between the bridge at Panola, Mississippi and the mouth of the Coldwater River at the discretion of the Secretary of War.
Improving Leaf River, Mississippi, from its mouth to Bowie Creek:Leaf River, Miss. Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Big Black River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Big Black River. Miss. five thousand dollars. Improving Chickasahay River, Mississippi, from the mouth up to railroadChickasahay River, Miss. bridge near Shubuta: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving mouth of the Yazoo River, Mississippi, in accordance withYazoo River.
Miss., mouth of. plan of Captain J. H. Williard, Corps of Engineers. United States Army, dated February fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety two, contained in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and twenty five, Fifty-second Congress, first session, including borings and gauges, seventy-five thousand dollars; and should the Secretary of War be unable Right of way.to obtain such right of way as may be necessary in the prosecution of this work, upon reasonable terms, by agreement, purchase, or voluntary conveyance, he is hereby authorized to apply at any term of the circuit or district court of the United States for the western division of the southern district of Mississippi, and in the name of the United Condemnation.States institute and carry on proceedings to condemn such lands as may be necessary for right of way as aforesaid and in such proceedings said court shall be governed by the laws of the State of Mississippi so far as the same may be applicable to the subject of condemning private property for public use.
Improving Amite River and Bayou Manchac, Louisiana: For maintenance,Amite River and Bayou Manchac, La. two thousand five hundred dollars, of which one thousand 103 dollars may be used to construct a turning basin for boats at or near the mouth of Ward’s Creek on Bayou Manchac. Improving Boeuf River, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, tenBoeuf River, La. thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Bartholomew, Louisiana and Arkansas: ContinuingBayou Bartholomew, La. and Ark. improvement, five thousand dollars.
Improving Bayou D’Arbonne, Louisiana; Completing improvement,Bayou D’Arbonno, La. four thousand dollars; one thousand dollars of which shall be expended in improvement of the Cornie from Steins Bluff to the head of navigation on said stream. Improving Tensas River and Bayou Macon, Louisiana and Arkansas:Tensas River and Bayou Macon, La. and Ark. Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Red River, Louisiana and Arkansas, from Fulton, Arkansas,Red River. Ark. and to the Atchafalaya River:
Continuing improvement, according to plan of Captain J. H. Willard, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and for completion of survey, including the work at Alexandria, the widening of that portion of the river known as Little River, the necessary work at the harbor of Shreveport, the closing of outlets on the west bank of the river above Shreveport, and the removal of the “ tow head” just above Rush Point, in Caddo Parish, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for work in Cypress Bayou and the lakes between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Jefferson, Texas.
Improving Tickfaw River, Louisiana: For maintenance, one thousandTickfaw River, La. dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana, Continuing improvement,Bayou Plaquemine, La. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in removing obstructions from Grand River and Pigeon bayous, forming part of the Bayou Plaquemine route. Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: Continuing improvementBayou Lafourche, La. and removing obstructions fifty thousand dollars.
Improving Tchefuncte River and Bogue Falia, Louisiana: For maintenance,Tchefuncte River and Bogue Falia, La. one thousand dollars. Improving Bogue Chitto, Louisiana: Continuing improvement,Bogue Chitto. La. five thousand dollars. Improving the channel, bay and passes of Bayou Vermillion, Louisiana: seven thousand five hundredBayou Vermillion, La. dollars. Improving Mermentau River and tributaries, Louisiana, seven thousandMermentau River, La. five hundred dollars. Improving Buffalo Bayou, Texas:
Continuing improvement,Buffalo Bayou, Tex. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement,Trinity River, Tex. ten thousand dollars. Improving Cedar Bayou, Texas: Completeing improvement,Cedar Bayou, Tex. fourteen thousand dollars. Improving Cypress Bayou and Lakes, Texas and Louisiana: Completing Cypress Bayou and Lakes, Tex.survey, two thousand dollars. Improving Sabine River, up to Sudduth’s Bluff, Texas, five thousand dollars.Sabine River, Tex.
Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas and Indian Territory, two hundredArkansas River, Ark. and Ind. T. and fifty thousand dollars, two-fifths of which amount shall be expended from the mouth of the river to Little Rock, two-fifths from Little Rock to Fort Smith, and one-fifth above Fort Smith. Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement,Saint Francis River, Ark. eight thousand dollars. Improving Arkansas River: Removing obstructions and operatingArkansas River. snag boats, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Black River. Arkansas and Missouri: Continuing improvement,Black River, Ark. and Mo. five thousand dollars. Improving Petit Jean River, Arkansas: Completing improvement,Petit Jean River Ark. three thousand five hundred dollars. 104 Improving White River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, seventy-fiveWhite River, Ark. thousand dollars, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars of which shall be used for completion of the existing project. the remainder to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of War, Improving Ouachita and Black Rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana:Ouachita and Black Rivers, Ark and La.
Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars, of which not exceeding five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, at the harbor of Camden, Arkansas. Improving Red River, above Fulton, Arkansas: Continuing improvement,Red River, Ark. three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cache River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement,Cache River, Ark. two thousand dollars. Improving Big Hatchee River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement,Big Hatches River.
Tenn. three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Clinch River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement,Clinch River. Tenn. four thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky: ContinuingCumberland River. Tenn. and Ky. Above Nashville. improvement above Nashville, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the improvement of the river above the town of Burnside. Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee, below Nashville:
ContinuingBelow Nashville. improvement, including the work at the mouth of the river, forty *Proviso*.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That ten thousand dollars of this sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be available for acquiring Lock and dam.site and locating lock and dam near the mouth of Harpeth River, Tennessee, according to the survey and plan of Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, submitted in December, eighteen hunched and eighty nine.
Improving French Broad River. Tennessee: Continuing improvement,French Broad River, Tenn. fifteen thousand dollars, of which one thousand dollars may be used in removing the bar or shoal in Little Pigeon River, a tributary of the French Broad River. Improving Forked Deer River, Tennessee: Completeing improvement,Forked Deer River, Tenn. three thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River, below Chattanooga. Tennessee: ContinuingTennessee River. Below Chattanooga, Tenn. improvement, five hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand dollars may be used in continuing the work at Livingston Point, Kentucky.
Improving Tennessee River, above Chattanooga, Tennessee: ContinuingAbove Chattanooga. improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Obion River, Tennessee, from its mouth to the crossing ofObion River, Tenn. the Louisville and Memphis Railroad in Obion County, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky. Continuing improvement,Kentucky River. Ky. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the falls of the Ohio River, Kentucky: Continuing improvement,Ohio River, Ky. sixty thousand dollars.
Improving Indiana Chute Fall, Ohio River: Continuing improvement,Indiana Chute Fall. thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Rough River, Kentucky: Continuing improvement,Rough River, Ky. fifteen thousand dollars. . Improving Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, Kentucky: For maintenance,Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, Ky. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Tug Fork, Big Sandy River, Kentucky: For maintenance,Tug Fork, Big Sandy River, Ky. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, near Louisa, Kentucky:
For movableBig Sandy River, Ky. dam in lieu of fixed dam according to report and recommendation of Movable dam.Board of Engineers, dated November tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, and found in House Executive Document Numbered Twenty-five, Fifty-second Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars: 105 *Provided*, That in addition to the said sum the balance on hand from*Proviso*. Balance available. former appropriations made for the fixed dam at that point is hereby made available for the movable dam herein provided for.
Improving Green River, Kentucky, above the month of the Big Green River, Ky.Barren River: For lock number five, according to report and recommendationLock No. 5. of Major D. W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, submitted August eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Sandusky River, Ohio: Continuing improvement, fiveSandusky River, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River, Continuing improvement, three hundred andOhio River. sixty thousand dollars, of which sum thirteen thousand dollars may be expended in completing the embankment on the south side of the Great Miami river near its junction with the Ohio River, to confine the watersMouth of Great Miami. of said Miami River in great floods to the general course of its channel at or near the Ohio, to the end that the formation of the bar in the Ohio now obstructing navigation may be arrested; and of said sum thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used in improving the navigation of the river at Mound City,Mound City, Ill.
Illinois, and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for dredging in Brooklyn Harbor, Illinois, and seven thousandBrooklyn, Ill. Shawneetown, Ill. dollars in completing the work at Shawneetown, Illinois. Improving Ohio River by the construction of a movable dam at orDam at mouth of Beaver River, Pa. below the mouth of Beaver River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War in his discretion may use so much thereof as may be necessary for the survey, location, and obtaining title to land for dam numbered two.
Improving Saginaw River. Michigan: Continuing improvement, oneSaginaw River, Mich. hundred thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars shall be expended on the West channel at Bay City, and forty thousand dollars, or such less sum as may be necessary, on the river above Bay City. Improving mouth of Black River, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Black River, Mich. ten thousand dollars. Improving Clinton River. Michigan: Completing improvement,Clinton River. Mich. eight thousand five hundred and sixty-four dollars.
Improving Rouge River. Michigan: Completing improvement,Rouge River, Mich. eleven thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan, by removal of shoals from city of Detroit to Lake Erie: Continuing improvement,Detroit River, Mich. thirty thousand dollars. Improving Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan: Continuing improvement,Thunder Bay River. Mich. ten thousand dollars. Improving Black River, at Port Huron, Michigan: Continuing improvementBlack River.
Mich. up to Washington avenue, ten thousand dollars. Improving the water communication across Keweenaw Point, Lake Water way across Keweenaw Point, Lakes Superior and Michigan.Superior, from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, in the State of Michigan, for a navigable depth of sixteen feet with a minimum width of seventy feet at the bottom, and for repairs to existing revetments, fifty--thousand dollars. For acquisition of land for site and beginning construction of turningRouge River, Mich. basin in Rouge River, Michigan, according to plan of General O.Turning basin.
M. Poe, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, submitted December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, five thousand dollars. Improving Chippewa River, including Yellow Banks, Wisconsin:Chippewa River, Wis. Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, seventy-fiveFox River, Wis. thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for work in the harbor of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and approaches thereto.
Improving Menominee River, Wisconsin and Michigan: CompletingMenominee River, Wis. and Mich. improvement according to modified project, twenty-thousand five hundred dollars. 106 Improving Saint Croix River, Wisconsin and Minnesota: ContinuingSaint Croix River, Wis, and Minn. improvement, eight thousand dollars. For making free to commerce the Sturgeon Bay and Lake MichiganSturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal. Ship Canal, connecting the water of Green Bay with Lake Michigan, in the State of Wisconsin, eighty-one thousand eight hundred and *Proviso*.thirty-three dollars: *Provided*, That no money appropriated for this Title and jurisdiction.purpose shall be available until a valid title to all of said premises shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Wisconsin shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process on the lands and right of way so conveyed.
Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota: Continuing improvement,Red River of the North, Minn. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Minnesota River, Minnesota: The sum appropriated byMinnesota River, Minn. Reappropriation. Vol. 25, p. 419. act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby made available for the improvement of the river, omitting the requirement for operations at Belle Plain, pursuant to recommendation of engineer officer, page twenty-two hundred and nine of the reports of eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Improving Wabash River, Indiana and Illinois, above Vincennes:Wabash River, Ind. and Ill. Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Wabash River, Indiana and Illinois, below Vincennes: Continuing improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Improving White River, Indiana: Continuing improvement, fiveWhite River, Ind. thousand dollars. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: Continuing improvement.Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. seventy-five thousand dollars, of which sixty thousand dollars is to be used below the forks of the river and fifteen thousand dollars above the forks to one-half mile east of Hammond.
Improving Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement, one hundredIllinois River, Ill. thousand dollars. For the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal: ContinuingIllinois and Mississippi Canal. construction, five hundred thousand dollars, of which so much as may be necessary shall be used in acquiring the right of way for said *Provisos*. Rights of way.canal: *Provided*, That in acquiring right of way the Secretary of War may make agreements for joint user where the canal crosses other lines of transportation if such agreements can be made upon reasonable Basis.terms: *Provided further*, That in acquiring the right of way by agreement or otherwise for the crossing of existing public highways over the parts of the canal constructed on land, the basis of agreement or Bridges, etc.condemnation shall be the construction and maintenance of bridges by the United States Government, as provided for in the detailed plans and estimates heretofore submitted to Congress, but this provision shall not apply to bridges constructed over public waters of the United States now occupying part of the line of the said canal, nor to bridges constructed after the completion of said canal or part thereof adjacent to the bridge sites.
Improving Kaskaskia River, Illinois, from mouth to Baldwin Bridge:Kaskaskia River, Ill. Completing improvement, four thousand five hundred dollars. For care and maintenance of reservoirs at the headwaters of the MississippiMississippi River. Reservoirs at headwaters. River, sixty thousand dollars, of which thirty thousand dollars may be expended for the construction of a navigable pass through the Sandy Lake dam. Improving the Mississippi River, from the mouth of the Ohio RiverFrom mouth of Ohio to Minneapolis. to the landing on the west bank below the Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Continuing improvement, one million one *Provisos*.hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That on and Additional contracts.after the passage of this act additional contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry on continuously the systematic improvement of the 107 Mississippi River between the points mentioned, or said materials may be purchased and work may be done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars per annum for three years, commencing July first, eighteen hundred and ninety three: *And provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated live hundred andDistribution. twenty-five thousand dollars shall be expended from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River and six hundred thousand dollars from the mouth of the Missouri to Minneapolis; and the amounts for which additional contracts are authorized to be entered into shall be expended in like proportion.
The Secretary of War is hereby directed to pay, out of the sum allotted to the river between the mouth of the Missouri River and Minneapolis, to M. J. Adams, fiveM. J. Adams. Payment to. thousand dollars, in full of all claims and demands growing out of the test made by him of what is known as the Adams flume on the Upper Mississippi River, the said test having been authorized by Congress; and the Secretary of War shall expend fifty thousand dollars of said six hundred thousand dollars between the Chicago, Saint Paul, MinneapolisBetween St.
Paul and Minneapolis. and Onaba Railway bridge at Saint Paul and the Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, and may, in his discretion, use a portion of said sum of six hundred thousand dollars, if necessary, to further protect the east bank of the river from erosion, and thus prevent the destruction of the embankment of the Say Island levee, and aSay Island levee. further portion, in his discretion, in the rectification of the river at Clarksville, Missouri, and in repair of harbors of refuge at Stockholm,Clarksville.
Mo. Harbors of refuge. Wisconsin, and Lake City, Minnesota, on Lake Pepin: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay out of said appropriation the value of work actually done by the HannibalHannibal Ferry Company. Payment to. Ferry Company, not exceeding the sum of two thousand one hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents, on the upper Mississippi River Government dyke, opposite Hannibal, Missouri, during the months of September, October and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Improving Quincy Bay, Illinois: The balance on hand to credit ofQuincy Bay, Ill. Balance to be used for levee. Whipple Creek bar. this improvement from the appropriation made in the river and harbor act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby authorized to be expended, or so much thereof as may be necessary, Vol. 20, p. 450.in constructing a retaining levee on Whipple Creek Bar to hold the material dredged from the bay, as recommended by the engineer in charge in the report for eighteen hundred and ninety-one, page twenty-one hundred and twenty-one.
Improving Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the monthMississippi River Commission. Head of the Passes to mouth of Ohio. Salaries, etc. of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: Continuing improvement, two million dollars, which sum shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission, as approved by the Chief of Engineers, for the general improvement. of the river, for the building of levees, and for surveys, including the survey from the Head of the Passes to the headwaters of the river, in such manner as in their opinion shall best improve navigation and promote the interests of commerce at all stages of the river: *Provided*,*Provisos*.
That on and after passage of this act additional contracts may be enteredAdditional contracts. Limit. into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry on continuously the plans of the Mississippi River Commission as aforesaid, or said materials may be purchased and work maybe done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars per annum for three years, commencing July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
For work in accordance with the plans and specifications of the Mississippi River Commission. 108 At the harbor of Greenville, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Greenville, Miss. one hundred thousand dollars. At the harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi: Continuing improvement,Vicksburg, Miss. eighty thousand dollars. At the harbor of New Orleans, Louisiana: Continuing improvement,New Orleans. La. eighty thousand dollars. At the harbor of Natchez and Vidalia, Mississippi and Louisiana,Natchez, Miss., and Vidalia.
La. eighty thousand dollars. At the harbor of Memphis, Tennessee, twenty-fiveMemphis. Tenn. thousand dollars. At the harbor of New Madrid, Missouri, twenty-fiveNew Madrid. Mo. thousand dollars. At the head of the Atchafalaya and the mouth of Red River, Louisiana,Atchafalaya and Red Rivers. La. for the rectification thereof: Continuing improvement, eighty thousand dollars. For ship channel twenty and twenty-one feet in depth, and a minimumGreat Lakes. Ship channel Chicago. Duluth, and Buffalo. width of three hundred feet, in the shallows of the connecting waters of the Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, three *Proviso*.
Contracts.hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry out the plans proposed by General O. M. Poe, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, date January twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and printed as House Executive Document, Numbered Two hundred and seven, second session Fifty-first Congress, for such ship channel, to be paid for as Limit.appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two million nine hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvement,Gasconade River, Mo. four thousand dollars. Improving Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement, fiftyOsage River, Mo. thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River between the foot of the Great Falls of theMissouri River. Between Great Falls, Mont., and Sioux City. said river, in Montana, and Sioux City: Continuing improvement one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, a portion of which may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the rectification of said river and bank protection at the cities of Pierre and Yankton, South Dakota.
Improving Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, includingMissouri River Commission. Salaries, etc. Improvement. salaries, clerical, office, traveling and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges: Continuing improvement, six hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the systematic improvement of the river according to the plans and specifications of the Missouri River Commission, as approved by the Chief of *Provisos*.Engineers: *Provided*, That in the discretion of said Commission a Harbors.portion of such sum may be expended in the protection of harbors and localities on the river within said limits: *And provided also*, That on Additional contracts.and after the passage of this act additional contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry on continuously the plans of the Missouri River Commission for the improvement of said river, or said materials may be purchased and work may be done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not Limit.exceeding in the aggregate seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum for three years, commencing July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Examination of Missouri River from Three Forks to Canyon Ferry,Missouri River. Examination for water power. Montana, with a view of determining at what points, if any, use might be made of water power for manufacturing or other purposes, without unreasonably impairing the navigability of that portion of said river, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Colorado River by construction of a levee on the GilaColorado River, Ariz. River near its junction with the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, so 109 as to confine the waters to the channel of said rivers ten thousand dollars.
Improving Sacremento and Feather rivers, California, according to Sacramento and Feather rivers. Cal. plan of the Board of Engineers, appointed pursuant to the provision of the act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, submittedVol. 26, p. 456. February third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and printed as House Executive Document, Number Two hundred and forty-six, Fifty-first Congress, second session, including treatment of the Yuba River near and above Marysville, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improving San Joaquin River, California, including making the cutoffSan Joaquin River. Cal. at Twenty-one Mile Slough and the double cutoff between Stockton Channel and Devil’s Elbow, as proposed by Major W. H. Heuer: Continuing improvement, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. no money shall be expended for making the cutoffs until the right ofRight of way. way on the line of the cutoff’s shall have been conveyed to the United States free of expense. Improving Petaluma Creek, California:
Continuing improvementPetaluma Creek, Cal. ten thousand dollars. Improving Mokelumne River, California: Continuing improvement,Mokelumne River, Cal. *Proviso*. two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be used until the drainage canal cut by private parties nearDrainage canal. New Hope Landing shall have been closed. Improving canal at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon:Cascades of Columbia River. Continuing improvement, three hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered*Proviso*.
Contracts. into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement of the Columbia River at that point, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate oneLimit. million four hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. The President is hereby authorized to appoint a board of engineers to Board of engineers to report on removal of obstructions to navigation.
Columbia River.consist of seven members, of whom three shall be from civil life whose duty it shall be to thoroughly examine the obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River, in that portion from the navigable waters thereof below Three Mile Rapids to the navigable waters above the Celilo Falls, and report as soon as they conveniently can to the Secretary of War such plan for overcoming or removing said obstructions as in their opinion is most feasible and best adapted to the necessities of commerce, together with a statement as to the usefulness of such improvement to navigation, its relation and value to commerce and the most desirable location therefor the cost of construction and of the right of way, including the necessary land therefor being considered.
They shall also report the details of such plans, with estimates of its cost. The sum of twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of such examination and survey and the expenses of said board. Improving Upper Columbia River, including Snake River, as far upUpper Columbia River. Oreg. and Wash. as Asotin, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving month of Columbia River. Oregon:
Continuing improvement,Columbia River, Oreg. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Willamette River at and above Portland, Oregon: ContinuingWillamette River. Oreg. improvement, thirty thousand dollars, of which three thousand dollars shall be used in removing obstructions in Yamhill River up to McMinnville. Improving Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers, in front of andLower Willamette and Columbia rivers. Portland. Oreg. below Portland, Oregon: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be applied to obtaining a twenty-five foot channel.
Improving Coquille River, Oregon: Continuing improvement, twentyCoquille River, Oreg. five thousand dollars. 110 Improving the mouth of the Siuslaw River, Oregon: Continuing improvement,Siuslaw River, Oreg. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Upper Coquille River, between Coquille City and MyrtleUpper Coquille River, Oreg. Point, Oregon: Five thousand dollars, to be used in deepening channel to four feet at mean low water. Improving Upper Snake River, Idaho, between Huntington BridgeSnake River, Idaho. and Seven Devils mining district, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Cowlitz River, Washington: Continuing improvement,Cowlitz River, Wash. three thousand dollars. Improving Puget Sound and its tributary waters, Washington:Puget Sound, etc., Wash. Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Swinomish Slough, Washington, for a channel four feetSwinomish Slough. Wash. in depth at the mean of the lower low waters, twenty five thousand dollars Improving Nasel River, Washington: Completing improvement, oneNasel River, Wash. thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Columbia River, Washington, between the month of theColumbia River, Wash. Willamette River and the city of Vancouver: Completing improvement, in accordance with the plan recommended by Major Thomas H. Handbury and printed in House Executive Document Numbered Thirty-six, Fifty-second Congress, first session, thirty-three thousand dollars. Improving Willapa River and Harbor, Washington, eighteen thousandWillapa River. Wash. dollars, of which eight thousand dollars may be used for closing Mailboat Slough.
Sec. 2. That in cases where authority has been granted to the SecretaryReject ion of bids not advantageous. of War in this act to make contracts for the completion of certain works of river and harbor improvement, he is hereby authorized to reject any bids not in his opinion advantageous to the Government, and to issue new proposals. Sec. 3. That section seven of the river and harbor act of SeptemberVol. 26, p. 54. amended. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 7. That it shall not be lawful to build any wharf, pier, dolphin,Obstructions by wharves, etc. boom, dam, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty or structure of any kind outside established harbor lines, or in any navigable waters of the United States where no harbor lines are or may be established, without the permission of the Secretary of War, in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, navigable river, or other waters of the United States, in such manner as shall obstruct or impair navigation, commerce, or anchorage of said waters; and it shall not be lawful hereafter to commence the Construction of bridges, etc., under State law.construction of any bridge, bridge draw, bridge piers and abutments, causeway, or other works over or in any port, road, roadstead, haven, harbor, navigable river or navigable waters of the United States, under any act of the legislative assembly of any State, until the location and Secretary o.
War to approve plans, etc. Altering, etc., ports, etc., forbidden.plan of such bridge or other works have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War, or to excavate or till, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless approved and authorized by the Secretary of War: *Provided:* That this section shall not apply to any bridge, bridge*Proviso*. draw, bridge piers and abutments the Existing lawful bridges, etc., excepted.construction of which has been heretofore duly authorized by law. or be so construed as to authorize No authority for bridges under State law over waters not wholly in State.the construction of any bridge, draw bridge, bridge piers and abutments or other works under an act of the legislature of any State, over or in any stream, port, roadstead, haven or harbor or other navigable water not wholly within the limits of such State.
" Sec. 4. That any permission granted by the Secretary of War underBridges across Ohio River. the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act Vol. 17, p. 398.to authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same,” approved December seventeenth, eighteen 111 hundred and seventy-two, as amended by an act supplementary thereto, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, forVol. 22, p. 414. the construction of a bridge over said river, shall be null and void if said construction be not actually commencedLimit for construction. within one year and completed within three years from the date of said permission.
Sec. 5. That no money appropriated for the improvement of riversDredging within harbor lines. and harbors in this act or hereafter, shall be expended for dredging inside of harbor lines duly established. Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause preliminarySurveys. examinations to be made at the following localities, to wit: arkansas.Arkansas. Saline River. Little River. Fourche Le Fevre and Current River. Ouachita River, above Camden. california.California.
Old River Branch of San Joaquin River. San Joaquin River from Hill’s Ferry to Firebaugh’s Ferry, including closing of sloughs on the river above Stockton. Navigable slough, in the bay of San Francisco. Merced River. Mouth of Navarro River. Tuolumne River. Harbor of Crescent City. Stanislaus River. Entrance to harbor of San Francisco, known as Golden Gate. Alviso Slough. connecticut.Connecticut. Norwalk Harbor. Westport Harbor. Stonington Harbor, and the entrance thereto. delaware.Delaware.
Nanticoke River. Mouth of Saint Jones River. For inland water way connecting the Mispillion and Broadkiln rivers so as to reopen the navigation of Cedar, Slaughter, and Primehook creeks. florida.Florida. Harbor at Cape Canaveral. The bar at the junction of Choctawhatchee Bay and Santa Rosa Sound. The bar at the mouth of Alaqua Bayou, at its entrance into Choctawhatchee Bay. georgia.Georgia. Savannah River between Spirit Island and the point where the Charleston and Savannah Railway crosses said river. idaho.Idaho.
Kootenai River, from Fry, Idaho, to international boundary line. Spokane River, from Post Falls to Lake Coeur d’Alene. iowa.Iowa. Mississippi River at and near Bellevue, Iowa, with a view to so repairing and fixing dam that ferry channel will be restored. 112 Mississippi River, Iowa side from mouth of Iowa River to Burlington, to determine the best method of removing the bars and deepening the channel. indiana.Indiana. Harbor at Evansville. Wolf River Harbor, on Lake Michigan; and the engineer will report whether Wolf River and Lake are navigable water ways of the United States, or whether covered in whole or in part by claims of private ownership. illinois.Illinois.
Ohio River at or near Elizabethtown, Illinois, for the purpose of determining the most practicable method of improving the harbor at that place. Hamburg Bay, on the Mississippi River, in Calhoun County. Little Wabash and Embarras rivers. Outer harbor at mouth of Calumet River. Harbor at Moline. kansas.Kansas. Kansas River. kentucky.Kentucky. Ohio River between the cities of Ludlow and Covington, in Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway bridge to the Cincinnati Southern Railway bridge to prevent washing and damage to banks on Kentucky shore.
Ohio River between Livingston Point and the head of Tennessee Island with the view of protecting the harbor and marine ways at Paducah, Kentucky. Licking River, with a view to providing slack-water navigation. Big Sandy River from its junction with the Ohio River to the crossing of the Big Sandy by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad bridge, with a view of ascertaining if there be a bar in the Ohio River at the mouth of said Big Sandy obstructing navigation, and if there be whether confining the waters of the Big-Sandy to the general course of its Channel between said points the said bar will be removed. louisiana.Louisiana.
Harbor of refuge on Lake Poutchartrain, most suitable point at or near entrance into the Old and New basins. Bayous Black and Terrebonne, with a view of connecting them between Southdown Plantation and Houma, Louisiana, and opening a shorter and safer inland water route from the Mississippi Valley, via Berwicks Bay, to Texas and Mexico. maine.Maine. Rockland Harbor. Tennants Harbor. Vinal Haven. Carver Harbor. Owl Head Harbor. French’s Beach Harbor. Lincolnville Harbor. South Fork of Bagaduce River.
George’s River. Portland Harbor, with a view to extending the channel along the front of the wharves on the south side of the harbor, so as to give a depth of eight feet at mean low water as far south as the plush mill wharf. Channel near Hardy’s Point, below Pembroke. 113 massachusetts.Massachusetts. Vincent Cove, Gloucester Harbor. Gloucester, from Five Pound Island to bead of river. Neponsit River. New Bedford Harbor. Woods Holl. East Boston channel, from the south easterly line of the location of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad to the channel at Jeffries Point, so called, and Chelsea River, from Grand Junction railroad bridge to the Boston and Maine, eastern division, railroad bridge.
Tarpaulin Cove, Naushon Island, for a breakwater. Saugus River. mississippi.Mississippi. Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi, To determine whether it would be advantageous to divert the river from its present channel so that it would flow through what is known as “Tanyard Branch,” and if so whether it is feasible and what it would cost to so divert it. Mississippi Sound, outside of the range of islands off the Mississippi coast, with a view of making an entrance for vessels.
Biloxi Bay, known as Back Bay, north of the town of Biloxi and up to town of Handsboro, with a view of removing bars. Pearl River, Edinburg to Lake Burnside. Bar at the mouth of Wolf River. Bar at the mouth of Jordan River. Homochitto River, from its mouth to the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad bridge. Channel at month of Old Fort Bayou. Cassidys Bayou, Cold Water River. maryland.Maryland. South Branch of Patapsco River, at Baltimore, from Craighill Channel to Light Street bridge.
Middle Branch of Patapsco River, from Light Street bridge to foot of Eutaw street. Pocomoke River, with a view of uniting the waters of said river, with the waters of Synepuxent Bay, at a point above Snow Hill. Black Walnut Harbor, at the mouth of Great Choptank River. Mouth of Parish Creek. Wicomico River, western shore of the State. michigan.Michigan. Pine River, at Saint Clair City. Belle River, Marine City, from its mouth to Broadway Street bridge. Hammond Bay, Lake Huron, at the mouth of Ocqueoc River.
Sebewaing River, Saginaw Bay. new jersey.New Jersey. Whale Creek. Cooper Creek. Dennis Creek. Barnegat Inlet, entrance and harbor. new york.New York. Harbor of refuge in Mexico Bay on Lake Ontario. Channel connecting Freeport with Great South Bay. Berrian’s Creek, Long Island. Seaford Creek, Long Island. 114 Southold Harbor, Long Island. Fort Pond Bay at the east end of, Long Island, including an estimate of the cost of an adequate breakwater. For channel west of Robbins Reef Light-House to connect the mouth of Arthur Kill with New York Harbor.
Dunkirk Harbor, with a view of securing sixteen feet of water. Allegheny River, from Olean, New York, to Warren, Pennsylvania. north carolina.North Carolina. For breakwater to protect town of Beaufort. Potohunk River. Durham’s Estuary from mouth to village of Edwards Mills. ohio.Ohio. Ohio River between Ironton, Ohio, and three miles along and up the Ohio east of the mouth of Guyan River, West Virginia, for the purpose of ascertaining what is necessary to clear said river between said points of obstructions and to deepen the channel thereof where necessary, with all such other improvements as may be found expedient for the storing and harboring of steamboats, coal barges, and for the landing and shipping of coal and other freights on said river between said points.
Little Miami River, with the view of affording an ice harbor. Raccoon River from its junction with the Ohio River for fifty miles of said Raccoon River. oregon.Oregon. Chetco River. Inner navigation of Alsea River. Nestucca River, as far as Woods. Rogue River, from Grant Pass to the mouth. Navigable tidewater channels of Coos River, with a view to remove snags, logs, and other obstructions Yamhill River, from mouth to McMinnville, for slack water navigation by lock and dam at Lafayette.
Willamette River, above Oregon City. Harbor at Yaquina Bay, with a view to obtaining twenty-five feet of water at mean low water upon the bar at the entrance. pennsylvania.Pennsylvania. For lock and dam on Allegheny River, at or near Tarentum. For lock and dam at the most practicable point for navigation on Allegheny River, between the dam at Tarentum and Herr Island Dam. For the location of the necessary number of movable locks and dams on the Ohio River between Davis Island Dam and the dam at or near the mouth of the Beaver River, in Pennsylvania. rhode island.Rhode Island.
Apponaug Harbor, Cowessett Bay. Wickford Harbor, Narragansett Bay. Breachway into Salt Pond, Block Island. Greenwich Harbor, Greenwich Bay. Pawtuxet Harbor, Providence River. Inner Harbor at Point Judith Breakwater. south carolina.South Carolina. Lynch River. south dakota.South Dakota. James River. 115 tennessee.Tennessee. Sequatchie River. Duck River. Hiawassee River in Tennessee from its confluence with the Tennessee River to the mouth of the Ocoee River. Wolf River. Harbor at Memphis, including removal of bar forming opposite the upper part of the city, and bank protection along the city front.
Emory River, from its mouth to Harriman. texas.Texas. Channel through Sabine Lake from Sabine Pass to mouths of Sabine and Neches Rivers. Sabine River, from Sudduth’s Bluff to Logansport, Louisiana. Brazos River, from its mouth to the town of Richmond. From the month of Neches River to Shooks Bluff. Sulphur River from its mouth to Sulphur Station. vermont.Vermont. Harbor at Adams Landing, so called, on Grand Isle, and North Hero Harbor, on Lake Champlain. virginia.Virginia. Milford Haven, bar at mouth.
Morattico Creek, obstruction at mouth. Little Wicomico River, obstruction at month. Harbor at Petersburg and Appomattox river, for diversion of waters to Old North Channel above city. washington.Washington. Snohomish River from month to Lowell. Lewis River from its mouth to Speliah Creek. Nooksack River, with a view of removing obstructions, straightening channel to prevent jams and the tilling of Bellingham Bay with deposits of earth. Everett Harbor, including mouth of Snohomish River.
Upper Columbia River, Washington, from the international boundary to Rock Island Rapids. wisconsin.Wisconsin. Lake Pepin, whether additional harbors of refuge are necessary, and if necessary, where the same should be located. Green Bay, from light-house to first bridge on Fox River. Harbor at Stockbridge on Lake Winnebago. Harbor at Calumet on Lake Winnebago. Fox River, on the necessity and advisability of building a protection wall on the canal at Kaukauna. Allouez Bay and Nemadji River, at Superior.
Sec. 7. That the preliminary examinations ordered in this act shallPreliminary examination be made by the local engineer in charge of the district, or an engineer detailed for the purpose; and such local or detailed engineer and the division engineer of the locality shall report to the. Chief of Engineers,Report. first, whether, in their opinion, the harbor or river under examination is worthy of improvement by the General Government, and shall state in such report fully and particularly the facts and reasons on whichDetails. they base such opinions, including the present and prospective demands of commerce; and, second, if worthy of improvement by the General Government, what it will cost to survey the same, with the view of 116 submitting plan and estimate for its improvement; and the Chief of Engineers shall submit to the Secretary of War the reports of the local and division engineers, with his views thereon and his opinion of the public necessity or convenience to be subserved by the proposed improvement;
Reports to be sent to House of Representatives and printed.and all such reports of preliminary examinations with such recommendations as he may see proper to make, shall be transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, and are hereby ordered to be printed when so made. Sec. 8. For preliminary examinations, contingencies, expenses connectedAppropriation for examinations, etc. with inspection of bridges, the service of notice required in such cases, the examination of bridge sites and reports thereon, and for incidental repairs for which there is no special appropriation for rivers and harbors, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provisos*.
No survey, etc., unless provided for.*Provided*, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this act shall be made: *And provided further*, That after the regular or formal report on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed is No supplemental reports, etc., to be made.submitted, no supplemental or additional report or estimate, for the same fiscal year, shall be made unless ordered by a resolution of Congress.
The Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any water way or harbor mentioned in No project authorized until appropriation made.this act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law. Approved, July 13, 1892.
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