Chapter 191. to amend an act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An act to provide for the improvement of the outer bar of Brunswick, Georgia.”March 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bruns
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CHAP. 191.— An Act to amend an act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An act to provide for the improvement of the outer bar of Brunswick, Georgia.”March 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Brunswick, Ga.Payments to C. P. Goodyear upon securing deep-water channel over outer bar. That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to C. P. Goodyear, his heirs or assigns, upon the procurement by said C.
P. Goodyear, his heirs or assigns, of a practicable channel over the outer bar of Brunswick, Georgia, at least one hundred feet in width, and of a minimum depth of twenty-two feet at ordinary mean high tide, on or before November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,*Ante*, p. 280.Extension of time, etc. the sum of ten thousand dollars; upon the procurement, as aforesaid. on or before November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a depth of water in said channel over said outer bar of a minimum depth at ordinary mean high tide of twenty-three feet, ten thousand dollars more, to be paid in manner aforesaid; upon the procurement as aforesaid, on or before November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a depth of water in said channel over said outer bar at a mini mum depth at ordinary mean high tide of twenty-four feet, ten thousand dollars more, to be paid in manner aforesaid; upon the procurement as aforesaid on or before November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a depth of water in said channel over said outer bar of a minimum depth at ordinary mean high tide of twenty-five feet, ten thousand dollars more, to be paid in manner aforesaid; upon procurement, on or before November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a minimum depth in said channel over said outer bar of twenty-six feet at ordinary mean high tide, and of a width not less than one hundred and twenty five feet, ten thousand dollars more, to be paid in manner aforesaid; and should the depth of twenty five feet, at ordinary mean high tide in said channel over said outer bar, be procured on or before the time aforesaid, and maintained for two years for the width named thereafter, twenty-five thousand dollars in addition, to be paid in manner aforesaid; and should the depth of twenty six feet, at ordinary mean high tide for the width named, be procured on or before the date named, and maintained for two years thereafter, twenty-five thousand dollars in addition, to be paid in manner aforesaid.
The said C. P.Work to be done by exploiting dynamite. Goodyear, his heirs and assigns, shall perform said work on said outer bar by the explosion of dynamite on the bottom of said channel or sunk beneath the bottom of said channel, in his or their discretion, and not otherwise; and the channel to be deepened as aforesaid shall be north of the present buoyed-out channel, so that said workshall not interfere with the commerce of the port of Brunswick during the progress of such work.
The Secretary of War shall detail an officer of engineersEngineer officer to report on maintenance, etc. to examine and report upon said work from time to time, at such times as the said C. P. Goodyear, his heirs and assigns, announce that they have complied with the conditions as to any of the depths and widths named, or as to the maintenance, of depths of twenty-five and twenty-six feet, and payments to be made as aforesaid upon the certificate of such engineer that such depth and width, or such maintenance, has been accomplished in accordance with the provisions of this act.
And said engineer officer shall specially report as to the means used to acquireSpecial report on means used. and maintain said depths and widths. And the money necessary to carry out the provisions of this act is hereby reappropriated out ofReappropriation. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 1, 1893.