Chapter 23. To amend “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine
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CHAP. 23.— An Act To amend “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. February 20, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of the Act Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas, improvement of. entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out and repealing Repeal of paragraphs in prior act.
Vol. 30, pp. 1127, 1128. the paragraphs in said Act on pages eleven hundred and twenty-seven and eleven hundred and twenty-eight of the United States Statutes at Large, volume thirty, which read as follows: Improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: For improvement of the Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, by dredging or otherwise, from the jetties at Galveston, Texas, up through the present ship channel and Buffalo Bayou to the proposed harbor site at Houston, Texas, to be provided by the citizens of Houston, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out of said sum a suitable dredge may be constructed for said work.
For commencing the improvement of the water route from the mouth of the jetties at Galveston, through the existing ship channel and up Buffalo Bayou to Houston, Texas, including harbor at Houston, in accordance with project submitted by the Board of Engineers in report of survey dated November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for the whole or any part of such materials and work as may be required for prosecuting said improvement, or the said materials may be purchased and the work done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two million dollars: *Provided further*, That out of said sum two dredges may be constructed for said work.
And amend said Act so as to read in place of said paragraphs repealed as follows: " “Improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: for Act amended. improvement of the Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, by dredging or otherwise in accordance with the project submitted by a board of engineers in the report of a survey dated November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and submitted by the Chief of Engineers in his report for eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in volume one, pages two hundred and eighty-eight and two hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all sums *Provisos*.
Prior appropriations available. heretofore appropriated and available for work on Galveston Ship 32 Channel and Buffalo Bayou are hereby made available for said project: Division one of survey. *Provided further*, That all of said sums of money not necessary for administration, surveys and maintenance be used in improving division one of said survey.” " Sec. 2. That section twelve of the same Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “fourteen” after the word “section,” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “eleven.
” Sec. 3. That section twenty of the same Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “ten,” after the word “sections,” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “nine.” Approved, February 20, 1900.