Chapter 1312. To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Lake Erie and Niagara River and to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure water
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CHAP. 1312.— An Act To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Lake Erie and Niagara River and to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure water. March 2, 1905. [[H. R. 18637](/us/bill/58/hr/18637).] [[Public, No. 132](/us/pl/58/132).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Buffalo, N. Y. Tunnel under Lake Erie, etc., authorized for water supply.
Location. That it shall be lawful for the city of Buffalo, in the State of New York, to construct and maintain a tunnel under Lake Erie, Niagara River, Black Rock Harbor, and the United States lands known as Fort Porter, extending from a point two hundred yards, more or less, northeast of the Horseshoe Reef light in the Emerald channel ten thousand feet to the present pumping station of the city of Buffalo, and to erect and maintain an inlet pierInlet pier. therefrom, said inlet pier to be located in the Emerald channel not more than six hundred feet northeast of the present Horseshoe Reef light: *Provided,* That the top of the said tunnel shall be located at*Proviso*.Top of tunnel.Lights. least forty feet below mean lake level, and that the city of Buffalo shall maintain a light from sunset to sunrise on the inlet pier at its own expense.
Approved, March 2, 1905.