Chapter 836. Directing the Secretary of War to expend one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for a channel through Sabine Lake, Texas
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CHAP. 836.— An Act Directing the Secretary of War to expend one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for a channel through Sabine Lake, Texas. March 25, 1904. [[H. R. 3565](/us/bill/58/hr/3565).] [[Public, No. 69](/us/pl/58/69).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Sabine Lake, Tex. Construction of channel through. Expenditure of former appropriation authorized. Vol. 32, p. 355.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to use and expend the one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.” approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, for the purpose of improving mouths of Sabine and Neches rivers, Texas, in accordance with House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-nine, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, by connecting the same with Sabine Pass by a channel eight feet deep through Sabine Lake, in excavating and constructing a channel eight or more feet deep from the mouths of the Sabine and Neches rivers, at or near the west, shore of Sabine Lake, to Taylors Bayou, a navigable stream in the State of Texas.
Approved, March 25, 1904.