Chapter 2509. Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 2509.— An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 24991](/us/bill/59/hr/24991).] [[Public, No. 168](/us/pl/59/168).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums of River and harbors appropriations.money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of tiny 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:
Improving harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine: Completing improvement Cape Porpoise, Me.in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, forty-six thousand dollars. Improving Sasanoa River, Maine: Completing improvement in Sasanoa River, Me.accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers, dated February seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, forty-four thousand dollars. 1074 Penobscot River, Me. Improving Penobscot River, at Bangor, Maine:
Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-nine, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine, from the mouth to Gardiner, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, *Proviso*.Contracts.seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated;
Bar Harbor, Me., breakwater. Improving breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Lake Champlain, Vt. and N. Y. Improving the channel in the Narrows of Lake Champlain, Vermont and New York: For maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Mass.*Proviso*.Contracts. Improving harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for, such materials and work us may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Beverly, Mass. Improving harbor at Beverly, Massachusetts: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Boston, Mass. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For maintenance and general improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Thirty-five-foot Channel.*Proviso*.Contracts. Improving thirty-five-foot channel in Boston Harbor, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for completing said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three million eight hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized.
Provincetown, Mass. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Hingham, Mass. Improving harbor at Hingham, Massachusetts, by redredging the channel, ten thousand dollars. Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Mass. Improving Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement to the Neponset Highway Bridge, as recommended in House Document Numbered Eighty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall have received satisfactory assurance that the improvement of that portion of the Neponset River described in said House document, which lies above the project herein adopted, shall be made and hereafter maintained by the State of Massachusetts or other agency without expense to the Government of the United States.
New Bedford and Fairhaven, Mass. Improving harbors at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts: For improving said harbors in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-one, Fifty-ninth *Proviso*.Contracts.Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time 1075be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, Nantucket, Mass.forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Essex River, Massachusetts: For improving said river by the restoration of the channel, live thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Condition.That no part of this sum shall be expended unless a further amount of five thousand dollars shall be provided by the State of Massachusetts or other agency, and made subject to the order of the Secretary of War in such manner as he may direct, to be expended upon said project under his direction.
Improving Mystic and Malden rivers, Massachusetts: Continuing Mystic and Malden rivers, Mass.improvement and for maintenance, including Mystic River below the mouth of Island End River, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Weymouth Back River, Massachusetts: Completing Weymouth Back River, Mass.improvment, nine thousand live hundred dollars. Improving Connecticut River between Hartford, Connecticut, and Connecticut River.Investigation, etc.Holyoke, Massachusetts: For investigation and further examination, as recommended by the Board of Engineers in report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, five thousand dollars.
Improving Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, in accordance with the Newport, R. I.project reported in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract *Proviso*.Contracts.or contracts for such materials and work as may be required for the completion of the project recommended in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Point Judith Harbor of Refuge, Rhode Island: One hundred Point Judith, R. I.thousand dollars, to be expended upon the easterly or shore arm of the breakwater: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter *Proviso*.Contracts.into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said easterly or shore arm of said breakwater, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated, and the Secretary of War may cause an examination to be made with a Examination, etc.view to determining whether a breakwater on the westerly side of said harbor of refuge is necessary to prevent sand movements, or for the protection of the sheltered area within the same, and also what further improvements, if any, should be made therein.
Improving the entrance to Point, Judith Pond, Rhode Island: Continuing Point Judith Pond, R. I.improvement and for maintenance, eight thousand dollars, which amount shall be expended for dredging. Improving Harbor of Refuge at Block Island, Rhode Island: Continuing Block Island, R. I.improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island: Great Salt Pond, Block Island, R. I.Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars, which amount shall be expended in dredging.
Improving Sakonnet Harbor, Rhode Island: Completing improvement Sakonnet, R. I.by removal of rock numbered one, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ninety-nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars. Improving Pawtucket River, Rhode Island: Completing improvement, Pawtucket River, R. I.one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-1076*Proviso*.Condition. four dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended unless the further amount of sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars shall be provided by the State of Rhode Island or other agency, and made subject to the order of the Secretary of War in such manner as he may direct, to be expended under his direction upon said project for its completion.
Providence River and harbor, R. I. Improving Providence River and harbor, Rhode Island, by dredging to a depth of twenty-five feet for a uniform width easterly from the main ship channel between Long Bed and Kettle Point, in accordance with the plan submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eight, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, ninety thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Pawcatuck River, R. I. and Conn. Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty-three thousand dollars. Branford, Conn. Improving harbor at Branford, Connecticut: Completing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to continue the channel with the dimensions heretofore authorized for the inner harbor through the shoals at its outer end to deep water in the outer channel. New Haven, Conn. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For maintenance, including channel by way of Oyster Point to Kimberly Avenue Bridge on West River, ten thousand dollars.
Breakwater. Improving breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing *Proviso*.Contracts.improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in addition to the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Bridgeport, Conn. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement in accordance with the plan submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-five, Fifty-ninth Congress, second *Proviso*.Contracts.session, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of sums herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore Limit of operations.authorized: *Provided further*, That the work shall be limited to the construction of the proposed breakwaters, the dredging to twenty-two feet of the main channel and deep anchorage basins as proposed, and the dredging of an anchorage basin twelve feet in depth and of an area equal to that proposed, to be located northwest of the twenty-two foot anchorage basin.
East and South Norwalk, Conn. Improving harbors at East Norwalk, South Norwalk, and above the railroad bridge at South Norwalk, Connecticut, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, excepting therefrom the basin at South Norwalk; completing improvement, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Saugatuck River and harbors to New York State line. Improving harbors at Five Mile River, Stamford, Southport, Greenwich, and Westport, Connecticut, and Saugatuck River, Connecticut:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy thousand dollars, from which amount the existing project at Stamford may be completed. Thames River, Conn. Improving Thames River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the completion of the project submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-five, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, thirty thousand dollars. 1077 Improving Connecticut River, below Hartford. Connecticut:Connecticut River, below Hartford.
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River. Connecticut:Housatonic River, Conn. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: For the removal ofPort Chester, N. Y. ledges of rock opposite the southerly point of Fox Island and for maintenance, six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Larchmont Harbor, New York: For removal of ledgesLarchmont, N. Y. adjoining Huron Rock and for maintenance, fourteen thousand dollars.
Improving Echo Bay, New York: Completing improvement inEcho Bay, N. Y. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbors at Port Jefferson, Mattituck, Huntington.Harbors, north shore of Long Island, N. Y. Flushing Bay, Canarsie Bay, and Sag Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Great South Bay, New York: For maintenance, twoGreat South Bay. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: ContinuingSaugerties, N.Y. improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbors at Rondout and Peekskill, New York: ContinuingRondout and Peekskill, N. Y. improvement and for maintenance, six thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor: For maintenance, one hundredNew York Harbor. and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Ambrose Channel, New York Harbor:
The Secretary ofAmbrose Channel, N. Y.Contracts. War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. to an amount not exceeding one million one hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred and ten dollars, exclusive of amounts heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized, from which amount, or from any amounts heretofore appropriated or authorized for said project, not exceedingDredges authorized. eight hundred thousand dollars may be expended for the construction of two suction dredges: *Provided*, That during the continuance of*Proviso*.Restriction of navigation. excavation in the said Ambrose Channel the navigation thereof may be restricted by regulations to be issued by the Secretary of War. limiting the use of said channel to daylight navigation by vessels of twenty-nine feet draft or over.
Improving Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, Now York: TheBay Ridge and Red Hook channels, N. Y. Secretary of War may prosecute the improvement in said channels with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty-five feet and subsequentlyDepth. increasing said depth to the full forty feet with a width of twelve hundred feet in accordance with the project adopted in the river andVol. 30, p. 1123. harbor act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Improving Coney Island Channel, New York Harbor, in accordanceConey Island channel, N.
Y. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-two. Fifty-ninth Congress, second session: Completing improvement, and for maintenance, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For repairing andBuffalo, N. Y.Repairing breakwaters. rebuilding of breakwaters damaged by storm in January, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York:
To complete arm of StonyMaintenance of harbor, etc. Point breakwater, fifty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars; to excavate rock shoals at entrance of Buffalo Harbor to a depth of twenty-three feet, fifty-six thousand one hundred dollars; for maintenance of structures, channels, and for dredging at entrance to canals at South Buffalo, in outer harbor, seventy-five thousand1078 dollars: in all, one hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Black Rock Harbor, N.Y.Improving Black Rock Harbor and Channel, New York: Continuing improvement, and for the construction of the ship lock, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-eight, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, one *Provisos*.Contracts.million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute, said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate one million dollars in addition to the sums herein and heretofore Size of locks.appropriated or heretofore authorized: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to construct the lock of sufficient capacity to admit the largest vessels now in use on the Lakes.
Niagara River, N.Y.Improving Tonawanda Harbor and Niagara River, New York: For removal of the hulk of a steamer lying with its bow about four hundred feet from the east shore of Grand Island, in the Niagara River, three thousand dollars. Charlotte, N. Y.Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighty-eight thousand live hundred dollars. Great Sodus Bay, N. Y.Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay. New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars.
Pultneyville. N.Y.Improving harbor at Pultneyville, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, six thousand dollars. Little Sodus Bay, N. Y.Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Oswego, N. Y.Improving harbor at Oswego. New York: Continuing improvement in accordance with plan “a,” page six of House Document Numbered Fifty-five, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, and for maintenance, *Proviso*.Contracts.one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute, such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Ogdensburg, N. Y.Improving harbor at Ogdensburg. New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Bronx River and East Chester Creek, N. Y.Improving Bronx River and East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-nine thousand dollars. of which six thousand dollars may be expended for completing the improvement of East Chester Creek. East River and Hell Gate. N.Y.Improving East River and Hell Gate, New York:
Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and a resurvey of said project may be made, including any ledge or ledges near to the westerly shore. Harlem River, N. Y.Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Newtown Creek, N. Y.Improving Newtown Creek, New York: Completing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Browns Creek, N. Y.Improving Browns Creek, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars.
Hudson River, N. Y.Improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars may be expended in removing the bar and deepening the channel at the mouth of Schodack Creek. Wappinger Creek, N. Y.Improving Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Tarrytown, N. Y.Improving harbor at Tarrytown, New York: Completing improvement and for maintenance, sixteen thousand dollars. 1079 Improving Raritan Bay, New Jersey:
For maintenance, twenty-fiveRaritan Bay, N. J. thousand dollars. Improving Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey, to a depth of fifteen feet,Cold Spring Inlet, N. J. in accordance with the plan printed in House Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, three hundred and eleven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the depth*Provisos*.Contribution by local authorities, etc. may be increased to twenty-five feet in case the local authorities or private persons or corporations shall within one year from the date of this Act contribute to the improvement the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, making the sum so contributed subject to the order of the Secretary of War in such manner as he shall direct; and the said Secretary of War may receive and expend upon the improvement to a depth of twenty-five feet the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars so contributed: *Provided further*, ThatContracts. the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated and of any sums contributed from other sources, five hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars in case the improvement be made to a depth of fifteen feet, or nine hundred thousand dollars in case the improvement be made to a depth of twenty-five feet:Conditions for lands, etc. *Provided further*, That no portion of the funds herein appropriated and authorized shall be expended until the necessary land and right of way for the shore ends of the jetties, for light-houses, for the establishment of a life-saving station, and for a depot of engineer supplies, shall have been deeded to the United States free of cost, and until assurance, satisfactory to the Secretary of War. shall have been given that the plan of the harbor, to be established by private capital inside the entrance, will be modified by increasing the distance between the bulkheads immediately inside the shore end of the jetties in the manner recommended in said House Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, and that the work proposed by the United States for the entrance channel to this harbor will be supplemented by such expenditure from private or corporate sources as shall make the harbor suitable for commerce and protected from injurious wave action: *And provided further*, That the SecretaryWharfage charges. of War shall have power to prescribe, regulate, and at any time modify the wharfage charges at this harbor, and no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the Cape May Real Estate Company shall, for itself and its successors and assigns, execute such formal acceptance of this proviso as the Secretary of War may require.
Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: Completing improvementPassaic River, N. J. and for maintenance under existing project, fifty-three thousand dollars. Improving channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, New Jersey,Newark Bay. N. J. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work, as may be necessary for the prosecution of said work, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be appropriated for from time to time according to law. in addition to the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Woodbridge Creek. New Jersey: CompletingWoodbridge Creek, improvement and for maintenance, nineteen thousand dollars. Improving Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek: Raritan, South, andKeyport Harbor, etc., N. J. Elizabeth rivers, Shoal Harbor, and Compton Creek, and Cheesequake Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty-eight thousand dollars. 1080 Shrewsbury River, N. J.Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars.
Delaware River, Perriwig Bar, Pa. and N. J.Improving Perriwig Bar, Delaware River, between Trenton and Bordentown. New Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and fifty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars. Mantua Creek. N.J.Improving Mantua Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, and for maintenance, thirty-four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, of which a sufficient amount may be applied for the construction of a dike to close the old mouth of said stream.
Alloway Creek. N.J.Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, live thousand dollars, of which a sufficient amount may be applied for the construction of a cut-off at Fosters Bottle: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Condition.That no expenditure shall be made thereon until all land needed for such cut-off is deeded to the United States free of expense. Tuckerton Creek, N. J.Improving Tuckerton Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars.
Raccoon Creek, N. J.Improving Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars, of which a sufficient amount may be applied for the construction of a cut-off at Molonox *Proviso*.Condition.Shoal: *Provided*, That no expenditure shall be made thereon until all lands necessary for such cut-off shall be deeded to the United States free of expense. Salem River, N. J.Improving Salem River, New Jersey: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-eight.
Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, twenty-nine thousand dollars. Cohansey River, N. J.Improving Cohansey River, New Jersey: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-five, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. Pittsburg, Pa.Improving harbor at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Erie, Pa.Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Delaware River, N. J., Pa., and Del.Improving Delaware River, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware: Completing improvement, eight hundred and ninety-five thousand *Provisos*.Contracts.dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be required for the maintenance of said channel, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of amounts herein and heretofore Limit of work.appropriated: *Provided further*, That contracts for maintenance shall be limited to work to be done not later than the working season of the year nineteen hundred and nine, and the amount herein authorized shall be available for expenditure in the completion of said project: *And provided further*, Channel below Philadelphia.That of the amounts herein appropriated and authorized not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars may. in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be expended for widening the said channel at the bends therein, below the. city of Philadelphia, with a view to securing, so far as practicable, a channel of equal safety and efficiency in all its parts.
Monongahela River, Pa.Lock and Dam No. 5.Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: For the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Five, two hundred and fifty-six thousand *Proviso*.Contract.and forty-two dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be required for the completion of such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount1081 not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive, of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Dam Numbered Three, Allegheny River, Pennsylvania:Allegheny River, Pa.Dams Nos. 2 and 3. For the repair and reconstruction of Dam Numbered Three, and for the completion of Dam Numbered Two, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Wilmington Harbor, Delaware: ContinuingWilmington, Del. improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion rivers,Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion rivers, Del.
Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty-three thousand dollars, of which forty thousand dollars may be expended upon the Mispillion River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and two, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session. Improving Saint Jones River, Delaware: For maintenance, threeSaint Jones River, Del. thousand dollars. Improving Smyrna River, Delaware: For maintenance, twoSmyrna River, Del. thousand dollars. Improving Broadkill River.
Delaware, in accordance with theBroadkill River, Del. report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fourteen. Fifty-ninth Congress, second session: Completing improvement, thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance, oneBroad Creek River, Del. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Patapsco River and channel to Baltimore, Maryland,Patapsco River, Baltimore, Md.*Proviso*.Contracts. five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work us may be necessary for the completion of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to tune be made by law, to an amount not exceeding one million seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized.
Improving harbor of Southwest Baltimore, Maryland: ForSouthwest Baltimore, Md. maintenance, six thousand live hundred dollars. Improving harbors at Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, andChesapeake Bay, Md.Eastern Shore. Cambridge, and Chester, Choptank, Warwick, Pocomoke, La Trappe, and Manokin rivers, and Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars, of which amount six thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the completion of the improvement of Tyaskin Creek, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.
Improving Crisfield Harbor,Crisfield, Md. Maryland, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session: Completing improvement, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and seven dollars. Improving Elk River, Maryland: Completing improvement inElk River, Md. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-eight, Fifty ninth Congress, first session, and for maintenance, eighteen thousand eight hundred and three dollars.
Improving Susquehanna River above and below Havre de Grace,Susquehanna River, Maryland: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland: ContinuingNanticoke River, Del. and Md. improvement and for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Wicomico River. Maryland: For maintenance, twoWicomico River, Md. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia:Potomac River, D.C.
For maintenance, restoring depth of eight feet in tidal reservoir and1082 constructing reservoir inlet gates, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars. Anacostia River, D. C.Improving Anacostia River, District of Columbia: Continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va.Improving Norfolk Harbor and its approaches, Virginia: Completing improvement, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Improving Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, and its approaches, from deep water in Hampton Roads to the junction of the eastern and southern branches, in accordance with House Documents Numbered Three hundred and seventy-three and Three hundred and eighty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, including the removal of shoals at the mouth of the eastern branch, two hundred and eighty-two thousand *Proviso*.Contracts.dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein appropriated.
Hampton Roach, Va.Improving Hampton Roads, Virginia: For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Cape Charles City, Va.Improving harbor at Cape Charles City, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. York, Mattaponi, etc., rivers, Va.Improving York, Mattaponi, and Pamunky rivers and Occoquan and Carters creeks, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Occoquan Creek, Va.forty-nine thousand dollars, of which amount nineteen thousand dollars may be expended for the removal of the bar at the mouth of Occoquan Creek, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.
Nomini Creek, Va.Improving Nomini Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Rappahannock River, Va.Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia, in accordance with the modified project: Seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine *Proviso*.Contracts.dollars: *Provided*, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may front time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate ninety thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
James River, Va.Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars. Nansemond River, Va.Improving Nansemond River, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Appomattox River, Va.Improving Appomattox River. Virginia: Completing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars, and an examination of the said river may be made for the purpose of determining what improvements should be made or plan adopted for the maintenance of the said channel.
Blackwater River, Va.Improving Blackwater River, Virginia: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, and for maintenance, eight thousand dollars. Big Sandy River, Levisa and Tug forks, W. Va. and Ky.Improving Big Sandy River and Levisa and Tug forks. West Virginia and Kentucky: Continuing improvement by the construction of Dam Numbered One, Levisa fork, and Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, *Proviso*.Contracts.one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed1083 in the aggregate one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky, by theBig Sandy River.Bridge. construction of a steel service bridge at Lock Numbered One, seven thousand dollars. Improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia: CompletingLittle Kanawha River, W. Va. improvement and for maintenance, eighty-one thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War may cause a survey to be made for one lock and dam in said river above the location of existing Lock Numbered Five. Improving harbor at Beaufort.
North Carolina: For maintenance,Beaufort, N.C. twenty-two thousand dollars, of which amount so much as may be necessary may. in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be applied to repairing existing jetties at Fort Macon Point and constructing additional jetties and shore protection. Improving waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to the sounds ofWaterway, Norfolk to North Carolina sounds. North Carolina, for maintenance, live thousand dollars. Improving inland water route from Norfolk, Virginia, to AlbemarleNorfolk to Albemarle Sound.
Sound, North Carolina, through Currituck Sound, for maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving and constructing inland waterway from Pamlico SoundPamlico Round to Beaufort Inlet, N. C. to Beaufort Inlet. North Carolina, ten feet in depth, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eighty-four, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or*Proviso.*Contracts. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Roanoke River, North Carolina: For maintenance, threeRoanoke River, N.C. thousand dollars. Improving Meherrin River, North Carolina, from the mouth thereofMeherrin River, N.C. to Murfreesboro, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress. first session: Completing improvement and for maintenance, six thousand dollars. Improving Scuppernong River, North Carolina: For maintenance,Scuppernong River, N.
C. two thousand dollars. Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Carolina: CompletingPamlico and Tar river, N.C. improvement below Washington in accordance with the existing project and above Washington in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, and for maintenance, eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars. Improving Contentnia Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance,Contentnia Creek, N.C. two thousand dollars.
Improving Neuse and Trent rivers, North Carolina: ContinuingNeuse and Trent rivers, N.C.*Post*, p. 1424.Waterway, Newbern to Beaufort, N. C. improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Improving waterway between Newbern and Beaufort. North Carolina: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance, fiveBeaufort Inlet. N. C. thousand dollars. Improving New River, North Carolina, including inland waterwaysNew River, etc., N.C. between Beaufort Harbor and New River and between New River and Swansboro, North Carolina:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars. Improving North East and Black rivers, and Cape Fear River aboveNorth East, Black, and Cape Fear rivers N. C. Wilmington, North Carolina: For maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River, at and below Wilmington, NorthCape Fear River, N. C. Carolina, in accordance with the modified project submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and forty-five, Fifty-ninth Con1084 gress, first session:
Continuing improvement to such depth in excess of twenty feet as the appropriations for the work may permit, due regard being given to the difference in tidal oscillation at the upper and lower portion of the improvement, one hundred and sixty five *Proviso*.Contracts.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretory of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore, authorized: *And provided further*, Balances available.That the balance remaining unexpended of previous appropriations and authorizations for improving Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington.
North Carolina, shall be available for the project as herein modified, and so much as may be necessary of the funds available for the improvement may be used in the repair of the New Inlet and Swash Defense dams. Reexamination.The Secretary of War may cause a reexamination to be made of the Cape Fear River above Wilmington. North Carolina, with a view to reporting what modifications, if any. should be made in the existing project, the expense of which shall be paid from the amount appropriated in section two.
Shallotte River, N.C.Improving Shallotte River, North Carolina: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Winyah Bay, S. C.Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Waterway, Charleston and McClellanville, S. C.Improving inland waterway between Charleston Harbor and opposite McClellanville, South Carolina: Completing improvement, seventy-five thousand two hundred and ninety dollars: and the Secretary of War, may extend the said waterway or a branch thereof to Morrisons Landing in McClellanville.
Charleston, S. C.Improving harbor at Charleston, Smith Carolina: For maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Waccamaw and Little Pedee rivers, N. C. and S. C.Improving Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina, and Little Pedee River, South Carolina: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Lynch’s River and Clarke’s Creek. S.C.Improving Lynch’s River and Clarke’s Creek. South Carolina, by the removal of logs and snags, two thousand dollars.
Great Pedee River, S. C.Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Santee, Wateree, Congaree rivers, etc., S. C.Improving Santee, Wateree, and Congaree rivers, and Estherville Minim Creek Canal, South Carolina: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the limits of the improvement of the Congaree River shall be extended to include that part of the said river included in the project from Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, to Granby, South Carolina.
Savannah, Ga.Improving harbor at Savannah. Georgia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, according to the plans of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, three *Proviso*.Contracts.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretory of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized: *Provided further*, Dredge.That the dredge recommended in the said document to be built shall be of the stationary pumping type and cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *And provided further*, Existing jetties.That three hundred thousand dollars of the amount herein authorized or appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be1085 expended in raising, strengthening, or extending the existing jetties, training walls, and other regulating works.
Improving harbor at Brunswick. Georgia, in accordance with theBrunswick, Ga. report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Contracts. of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred and fifty thousand dollars exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, ThatDiscriminations to be investigated. it shall be the duty of the Chief of Engineers to ascertain if any person or corporation owning, controlling, or using any wharf or wharfage privileges at said harbor discriminates against anyone engaged in the transportation of freight by ship, vessel, or railroad, and whether any such wharf owners or wharfingers refuse to permit any vessels or ships to land at or use said wharves, and to make report thereof to Congress.
Improving Cumberland Sound. Georgia and Florida: ContinuingCumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla. improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River below Augusta. Georgia: ContinuingSavannah River, Ga.Below Augusta. improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River above Augusta, Georgia: ContinuingAbove Augusta. improvement and for maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, Georgia:Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, Ga.
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That twenty-five thousand dollars of said amount may, if necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended upon the Ocmulgee River between the cities of Macon and Hawkinsville, Georgia. Improving Club and Plantation creeks canal, Georgia, in accordanceClub and Plantation creeks canal, Ga. with House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving inside water route between Savannah, Georgia, andWater route, Savannah, Ga., to Fernandina, Fla. Fernandina, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War may cause a resurvey to be made to determine the best route for said waterway. Improving Skidaway Narrows, Georgia: Completing improvement,Skidaway Narrows, Ga. and for maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement and forFlint River.
Ga. maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama, belowChattahoochee River, Ga. and Ala. Columbus: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: ContinuingCoosa River, Ga. and Ala. improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount, two thousand dollars may be expended, if required, for the care and preservation of the Government plant and property at Wetumpka.
Improving Fernandina Harbor, Florida, in accordance with theFernandina, Fla. report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Biscayne Bay, Florida: With a view to the completionBiscayne Bay, Fla. of the project provided for in the Act approved June thirteenth,Vol. 32, p. 338. nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.” by dredging the portion of the channel extending to the sea from the terminus of the channel to be constructed by the Florida East Coast Railway Company to the depth of eighteen feet, one hundred feet wide, by completing the north jetty now under process of construction and constructing the south jetty,1086*Proviso*.Contracts. one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said work, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be, made by law, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That nothing Florida Fast Coast Railway Company contract.contained in this Act shall be so construed as to relieve the said Florida East Coast Railway Company from its obligations under the contract entered into with the United States in accordance with the provisions of said Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two.
Key West, Fla.Improving harbor at Key West, Florida, and entrance thereto: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, by dredging and work on jetties or by constructing training walls, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars. Sarasota Bay, Fla.Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement from Tampa Bay to Venice, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. East Pass and Carrabelle bar, Fla.Improving East Pass and Carrabelle bar and harbor, Florida:
Continuing improvement with a view to obtaining a channel eighteen feet deep and one hundred feet wide from the eighteen-foot contour in the outer harbor to a point opposite the beacon situated about one thousand feet up the river from its mouth, with a suitable turning basin, thence ton feet deep and one hundred feet wide to the wharves at Carrabelle, sixty thousand dollars. Apalachicola Bay, Fla.Improving Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement with a view to obtaining a channel across the bar at the mouth of the Apalachicola River not less than one hundred feet wide and ten feet deep at mean low water, and a channel not less than one hundred and fifty feet wide and eighteen feet deep through Link channel and West Pass to the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Pensacola, Fla.Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Saint Johns River, Fla.Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: For maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Orange Mills Flats.Improving Saint Johns River at Orange Mills Flats. Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Opposite Jacksonville.Improving Saint Johns River, Florida, opposite the city of Jacksonville:
Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, three hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars. Volusia bar.Improving Volusia bar, Florida: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Oklawaha River, Fla.Improving Oklawaha River, Florida: Completing improvement from the mouth to Leesburg, Florida, including Silver Springs Run, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.
Indian River, Fla.Improving Indian River, Florida, between Goat Creek and Jupiter Inlet: Continuing improvement and for maintenance. nine thousand dollars. Kissimmee River, Fla.Improving Kissimmee River. Florida: Completing improvement and for maintenance. twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars. Orange River, etc., Fla.Improving Orange River, Charlotte Harbor, and Caloosahatchie River, Florida: For maintenance. three thousand dollars. Crystal River, etc., Fla.Improving Crystal.
Anclote, and Suwanee rivers. Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. 1087 Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida, in accordance with theWithlacoochee River, Fla. report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and eighty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, following Route “F,” sixty-five thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Contracts. Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Manatee River, Florida: Completing improvement andManatee River, Fla. for maintenance, seventy thousand seven hundred and ten dollars. Improving Apalachicola River. Florida, including the cut-off andApalachicola River, etc., Fla. lower Chipola River and the upper Chipola River from Mariana to its mouth: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Choctawhatchee River. Florida and Alabama, includingChoctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala.
Cypress Top outlet: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Holmes River, Florida, from Vernon to its mouth:Holmes River. Fla. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Black water River. Florida: Continuing improvementBlackwater River, Fla. and for maintenance, live thousand dollars. Improving Escambia and Conecuh rivers. Florida and Alabama:Escambia and Conecuh rivers. Fla. and Ala. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the removal of water hyacinth from the navigable waters of theWater hyacinth, Fla.Removing. State of Florida, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation. fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no chemical process*Proviso*.Restriction. injurious to cattle which may feed upon the water hyacinth shall be used. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvementMobile, Ala. and for maintenance, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors created by section three ofVol. 32. p. 372. the river and harbor Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two. in its report printed in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than ten thousand dollars*Proviso*.Snagging, etc. of such amount may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the removal of dead heads, sunken logs, and other obstructions arising from the freshets on the rivers entering Mobile Bay: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract orContracts. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the. aggregate three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *And provided further*, That so much as may be necessary may beDredge authorized. expended in the. construction of a dredge for said harbor.
Improving Mobile bar, Alabama: Continuing improvement and forMobile bar, Ala. maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement andAlabama River, Ala. for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Conecuh River, Alabama, in accordance with the reportConecuh River, Ala. submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session: Completing improvement, thirty-one thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers.Black Warrior.
Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala. Alabama. by the construction of locks and dams, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into*Provisos*.Contracts. a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations1088 may from time to time to made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate, one million eight hundred and forty-two thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore, appropriated or heretofore Distribution.authorized: *Provided further*, That so much as may be necessary shall be used in the completion of Lock and Dam Numbered One in the Tombigbee River near Demopolis, and Locks and Dams Numbered Two and Three in the Warrior River next above; and in the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Three in the Tombigbee River and of Locks and Dams Numbered Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen in the Black Warrior River above Tuscaloosa.
Tombigbee River.To Demopolis.Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, from the mouth to Demopolis: For maintenance, sixteen thousand dollars. Demopolis to Columbus.Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, from Demopolis, Alabama, to Columbus, Mississippi: For maintenance, fourteen thousand dollars, of which amount two thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended upon the said river between Columbus and Walkers Bridge. Horn Island Pass, Miss.Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi:
For maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Biloxi, Miss.Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Dredge for harbors, Mississippi coast.Improving harbors on the coast of Mississippi: The Secretary of War may. in his discretion, construct a dredge for use in said harbors and the channels adjacent thereto, at a cost not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, of which amount, in case said dredge is constructed, twenty-five thousand dollars shall be taken from the appropriation herein for Gulfport Harbor and fifty thousand dollars from the appropriation for Pascagoula River.
Gulfport and Ship Island Pass, Miss.Improving anchorage basin at Gulfport and channel therefrom to the anchorage or roadstead at Ship Island; also Ship Island Pass between Ship and Cat islands, Mississippi: Continuing improvement Contract to be annulled.*Ante*, p. 833.and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War may annul that portion of the contract entered into February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one. between Major W. T. Rossell, Corps of Engineers.
United States Army, on behalf of the United States, and Spencer S. Bullis, relating to maintenance of a channel and anchorage basin in Mississippi Sound between Ship Island and Gulfport, Mississippi, and the amount due the said Spencer S. Bullis, or his assigns, for maintenance shall be reckoned from June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six. to the date of annulment at the rate of ten thousand dollars per annum. Pascagoula River, Miss.Improving Pascagoula River. Mississippi:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars. Leaf, Chickasahay. etc., rivers, Miss.Improving Pascagoula. Leaf, and Chickasahay rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Pearl River, Miss.Below Rockport.Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, below Rockport: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Between Edinburg and Jackson.Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Edinburg and Jackson: For maintenance, three, thousand live hundred dollars.
Wolf and Jordan rivers. Miss.Improving Wolf and Jordan rivers, Mississippi, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and seventeen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session: Completing improvement. thirty thousand dollars. Homochitto River, Miss.Improving Homochitto River, Mississippi: For maintenance, four thousand dollars. Yazoo River, etc., Miss.Improving Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Coldwater rivers and Tchula Lake, Mississippi: For maintenance, forty-five thousand dollars.
Tallahatchie River, Miss.Improving Tallahatchie. River. Mississippi, between Batesville and the mouth of the Coldwater River, in accordance with the report sub1089 mitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, four thousand dollars. Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi, in accordance withBig Sunflower River, Miss. report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, and continuing improvement under existing project to the mouth of the Hushpucena River, and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars.
Improving South Pass channel of the Mississippi River, Louisiana:South Pass, Mississippi River, La.*Proviso*.Contracts. For maintenance, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for the improvement and maintenance of said channel to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be expended during the fiscal year closing June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, both of which amounts shall be in addition to and exclusive of the regular annual appropriation of oneVol. 31, p. 585. hundred thousand dollars for that purpose.
Improving South West Pass of the Mississippi River, Louisiana:South West Pass, Mississippi River. La.*Proviso*.Contracts. Continuing improvement, one million dollars: *Provided*, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as be necessary for the completion of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving the mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, Louisiana: ForCalcasieu River. La. maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. The limit of time fixed by an Act making appropriations for theBayou Lafourche, La.Time for locks, etc., extended.Vol. 32, p. 378. 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 removal of a temporary dam and the construction of locks in Bayou Lafourche.
State of Louisiana, is hereby extended until January first, nineteen hundred and ten. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Grand River, and Pigeon Bayou,Bayou Plaquemine, etc., La. Louisiana: For construction of a dredge and maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: With a view to obtaining aBayou Teche, La. six-foot navigation to Arnaudville, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twenty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, and for maintenance of the existing project, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Condition. expenditure for a six-foot navigation to Arnaudville shall be contingent upon all lands necessary for lock and dam purposes and canal feeders being deeded to the United States free of cost, and upon the United States being secured against possible claims for damages resulting from the overflow of lands by reason of the lock and dam improvement or from the draining of Spanish Lake.
Improving Inland Waterway Channel from Franklin to Mermentau,Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La. Louisiana, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, eighty-nine thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars, and the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars in excess of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving the channel, bay, and passes of Bayou VermilionBayou Vermilion, etc. and Mermentau River and tributaries, Louisiana: For maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Bogue Chitto, Chefuncte River, Bogue Falia, TickfawBogue Chitto, etc., La. River and tributaries, also Amite River, and Bayou Manchac, Louisiana: For maintenance, thirty-four thousand dollars. 1090 Johnsons Bayou.Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Water hyacinth, La. and Tex.For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States of Louisiana and Texas, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, ten thousand dollars. Red River, La. Ark., Tex., and Okla.Improving the Red River in the States of Louisiana, Arkansas. Texas, and (Oklahoma: For continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which amount one hundred thousand dollars may be expended between Fulton, Arkansas, and Denison, Texas.
Bayou Bartholomew, etc., La. and Ark.Improving Bayou Bartholomew, Boeuf River, Tensas River. Bayou Macon, and Bayous D’Arbonne and Corney, Louisiana and Arkansas: For maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars. Ouachita and Black rivers, La. and Ark.Improving Ouachita and Black rivers, Louisiana and Arkansas: Continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, near Catahoula Shoals, Louisiana, and Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, near Franklin Shoals, Arkansas, in accordance with the plan in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-eight.
Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, and for maintenance, two hundred thousand seven *Provisos*.Contracts.hundred and eighty dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the construction of said locks and dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, Location of locks, etc.That the location of said locks and dams may. in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be changed.
Sabine Pass, Tex. and La.Improving Sabine Pass, Texas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Contracts.That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Channel, Sabine and Neches rivers to Taylors Bayou, Tex.Improving channel connecting Sabine and Neches rivers with the mouth of Taylors Bayou. Texas. Such portion as may be necessary of any funds heretofore appropriated or authorized for this work, and not required to complete the present adopted project, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to extending the channel at its southern end with a depth of nine feet to a junction with the Port Arthur Ship Canal and to widening the canal in front of Port Arthur.
Galveston, Tex.Improving Galveston Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement by the extension of the jetties and by dredging, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, as modified by the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in its report of January eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven, and for maintenance, *Provisos*.Contracts.three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the further prosecution of the work, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, Method of improvement.That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, may prosecute said improvement by the extension of the existing jetties or by dredging, or by both of said methods.
Galveston channel, Tex.Improving Galveston channel, Texas: Continuing improvement, including the extension of channel to Fifty-sixth street, two hundred1091 thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Condition. until a bond with proper sureties, satisfactory to the Secretary of War, in such amount as he may deem necessary, shall have been furnished, to insure that the city of Galveston will, on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and tune, convey to the United States a good and sufficient title to the point of land known as Pelican Spit and the land adjacent thereto, as described in resolution of the board of commissioners of the city of Galveston, Texas, dated April first, nineteen hundred and live.
Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas:Channel to Texas City, Tex. For maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Improving the mouth of the Brazos River, Texas: ContinuingBrazos River, Tex. improvement and for maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War may cause an examination to be made of said project with a view to determining what further improvements, if any, should be made thereon. Improving harbor at Aransas Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement,Aransas Pass, Tex. in accordance with the plans submitted in its report of December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six. by the Board of Engineers created by authority of section three of the river and harbor Act of JuneVol. 32, p. 372. thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or*Proviso*.Contract. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and ninety thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving channel to Port Bolivar. Texas, by obtaining a channelPort Bolivar, Tex. one hundred and fifty feet wide and twenty-five deep, with an increased width in front of the wharf, as set out in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and nineteen. Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars. Improving West Galveston Bay channel, Texas, and mouths ofWest Galveston Bay channel, etc., Tex. adjacent streams, including Trinity River, Anahauc Channel, Cedar Bayou.
Chocolate Bayou, and Bastrop Bayou: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving inland waterway on the coast of Texas, to be applied toInland waterway, Texas coast.Distribution. portions as follows, namely: West Galveston Bay and Brazos River Canal, Texas: Improvement in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, of date December twenty-second nineteen hundred and six (the estimated cost being one hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars):
Inland waterway channel from Aransas Pass to Pass Cavallo, including the Guadalupe River to Victoria, Texas: Improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-six, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session; and the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, of date December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six (the estimated cost being one hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars). Turtle Cove Channel, from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas:
Improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session (the estimated cost being one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars); for all the above, one hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts. That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the above projects in accordance with said reports, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the1092 aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Galveston ship channel, etc., Tex.Improving Galveston ship channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: Continuing improvement to a point at or near the head of Long Reach, in accordance with a modification of the original project as recommended in the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors of date December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four, two *Provisos*.Contracts.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project as modified by said report, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, Channel from Houston.That fifty thousand dollars of the said cash appropriation may be expended for the restoration of the channel from the foot of Main street, Houston, to the head of Long Reach.
Brazos River, Tex.Velasco to Old Washington.Improving Brazos River, Texas, from Velasco to Old Washington: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars. Old Washington to Waco.Improving Brazos River. Texas, from Old Washington to Waco: For the construction of the lock and dam at Hidalgo Falls, seventy-five *Proviso*.Contracts.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said lock and dam, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Trinity River, Tex.Improving Trinity River, Texas: For maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars: For construction of locks and dams, as hereinafter *Proviso*.Contracts.mentioned, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to construct Lock and Dam Numbered Four in section one in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, and also a lock and dam in accordance with said report at Hurricane Shoals, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or authorized.
Cypress Bayou, Tex. and Ln.Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas and Louisiana: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Sulphur River, Tex. and Ark.Improving Sulphur River, Texas and Arkansas, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and seventy. Fifty ninth Congress, first session: Completing improvement, thirty-six thousand dollars. Arkansas River, Ark.Improving Arkansas River. Arkansas: For maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars, and the amounts heretofore appropriated to be expended in the vicinity of Red Fork levee or set apart for dredging are hereby made available for the maintenance of this improvement.
Examination for further improvement.The Secretary of War may appoint a board to make an examination of said river to Muscogee, Indian Territory, with a view to ascertaining whether any feasible or desirable plan can be devised for the further improvement of the whole of said river to Muscogee or any portion thereof. The said board may. upon the order of the Secretary of War, also make a similar examination of that portion of the Red River which lies between Fulton, Arkansas, and the mouth of the Washita River, Indian Territory, and the expense of such examination shall be apportioned between the funds appropriated for said rivers in such a manner as the Secretary of War may deem equitable, and the said board shall also report upon the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff and the White River at Augusta Narrows, to ascertain and report1093 whether the protection of the banks or rectification of the river at the points named is directly and necessarily required in the interests of navigation, and in case a report shall be made to the effect that such rectification is so required in the interest of navigation, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which is hereby conditionally appropriated, shall be expended for improvements at the places named, or either of them.
Improving White River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement andWhite River. Ark. for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars, of which amount seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may. if directly and necessarily required in the interest of navigation, be used to prevent a cut-off in said river between Choctaw Railway bridge and the town of Devall Bluff, Arkansas. Improving Upper White River. Arkansas: Completing Upper White River, Ark.improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Three, seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Cache River. Arkansas: For maintenance, two thousandCache River, Ark. dollars. Improving Black and Current rivers. Arkansas: For maintenance,Black and Current rivers, Ark. eighteen thousand dollars. Improving Saint Francis and L’Anguille rivers, Arkansas: ForSaint Francis and L’Anguille rivers, Ark.Obion and Forked Deer rivers, Tenn. maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Obion and Forked Deer rivers, Tennessee: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky, belowCumberland River.Below Nashville, survey, etc.
Nashville: The Secretary of War may cause a survey to be made with a view to the improvement by locks and dams of that portion of the river heretofore surveyed in which no locks and dams have been constructed. Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee, above Nashville, inAbove Nashville. accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers made in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ninety-nine. Fifty-ninth Congress, first session: Continuing improvement of Locks and Dams Numbered Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a*Proviso*.Contracts. contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project as recommended to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Caney Fork River, Tennessee: For maintenance, threeCaney Fork River, Tenn. thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River. Tennessee, above Chattanooga:Tennessee River.Above Chattanooga, Tenn. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and five thousand dollars, of which amount one thousand dollars may. in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for maintenance in the Little Tennessee River. Improving Tennessee River, Tennessee and Alabama, fromChattanooga to Riverton, Ala.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Riverton, Alabama: Continuing improvement by open-channel work to secure a depth of five feet at low water, in accordance with the project submitted in House Document Numbered Fifty. Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, two hundred and five thousand dollars, of which amount fifteen thousand dollars may. if required, be expended in that portion between Hobbs Island and Guntersville. Improving Tennessee River at Hales bar. Tennessee: CompletingHales bar, Tenn. improvement, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
Improving Tennessee River at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals, Alabama:Colbert and Bee Tree shoals, Ala.*Proviso*.Contracts. Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project, to an amount not exceeding two hundred and thirteen thousand1094 dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated Board to examine conditions, etc.or authorized.
And the Secretary of War may appoint a Board of Engineers whose duty it shall be to examine the present condition of the United States canal and the Tennessee River from the head of Elk River Shoals to the Florence Railway bridge in the State of Alabama, with a view to permitting the improvement of the above-described stretch of said river by private or corporate agency in conjunction with the development of water power by means of not more than three locks and dams; and the said Board may examine any plans presented by such agency and shall report whether the same, if constructed, can, without injury to navigation, or with advantage thereto, be used to develop water power, and what portion, if any. of the expense of the work Report.should be borne by the United States; and such Board shall report its findings not later than the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred Muscle Shoals, permits withheld.*Ante*, p. 52.and seven, and until such Board shall make its report and action shall be taken thereon by Congress no permits shall be issued under the provisions of the Act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of dams and power stations on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
” Below Riverton.Improving Tennessee River, Tennessee and Kentucky, below Riverton: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars. French Broad and Little Pigeon rivers. Tenn.Improving French Broad and Little Pigeon rivers, Tennessee: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Clinch. Hiwassee, and Holston rivers, Tenn.Improving Clinch, Hiwassee, and Holston rivers, Tennessee: Completing improvement and for maintenance, fifty-six thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Kentucky River, Ky.Kentucky River. Kentucky: Continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Twelve and Thirteen, one *Proviso*.Contracts.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the work of constructing said locks and dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized.
Port Clinton, Ohio.Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Sandusky, Ohio.Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Rock dredging restored.Vol. 33, p. 1134.That there shall be restored to the adopted project, and shall form a part of it, the rock dredging omitted from the said project in the river and harbor Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five.
Huron, Ohio.Improving harbor at Huron. Ohio: For maintenance, sixteen thou-sand dollars. Vermilion, Ohio.Improving harbor at Vemilion, Ohio: For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Lorain, Ohio.Improving harbor at Lorain, Ohio, thirty thousand dollars, of which amount not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for dredging on the easterly side of Black River from the inner end of the easterly Government pier to East Erie Avenue Bridge. Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars, of which amount ninety-eight thousand dollars may be expended for wharf room for the storage of material and plant or other Government property, in accordance with the recommendation contained in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and *Provisos*.Condition on wharf room.seventy, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session: *Provided*, That, no part of said sum of ninety-eight thousand dollars shall be expended for such wharf room unless terms can be made with the Cleveland Yacht1095 Club in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors as set forth in said document: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract orContracts. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the prosecution of the project submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighteen, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, and heretofore adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding nine hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated or authorized.
Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing improvement andFairport, Ohio. for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For maintenance, twentyAshtabula. Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Conneaut. Ohio: For maintenance, twentyConneaut, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving Muskingum River. Ohio: Completing improvement byMuskingum River, Ohio. the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eleven, forty-eight thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River:
General improvement, four hundred andOhio River.General improvement.*Proviso*.Dredging plant. fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of this amount as may be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be expended in the construction of a dredging plant. Improving Ohio River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by theLock No. 6, Pa. lowering of the sill of Lock Numbered Six, so as to give a navigable passageway of tune feet through said lock, seventy thousand dollars.
Improving Lock and Dam Numbered Eight in Ohio River, in theLock and Dam No.8. States of Ohio and West Virginia, two hundred and fifty-one thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars; and the Secretary of War mayContracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said lock and dam, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate live hundred thousand dollars in excess of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized: *Provided*, That the said lock and dam shall be constructed with a view*Proviso*.Depth. to a navigable depth of nine feet.
Improving Lock and Dam Numbered Eleven in the States of OhioLock and Dam No. 11. and West Virginia, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars: and the Secretary of War may enterContracts. into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as are necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may front time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars in excess of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized: *Provided*, that the said lock and dam shall be constructed with a view*Proviso*.Depth. to a navigable depth of nine feet.
Improving Locks and Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen on Ohio River in the States of OhioLocks and Dams Nos. 13 and 18. and West Virginia: Continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy-four thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Provisos*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of each of said locks and dams, making separate contracts for said locks and dams, if desirable, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not to exceed in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized: *Provided*, That the said locks and dams shall be constructed with a view to a navigable depth of nine feet.Depth.
Improving Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-six in the Ohio River,Lock and Dam No. 26. in the States of Ohio and West Virginia, one hundred thousand dollars,1096Repeal of Amount for Nos. 19 and 26.Vol. 33, p. 1136. and the provisions of the river and harbor Art approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, appropriating one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate for Locks and Dams Numbered Nineteen and Twenty-six are hereby repealed, and the said amount is made available for the construction of said Lock and Dam Numbered *Provisos*.Contracts.Twenty-six: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said lock and dam. to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate nine hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts Depth.herein appropriated or made available: *Provided*, That said lock and dam shall be constructed with a view to a navigable depth of nine feet.
Lock and Dam No. 19.Improving Lock and Dam Numbered Nineteen in the Ohio River, in the States of Ohio and West Virginia, two hundred thousand dollars. Lock and Dam No. 37.Improving Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, in the States of Ohio and Kentucky: The Secretary of War is authorized to enter into Contracts.a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said lock and dam, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in excess of the amounts herein and *Proviso*.Depth.heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized: *Provided*, That the said lock and dam shall be constructed with a view to a navigable depth of nine feet.
Louisville, Ky.Raising dam.Improving the Ohio River at Louisville. Kentucky: By raising the dam so as to give a minimum depth of nine feet upstream to Madison. Indiana, and a minimum depth of six feet on the lower miter sill at Lock Numbered One. Kentucky River, two hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. Removing rocks.Improving the Ohio River at Louisville. Kentucky: By the removal of rocks in the channel of said river near to the falls, forty-three thousand dollars. Miami embankment.Improving the great Miami embankment of Ohio River east of Lawrenceburg.
Indiana: repairing damage caused by the recent flood of the Ohio River and tributaries, twenty thousand dollars, if such repair shall be directly and necessarily required in the interest of navigation. Ontonagon, Mich.Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Marquette, Mich.Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Grand Marais, Mich.Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Michigan, harbor of refuge:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Manistique, Mich.Improving Manistique Harbor. Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Secretary of War upon the present project or any modification thereof. Menominee Harbor and River, Mich. and Wis.Improving Menominee Harbor and River. Michigan and Wisconsin For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Saint Joseph and Saint Joseph River, Mich.Improving harbor at Saint Joseph and Saint Joseph River, Michigan.
For maintenance, sixteen thousand dollars. South Haven, Mich.Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars: and the Secretary of War is authorized to expend any portion of this sum or of the sums heretofore appropriated upon the work of improvement where dock lines have already been established and suitable bulkheads built, but no portion of this or other appropriations shall be used (except for the maintenance of existing channels) where proper dock lines have not been established and suitable bulkheads built along these lines by the city of South Haven or by the riparian owners and the property lying on the channel side of these dock lines shall have been1097 deeded to the United States free of cost, pursuant to the plan of improvement heretofore adopted.
Improving Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, Michigan:Sangatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Mich. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars: and the Secretary of War is authorized to maintain a harbor channel of sufficient depth to allow the free use of the Government dredge Gillespie. Improving Holland Harbor, Michigan: Completing improvementHolland, Mich. and for maintenance, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
Improving Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan: Continuing improvementGrand Haven, Mich. and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: Continuing improvementMuskegon, Mich. and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Pentwater and White Lake, Michigan: ForPentwater and White Lake, Mich. maintenance, twenty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized to dredge the channel at Pentwater to the depth of sixteen feet and to dredge the channel at White Lake to sufficient depth to allow the free use of the Government dredge Gillespie.
For maintaining and improving the harbor at Ludington, Michigan,Ludington, Mich. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-two. Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such material and work as may be necessary to complete said improvement according to the plan proposed in said House document, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-seven dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: For maintenance andManistee, Mich. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eleven. Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Manistee County,Portage Lake, Mich. Michigan: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Arcadia, Michigan: For maintenance, sixArcadia, Mich. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Frankfort.
Michigan: Continuing improvementFrankfort Mich. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlevoix and entrance to Pine Lake, Michigan:Charlevoix and Pine Lake, Mich. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Petoskey. Michigan: Continuing improvementPetoskey, Mich. and for maintenance, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan: Completing improvementCheboygan, Mich. and for maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Alpena (Thunder Bay River) Harbor, Michigan: ForAlpena, Mich. maintenance, four thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Harbor Beach. Michigan: ContinuingHarbor Beach. Mich. improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Grand River, Michigan: Continuing improvement andGrand River, Mich. for maintenance, eighty-eight thousand dollars. And the SecretaryExamination of Hoods. of War may cause an examination of the river to be made by a board of engineer officers with a view to the regulation of the Hoods in the interest of navigation.
Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: Continuing improvement andSaginaw River, Mich. for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. 1098 Sebewaing River, Mich.Improving Sebewaing River, Michigan: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Black and Rogue rivers, and Monroe, Mich.Improving mouth of Black River, Rouge River, and Monroe Harbor, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars, of which amount six thousand five, hundred and seventy-five dollars may be expended for the completion and maintenance of the project for Rogue River in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-nine, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.
Port Huron. Mich.Improving Black River at Fort Huron. Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, six thousand dollars. Clinton River, Mich.Improving Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars. Detroit River, Mich.Improving Detroit River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,*Proviso*.Contracts. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Plan “B.”Improving Detroit River in accordance with plan “B,” as set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six. Fifty-ninth*Proviso*.Contracts. Congress, second session, two million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such material and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate four million six hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein appropriated.
Saint Marys River, Mich.New lock, etc.Improving Saint Marys River at the Falls. Michigan: For the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, in accordance with plan “Three.” set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one million two*Provisos*.Contracts. hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the construction of said lock and canal, to be paid tor as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five million dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized.
Immediate progress. *And it is further provided*, That the work of improvement shall proceed without delay by reason of conflicting or other claims of title or interests and without prejudice to any pending litigation in reference thereto. Acquiring necessary lands.And all lands and waters north of the present Saint Marys Falls ship canal throughout its length, and lying between said ship canal and the international boundary line, needed in connection with the execution of this project, or any project heretofore adopted by Congress. for improving Saint Marys River at the falls, aside from any lands owned by the United States, all of which are hereby made available for said project, shall be acquired in the following manner, and under the following conditions:
Purchase.The Secretary of War may. in his discretion, enter into negotiations with any persons or corporations claiming title to any portion of the land or waters required for the construction of the said canal, and may acquire title to such portions of such river or lands as may be required for its construction and operation, but any agreement made by him shall be without prejudice to any claim of title by the United States and without the grant of any rights or privileges in said river or lands therein which shall create a right to compensation in case any further portion of said river or said lands therein between the canal1099 herein provided for and the international boundary line shall be hereafter required for purposes of navigation.
If such lands and waters can not be obtained in the manner and under the conditions above set forth the same shall be acquired as follows: The Secretary of War may cause proceedings in condemnation to beCondemnation proceedings. prosecuted under existing law, or a copy of the said plan numbered three, on a large scale, shall be prepared and exhibited in the office of the United States engineer at Sault Sainte Marie, and the Attorney-General shall proceed to ascertain the owners or claimants of the premises embraced therein, and shall cause to be published for the space ofAdvertisement. thirty days, in one or more daily newspapers in the. city of Sault Sainte Marie, that the same has been taken for the uses mentioned in this Act, and notifying all claimants to any portion of said premises to file, within its period of publication, in the Department of Justice, a description of the tract or parcel claimed and a statement of its value as estimated by the claimant.
On application of the Attorney-General,Appointment of appraisers. the presiding judge of the circuit court of appeals of the United States for the sixth circuit shall appoint three persons, not in the employ of the Government or related to or in any manner connected with the claimants to act as appraisers, whose duty it shall be, upon receiving from the Attorney-General a description of any tract or parcel, the ownership of which is claimed separately, to fairly and justly value the same, and report such valuation to the Attorney-General, whoReport. thereupon shall, upon being satisfied as to the title of the same, cause to be offered to the owner or owners the amount fixed by the appraisers as the value thereof: and if the offer be accepted, then, upon the executionPayment to owner. of a deed to the United States in form satisfactory to the Attorney-General, the Secretary of War shall pay the amount to such owner or owners from the appropriation made therefor in this Act.
In making the valuation the appraisers shall only consider thePresent value only to be considered. present value of the land or property acquired without reference to its value for the uses for which it is taken under the provisions of this Act. The appraisers shall each receive for their services five dollars forPay of appraisers. each day’s actual service in making the said appraisements. Any person or corporation having any estate or interest in theCourt of Claims to adjudicate damages, etc. premises, who shall for any reason not have been tendered payment therefor as above provided, or who shall decline to accept the amount tendered therefor, may, at any time within one year from the publication of notice by the Attorney-General as above provided, file a petition in the Court of Claims of the United States setting forth his right or title and the amount claimed by him as damages for the property taken: and the court shall hear and adjudicate such claims in the same manner as other claims against the United States are now by law directed to be heard and adjudicated therein: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Advance of cases. the court shall make such special rules in respect to such cases as shall secure their hearing and adjudication with the least possible delay.
Judgments in favor of such claimants shall be paid as other judgmentsJudgments. of said court are now directed to be paid: and any claimant toCosts. whom a tender shall have been made, as hereinbefore authorized, and who shall decline to accept the same, shall, unless he recover an amount greater than so tendered, he taxed with the entire cost of the proceeding. All claims on account of ownership of any interest inLimit of actions. said premises shall, unless petition for the recovery thereof be filed within one year from the date of the first publication of notice by the Attorney-General as above directed, be forever barred: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Disabilities of owners.
That owners or claimants laboring under any of the disabilities defined in the statute of limitations of the State of Michigan may file a1100 petition at any time within one year from the removal of the disability.Construction to proceed on publication of notice. Upon the publication of the, notice, as above directed, the Secretary of War may take possession of the premises embraced in said plan numbered three, and proceed with the construction herein authorized;Title to vest in the United States.Permits. and upon payment being made therefor, or without payment, upon the expiration of the time as above limited, without tiling the petition, absolute title to the premises shall vest in the.
United States, and no permits shall be granted by the Secretary of War or other official of the United States granting the right to occupy any portion of the land or waters of Saint Marys River in the locality for said ship canal herein provided for, or between the same and the international boundary lineConditions, etc. except upon the express condition, accepted by the grantee therein, to the effect that the erection of structures or the utilization of water power shall create no rights against the United States in case the whole or any part of the said river or the lands therein is required for the purposes of navigation, and further, that such structures or rights so granted shall be surrendered to the United States without cost when so required for purposes of navigation aforesaid, and any and all rights under any permits or licenses heretofore granted shall be deemed to be revoked unless such permits or licenses are reissued upon the, terms that further improvements and expenditures shall entitle the licensee to no greater consideration than such licensees are now entitled to, if any; but nothing herein contained shall be held to imply that any right now exists to compensation on account of expenditures made or alleged claims under licenses heretofore grunted.
Michigan-Lake Superior Power Company.The Secretary of War may acquire lands for the location of remedial or compensating works to the extent required to enable the Michigan-Lake Superior Power Company to comply with the provisionsVol. 32. p. 361. of the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, but such lands, if so acquired, shall be obtained without expense to the United States. Kenosha, Wis.Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: For maintenance and for improving said harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, twenty-two thousand dollars.
Racine, Wis.Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: For maintenance and for improving said harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-two. Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars. Milwaukee, Wis.Improving harbor at Milwaukee. Wisconsin, including harbor of refuge: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including an extension of one thousand feet to and the repair and rebuilding of the breakwater belonging to the harbor of refuge, and the rebuilding of the south pier of the harbor entrance. two hundred thousand dollars:*Proviso*.Contracts. *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Sheboygan, Wis.Improving harbor at Sheboygan. Wisconsin: For maintenance and for improving said harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, forty thousand dollars. Manitowoc, Wis.Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: For maintenance and for improving said harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, as modified by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors,*Proviso*.Contracts. one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as1101 may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein or heretofore appropriated; and the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for said harbor is hereby authorized to be expended in said improvement.
Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance andTwo Rivers, Wis. for improving said harbor in accordance with plan “A” of the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, as modified so as to provide for the construction of the north stilling basin and the creation of a sixteen foot channel, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said*Proviso*.Condition. amount shall be expended for the construction of said stilling basin until the title to the land required for said stilling basin shall have been properly and legally conveyed to the United States Government.
Improving harbor at Kewaunee. Wisconsin: For maintenance,Kewaunee Harbor Wis. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Algoma (Ahnapee), Wisconsin: For maintenance,Algoma, Wis.Maintenance. three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Algoma (Ahnapee), Wisconsin, by the constructionOuter harbor. of an outer harbor with a depth of sixteen feet of water, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, and harborSturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal.Vol. 33. p. 1139. of refuge connected therewith; of the amount appropriated for this improvement in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended by the Secretary of War for the maintenance of said canal and harbor of refuge, including dredging near Hills Point. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to complete said improvement by dredging and by widening the canal in the vicinity of the bridge across said canal at the city of Sturgeon Bay.
Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance, fiveGreen Bay, Wis. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ashland. Wisconsin: Continuing improvementAshland. Wis. and for maintenance, ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Wing, Wisconsin: Continuing improvementPort Wing, Wis. and for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and forFox River, etc., Wis. maintenance, including the maintenance of the harbors at Stockbridge, Calumet, and Fond du Lac. on Lake Winnebago, thirty-five thousand dollars, of which amount live thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for dredging and otherwise improving the harbor at Brothertown, on the east shore of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.
Improving Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin: For maintenance,Saint Croix River, Minn. and Wis. four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: For maintenance,Grand Marais, Minn. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Agate Bay, Minnesota: For maintenance, fourAgate Bay, Minn. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin:Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including additional dredging near the draw span of the Northern Pacific Railroad bridge, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be expended upon the Superior1102 Entry, the plan of which the Secretary of War may modify and enlarge in accordance with the report submitted in House Document NumberedReexamination, etc.
Eighty-two, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, and the Secretary of War may appoint a board to make a reexamination and survey of the Duluth Harbor and entrance thereto with a view to ascertaining the best method for improving the same, either by the extension of the existing piers, the widening of the channel, the construction of one or more breakwaters, and the enlargement of the inner basin in the interests of commerce, and in order to afford a safer entrance to said harbor in times of storm, and better protection to shipping and property within said harbor; also with a view to ascertaining the advisability of constructing a new entrance to the Duluth Harbor basin of a width suitable for the needs of commerce, not exceeding one thousand feet, and the protection of the same by either an outer or inner breakwater, or both, such new entrance to be located southward from the present Duluth entrance and so as to cause the least practicable interference with the waters of the Saint Louis River, together with the probable effect of such entrance upon the property within said harbor.
Minnesota River, Minn.Improving Minnesota River, Minnesota: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Red River of the North, Minn, and N. Dak.Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota: For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Michigan City, Ind.Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Waukegan, Ill.Improving harbor at Waukegan. Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars.
Chicago, Ill.Improving Chicago Harbor, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Calumet. Ill.Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Chicago River, Ill.Improving Chicago River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars. Calumet River, Ind. and Ill.Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and ninety-one thousand five*Proviso*.Contracts. hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein or heretofore appropriated.
Illinois River, Ill.Improving Illinois River. Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount, such portion as may be necessary may be expended for snagging and maintenance:*Proviso*.Snag boats.Vol. 25, p. 124. *Provided*, That the annual appropriation for operating snag boats on the upper Mississippi River, made by section seven of the Act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” is hereby made available for similar purposes on the Illinois River, from its mouth to Copperas Creek.
Copperas Creek to La Salle.Improving Illinois River. Illinois, from Copperas Creek to La Salle, by dredging and other improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Fox River, Ill.Dam authorized across in McHenry County.Fox River, Illinois: Permission is hereby given to the Fox River Navigable Water-Way Association to construct a dam across said river at or about fourteen thousand six hundred feet below the highway*Provisos*.Amendment. bridge at McHenry, in McHenry County, Illinois: *Providing, however*,Damages.
That the right is hereby reserved to alter, change, amend, or repeal this provision at the pleasure of Congress: *And providing further*, That nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed as reliev-1103ing the Fox River Navigable Water-Way Association from liability for any damage inflicted upon private property by reason of the construction of the dam as aforesaid. The permission granted to the Fox River Navigable Water-WayFormer permission for dam revoked.Vol. 32, p. 364.
Association under river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, to construct a dam across said river in the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, in township forty-five, in range eight, east of the third principal meridian, same being about three thousand feet below the highway bridge at McHenry, in McHenry County. Illinois, is hereby repealed. The Secretary of War is authorized to permit the Sterling HydraulicRock River. IllDam authorized across, at Sterling.
Company, of Sterling, Illinois, to erect, own, and operate a power station in connection with the dam built or to be built by the United States in Rock River at or near Sterling, Illinois, in connection with the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Approval of location, etc.Navigation not to be obstructed. the location and plans of said power station shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the navigation of Rock River and of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal and the operation and maintenance of said dam shall be in no way obstructed thereby: *And provided further*, That prior to the issue of said permitCondition. the Sterling Hydraulic Company shall waive any and all claims that it may have against the United States by reason of the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, except such claims its it may have for the abstraction from Rock River of more than three hundred cubic feet of water per second when the flow of Rock River immediately above is less than one thousand cubic feet of water per second.
Improving Mississippi River, from Head of the Passes to the mouthMississippi River.Head of Passes to mouth of Ohio.Mississippi River Commission.Expenses, etc., of. of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, official, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: Continuing improvement, three million dollars, which 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 between the Head of the Passes and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 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*.Additional contracts.
That on and after the passage of this Act the Secretary of War may enter into additional contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry on continuously the plans of the Mississippi River Commission as aforesaid, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate six million dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That the authorized sum last named shall be used in prosecutingAnnual allotment. the improvement for not less than three years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the work thus done each year to cost approximately two million dollars: *And provided further*, ThatDredge boats, etc. the money hereby appropriated and authorized to be expended, in pursuance of contracts or otherwise, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the construction of suitable and necessary dredge boats and other devices and appliances and in the maintenance and operation of the same, with the view of ultimately obtainingChannel below Cairo. and maintaining a navigable channel from Cairo down not less than two hundred and fifty feet in width and nine feet in depth at all periods of the year, except when navigation is closed by ice: *And provided further*,Allotments for improvements.
That the water courses connected with said river, and the harbors upon it, now under the control of the Mississippi River Commission and under improvement, may, in the discretion of said Com1104 mission, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments for improvements now under way or hereafter to be undertaken, to be paid for from the amounts herein appropriated or authorized. Mississippi River.Mouth of the Ohio to the Missouri.Improving the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River:
Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Contracts. the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the improvement. to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated:Annual allotment. *Provided further*, That the authorized sum last named shall be used in prosecuting the improvement for not less than three years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the work tints done each year to cost approximately two hundred and fifty thousandDredging plant, etc. dollars: *And provided further*, That the sums herein appropriated and authorized shall be expended in the operation and maintenance of the dredging plant already constructed and authorized for the improvement, and in temporary expedients of channel regulation connected with such operation, and in the maintenance and repair of the permanent works already constructed, except that such portion of the authorized annual expenditure as shall not be necessary for the accomplishment of the above-named purposes may be expended in the construction of permanent works of channel regulation.
Board to examine and report on 14-foot channel, Saint Louis to mouth of river.The Secretary of War may appoint a board of five members, to be composed of three members of the Mississippi River Commission, one of whom shall be the president of such commission, and two engineer officers of the United States Army, to examine the Mississippi River below Saint Louis and report to Congress, at the earliest date by which a thorough examination can be made, upon the practicability and desirability of constructing and maintaining a navigable channel fourteen feet deep and of suitable width from Saint Louis to the mouth of the river, either by the improvement of said river or by a canal or canalsScope. for part of said route.
In its report the board shall cover the probable cost of such improvement, the probable cost of maintenance, and the present and prospective commerce of said waterway, both local and general, upstream as well as downstream, and the said board may consider in connection with the examination herein provided for, the survey of a proposed waterway from Chicago to Saint Louis, heretofore reported: it shall also report whether other plans of improvement can be devised by which the probable demands of traffic, present and prospective, can be adequately met. and the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the making of such survey, of which amount only one hundred thousand dollars shall be available, unless in presenting a plan for such waterway it shall be necessary, in the judgment of said board, to make a survey for a lateral canal or canals; and the force, plant, and records of the Mississippi River Commission shall be available for the use of said board in making said examination; and said board shall also at the earliest date practicable report upon the following:
Subjects of report.First. What depth of channel is it practicable to produce between Saint Louis and Cairo at low water by means of regulation works. Second. What depth will obtain in such regulated channel at the average stage of water for the year. Third. For what average number of days annually will fourteen feet of water obtain in such regulated channel. Fourth. What increase of depth will be obtained over the natural flow of water in such regulated channel by an added volume of ten thousand cubic feet per second: also fourteen thousand cubic feet per second.= 1105 Fifth.
And the board shall consider further the practicabilty of producing at all seasons of the year a depth of fourteen feet in such regulated channel by the aid of locks and dams similar to those projected and in use on the Ohio River improvement. Sixth. And the said Board shall also report upon any water power which may be created in the portion herein directed to be surveyed, as well as in the proposed waterway from Saint Louis to Chicago heretofore surveyed, and the value thereof, and what means should be taken in order that the Government of the United States may conserve the same or receive adequate compensation therefor, and upon any lands which may be drained by the const ruction of either of said proposed waterways, and shall also report what steps, if any, shall be taken to cause the cost of the improvement to be defrayed, in whole or part, by means of such water power or lands.
Improving the Mississippi River from the mouth of the MissouriMonth of the Missouri to Minneapolis, Minn.*Provisos*.Contracts. River to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement, live hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may miter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said 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 hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That the authorized sum last named shall be used in prosecuting theAnnual allotments. improvement for not less than three years beginning July first, nineteen hundred and eight, the work thus done each year to cost approximately live hundred thousand dollars: and the Secretary of War may prosecute this work in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, for the purpose of ultimately securing and maintaining a depth of channel of six feet: *And provided further*, That of the sums herein appropriated and authorized for this improvementDredging. a portion not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended annually for the first two years for dredging for the benefit of through navigation in harbors and at landing places, giving preference to localities in which the communities interested shall thereafter maintain such dredging without cost to the United States.
For reconstruction of Sandy Lake reservoir dam, Minnesota, withoutSandy Luke reservoirdam, Minn. a lock for steamboats, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the construction of low reservoir dam at Gull Lake, MinnesotaReservoirs. (project numbered one), and ditches between Gull Lake and Round Lake, and between Round Lake and Long Lake, Minnesota, seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the land required for the construction*Proviso*.Condition. of said Gull Lake dam and reservoir, together with any flowage rights which may be necessary, shall be ceded to the United States without charge.
Improving Osage River. Missouri: Continuing improvement andOsage River, Mo.*Proviso*.Contracts. for maintenance, seventy-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work, as are necessary for the completion of said project. to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvementGasconade River, Mo. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Missouri River from the mouth to Fort Benton: ForMissouri River.Mouth to Fort Benton.Allotment. maintenance, four hundred thousand dollars, of which amount one hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be expended between the mouth and Kansas City, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars between1106 Kansas City and Sioux City, and one hundred thousand dollars bet ween Sioux City and Fort Benton, one-half of which last amount shall be*Provisos*.Snagging, etc. expended north of the forty-sixth parallel: *Provided*, That these amounts shall be applied in the first instance for the purpose of clearing the river of snags with a view to navigation, and no part of such amount shall be applied for revetment or the protection of banks of the stream unless such revetment or protection is directly and necessarilyBismarck, N.
Dak. required for purposes of navigation: *Provided further*, That so much of the amount as is to be expended north of the forty-sixth parallel may be applied for improving the harbor at Bismarck. North Dakota, on the east side of the river below the Northern Pacific RailroadSurvey at Saint Joseph, Mo. bridge: *Provided, further, also*, That the Secretary of War shall, as soon as practicable, cause a survey to be made to determine the necessity of continuing the improvement of the Missouri River at Saint Joseph, Missouri, to prevent a diversion of the waters of said river through Lake Contrary and other contiguous lakes, and to determine the effect of such diversion, with an estimate of the cost of the improvement, and shall also report whether the same is directly and necessarily required in the interest of navigation.
San Diego, Cal.Improving San Diego Harbor, California: For maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Wilmington, Cal.Improving Wilmington Harbor. California: Completing improvement, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. San Luis Obispo, Cal.*Proviso*.Contracts.Improving San Luis Obispo Harbor. California: Continuing improvement, sixty-three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and labor as are necessary to complete the said projects, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Oakland, Cal.*Provisos*.Extension of adopted project.Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvement, sixty-eight thousand two hundred and three dollars: *Provided*, That the adopted project may be extended as recommended by the Board of Review on Rivers and Harbors in a report dated January eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven, so as to include the following work: Extension of South Jetty, five hundred feet; widening to five hundred feet the channel twenty-five feet deep from San Francisco Bay to Fallon street; deepening to twenty-five feet the channel three hundred feet wide from Fallon street to the tidal basin: deepening to seventeen feet the channel three hundred feet wide around the north side of the tidal basin to the tidal canal, and from the tidal canal along the Alameda shore to Tenth avenue, and any balance remaining of appropriations or authorizations heretofore made for the improvement of the harbor at Oakland, may be applied to the project as soContracts, etc. extended: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said improvement as herein adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or authorized for said harbor.
Humboldt, Cal.Improving Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-eight. Fifty-ninth Congress. first session: Completing improvement, eighty-three thousand dollars. San Joaquin River, Cal.Improving San Joaquin River, California: For maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Stockton and Mormon channels, Cal.Contracts authorized.The Secretary of War is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be required for the completion of the Stockton and Mormon channels, California, to be paid for1107 as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding fifty-six thousand and seventy-nine dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated or authorized.
Improving Mokelumne River, California: For maintenance, twoMokelumne River, Cal. thousand live hundred dollars. Improving Sacramento and Feather rivers, California: ContinuingSacramento and Feather rivers, Cal. improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California, twenty-threePetaluma Creek and Napa River, Cal. thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars, of which amount fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars may be expended in completing the improvement of Petaluma Creek in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.
Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For maintenance, tenTillamook Bay and bar, Oreg. thousand dollars. Improving Coquille River. Oregon: Continuing improvement andCoquille River. Oreg. for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Coos River, Oregon: For maintenance, three thousandCoos River, Oreg. dollars. Improving Willamette River above Portland and Yamhill River,Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oreg. Oregon: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars.
Improving the lower Willamette and Columbia rivers below Portland,Willamette and Columbia rivers. Oregon: Continuing improvement, to be expended in the construction and operation of a dredge, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving the mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington:Columbia River.Improving mouth. Continuing improvement, seven hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed to the aggregate one million seven hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving the Columbia River between the foot of The DallesThe Dalles to Celilo Falls. Rapids and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Contracts. the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving the Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo FallsAnd tributaries above Celilo Falls. to the mouth of Snake River. Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty. Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and the SecretaryUse of money from States. of War is authorized and directed to use any additional moneys that may be placed at his disposal by the States of Oregon or Washington for the improvement of the Columbia River above Celilo Falls and the Snake River in accordance with the said report, and said Secretary is also authorized to use any Government plant available in connection there with.
Construction of dredge for Oregon and Washington: For the constructionDredge for Oregon and Washington. of a dredge, to be used in the harbors and coast waters of Oregon and Washington and to be operated and maintained out of funds available for such harbors and coast waters, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Upper Columbia and Snake rivers, Oregon, Washington,Upper Columbia and Snake rivers. and Idaho: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars, which may be expended in completing the improvement and1108 for maintenance of the Snake River between Riparia and Lewiston, and between Lewiston and Pittsburg Landing.
Grays Harbor, Wash.North Jetty.Improving Grays Harbor and bar entrance, Washington: Continuing improvement by means of north jetty, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers transmitted to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, under date of December twenty-eighth, nineteen*Proviso*.Contracts. hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, exclusive. of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Inner harbor and Chehalis River, Wash.Improving Grays Harbor, inner portion, between Aberdeen and the entrance to said harbor, and Chehalis River, Washington: Continuing improvement in accordance with the project submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, with a view to securing a channel two hundred feet wide and eighteen feet deep at mean lower low water, and removing snags from the Chehalis River, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollarsBalances available.; and the amount of prior appropriations made for the improvement of the inner portion of Crays Harbor, and now on hand, is hereby made available for this project in addition to said sum, and the Secretary of War is directed to cause a survey and estimate to be made with a view to the improvement of the Chehalis River up to Montesano by the removal of bars.
Grays River, Wash.Improving Grays River, Washington: Continuing improvement in accordance with the project submitted in the report of the Board of Engineers to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, dated October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand five hundred dollars. Puget Sound, Wash.Waterway to Lakes Union and Washington.Survey for canal.Improving the waterway connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, Washington: For maintenance of improvement, ten thousand dollars: and the Secretary of War may make a survey and estimate of cost of said waterway or canal with one lock, with a view to the construction of the same, in conjunction with the county authorities of King County or other agency, of sufficient size to accommodate the largest commercial or naval vessels afloat; or, if deemed more advisable, with a view to the construction of a canal of less dimensions, and to submit dimensions and estimate of cost of same, together with a report upon what portion of said work will be done or contribution to be made by said county or other agency,Canal by James A.
Moore, modified.*Ante*, p. 231. And the provisions of the Act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, authorizing James A. Moore, or his assigns, to construct a canal, with suitable timber lock, are hereby so modified as to permit the said James A. Moore, or his assigns, subject to the conditions and stipulations of the Act, to excavate a channel seventy-five feet wide at the bottom and twenty-five feet deep at mean low water from deep water in Puget Sound at the mouth of Salmon Bay to deep water in Lake Washington, in lieu of constructing the canal and timber lock specified in the said Act, the location of the said channel and work of excavation to be subject to the direction of the Secretary of War, and the plans and order of work to be subject to his approval before beginning and when completed and accepted by the Secretary of War, the channel to be and remain a free public waterway of the United States.
Willapa River and Harbor, Wash.Improving Willapa River and Harbor, Washington: Continuing improvement in accordance with the project submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, Wash.Improving the Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, including the North Fork of the Lewis River, Washington: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. 1109 Improving Puget Sound and its tributary waters, Washington:Puget Sound, etc., Wash.
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which amount thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in the removal of rock obstructions at the mouth of Roche Harbor. Improving Swinomish Slough, Washington: Continuing improvement,Swinomish Slough, Wash. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Columbia River, between Wenatchee and Bridgeport,Columbia River, Wash.Wenatchee to Bridgeport. Washington: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, forty-two thousand dollars.
Improving the Okanogan and Pend Oreille rivers, Washington:Okanogan and Pend Oreille rivers, Wash. For maintenance of the Okanogan and Pend Oreille rivers and for continuing the improvement the Pend Oreille River by removing bars, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Saint Michael Canal, Alaska, in accordance with the projectSaint Michael Canal, Alaska. submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-nine, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, ninety-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a*Proviso*.Contracts. contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be appropriated from time to time as provided by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
That the proviso in the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteenSnake River, Alaska.Time extended for canal by Nome Improvement Company. hundred and five, providing for the forfeiture of the rights granted to the Nome Improvement Company to dredge the Snake River and to extend the channel thereof seaward, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “*Provided further*, That if, after January first, nineteen hundredForfeiture extended to 1909.Vol. 33, p. 1146, amended. and nine, the said improvement company shall, at any time during the season of navigation, permit any portion of said channel between the jetties, including that portion of the river improved by it, for three consecutive months, to be of less depth than six feet at mean low tide for a full width of fifty feet, then all rights of said company as herein determined shall cease, and the harbor improvements constructed, including bulkheads, jetties, and rights in reclaimed lands, shall become the property of the United States without recompense to the company.
” Improving Honolulu Harbor. Hawaii: Continuing improvementHonolulu, Hawaii. and tor maintenance, according to the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-two. Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts. That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Hilo Harbor, Hawaii, in accordance with the projectHilo, Hawaii. submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or*Provisos*.Contracts. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, in addition to the amounts herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That modifications in said plan mayModifications allowed. be made in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and that no part of said appropriation or authorization shall be expended unless the Chief of Engineers, upon further investigation, shall determine that commercial benefits accruing from such expenditure will warrant the same. 1110 San Juan, P.
R.Improving the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fourteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred and fifty-seven*Proviso*.Contracts. thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as are necessary for the prosecution of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred thousand dollars, in additionDredging. to the amount herein appropriated, and in the prosecution of the same may be included the dredging of the entrance channel and areas to the east of the Puntilla de la Marina for passage and anchorage, of three hundred and ninety-eight thousand six hundred square yards to be dredged to a dept h of thirty feet, and seventy thousand two hundred square yards to a depth of twenty-four feet.
Emergencies appropriations.For emergencies: To provide for the restoration of channels, or river and harbor improvements heretofore established or made by the Government, or herein provided for, where by reason of emergency occurring after the passage of this Act the usual depth of such channels or customary use of such improvement can not be maintained, and there is no sufficient fund available for such restoration, three hundred thousand dollars. The amount herein provided shall be allotted*Provisos*.Allotments. by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That in no case shall such allotment be made unless recommended by the local engineer having such channel or improvement in charge, and by the Chief of Engineers, respectively:Maximum allotments. *Provided further*, That for no single channel or improvement shall a sum greater than ten thousand dollars be allotted.
Tidal water depths.The depth of water in tidal waters, as well as in rivers and nontidal channels, whenever referred to in this Act shall be understood to mean the depth at mean low water unless otherwise expressed. Use of appropriations.Appropriations made for the respective, works herein named, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used for maintenance and for the repair and restoration of said works whenever from any cause they have become seriously impaired, as well as for the further improvement of said works.
Surveys and examinations.Surveys and examinations provided for in this section shall, unless otherwise expressed, be paid for from the appropriations made for the respective improvements or projects to which they pertain or in connection with which they are mentioned. Contracts, etc.All works of improvement heretofore or herein authorized to be prosecuted or completed under contracts may. in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be carried on by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical or advantageous to the United States.
Allotment of consolidated works.Where separate works or items are consolidated in this Act and an aggregate amount is appropriated therefor, the amounts herein appropriated shall, unless otherwise expressed, be expended in securing maintenance and improvement according to the respective projects herein or heretofore adopted by Congress, after giving due regard to the respective needs of traffic. The allotments to the respective works herein consolidated shall be made by the Secretary of War upon recommendations by the Chief of Engineers.
In case such works or items are consolidated and separate amounts are given with each project, the amounts so named shall be expended upon such separate projects unless in the discretion of the Secretary of War anotherUse of balances. allotment or division should be made of the same. Any balances now remaining to the credit of the consolidated items in this Act shall be carried to the credit of the respective aggregate amounts appropriated for the consolidated items herein contained.
Combining contracts.In all cases where appropriations are made for works in this Act, if money can be more advantageously expended by combining under one contract two or more such works, such combinations are authorized and shall be made. 1111 In all cases in which appropriations or authorizations have heretoforeInsufficient appropriations. been made, or are herein made, for the completion of river and harbor works, and the amounts appropriated or authorized shall prove insufficient for completion, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, apply such amounts appropriated or authorized for the prosecution of such work.
Sec. 2. For preliminary examinations and surveys (other than thosePreliminary examinations.Appropriation. mentioned in section one), contingencies, and for incidental repairs for which there is no special appropriation for rivers and harbors, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no preliminary*Provisos*.New works. examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution shall be made: *Provided further*, That after the regular or formal reportsSupplemental reports. made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless ordered by a concurrent resolution of Congress.
The Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this Act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law: *Provided further*, That all expenses heretofore and hereafter incurred byPayment for examinations, etc., Porto Rico, piers, etc.*Ante*, p. 234. the War Department, for examinations, reports, inspections, superintendence, or any other action necessary in executing the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to empower the Secretary of War, under certain restrictions, to authorize the construction, extension, and maintenance of wharves, piers, and other structures on lands underlying harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of water in or surrounding Porto Rico and the islands adjacent thereto,” shall be payable from funds herein and hereafter appropriated for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors, the allotments for such expenses to be made by the Chief of Engineers.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause preliminaryPreliminary examinations authorized. examinations or surveys to be made at the following localities: alabama.Alabama. Choctawhatchee River, to provide, depth of three feet up to Newton. The channels connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, with a view to obtaining a channel of a depth of ten feet. Alabama and Coosa rivers, between Montgomery and Wetumpka. Coosa River, with a view to locating and constructing Dam Numbered Five.
Sipsey River, from its mouth to Fayette. alaska.Alaska. Dry Straits, with a view to securing an alternative channel to Wrangell Narrows. Katalla Bay and adjacent bays, with a view to the establishment of a harbor. arkansas.Arkansas. Saline River, from the mouth of same north to Turtle Bar, on said river, with a view of dredging and other work. california.California. Islais River, with a view of obtaining a depth of twenty-six feet from its mouth in San Francisco Bay for a distance of one mile.
San Francisco Harbor, with a view to the removal of Mission Bay rocks, Packard rock, Whiting rock, Fifteen foot rock, Invincible rocks,1112 Noonday rocks, and Anita rock. Also Centissima and Sears rock and two other rocks near Mail Dock in Bonita Channel. San Joaquin River and its tributary, Stockton Channel, from San Francisco Bay to Stockton. Sacramento River, from its mouth to Feather River. Suisun Channel. Newport Harbor. Humboldt Harbor, with a view to improving the entrance thereto.
San Diego Harbor, and the entrance thereto. Wilmington Harbor, with a view to obtaining an increased depth. San Pedro Breakwaters. with a view to determining whether the same should be extended to the shore. Connecticut.connecticut. Branford Harbor. New Haven Harbor, with a view to determining whether a greater depth is needed, also the rocks in Morris Cove. New London Harbor, with a view to securing a depth of fifteen feet in Shaws Cove. A further examination and survey for a harbor of refuge at Duck Island, and in connection therewith for a breakwater at Kelseys Point, Connecticut.
Connecticut River, with a view to removing obstructions in Eight Mile River and East Branch. Coscob Harbor, with a view to obtaining a sufficient depth to drawbridge. Delaware.delaware. Smyrna River. Little River, from the mouth of the same to the town of Little Creek. To connect by canal, Rehoboth Bay with Delaware Bay at or near Lewes, through Lewes Creek and Gordon Lake. Saint Jones River, from its mouth to Dover. Florida.florida. Saint Lucia Inlet. Saint Josephs Bay. Wekiwa River.
Wakulla River from the town of Saint Marks to the Gulf, and Saint Marks River. Estero Bay. Hillsboro Bay, from turning basin to head of the Estuary in the direction of Ybor. Crystal River. Clearwater Harbor and Boca Ceiga Bay to Tampa Bay. Saint Andrews Bay. Saint Marks River, at the month. Pensacola Bay to quarantine station, with a view to getting twenty-four feet of water. Saint Johns River from Sanford to Lake Harney. Caloosahatchee River, from Lake Okechobee to the Gulf, including Orange River.
Saint Johns River, from Jacksonville to Sanford. Key West Harbor. Georgia.georgia. Coosa River at Horseleg shoals, with a view to the construction of a lock and dam. Savannah River, for thirty miles below Augusta. 1113 illinois.Illinois. Calumet River, with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty feet from One hundred and twenty-second street to its forks. indiana.Indiana. Harbor at Gary, with a view to determining whether a breakwater is necessary. Indiana Harbor, with a view to determining whether improvement of the harbor is advisable. louisiana.Louisiana.
Lake Ponchartrain, from West End Spanish Fort and Milneburg to the north and south draws of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, also to Mandeville, the Tangipahoa River, and Pass Manchac, with a view to the removal of obstructions to navigation. Pass Manchac, between Lake Maurepas and Lake Ponchartrain. Lake Ponchartrain, west end to mouth of Bayou Saint John and thence to Milneburg. Sabine River, from its mouth to Belzora and Logansport. Bayou Plaquemine Brule. Bayou Terrebonne, with a view to obtaining six feet of water.
Bayou Vermilion to Lafayette, with a view to obtaining six feet of water. Bayou Courtableau, with a view to obtaining twelve feet of water. Boyce Landing, on the Red River, with a view to ascertaining whether any improvements are required in the interest of navigation. maine.Maine. East Boothbay, with a view to obtaining eight feet of water. Rockport Harbor, with a view to removing the beacon and ledge. Camden Harbor. Matinicus, with a view to a harbor of refuge. Tenants Harbor, with a view to obtaining eight feet of water.
South Harpswell, with a view to removing ledge oil Potts Point. Pepperells Cove, with a view to its deepening and the removal of a ledge. Passage between Peaks Island and Great Diamond Island, between the main channel and Husseys Sound, with a view to obtaining greater depth. Penobscot Bay. from the southern extremity of Macks Point to the eastern extremity of Cape Jellison, with a view to the establishment of a harbor having a depth of twenty-five feet, or sufficient to meet the demands of commerce. maryland.Maryland.
Patuxent River. Northwest Fork, Nanticote River, from its mouth to Federalsburg, with a view to removing shoals and obtaining a depth of six feet. Tuckahoe River, with a view to obtaining an increased depth from Waymans Wharf to the town of Hillsboro. Lower Thoroughfare, at or near Wenona, Deals Island, with a view to deepening the channel and constructing a basin. Potomac River, with a view to obtaining greater depth to Lower Cedar Point. massachusetts.Massachusetts. Lynn Harbor, with a view to obtaining a turning basin five hundred feet square and fifteen feet deep, straightening the present channel, and making a channel three hundred feet wide and fifteen feet deep from deep water to wharves at head of harbor. 1114 Gloucester Harbor, with a view to removing ledges.
Plymouth Harbor, with a view to the construction of a rubblestone breakwater, extending from Long Beach easterly along the crest of Browns Island. Merrimac River, with a view to providing by locks and dams a channel fourteen feet deep from the mouth of the river to the railroad bridge at Haverhill. Mystic River, with a view to the construction of a channel thirty feet deep from the mouth of Island End River to Chelsea Bridge. Michigan.michigan. Channel between Russell Island and Grand Point in the Saint Clair River.
Ontonagon Harbor, with a view to determining whether a change in the course of the Ontonagon River may not aid in maintaining the harbor. Menominee Harbor, with a view to determining whether a breakwater is necessary. Keweenaw Canal, with a view to the construction of a harbor of refuge at its eastern entrance. Munising Harbor. Au Sable River, with a view to obtaining a depth of ten feet. Minnesota.minnesota. Grand Marais Harbor, with a view to rebuilding the piers at the entrance and enlarging basin.
Boise de Sioux River. Lake Traverse, and Big Stone Lake, and the portages between the said lakes and said river, with a view to diverting the Hood waters of the Red River of the North into the Minnesota River. Lake Superior, with a view to locating a harbor or harbors of refuge on the north shore. Mississippi.mississippi. Biloxi Harbor, with a view to extending and deepening the channel into the harbor and around the eastern end of the peninsula into the sheltered waters of Back Bay.
East Pearl River, with a new to removing bar and restoring channel at its mouth. Steeles and Washingtons bayous, and Lake Washington from mouth of Steeles Bayou to Glen Allen. Roebuck Lake, from its mouth to railroad bridge at Itta Bena. Bear Creek. Homochitto River, from its mouth to the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. Big Sunflower River from near Baird to the mouth of the Hushpucena River, with a view to obtaining continuous navigation by locks and dams in the upper section, as designated in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.
Missouri.missouri. Osage River, with a view to obtaining three feet depth from its mouth to mouth of Niangua River. Gasconade River, with a view to obtaining three feet depth from its mouth to Gascondy. 1115 Missouri River from its mouth to Kansas City, and from Kansas City to Sioux City: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, cause to be made only such further general instrumental survey as may be deemed necessary. new hampshire.New Hampshire. Isles of Shoals, with a view to the construction of a breakwater. new jersey.New Jersey.
Toms River, with a view to obtaining five feet of water on shoals near village of Toms River. Forked River, from its mouth to the town of Forked River, with a view to obtaining a depth of five feet. Rahway River. Old Mans Creek. Arthur Kill, westerly side of Buckwheat Island, with a view to deepening the channel. new york.New York. The waters of Jamaica Bay, including entrance to said bay at RockawayJamaica Bay. Inlet and those waters having their outlet in Dead Horse Inlet, with a view to framing a plan for their improvement and recommending the order of such improvement with the cost thereof, and to recommend the proportion of such cost to be borne by the city of New York; and the Secretary of War is hereby requested to confer andConference with New York city authorities. cooperate with the commissioner of docks and ferries of the city of New York, or with any other duly authorized agents, officers, or representatives of the city of New York, and with any commission of engineers appointed, or who shall hereafter be appointed, to surveyor examine said bay and to recommend to the city of New York, plans for the improvement of said Jamaica Bay or the lands in and about said bay.
Port Chester Harbor, with a view to obtaining a depth of fifteen feet with corresponding width. Echo Bay. with a view to obtaining a depth of twelve feet. Dunkirk Harbor. East Chester Creek, with a view to obtaining a depth of twelve feet. Jamaica Bay, with a view to obtaining a channel one hundred feet wide and six feet deep to and through Great South Bay to Peconic Bay, including channels to Parsonage and Sumpawams rivers and Freeport and Massapequa creeks. Channel between Three Mile Harbor and Gardiners Bay.
Channel from Peters Neck Point through Long Beach Bay to Horn River. Hempstead Harbor, with a view to obtaining a depth of six feet. East River, between North Brother and South Brother Islands, with a view to obtaining depths of twenty, twenty-two, and twenty-four feet. Hudson River: Shoal off Stuyvesant Harbor. Ogdensburg Harbor, with a view to obtaining depth of nineteen feet in the four existing channels and the excavation of the bar between the two entrance channels in the lower harbor.
Niagara River from Tonawanda to Gill Creek. Hudson River, with a view to obtaining a depth of twelve feet from the channel to Upper Nyack and the contiguous towns of Nyack, South Nyack. Grand View, and Piermont, through the pier to the mouth of Sparkill River, and east to the main channel. 1116 Neversink River, with a view to the removal of bars and other obstructions at and near its mouth. Minisceongo River, with a view to obtaining a depth of seven feet. North Carolina.north carolina.
Trent River, with a view to obtaining eight feet of water from Newbern to Trenton. New River, with a view to obtaining a depth of live feet from its mouth to Jacksonville. White Oak River, with a view to obtaining live feet from its mouth to Maysville. Little River, with a view to removing bar at its mouth. Shallow Bag Bay, with a view to obtaining a depth of eight feet at its mouth. South River, with a view to obtaining six, seven, and eight feet, respectively, from its mouth to Aurora.
Beaufort Harbor, with a view to a channel depth of twenty-five feet across the bar. Waterway connecting Swan Quarter Bay with Deep Bay, with a view to obtaining a depth of six, seven, and eight feet, respectively. North Dakota.north dakota. Red River of the North, with a view to straightening and deepening the channel. Ohio.ohio. Harbor at Rocky River, with a view to repairing existing structures and extension of the harbor. Lorain Harbor: That portion of Black River from the inner end of the Government piers to East Erie Avenue Bridge.
Maumee River, from deep water in Lake Erie to the Fassett Street Bridge, Toledo, with a view to obtaining greater depth and an increased width of approximately one hundred feet. Oregon.oregon. Coos Bay and bar entrance. Coquille River, with a view to the removal of shoals and rocks at its mouth. Tillamook Bay and bar up to Tillamook City. Pennsylvania.pennsylvania. Erie Harbor, with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty-two feet and protecting Presque Isle peninsula. Youghiogheny River to Connellsville.
Rhode Island.rhode island. Wickford Harbor, with a view to obtaining a depth of fifteen feet and for the removal of a ledge known as General Rock. Harbor of refuge, Block Island, with a view to securing a greater navigable depth and a larger anchorage area. Providence River, with a view to extending the deep water area to Kettle Point. South Carolina.south carolina. Congaree River, from the present head of navigation to the mouth of Broad River, and Broad River from its mouth to Ninety-nine Island Shoals. 1117 North Fork, Edisto River, from its mouth to Orangeburg, with a view to obtaining three feet of water.
Saluda River, between Columbia and Hollow Creek. South Fork. Edisto River, from its mouth to Scotts Bridge. Shem River. Shipyard River. Great, Pee Dee River, from Georgetown to Pee Dee Station. tennessee.Tennessee. Duck River, from its month to Centerville. Forked Deer River, survey of its South fork, Hatchie River, to town of Brownsville. Elk River, from its mouth up to Fayetteville. Beech River. Big Sandy River. Richland Creek. texas.Texas. Neches River. A channel from Palacios to Matagorda Bay.
Arroyo Colorado, with a view to obtaining a channel eight feet or less in depth from Harlingen to deep water at Point Isabel. Caddo Lake, with a view to determining advisability of constructing a dam at the foot of said lake on the waterway connecting Jefferson, Texas, with Shreveport, Louisiana. Pass Cavallo to Port O’Connor, with a view to establishing a harbor. Colorado River, with a view to obtaining a navigable channel from its mouth as far up as practicable. Texas City channel, with a view to obtaining a channel two hundred feet wide and twenty-six feet deep.
A channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca. vermont.Vermont. Lake Champlain, to improve navigation in connection with the breakwater at Burlington, the channel known as “The Gut” between Tromps Point, South Hero Island and Bow Arrow Point, and the harbor at Saint Albans. virginia.Virginia. Big Sandy River, with a view to improving its headwaters, including Pound River and Russell Fork. Potomac River below Washington, with a view to obtaining a width of channel of four hundred feet.
Aquia Creek from Coals Landing to Wharton Landing. Potomac River, at Alexandria, with a view to the. removal of a bar recently formed. Potomac River, with a view to obtaining a channel to wharf at Mount Vernon. Queens Creek, with a view to obtaining a channel from its mouth to Capital Landing Bridge. Onancock River, with a view to deepening and straightening channel for distance of live miles between Chesapeake Bay and Onancock. Horn Harbor, with a view to removing sand bar at its mouth.
Totuskey River, with a view to removing bar about midway of its length. Cat River, with a view to obtaining deeper channel. Pagan River, with a view to straightening and deepening channel. 1118 Washington.washington. Cowlitz River, up to Castle Rock. Puyallup River, with a view to straightening channel and securing suitable depth to city of Puyallup. Skagit River, to SedroWoolley. Blaine Harbor. Bellingham Harbor. Snohomish River, from the mouth to Lowell. For a ship canal connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Crays Harbor.
West Virginia.west virginia. Guyandot River. Deckers Creek, West Virginia, with a view to securing for a distance of two thousand feet up from its mouth a channel and harbor with the same depth of water as in the Monongahela River where said Deckers Creek empties into said river. Cheat River, for a distance of twenty-five miles up from its mouth. Wisconsin.wisconsin. Algoma (Ahnapee), with a view to the construction of an outer harbor and obtaining a channel sixteen feet in depth.
Kewaunee, with a view to obtaining depths of eighteen and twenty feet, respectively. Extent of preliminary examinations.In all cases, unless a survey or estimate is herein expressly directed, a preliminary examination shall first be made, which shall embrace information concerning the commercial importance, present and prospective, of the river or harbor mentioned and a report as to the advisability of its improvement. Whenever such preliminary examination has been made, in case such improvement is not deemed advisable,Surveys. no surveys thereof or estimates therefor shall be made without the direction of Congress; but in case the report shall be to the effect that such river or harbor is worthy of improvement, or that a survey and estimate should be made to determine the advisability of improvement, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, at his discretion, to cause surveys to be made and the cost of improvement of such river*Provisos*.Review by board of engineer officers.Vol. 32, p. 372. or harbor to be estimated and reported to Congress: *Provided*, That in all cases reports of preliminary examinations, as well as of surveys, ordered in any section of this Act, shall be examined and reviewed by the board provided for in section three of the river and harbor Act ofReport.
June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two; and the said board shall also, on request by resolution of the Committee, on Commerce of the Senate or the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the I louse of Representatives, examine and review the report of any examination or survey made pursuant to any Act or resolution of Congress, and report thereon through the Chief of Engineers. United States Army:Limit of report. *Provided further*, That in no case shall the board, in its report thus called for by committee resolution, extend the scope of the project contemplated in the original report upon which its examination and review has been requested, or in the provision of law authorizing the original examination or survey.
Completion of surveys, etc., ordered.All surveys and examinations provided for by this Act. and the reports thereon, shall either be completed on or before the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and eight, or else a preliminary*Proviso*.Printing. report be made in which the reasons for delay shall be stated: *Provided*, That all reports of preliminary examinations and surveys which may be prepared during the recess of Congress, and be ready for printing, shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be printed by the Public Printer as documents of the following session of Congress. 1119 Sec. 4.
That the compilation of laws of the United States relatingCompilation of rivers and harbors laws extended.Vol. 32, p. 375. to the improvement of rivers and harbors authorized by section thirteen of the river and harbor Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and joint resolution of Congress approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, shall be extended to include all such laws enacted up to the close of the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress; and three thousand copies of this compilation shall be printedDistribution. under the direction of the Secretary of War, of which six hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand four hundred copies for the use of the House, and one thousand copies for the use of the office of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army.
Sec. 5. That section four of the Act of Congress approved AprilDredges on Great Lakes, etc.Restriction repealed.Vol. 33, p.452. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act providing for the restoration or maintenance of channels or of river and harbor improvements, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Whenever it shall become, in the opinion of the Secretary of War,Dredging plants authorized. necessary or desirable to hire a dredging plant or plants for the performance of any of the public work carried on under his direction the said Secretary may, in his discretion, agree for the same, either in the manner now customary or on the basis of an equitable reimbursement for deterioration of plant when in use by the Government, and a reasonable percentage of the total cost of the work.
Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War may approve a change of plansHudson River, New York City.Changes of bridges authorized. or of location of any bridge over the North or Hudson River at New York City which has heretofore been approved by the Secretary of War under any Act of Congress, upon application to him by the parties authorized to erect such structure, their successors or assigns, providedRestriction. that such changed location shall not be over any anchorage ground and shall be within the original authorization for such structure, and shall not be deemed by the Secretary of War to be detrimental to navigation or to the public, interest after public hearings held thereon, and the structure whose changed plans or location is so approved shall be a lawful structure.
Sec. 7. That those members of the International Waterways CommissionInternational Waterways Commission.Rent of offices.Vol. 32, p. 373. created in accordance with section four of the river and harbor Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two. who represent the United States, shall have power to rent such room or rooms in Washington as may be necessary for the performance of the duties entrusted to them. Approved, March 2, 1907.