Chapter 3562. To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Lake Erie and Niagara River, to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom, and to construct and maintain filter beds for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure water
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CHAP. 3562.— An Act To authorize the city of Buffalo, New York, to construct a tunnel under Lake Erie and Niagara River, to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom, and to construct and maintain filter beds for the purpose of supplying the city of Buffalo with pure water. June 28, 1906. [[S. 6493](/us/bill/59/s/6493).] [[Public, No. 311](/us/pl/59/311).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Buffalo, N.
Y. May tunnel under Lake Erie, etc., for water supply. That it shall be lawful for the city of Buffalo, in the State of New York, to construct and maintain a tunnel under Lake Erie, Niagara River, Black Rock Harbor, and the United States lands known as Fort Porter, extending from a point one thousand feet, more or less, southeasterly of the Horseshoe Reef light eleven thousand feet to the present pumping station of the city of Buffalo, and to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom, said inlet pier to be located not more than one thousand one hundred feet southeasterly *Proviso*.
Top of tunnel, etc. of the present Horseshoe Reef light: *Provided*, That the top of the said tunnel shall be located at least forty feet below mean lake level, and that the city of Buffalo shall maintain a light from sunset to sunrise on the inlet pier at its own expense. Approved, June 28, 1906.