Chapter 235. Authorizing the connecting of a channel with Island End River, in Chelsea, Massachusetts
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CHAP. 235.— An Act Authorizing the connecting of a channel with Island End River, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. May 13, 1910.[[S. 7981](/us/bill/61/s/7981).][[Public, No. 177](/us/pl/61/177).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the New England Gas Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass. Dredging channel for Island End River across grounds of, authorized. and Coke Company is hereby authorized to dredge and remove all that part of the United States Naval Hospital grounds, at Chelsea, Massachusetts, comprising about seven thousand five hundred square feet, more or less, situated at the northwest extremity of said grounds, lying within the lines of the protected channel to be dredged and established by said company in continuation of the Island End River across the peninsula formed by the bend in said river at the head thereof: *Provided*, That the dredging of said channel be approved *Provisos*.
Approval of Secretary of War. and authorized by the Secretary of War; that the said channel opposite the hospital grounds fronting thereon shall be dredged to a depth of twenty feet below mean low water, and a width of not less than one hundred and fifty feet at that depth; and that the said water front Protection of water front. of the hospital grounds shall be stayed and protected in such manner as shall, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, be sufficient for its preservation: *And provided further*, That the United States No expense, etc. shall be at no expense on account of the work herein authorized; and that when said channel shall be dredged and finished it shall be, and forever remain, a public water highway.
Approved, May 13, 1910.