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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 36 STAT. · June 25, 1910 · Chapter 382

Chapter 382. 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. 382.— An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 20686](/us/bill/61/hr/20686).][[Public, No. 264](/us/pl/61/264).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Rivers and harbors appropriations. That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any 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:
Bar Harbor, Me. Breakwater. Breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine: Continuing construction, twenty-five thousand dollars. 631 Improving harbor at Camden, Maine: Completing improvement in Camden, Me. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and seventeen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at East Boothbay, Maine: Completing improvement East Boothbay, Me. in accordance with the reports submitted in House Documents Numbered Nine hundred and forty-four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and Six hundred and eighty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving harbor at Matinicus, Maine: Completing improvement Matinicus, Me. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-three, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirteen thousand dollars. Improving Pepperells Cove, Maine, in accordance with the report Pepperells Cove, Me. submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-one, Sixtieth Congress, second session, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Harbor at Rockport, Maine: Completing improvement Rockport, Me. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty-three, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Improving Stockton Harbor, Maine: Completing improvement in Stockton, Me. accordance with the report submitted in blouse Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-six, Sixtieth Congress, second session, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Improving Saco River, Maine, in accordance with the report submitted Saco River, Me. in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Saint Croix River, Maine, in accordance with the report Saint Croix River, Me. submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, *Proviso*.
Cooperation with Great Britain. authorized and directed to negotiate with the Government of Great Britain with a view to its cooperation in said improvement, and that the work shall be prosecuted on such terms as shall be mutually agreed upon by the two governments. Improving harbor at Isles of Shoals, Maine and New Hampshire: Isles of Shoals, Me. and N. H. Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-two, Sixtieth Congress, second session, forty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing improvement, Burlington, Vt. fifty-two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saint Albans, Vermont: Completing improvement Saint Albans, Vt. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and nine, Sixtieth Congress, second session, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For maintenance, Boston, Mass. Maintenance. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fall River, Massachusetts:
Completing Fall River, Mass. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in accordance with Gloucester, Mass. the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twelve, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts:
Continuing improvement Lynn, Mass. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and forty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, sixty thousand dollars. 632 Nantucket, Mass. Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbors at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Newburyport, Mass. Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts:
Continuing improvement in accordance with the existing project or such modification thereof, by dredging or otherwise, as, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, may be advisable with a view to securing the existing project depth of seventeen feet, fifty thousand dollars. Plymouth, Mass. Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Provincetown, Mass. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and twenty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Bandy Bay, Cape Ann, Mass. Harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Merrimac River, Mass. Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Mystic River, Mass. Improving Mystic River, Massachusetts, below mouth of Island End River: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-six, Sixtieth Congress, second session, seventy-two thousand dollars.
Taunton River, Mass. Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Weymouth Back River, Mass. Improving Weymouth Back River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Block Island, R. I. Harbor of refuge. Improving harbor of refuge at Block Island, Rhode Island: For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Great Salt Pond. Improving harbor at Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars.
Newport, R. I. Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ten, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty 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 the 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 eighty-three thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Point Judith, R. I. Harbor of refuge. Harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: For maintenance and construction of the west shore arm of the breakwater, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eleven, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Providence River and Harbor, R. I. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars.
Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and six, Sixty-first Congress, *Provisos*. Contracts. second session, twenty-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 four hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore Contribution by Providence. appropriated: *Provided further*, That no part of this amount shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall have received satisfactory 633 assurances that the city of Providence, or other local agency, will expend on the improvement of the harbor front, in accordance with said document above referred to, a sum equal to the amount herein appropriated and authorized.
Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut: Pawcatuck River, R. I. and Conn. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Branford, Connecticut: For maintenance, Branford, Conn. two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For maintenance, Bridgeport, Conn. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Completing improvement, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ninety thousand dollars.
Harbor of refuge at Duck Island, Connecticut: Continuing improvement Duck Island, Conn. Harbor of refuge. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbors at Fivemile River, Stamford, Southport, Saugatuck River and harbors to New York state line. Greenwich, and Westport, and Saugatuck River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Milford, Connecticut: For maintenance, Milford, Conn. two thousand dollars. Breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing construction, New Haven, Conn. Breakwater. one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For maintenance, Harbor maintenance. including channel by way of Oyster Point to Kimberly Avenue Bridge on West River, and for continuing improvement with a view to securing increased depth and the removal of rocks in Morris Cove, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fifty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, second session, sixty-eight thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut: Completing New London, Conn. improvement in Shaws Cove in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first sesssion, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: For maintenance, Norwalk, Conn. including channels to South Norwalk and East Norwalk, four thousand dollars. Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement Connecticut River, Conn., below Hartford. and for maintenance below Hartford, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Improving Eightmile River, Connecticut: Completing improvement Eightmile River, Conn. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-seven, Sixtieth Congress, first session, nine thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement Housatonic River, Conn. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Thames River, Connecticut: For maintenance, eleven Thames River, Conn. thousand five hundred dollars, of which amount so much as shall be necessary, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, may be expended in removing obstructions from Shetucket River, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session.
Improving Black Rock Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, Black Rock Harbor, N. Y. one million dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For the removal of Buffalo, N. Y. Removing obstructions, etc. obstructions at and near the north or main entrance, thirty-seven 634 thousand four hundred dollars; and for the removal of the Watson elevator site in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated January tenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered *Provisos*.
Transfer of title, etc. Two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, sixty-two thousand two hundred and five dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this latter sum shall be expended until title to the area to be excavated shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost, and until the city of Buffalo shall have relinquished to the United States control of the waterways between a line drawn across the channel at the back limit of the excavation and the present limiting line dividing the part of the present waterway maintained by the United States from that Alternative project. now maintained by the city: *And provided further*, That in lieu of the bulkhead indicated in said report as being necessary in consequence of the excavation to be made, the area to be excavated may be extended to include an additional area between the site of the Watson elevator and the first channel way beyond said property which connects the City Ship Canal with the Buffalo River, if in the discretion of the Secretary of War the removal of such additional area is required in the interests of navigation; this additional excavation to be made upon the same conditions as to transfer of title and jurisdiction as indicated above in regard to the area first mentioned.
Cape Vincent, N. Y. Improving harbor at Cape Vincent, New York: Continuing improvement, thirty-six thousand dollars. Charlotte, N. Y. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seventy-one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Dunkirk, N. Y. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and twenty, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ninety-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars: *Proviso*.
Dock, etc., by City. *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended until satisfactory assurances shall have been received by the Secretary of War that the local authorities will construct a suitable concrete dock or provide such other terminal facilities as may be approved by the Secretary of War. Echo Bay, N. Y. Improving harbor at Echo Bay, New York: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-two thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
Great Sodus Bay, N. Y. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: For maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Great South Bay, N. Y. Improving Great South Bay, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance by dredging and construction of jetties, fifty thousand dollars. Hempstead, N. Y. Improving Hempstead Harbor, New York, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered One, Sixty-first Congress, *Proviso*.
Restriction. second session, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended upon the channel above the town wharf until a suitable dumping ground for the material dredged shall have been furnished by the local interests free of cost. Jamaica Bay, N. Y. Improving Jamaica Bay, New York, and entrance thereto in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and eighty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, second session, *Proviso*.
Subject to adoption of plan by New York City. two hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended until the Secretary of War is satisfied that the city of New York is prepared to undertake its 635 part of the general plan for the improvement of Jamaica Bay, as outlined in the report cited above. Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: For maintenance, Little Sodus Bay, N. Y. thirty thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York:
For maintenance, including Ambrose Channel, N. Y. Ambrose Channel, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improvement Ogdensburg, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and twenty, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement Oswego, N. Y. in accordance with plan A and for maintenance, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Plattsburg, New York: Completing improvement Plattsburg, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement Port Chester, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-five, Sixtieth Congress, second session, forty-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbors at Port Jefferson, Mattituck, Huntington, and Harbors on Long Island, N. Y. Flushing Bay, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Restriction at Mattituck. That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the improvement of the harbor at Mattituck above the milldam until the local authorities shall have replaced the existing dam and bridge by a bridge with suitable draw spans.
Improving harbors at Rondout and Peekskill, New York: For Rondout and Peekskill, N. Y. maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: Continuing improvement Saugerties, N. Y. and for maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Tarrytown, New York: Continuing improvement Tarrytown, N. Y. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Bronx River and East Chester Creek, New York: For Bronx River and East Chester Creek, N.
Y. maintenance, and continuing improvement, including new work on East Chester Creek, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty, Sixtieth Congress, second session, forty-one thousand dollars. Improving Browns Creek, New York: For maintenance, three Browns Creek, N. Y. thousand dollars. Removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, New York: East River and Hell Gate, N. Y. Continuing improvement, including work at the Middle Ground and in the channel between North Brother and South Brother islands, in accordance with the reports submitted in House documents Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-seven and One thousand and eighty-four, Sixtieth Congress, second session, respectively, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the depth to be secured in the channel *Proviso*.
Channel, North Brother and South Brother islands. between North Brother and South Brother islands may be made twenty-six feet if, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, such depth is required in the interests of navigation. Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement, Harlem River, N. Y. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Hudson River, New York: For maintenance and continuing Hudson River, N. Y. Maintenance, etc. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and nineteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and with a view to completing said improvement within a period of four years, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the expenditure of the *Provisos*.
Distribution. amounts herein and hereafter appropriated for said improvement 636 shall be subject to the conditions set forth in said document: *Provided Modification of dam, etc. further*, That the general plan for the improvement presented in said document shall be subject to such modification as to the location of the dam and in matters of detail as may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. Newtown Creek, N. Y. Improving Newtown Creek, New York:
For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Niagara River, N. Y. Improving Niagara River, New York: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-five, Sixtieth Congress, first session, ten thousand dollars. Wappinger Creek, N. Y. Improving Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Westchester Creek, N. Y. Improving Westchester Creek, New York, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors dated April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars.
Arthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For maintenance of improvement of Arthur Kill and the waters connecting Raritan Bay with New York Harbor, including channel between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey, ten thousand dollars. Kill van Kull to Raritan Bay. Improving channel north of Shooters Island, between New York and New Jersey, being an extension of an existing project for the improvement of Arthur Kill or Staten Island Sound from Kill van Kull to Raritan Bay, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven, 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 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 eighty thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. Keyport Harbor, etc., N. J. Improving Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek, Raritan and South rivers, Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, and Cheesequake Creek, New Jersey:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighty thousand dollars. Raritan Bay, N. J. Improving Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Alloway Creek, N. J. Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, three thousand five hundred dollars. Cooper Creek, N. J. Improving Cooper Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eight thousand dollars. Mantua Creek, N. J. Improving Mantua Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Maurice River, N. J. Improving Maurice River, New Jersey, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-four, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Oldmans Creek, N. J. Improving Oldmans Creek, New Jersey, up to the town of Auburn, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One thousand and eighty-three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, *Proviso*. Right of way, etc. forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended until all land required for right of way for the necessary cut-offs shall have been deeded free of cost to the United States and the United States shall have been released from all claims for damages arising from the proposed diversion of the stream.
Raccoon Creek, N. J. Improving Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 637 Improving Salem River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement Salem River, N. J. and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance, ten Shrewsbury River, N. J. thousand dollars. Improving Double Creek, New Jersey: Completing improvement, in Double Creek, N. J. accordance with House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seven thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be *Provisos*.
Maintenance by Union. available for expenditure until the township of Union, Ocean County, New Jersey, shall have accepted the authority of the State of New Jersey to maintain the said improvement and made provision for maintenance, in such manner and form as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That all rights of way necessary Rights of way. for this improvement shall be furnished free of cost to the United States. Improving Toms River, New Jersey:
Completing improvement in Toms River, N. J. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-six, Sixtieth Congress, first session, ten thousand and fifty dollars. Improving Tuckerton Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement Tuckerton Creek, N. J. and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, three Woodbridge Creek, N. J. thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware:
Delaware River. Fishers Point to the Bay. Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Fishers Point to Delaware Bay, eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Channel below Philadelphia. That of this amount so much as may not be required for maintenance of improvement in accordance with the existing project shall be expended for widening the channel at the bends 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, and with a further view to securing an ultimate depth of thirty-five feet, in accordance with the project submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session.
Improving Delaware River, from Allegheny avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Trenton. to Trenton, New Jersey, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand 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 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 sixty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Delaware River, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Bar at mouth of Neversink River. For the removal of a ledge known as Sims Clip at or near the mouth of Neversink River, six thousand six hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall *Proviso*. Deposit of contribution by New York, etc. be expended until the States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, or other local interests, shall have deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Secretary of War the sum of fifty-four thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for work in the Delaware and Neversink rivers, all in accordance with the report and recommendations submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-four, Sixtieth Congress, second session.
Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement Erie, Pa. in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated February fourth, nineteen hundred and 638 ten, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Twenty-six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seventy thousand dollars. Marcushook, Pa. Ice harbor at Marcushook, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, six hundred dollars. Pittsburg, Pa. Improving harbor at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania:
For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Allegheny River, Pa. Maintenance. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance by open-channel work, five thousand dollars. Dam No. 3. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For the repair and reconstruction of Dam Numbered Three, including restoration of the bank at the abutment of said dam, forty-eight thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars. Monongahela River, Pa. Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: For completing reconstruction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, forty-three thousand dollars.
Youghiogheny River, Pa. Improving Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania, up to West Newton, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Delaware Bay. Harbor of Refuge, Del. Improving harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For maintenance, eight thousand dollars.
Pier at Lewes, Del. Constructing pier in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars. Wilmington, Del. Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: For restoration and maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Appoquinimink, etc., rivers, Del. Improving Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion rivers, Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Broad Creek River, Del. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware:
For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Broadkill River, Del. Improving Broadkill River, Delaware: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Saint Jones River, Del. Improving Saint Jones River, Delaware: For maintenance, and continuing improvement from the mouth to Dover, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-five *Proviso*. Title to cut-offs, etc. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said amount shall be expended until a satisfactory title to the land required for the necessary cut-offs shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost, and the United States shall have been released from all claims for damages arising from the proposed diversion of the stream.
Smyrna Rver. Del., Improving Smyrna River, Delaware: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and fifteen, Sixtieth Congress, *Proviso*. Title to cut-offs, etc. first session, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said amount shall be expended until satisfactory title to the land required for the necessary cut-offs shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost.
Leipsic River, Del. Improving Leipsic River, Delaware: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, *Proviso*. Title to cut-offs, etc. eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said amount shall be expended until a satisfactory title to the land required for the necessary cut-offs shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost and the United States shall have been released from all claims for damages arising from the proposed diversion of the stream. 639 Inland waterway from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Inland waterway, Chincoteague Bay, Va., to Delaware Bay.
Bay, Delaware: For restoration and repair of existing bridges built by the United States, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: For maintenance of Baltimore, Md. Maintenance. improvement of harbor of Southwest Baltimore, thirty-four thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement of channel of Curtis Bay, Baltimore Harbor, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Crisfield, Maryland: Completing improvement, Crisfield, Md. ten thousand and fifty-five dollars.
Improving harbors at Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cambridge, Chesapeake Bay, Md. Eastern shore harbors, etc. and Chester, Choptank, Warwick, and Manokin rivers, and Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighty thousand dollars. Improving Lower Thoroughfare, at or near Wenona, Deal Island, Lower Thoroughfare, Md. Maryland: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-six, Sixtieth Congress, first session, five thousand three hundred dollars.
Improving Elk River, Maryland: For maintenance, ten thousand Elk River, Md. dollars. Improving Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland: Completing Nanticoke River, Del. and Md. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and improving Northwest Fork of Nanticoke River (Marshyhope Creek), Maryland, in accordance with plan numbered one as recommended in report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first session, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Improving Susquehanna River above and below Havre de Grace, Susquehanna River. Havre de Grace, Md. Maryland: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Wicomico River, Maryland: For maintenance, and Wicomico River, Md. continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Right of way. That no part of said amount shall be expended until title to the land required for the necessary right of way and for the disposition of dredged material shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost.
Improving Anacostia River, District of Columbia: Continuing Anacostia River, D. C. improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improving Potomac River: Continuing improvement and for Potomac River. Washington, D. C. maintenance at Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Improving Potomac River at Alexandria, Virginia, in accordance Alexandria, Va. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty-three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, sixty thousand dollars.
Improving Potomac River at Lower Cedar Point, Maryland: Lower Cedar Point, Md. Completing improvement in accordance with the plan recommended in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eighteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Cape Charles City, Virginia: Continuing Cape Charles City, Va. improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milford Haven, Virginia: For maintenance, Milford Haven, Va. three thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: Continuing improvement Norfolk, Va. Maintenance, etc. and for maintenance, including channel at Hospital Point, forty-five thousand dollars, of which amount so much as may be necessary, not to exceed thirty thousand dollars, shall be expended in securing increased anchorage area at and near Lamberts Point, in accordance 640 with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session.
Channel to Newport News, etc. Improving Norfolk Harbor and the approaches thereto, and the channel to Newport News, with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty-five-feet of water from the navy-yard to the sea, and increased depth in the South Branch of the Elizabeth River above the navy-yard, and a thirty-five foot channel between Newport News and Old Point, in accordance with the reports and recommendations submitted in House Documents Numbered Five hundred and fifty and Five hundred and fifty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, six hundred thousand dollars.
Appomattox River, Va. Improving Appomattox River, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of channel and the diversion works at Petersburg, including work recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-two, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirty-three thousand dollars. Dymers Creek, Va. Improving Dymers Creek, Virginia: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, nine thousand dollars.
James River, Va. Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Nansemond River, Va. Improving Nansemond River, Virginia: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Nomini Creek, Va. Improving Nomini Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Onancock River, Va. Improving Onancock River, Virginia: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-two, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Pagan River, Va. Improving Pagan River, Virginia: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-seven, Sixtieth Congress, first session, four thousand six hundred dollars. Rappahannock River, Va. Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Upper Machodoc Creek, Va. Improving Upper Machodoc Creek, Virginia, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated December twentieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars.
Urbana Creek, Va. Improving Urbana Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eight thousand five hundred dollars. York, etc., rivers, Va. Improving York, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers, and Occoquan Creek, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Waterway coast of Virginia. Improving waterway on the coast of Virginia: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-seven, Sixtieth Congress, first session, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.
Waterway, Norfolk to Albemarle Sound, N. C. Improving waterway from Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, to Albemarle Sound, North Carolina: For maintenance of improvement of inland water route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, through Currituck Sound, five thousand dollars. To Beaufort Inlet, N. C. Purchase of Albemarle and Chesapeake, or Dismal Swamp, canals. Improving inland waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to enter into negotiations for the purchase, as a part of said inland waterway, of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, or the Dismal Swamp Canal, together with all property, rights of property, and franchises appertaining thereto; and he is further authorized, if in his judgment 641 the price is reasonable and satisfactory, to make a contract for the purchase of either of said canals and appurtenances, subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress: *Provided*, That no contract *Provisos*.
Restriction on contract. for the purchase of either of said canals shall be made unless such purchase, after full hearing of all parties in interest, is recommended in the survey report to be hereafter submitted in compliance with the directions of Congress in the river and harbor Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine: *Provided further*, That said report Total estimates required. shall include estimates of the total cost of the completion of each of said canals, including also the purchase price of each, with the advantages of each for commerce.
Improving waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to sounds of North Maintenance of waterways, Va. and N. C. Carolina: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: For maintenance, Beaufort, N. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance, seven Beaufort Inlet, N. C. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Shallowbag Bay, North Carolina: Completing improvement Shallowbag Bay, N. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and six, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Improving Bay River, North Carolina: Completing improvement Bay River, N. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-one thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina: Cape Fear River, N. C. Above Wilmington. Locks and dams. Continuing improvement, with a view to securing a navigable depth of eight feet up to Fayetteville, including surveys and acquisition of land for sites for locks and dams and completion of plans for the same, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and ninety, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War *Proviso*.
Contracts. 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 five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina: At and below Wilmington. 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, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if *Proviso*.
Dredging plant if bids for dredging unreasonable. in the judgment of the Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable and less than those at which the Government can perform the same work, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable hydraulic dredging plant for use on the Cape Fear River. Improving Contentnia Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, Contentnia Creek, N.
C. two thousand dollars. Improving Fishing Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, one Fishing Creek, N. C. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Neuse and Trent rivers, North Carolina: Continuing Neuse and Trent rivers, N. C. improvement and for maintenance, including work in accordance with plan for securing a depth of four feet in Trent River, from Newbern to Trenton, submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-one, Sixtieth Congress, second session, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Improving New River, and waterways to Beaufort, North Carolina: New River, and waterways to Beaufort, N. C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance of New River, 642 North Carolina, including inland waterways between Beaufort Harbor and New River and between New River and Swansboro, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars, of which sum six thousand seven hundred dollars may be expended upon New River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-five, Sixtieth Congress, second session.
Northeast, etc., rivers, N. C. Improving Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance of improvement of Northeast and Black rivers and of Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina, seven thousand dollars. Pamlico and Tar rivers, N. C. Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Roanoke River, N. C. Improving Roanoke River, North Carolina: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Scuppernong River, N.
C. Improving Scuppernong River, North Carolina: For maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars. South River, N. C. Improving South River, North Carolina: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, sixteen thousand dollars. Smiths Creek, N. C. Improving Smiths Creek, North Carolina: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-four, Sixty-first Congress, *Provisos*.
Bulkhead, etc. second session, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That local interests shall construct the bulkhead recommended in said report, and convey to the United States the right to deposit the excavated material behind the said bulkhead: *Provided further*, Public wharf. That said local interests shall provide at least one public wharf of adequate facilities the use of which shall be open to all on equal terms. Swift Creek, N. C. Improving Swift Creek, North Carolina:
Completing improvement in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one thousand six hundred dollars. Waterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N. C. Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Morehead City, N. C. Improving harbor at Morehead City, North Carolina: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, *Provisos*.
Bulkhead, etc. second session, nineteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That local interests shall construct a bulkhead five hundred feet in length in front of Morehead City and shall cause to be conveyed to the United Public wharf. States the right to deposit between said bulkhead and the shore the material excavated from the channel: *Provided further*, That said local interests, or the town of Morehead City, shall provide at least one wharf of adequate facilities the use of which shall be open to all on equal terms.
Beaufort, N. C. Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: Completing improvement by the construction of a channel from the inland waterway between Norfolk and Beaufort Inlet to the town of Beaufort, by way of Gallants Channel, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eleven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and *Proviso*. Turning basin. seventy-six dollars: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance may be used for constructing a turning basin in front of the town of Beaufort.
Waterway, Swan Quarter and Deep bays, N. C. Improving waterway connecting Swan Quarter Bay with Deep Bay, North Carolina: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-five, Sixtieth Congress, first session, fourteen thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. 643 Improving Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina: Waccamaw River, N. C. and S. C. For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the present project, fifty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: Continuing Charleston, S. C. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-nine, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement Winyah Bay, S. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-eight, Fifth-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For maintenance Great Pedee River, S. C. of improvement up to Cheraw, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Little Pedee River, South Carolina: Continuing improvement Little Pedee River, S. C. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Mingo Creek, South Carolina: For maintenance, one Mingo Creek, S. C. thousand dollars. Improving Santee, Wateree, and Congaree rivers, South Carolina: Santee, Wateree, and Congaree rivers, S.
C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the Estherville-Minim Creek Canal and the Congaree River as far up as the Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Distribution. That of this amount, so much as may be necessary, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars, shall be expended in improving Wateree River and not to exceed fifty-six thousand dollars for raising the dam at Granby, on the Congaree River, as recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eight, Sixty-first Congress, first session.
Improving waterways between Charleston and Alligator Creek, Waterways, Charleston and Alligator Creek, S. C. South Carolina: For continuing improvement of inland waterway between Charleston Harbor and McClellanville, including branch to Morrisons Landing, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For maintenance, fifty Brunswick, Ga. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Darien, Georgia: For maintenance, ten thousand Darien, Ga. dollars. Improving Sapelo Harbor, Georgia, in accordance with the report Sapelo Harbor, Ga. submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvement Savannah, Ga. as recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and with a view to completing said improvement within a period of four years, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, Georgia: Continuing Altamaha, etc., rivers, Ga. improvement and for maintenance, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That twenty-five thousand dollars of said amount may, *Proviso*.
Distribution. if necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended on the Ocmulgee River between the cities of Macon and Hawkinsville. Improving Club and Plantation creeks, Georgia: Completing improvement, Club and Plantation creeks, Ga. twenty thousand seven hundred dollars. Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement and for Flint River, Ga. maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River, Georgia: Continuing improvement Savannah River.
Above Augusta, Ga. and for maintenance above Augusta, three thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia, in accordance At Augusta. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and eighty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of *Proviso*. Contribution of City. this amount shall be expended until the city of Augusta or other local 644 agency shall have placed in some United States depository a like sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to the credit of the Secretary of War, to be expended by him, together with the amount herein appropriated, in connection with this work, all as recommended in the report cited above.
Below Augusta. Improving Savannah River, Georgia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Augusta, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty-two, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and with a view to completing said improvement within a period of four years, seventy thousand dollars. Chattahoochee River, Ga. Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvement below Columbus, Georgia, and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Coosa River, Ga. and Ala. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance between Rome, Georgia, and Lock Numbered Four, Alabama, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars, of which amount so much as shall be necessary may be expended for the care and preservation of the government plant and property at Wetumpka, Alabama. Mayos Bar, Ga. Lock and dam. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama, by the construction of a lock and dam at Mayos Bar, near Rome, Georgia, as recommended by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in its report dated November second, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fifteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, and with a view to completing said lock and dam within a period of two years, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Dams Nos. 4 and 5. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama, by the construction of lock in Dam Numbered Four, and the acquisition of site for Dam Numbered Five, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-one, Sixtieth Congress, second session, seventy-five thousand dollars. Waterway, Savannah to Fernandina, Fla. Improving waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, Florida: For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Apalachicola Bay, Fla. Improving Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including Link Channel and West Pass, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Biscayne Bay, Fla. Improving Biscayne Bay, Florida: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Carrabelle Bar and Harbor, Fla. Improving Carrabelle Bar and Harbor, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including East Pass, twenty-five thousand dollars. Channel, Clearwater Harbor to Tampa Bay, Fla.
Improving channel from Clearwater Harbor through Boca Ceiga Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and ninety, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Fernandina, Fla. Improving harbor at Fernandina, Florida: For maintenance, including the entrance channel through Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, forty-five thousand dollars. Hillsboro Bay, Fla. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida:
Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, three hundred thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla. Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventy-five thousand dollars. Saint Andrews Bay, Fla. Improving Saint Andrews Bay, Florida, in accordance with report submitted in blouse Document Numbered Twelve, Sixty-first Congress, first session, with a view to securing a channel depth of twenty-two *Proviso*. feet, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary 645 of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and Contracts. 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 one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Channel, Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Fla. Florida, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement and Sarasota Bay, Fla. for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Improving the narrows in Santa Rosa Sound, Florida: Completing Santa Rosa Sound, Fla. improvement, in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, nine thousand Tampa Bay, Fla. dollars. Improving Anclote River, Florida: Completing improvement, Anclote River, Fla. fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida: Continuing improvement Apalachicola River, Fla. and for maintenance, including the cut-off Lee Slough, lower Chipola River, and upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth, six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Blackwater River, Florida:
Continuing improvement Blackwater River, Fla. and for maintanance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Caloosahatchee River, Florida, in accordance with the Caloosahatchee River, Fla. report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Crystal River, Florida: For maintenance, two thousand Crystal River, Fla. dollars.
Improving Hillsboro River, Florida: Continuing improvement, Hillsboro River, Fla. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Holmes River, Florida: For maintenance of improvement Holmes River, Fla. from Vernon to the mouth, two thousand dollars. Improving Indian River, Florida: Continuing improvement between Indian River, Fla. Goat Creek and Jupiter Inlet and for maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. Improving Kissimmee River, Florida: For maintenance, five thousand Kissimmee River, Fla. dollars.
Improving Oklawaha River, Florida: Continuing improvement Oklawaha River, Fla. and for maintenance from the mouth to Leesburg, including Silver Springs Run, twenty thousand seven hundred and ten dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Levels in lakes. That so much of said sum, together with any funds heretofore appropriated and now remaining to the credit of said project as may be necessary for that purpose, may be used for the maintenance of levels in the lakes at the head of said stream, especially Lake Griffin.
Improving Orange River, Florida: For maintenance, one thousand Orange River, Fla. five hundred dollars. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida, from Jacksonville to the Saint Johns River, Fla. ocean, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eleven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dollars; continuing improvement Distribution. opposite the city of Jacksonville, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; and improving said river from Jacksonville to Palatka, continuing improvement, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars, and from Palatka to Lake Harney, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and 646 eleven, Sixtieth Congress, second session, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.
Withlacoochee River, Fla. Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: For maintenance from the anchorage in the Gulf of Mexico to Pembertons Ferry, six thousand dollars. Water hyacinth, Fla. Removing. Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters of the State of Florida, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, five thousand dollars. Choctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala. Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama:
For maintenance of improvement, including Cypress Top outlet, five thousand dollars. Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Fla. and Ala. Improving Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Mobile, Ala. Bar. Improving Mobile bar, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Harbor. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, with a view to securing a depth of twenty-seven feet, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and with a view to completing said improvement within a period of four years, four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, of which amount five thousand dollars may be used in the removal of sunken logs, dead-heads, *Proviso*.
Restriction. and other obstructions: *Provided*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War the work of straightening the channel suggested in the report shall not be undertaken until the present channel shall have been dredged to a depth of twenty-seven feet. Alabama River. Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement *Proviso*. Extension. and for maintenance, eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War the scope of this improvement may be extended to include the Alabama and Coosa rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One thousand and eighty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, second session.
Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama: Continuing improvement from Mobile to the Mulberry and Locust forks by the construction of locks and dams, five hundred *Proviso*. Contracts for locks and dams. 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 the 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.
From mouth to Walkers, Bridge, Miss. Distribution. Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance, from the mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, thirteen thousand dollars; from Demopolis, Alabama, to Columbus, Mississippi, eleven thousand dollars; from Columbus to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, ten thousand dollars. Biloxi, Miss. Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Gulfport, Miss. Improving harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi:
For maintenance of improvement of anchorage basin at Gulfport and channel therefrom to the anchorage or roadstead at Ship Island, and for the improvement and maintenance of channel at Ship Island Pass, one hundred *Proviso*. Depth of channel. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the balance of funds heretofore appropriated and now on hand for maintenance of existing project, together with so much of the amount herein appropriated as may be allotted by the Secretary of War for work on the Gulfport channel and anchorage basin, is hereby made available for securing in said channel and anchorage basin such additional depth as may be practicable, not to exceed twenty-three feet. 647 Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi:
For maintenance, four Horn Island Pass, Miss. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving East Pearl River, Mississippi, in accordance with the East Pearl River, Miss. report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement Pascagoula River, Miss. *Proviso*. Extending channel. and for maintenance, ninety-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount so much as may be necessary, not to exceed eight thousand dollars, shall be expended in extending the channel up Dog River as recommended in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session.
Improving Pascagoula, Chickasahay, and Leaf rivers, Mississippi: Pascagoula, etc., rivers, Miss. For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and Pearl River, Miss. for maintenance below Rockport, twenty-five thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement between Edinburg and Jackson, five thousand dollars. Improving Wolf and Jordan rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, Wolf and Jordan rivers, Miss. five thousand dollars.
Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement Yazoo River, Miss. Mouth. of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, four thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: Continuing Tributaries, etc. improvement and for maintenance, including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, and Coldwater rivers and Tchula Lake under the existing project, and Steele and Washington bayous and Lake Washington, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and Bear Creek, Mississippi, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirty-nine thousand dollars.
Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Mapon, D’Arbonne, and Corney, Bayou Bartholomew, etc., La. and Boeuf and Tensas rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, sixteen thousand dollars. Improving Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: For maintenance Calcasieu River and Pass, La. of improvement of mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, five thousand dollars. Improving Bogue Falia, Bayou Manchac, Amite, Chefuncte, and Bogue Falia, etc., La. Tickfaw rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: For maintenance, seven Bayou Lafourche, La. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For maintenance of Bayou Plaquemine, etc., La. improvement, including Grand River and Pigeon bayous, ten thousand dollars. Improving Lake Pontchartrain and Pass Manchac, Louisiana, in Lake Pontchartrain and Pass Manchac, La. accordance with the reports submitted in House Documents Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-one and Eight hundred and eighty-two, respectively, of the Sixtieth Congress, first session, nine thousand dollars.
Maintenance of South Pass Channel, Mississippi River: For maintenance, Mississippi River. South Pass Channel. forty thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: Continuing improvement Southwest Pass. and for maintenance, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: Continuing improvement and Bayou Teche, La. for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, in accordance with the Bayou Terrebonne, La. limited project submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall *Proviso*. 648 Title, etc. be expended until title to any land required for the purposes of this improvement shall have been deeded to the United States free of cost.
Bayou Vermilion, etc., La. Distribution. Improving Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvement of channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion and of Mermentau River and tributaries, including Bayou Plaquemine Brule, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first session, ten thousand dollars. Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La. Improving waterway from Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana:
For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Inland waterway, Mermentau River to Sabine River, La. and Tex Improving inland waterway from Mermentau River, Louisiana, to Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Three, Sixty-first Congress, *Proviso*. Modified plan adopted. second session, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this amount may be applied to any modified plan for this section of the waterway that may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and approved by the Secretary of War.
Water hyacinth, La. and Tex. Removing. Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana: 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, twenty thousand dollars. Atchafalaya River, La. Improving Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, from Morgan City to the Gulf of Mexico: Completing improvement and for maintenance in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, five Contract for maintenance of channel. hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contract with the Atchafalaya Bay Ship Channel Company for the construction and maintenance for three years of a channel twenty feet deep and two hundred feet wide, in accordance with the terms of proposals numbered one and two *Proviso*.
Inspection, etc. of said company, as printed in the report above mentioned: *Provided*, That for payment of expenses of inspection and superintendence of work under this contract the additional sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. Red River, La., Ark., Tex., and Okla. Distribution. Improving Red River, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Fulton, Arkansas, seventy-five thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance between Fulton, Arkansas, and Denison, Texas, fifty *Proviso*.
Kiamichi River. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this latter amount so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for removing snags and other obstructions in the lower twenty-five miles of the Kiamichi River, a tributary of Red River in the State of Oklahoma. Aransas Pass, Tex. Improving Aransas Pass, Texas: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, two hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Galveston Channel, Tex. Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement under the existing project, which contemplates the excavation of a channel thirty feet deep and one thousand two hundred feet wide from the inner bar to Fifty-first street and seven hundred feet wide from Fifty-first to Fifty-sixth street, two hundred and fifty thousand *Proviso*. Extension of channel. dollars: *Provided*, That at such time as in the discretion of the Secretary of War the same may be required in the interests of navigation and commerce the western terminus of said channel may be extended to Fifty-seventh street, with a width of one thousand feet between Fifty-first and Fifty-seventh streets, as recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and Twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session. 649 Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas:
For maintenance, by Galveston, Tex. dredging and repair of the jetties, three hundred and-fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, *Proviso*. Diversion. divert such portion of this appropriation as may not be required for this work to the work of improving Galveston Channel. Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: Channel to Texas City. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance and for dredging within the limits recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars.
Houston Ship Channel (formerly Galveston Ship Channel and Houston Ship Channel, Tex. Buffalo Bayou), Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War Contracts. may enter into contract for such material and work as may be necessary to complete the present project to an amount not exceeding two million two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: *Provided*, That the sum of one million two hundred *Provisos*.
Contribution by State navigation district. and fifty thousand dollars, being one-half of the amounts herein appropriated and authorized to be appropriated, shall be furnished for the work by the “Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District,” a local organization created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas; and no part of the appropriation herein made shall be available for expenditure, and no contract Condition of contract. shall be entered into under the foregoing authorization, until the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the said navigation district has made provision for furnishing the whole of said sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and has placed to his credit, Deposit of contribution. and subject to his order in a United States depository to be designated by him, three hundred thousand dollars thereof, and has satisfied him that the remainder of said sum will be deposited, in like manner, from time to time, as appropriations for the work may be made by Congress, and in amounts equal to those so appropriated: *Provided further*, That Completion of project. any contract entered into by the Secretary of War under the foregoing authorization shall specifically provide for the completion of the project, and that not more than one-half of the consideration agreed upon shall be furnished and paid by the United States.
Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: Completing Channel Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Tex. improvement, with a view to providing a depth of seven feet, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-two, Sixtieth Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars. Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: Completing improvement Port Bolivar, Tex. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ninety-one thousand and eighty dollars.
Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for Sabine Pass, Tex. maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War shall appoint a board of engineers to reconsider Sabine-Neches Canal, etc., Tex. Board of engineers to consider projects submitted. *Post*, p. 943. the project submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, for the improvement of the Sabine-Neches Canal from the Port Arthur Ship Canal to the mouth of the Sabine River, the Neches River up to the town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of Orange, to a navigable depth of twenty-five feet, including a guard lock, and report to Congress on or before December first, nineteen hundred and ten, upon the dimensions and cost of the minimum improvement of the locality which will adequately serve the interests of commerce and the amounts which the United States and the local interests respectively should contribute toward the cost of such adequate improvement, and toward its maintenance after completion.
In view Conference with local interests. 650 of the fact that more extensive cooperation on the part of the local interests in construction and for maintenance is now proposed than was considered in the report heretofore submitted, the board is especially directed to confer with the representatives of such local interests Report. and to submit with its report, for the consideration of Congress, any proposition or propositions for local cooperation that may be *Proviso*. Expenses. presented: *Provided*, That the expenses of the board herein authorized shall be paid from the appropriation for examinations, surveys and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
West Galveston Bay Channel, etc., Tex. Improving West Galveston Bay Channel, Turtle Bayou, Trinity River, Anahuac Channel, Oyster Creek, Cedar, Chocolate, and Bastrop bayous, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including mouths of adjacent streams, fifty thousand dollars. Brazos River, Tex. Velasco to Old Washington. Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, forty-five thousand dollars.
Old Washington to Waco. Improving Brazos River, Texas, from Old Washington to Waco: For the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, about seven miles below Waco, seventy-five thousand dollars. Trinity River, Tex. Distribution. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work, forty-nine thousand dollars; for the completion of locks and dams heretofore authorized, eighty-five thousand dollars; and for the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Seven, and a lock and dam at White Rock Shoals, fifty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
Texas coast inland waterway. Improving inland waterway on coast of Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of waterway heretofore authorized, fifty thousand dollars; and toward the construction of that section of the waterway between Brazos River and Matagorda Bay, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors dated December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars.
Aransas Pass to Corpus Cristi, Tex. Improving channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Cristi, Texas, with a view to securing a channel depth of twelve feet, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Cypress Bayou, Tex. and La. Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas and Louisiana: For maintenance, five thousand dollars.
Waterway, Jefferson Tex., to Shreveport, La. Improving waterway between Jefferson, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana, by the construction of a dam to be so constructed as to admit of a lock when deemed necessary at the foot of Caddo Lake, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred thousand dollars. Sulphur River, Tex. and Ark. Improving Sulphur River, Texas and Arkansas: For maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Ouachita River, Ark. and La. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For maintenance, and continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, Four, Six, and Eight, five hundred and twenty-one *Proviso*. Surveys and sites for locks and dams. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount so much as shall be necessary may be expended for surveys with a view to determining the location of Locks and Dams Numbered Three and Seven, and for acquiring title to sites for said Locks and Dams Numbered Three and Seven.
Removing snags, etc. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana, by removing snags, leaning trees and other obstructions, between Camden and 651 Arkadelphia in the State of Arkansas, ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas: For the construction and Arkansas River. Construction of dredge boats, etc. operation of two dredge boats and accessories, in accordance with the reports submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-one, Sixty-first Congress, first session, and House Document Numbered Five hundred and ten, Sixty-first Congress, second session, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the dredging *Proviso*.
Employment. plant herein provided for shall be employed at those points where most needed in the interests of commerce and navigation between the mouth of the river and Ozark. Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas: For maintenance of improvement, Pine Bluff, Ark. including works at Pine Bluff, fifty-one thousand dollars. Improving Black and Current rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For Black and Current rivers, Ark. maintenance, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cache River, Arkansas:
For maintenance, three thousand Cache River, Ark. dollars. Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: For maintenance of Saint Francis River, Ark. improvement of Saint Francis and L’Anguille rivers, nine thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That of this sum an amount not *Proviso*. Removing snags, etc. exceeding five hundred dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to work of removing snags and other obstructions from Blackfish Bayou, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-three, Sixty-first Congress, first session.
Improving Saline River, Arkansas: Completing improvement in Saline River, Ark. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and twelve, Sixtieth Congress, second session, five thousand four hundred dollars. Improving White River, Arkansas: For maintenance, seventeen White River, Ark. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For Cumberland River. Above Nashville, Tenn. maintenance, ten thousand dollars; and for completing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-one, eighty-five thousand dollars; in all, ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That, except for *Proviso*.
Landing place at Burnside. maintenance, no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the Secretary of War has received satisfactory assurance that local interests will provide a suitable landing place, convenient to the city of Burnside, which shall be open forever to the public on just and equal terms. Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee: For Maintenance. maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee, in Below Nashville. accordance with the reports submitted in House Documents Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and Fourteen hundred and eighty-one, Sixtieth Congress, second session, respectively, two hundred and thirteen 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 the 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 and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That the amount herein Surveys and sites for locks and dams. appropriated and authorized shall be applied to the necessary surveys and the acquisition of land required for sites of Locks and Dams B, C, D, E, and F, and toward the construction of Locks and Dams B and C.
Improving Obion and Forked Deer rivers, Tennessee: Continuing Obion and Forked Deer rivers, Tenn. improvement and for maintenance, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars. 652 Clinch and Hiwassee rivers, Va. and Tenn. *Proviso*. Amount in Virginia. Improving Clinch and Hiwassee rivers, Virginia and Tennessee: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed two thousand dollars may be expended on Clinch River, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-five, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session.
French Broad River, Tenn. Improving French Broad River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of French Broad and Little Pigeon rivers, twenty-three thousand dollars. Tennessee River. Above Chattanooga, Tenn. *Proviso*. Removing obstructions. Improving Tennessee River above Chattanooga, Tennessee: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this sum fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used in removing obstructions in that section of the river from the mouth of Richland Creek, to Knott, near Euchee.
Below Chattanooga. Distribution. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: Continuing improvement at Hales Bar, Tennessee, fifty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Riverton, Alabama, three hundred and ten thousand dollars, of which amount fifteen thousand dollars may, if required, be expended in that section of the river between Hobbs Island and Guntersville; continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree Shoals, one hundred thousand dollars; and continuing improvement and for maintenance below Riverton, Alabama, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Big Sandy River, Va. and Ky. Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For completing steel service bridge at Lock Numbered One, Big Sandy River, three thousand dollars; for the completion of Lock and Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, and Lock and Dam Numbered One, Levisa Fork, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Levisa Fork, Ky. Improving Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, Kentucky: Continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, fifty thousand dollars.
Tug Fork, W. Va. and Ky. Improving Tug Fork, Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: Continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, fifty thousand dollars. Kentucky River, Ky. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For completing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirteen, and beginning construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Fourteen, one hundred and six *Provisos*. 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 prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate sixty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein Bridge, Tates Creek, etc. and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated the sum of six thousand dollars may be expended for the construction of a bridge across Tates Creek and the restoration of the county road near Otter Creek, both of which items of work have been rendered necessary by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Nine and Ten, Kentucky River.
Guyandot River, W. Va. Improving Guyandot River, West Virginia: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, *Proviso*. Revetting banks. five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of this amount as may be necessary, not to exceed two thousand dollars, shall be expended for revetting the banks to confine the river to its present channel. 653 Improving Kanawha River, West Virginia:
For restoration of the Kanawha River, W. Va. piers forming the ice harbor at Point Pleasant at or near the mouth of said river, as recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, twenty-four thousand dollars. Improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia: For maintenance Little Kanawha River, W. Va. and improvement, including the removal of dam at Stouts Mill, five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For maintenance, and continuing Ashtabula, Ohio. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and fifteen 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 to prosecute the 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 seventy-six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: Continuing improvement, Cleveland, Ohio. Breakwaters, etc. repair of breakwaters, and for maintenance, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which amount seventy-five thousand dollars may be expended for dredging and repair of breakwaters and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the further sum of seventy-five thousand dollars of the amount now on hand to the credit of the improvement of said harbor, which is hereby made available, for the purpose of connecting the east breakwater extension with the completed work, and for the removal of the old breakwater arm.
Improving harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: For maintenance, and continuing Conneaut, Ohio. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing improvement Fairport, Ohio. and for maintenance, one hundred thousand 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 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 amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: For maintenance, three Huron, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Lorain, Ohio: For maintenance, and completing Lorain, Ohio. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the unexpended balances of previous appropriations are hereby made available for this work. Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio:
For maintenance, one Port Clinton, Ohio. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: For maintenance, five thousand Sandusky, Ohio. dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For maintenance, and continuing Toledo, Ohio. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-five, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vermilion, Ohio: For maintenance, one thousand Vermilion, Ohio. dollars. 654 Ohio River.
Securing depth of nine feet. Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement with a view to securing a navigable depth of nine feet in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-two, Sixtieth Congress, first session, or such modification thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War may be advisable, and with a view to the completion of such improvement within a period of twelve years, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Application to specified locks and dams. which amount shall be applied to the purchase of sites for eighteen Locks and Dams Numbered Nine, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty-two, Twenty-three, Twenty-four, Twenty-five, Twenty-seven, Twenty-eight, Twenty-nine, Forty-one, and Forty-eight, and toward the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Nineteen, *Provisos*.
Additional sites, etc. Twenty, Twenty-nine, Forty-one, and Forty-eight: *Provided*, That so much of the sum herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be applied toward the definite location and purchase of sites for additional Contracts. locks and dams on said river: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three million five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Maintenance, etc. Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, *Proviso*. Working plant. five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of this amount as shall be necessary, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in the acquisition of working plant. Completion of specified locks and dams. Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement by the completion of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, Three, Four, Five, Eight, and Eleven, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Alpena, Mich. Improving harbor at Alpena, Michigan: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Frankfort, Mich. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Grand Haven, Mich. Improving harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Grand Marais, Mich. Harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars. Harbor Beach, Mich. Harbor of refuge at Harbor Beach, Michigan:
For repairs to piers and maintenance of improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Holland, Mich. Improving harbor at Holland, Michigan: For maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Ludington, Mich. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Mackinac Harbor, Mich. Improving Mackinac Harbor, Michigan, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-six, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Manistee, Mich. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: For maintenance and continuing improvement in accordance with the smaller project submitted in House Document numbered Seven hundred and five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, thirty-three thousand dollars. Manistique, Mich. Improving harbor at Manistique, Michigan: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Marquette Bay, Mich. Harbor of refuge at Marquette Bay, Michigan: For maintenance, two thousand dollars.
Marquette, Mich. Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. 655 Improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan: For maintenance, one Monroe, Mich. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: Continuing improvement Muskegon, Mich. and for maintenance, seventy thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: For maintenance, and Ontonagon, Mich. continuing improvement in accordance with the smaller project submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand four hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Petoskey, Michigan: Continuing improvement Petoskey, Mich. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Manistee County, Michigan: Portage Lake, Mich.
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rogers City, Michigan: Completing improvement Rogers City, Mich. by opening a channel sixteen feet deep and two hundred feet wide through the bar or reef that crosses the harbor in front of the wharves, in accordance with report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated February ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, six thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Saugatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Michigan: Saugatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Mich. For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in blouse Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: Continuing improvement South Haven, Mich. Restriction. and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars; but no portion of this or other appropriations for this locality shall be used (except for the maintenance of existing channels and works) 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 been deeded to the United States free of cost, pursuant to the plan of improvement heretofore adopted.
White Lake and Pentwater harbors, Michigan: The Secretary of White Lake and Pentwater, Mich. War is hereby authorized and directed to expend the balances of appropriations, and allotments heretofore made for these harbors in maintaining the improvements in accordance with the present projects. Improving Black River at Port Huron, Michigan: For maintenance, Black River, Mich. five thousand dollars. Improving Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, five thousand Clinton River, Mich. dollars.
Improving Detroit River, Michigan: Continuing improvement, in Detroit River, Mich. accordance with plan A, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such portion of the proposed improvement forming *Proviso*. Livingstone Channel, entrance. the north entrance to Livingstone channel shall be dredged to the same depth as that authorized for said Livingstone channel. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: Completing improvement of Livingstone Channel. Livingstone channel, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Improving Rouge River, Michigan: For maintenance, twenty Rouge River, Mich. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended *Proviso*. Restriction. at those points within the limits of the project where shoaling is due to caving banks until the banks shall have been protected by suitable docks or revetments constructed at the expense of the riparian interests. 656 Saginaw River, Mich. Improving Saginaw River, Michigan, up to the mouth of the Tittabawassee River, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty, Sixty-first Congress, *Proviso*.
Contracts. second session, 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 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 six hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Keweenaw Point, Mich. Waterway across Keweenaw Point, Michigan: For the construction of a harbor of refuge at the eastern entrance in accordance with the plans submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-five, Sixtieth Congress, first session, or such modification thereof as may be authorized by the Secretary of War, and subject to the conditions named in said document, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Menominee Harbor and River, Mich, and Wis. Improving Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Ashland, Wis. Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Depere, Wis. Improving harbor at Depere, Wisconsin: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twenty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Green Bay, Wis. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Kenosha, Wis. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Kewaunee, Wis. Improving harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, *Proviso*. Restriction. Sixtieth Congress, first session, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended on work connected with the new project herein authorized until the conditions specified in said report have been complied with.
Milwaukee, Wis. Use of balances for inner harbor. Vol. 33, p. 1138. Improving inner harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The balances remaining of amounts heretofore appropriated and authorized for the improvement of the inner harbor at Milwaukee are hereby made available for the execution of the modified project for the improvement of said harbor recommended by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and printed in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session: *Proviso*.
Compliance with conditions. *Provided*, That the diversion herein authorized shall not be made until the Secretary of War is satisfied that the conditions recommended as precedent thereto have been complied with by the city of Milwaukee. Manitowoc, Wis. Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: For maintenance, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Oconto, Wis. Improving harbor at Oconto, Wisconsin: Completing improvement in accordance with plan “C” submitted in the report printed in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions relative to cooperation on the part of local interests as set forth in said document, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Port Washington, Wis. Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin; Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, thirty thousand dollars. Port Wing, Wis. Improving harbor at Port Wing, Wisconsin: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. 657 Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: For maintenance, and Racine, Wis. continuing improvement in accordance with the partial project submitted in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: For maintenance, Sheboygan, Wis. thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance, Two Rivers, Wis. five thousand dollars. Improving Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, from Fox River, Wis. Depere up to Portage, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which amount three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for removing bars and snags and otherwise improving Wolf River.
Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: Duluth, Minn. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving Saint Croix River, Wisconsin and Minnesota: For Saint Croix River, Wis. and Minn. maintenance, four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Agate Bay, Minnesota: For maintenance, Agate Bay, Minn. two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: For maintenance, Grand Marais, Minn. two thousand dollars.
Improving Warroad Harbor, Minnesota: Completing improvement Warrroad Harbor, Minn. and for maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Improving Minnesota River, Minnesota: For maintenance, two Minnesota River, Minn. thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota: Red River of the North, Minn, and N.
Dak. for maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Indiana Harbor, Indiana: For improvement and maintenance in Indiana Harbor, Ind. accordance with the project recommended in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and thirteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, sixty-two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation *Proviso*. Conditions. shall be expended until the Secretary of war shall be satisfied that the conditions specified in said document have been fully complied with.
Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improvement Michigan City, Ind. and for maintenance, including repair and maintenance of the east breakwater, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: Continuing Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. improvement and for maintenance, ninety-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the project for the improvement of the river, submitted *Proviso*. Modification of plan. in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-two, Fifty-eight Congress, second session, is hereby modified so as to permit the use of turning basins above number one of such shape and dimensions as will enable a vessel six hundred and fifty feet in length to turn with ease, and is further modified so as to provide a navigable depth of twenty feet from One hundred and twenty-second street to the forks of the river and a turning basin at the forks having a similar depth and a water-surface diameter of seven hundred and fifty feet, in accordance with the project set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and the amounts heretofore appropriated shall be available for such modified project.
Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For maintenance, thirty Calumet, Ill. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement Chicago, Ill. and for maintenance, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. 658 Waukegan, Ill. Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Chicago River, Ill. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Illinois and Mississippi Canal.
Lock in Rock River. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For the construction of a lock in the dam in Rock River at the head of the feeder to said canal in accordance with the plan submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-six, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, or such modification thereof as may be approved by the Secretary of War, seventy-five thousand dollars. Illinois River, Ill. Maintenance. Improving Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars.
Copperas Creek to La Salle. Dredging Lake Depue. Improving Illinois River, Illinois, from Copperas Creek to La Salle: Of the balance remaining from the appropriation heretofore made for this improvement, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for dredging in Lake Depue and entrance thereto. Mississippi River Commission. Improving Mississippi River, from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous Mississippi River.
From Head of Passes to the Ohio. Securing 9-foot channel. expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: Continuing improvement, with a view to securing a permanent channel depth of nine feet and to the completion of said improvement within a period of twenty years, two million dollars, which sum 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 Levees. improvement of the river, for the building of levees between the Head Surveys. of Passes and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and for surveys, including the survey from, the Head of Passes to the headwaters of the river, in such manner as in their opinion shall best improve navigation and promote *Provisos*.
Pay of member from Coast Survey. the interests of commerce at all stages of the river: *Provided*, That from and after the date of the approval of this Act the member of said commission appointed from the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall receive the same annual compensation as other civilian members of said commission, and the excess of said compensation over and above the compensation he receives from the Coast and Geodetic Survey Dredging appliances. shall be paid from the funds of said commission: *Provided further*, That of the money hereby appropriated so much 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 Connecting water courses. operation of the same: *Provided further*, 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 commission, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments for improvements now underway or hereafter to be undertaken to be paid for from the amounts herein Diversion of Red and Atchafalaya rivers. appropriated: *And provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated so much thereof as may be necessary shall be used in making an examination and report upon the necessity, urgency, and practicability of permanently separating the waters of the Red and Atchafalaya rivers from those of the Mississippi River, together with Estimate of revetment work. an estimate of the cost of such work.
The said commission shall prepare a statement as to the localities and quantities of revetment required for the complete treatment of the said river below Cairo and Amount spent for levees, etc. an estimate of the cost thereof, and report the same to Congress. The said commission shall also prepare and report to Congress a statement of the amounts expended by the United States Government in the construction of levees as well as a statement of the amounts expended Land to be protected, etc. by States, levee districts, and communities interested.
The said commission shall also report to Congress a statement of the quantity 659 of land which will be reclaimed or protected by revetment or other work done by the United States exclusively. The Chief of Engineers, under the direction of the Secretary of War, Experimental tow-boats authorized. is hereby, authorized to design and construct two experimental tow-boats of modern but different types, with a complement of suitable barges and necessary loading and unloading facilities for towing and delivering supplies along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and in making designs for such boats the said Chief of Engineers shall investigate and consider types of boats in use for similar purposes on nontidal rivers in this and other countries, and for the purposes of such investigation, designs, and construction there is hereby appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to From the Ohio to the Missouri. and including the mouth of the Missouri River: Continuing improvement in accordance with the plan adopted in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, which has for its object to eventually obtain by regularization Depth to be obtained. works and by dredging a minimum depth of eight feet from the mouth of the Ohio River to Saint Louis, and of six feet from Saint Louis to the mouth of the Missouri River, and with a view to the completion of said improvement within a period of twelve years, five hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River From the Missouri to Minneapolis. to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement 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 Depth. six feet and with a view of completing said improvement within a period of twelve years, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Maintenance of levees. That of this amount so much as may be necessary, not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for the repair and maintenance of existing levees constructed by the United States and for dredging for the benefit of through navigation in harbors and at landing places, giving preference to localities in which the communities interested shall hereafter maintain such dredging without cost to the United States.
Improving Mississippi River, from Saint Paul to Minneapolis: Saint Paul to Minneapolis. Modified project. The modified project recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his report dated March third, nineteen hundred and ten, printed in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, is hereby adopted, and all future work on said improvement shall be prosecuted in accordance therewith: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Water-power leases. That in the making of leases for water power a reasonable compensation shall be secured to the United States, and the rates as fixed shall be subject to revision by Congress.
Improving Mississippi River in Minnesota: Improving reservoirs Reservoirs at headwaters. at the headwaters of the Mississippi River: Completing improvement by constructing a canal between Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Canal. Lake, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, sixty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Mississippi River in Minnesota, between Brainerd and Brainerd to Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in blouse Document Numbered Six hundred and seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars. For the construction of a waterway from Lockport, Illinois, by Waterway from Lockport, Ill., to Mississippi River. Board to be appointed. way of the Desplaines and Illinois rivers to the mouth of said Illinois River, one million dollars. The Secretary of War shall appoint a board of five members, to be composed of four engineer officers of the army and one civil engineer taken from civil life.
The president President. Vol. 34, p. 1104. of the board of five members authorized under Act of March second, 660 nineteen hundred and seven, to examine the Mississippi River below Saint Louis and report to Congress on the project or a fourteen-foot channel, shall be a member of and president of the board herein provided Nature of report. for. Said board shall report upon the feasibility of such waterway, and the most advisable depth and dimensions therefor, in case Levels of Great Lakes. the same is recommended; also upon such measures as may be required to properly preserve the levels of the Great Lakes and to compensate, so far as practicable, for the diminished level in said lakes and the connecting waters thereof by reason of any diversion of water from Lake Michigan for the maintenance of the proposed waterway herein described, or diversion for any other purpose; and further, also, upon the influence on volume and height of waters in the Mississippi River below Cairo; and further, also, as to the effect upon the climate of the Lake States by a change in the natural currents Extent of cooperation of Illinois. of Lake Michigan.
The board shall, after full conference with the authorized agency of the State of Illinois, submit a report upon the extent to which the United States may properly cooperate with the State of Illinois in securing the construction of a navigable waterway from Lockport to the mouth of the Illinois River in conjunction with the development of water power by said State between Lockport and Utica, for which the people of the State of Illinois have authorized Recommendations. their general assembly to appropriate twenty million dollars; the report shall state the extent and character of the cooperation recommended and the conditions considered necessary in connection therewith Plans and estimates to be submitted. to fully protect the interests of the United States.
Should the board consider cooperation to be advisable, the report herein called for shall include plans and estimates of cost of the work recommended to be done by the United States alone or in cooperation with the State of Illinois; and until these plans and estimates have been submitted and a project for the improvement adopted by Congress the appropriation of one million dollars herein made shall not be available for Report on dams at Jefferson Barracks and Commerce. expenditure.
The board also shall consider and report upon the improvement of the Mississippi between the mouth of the Illinois River and the mouth of the Ohio River by the construction of a dam at or near Jefferson Barracks and a dam at or near Commerce, and the development of water power incidentally created by such dams. Authority of board. In the performance of its duties the board may consider all reports heretofore made; and the force, plant, and records of the Mississippi River Commission and the several engineer districts between Chicago Compensation. and Cairo shall be available for the use of the board.
The members of the board herein authorized shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, but the official salary of any officer appointed on said board from the Engineer Corps of the Army shall be deducted from the compensation provided for in this Act. Appropriation for expenses. For salaries and expenses of said board, including all necessary clerical and other personal services, there is hereby appropriated the sum of Submission of reports. fifty thousand dollars.
The reports herein called for shall be submitted to the Chief of Engineers not later than November first, nineteen hundred and ten, reviewed by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, and submitted to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and ten. Missouri River. Kansas City to mouth. *Provisos*. Engineer board to report plans for 6-foot channel. Local cooperation. Improving Missouri River with a view to securing a permanent six-foot channel between Kansas City and the mouth of the river, one million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall appoint a board of three officers to further consider and report upon the most economical and desirable plan of securing such channel, in which report consideration shall be given to the subject of cooperation on the Submission of reports. part of local interests in the work of said improvement: *Provided further*, That the report hereby authorized shall be submitted to Congress on or before the opening of its next regular session. 661 Improving Missouri River:
For improvement and maintenance Kansas City to Fort Benton. from Kansas City to Fort Benton, three hundred thousand dollars, of which amount one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended between Le Beau and Fort Benton. Improving Missouri River at Saint Joseph, Missouri, in accordance At Saint Joseph, Mo. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and twenty-four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall *Proviso*.
Contribution by City. be expended until the city of Saint Joseph, or other agency, shall have deposited to the credit of the Secretary of War in some duly recognized United States depository to be designated by him the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by said Secretary of War, together with the amount herein appropriated, in the execution of the plan of improvement recommended in the report herein referred to. Improving Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, in accordance At Atchison, Kans. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended until the *Proviso*.
Contribution by City. city of Atchison, or other agency, shall have deposited to the credit of the Secretary of War, in some duly recognized United States depository to be designated by him, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, to be expended by said Secretary of War, together with the amount herein appropriated, in the execution of the plan of improvement recommended in the report herein referred to. Improving Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvement Gasconade River, Mo. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars.
Improving Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement and for Osage River, Mo. maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much *Proviso*. Lock and dam. of this amount as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to work of completing the lock and dam on said river. Improving harbor at Humboldt Bay, California: Continuing Humboldt Bay, Cal. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For maintenance, and Oakland, Cal. continuing improvement under the existing project, or, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the new plan of improvement printed in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if in the judgment of the *Provisos*. Dredging plant. Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant: *Provided further*, Transfer of bridges to city.
That the three bridges heretofore built by the United States in connection with this improvement may be turned over to the local authorities to be maintained and operated by them upon such terms as to transfer and control as in the discretion of the Secretary of War may be equitable and just to the United States and to said local authorities: *Provided further*, That of the appropriation herein made Repairs, etc., to bridges. so much as shall be necessary may be expended for such alterations and repairs to said bridges as in the discretion of the Secretary of War may be essential to meet the terms of said transfer.
Improving harbor at San Diego, California: Completing improvement San Diego, Cal. in accordance with the lesser project submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty-one, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 662 San Francisco, Cal. Removal of additional rocks. Vol. 30, p. 1132. Improving harbor at San Francisco, California: The continuing contract authorization provided for in the river and harbor Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby revived and extended to include the removal of three additional rocks in the harbor and entrance thereto, namely, Centissima and the two rocks near the Mail Dock (now reported as being also known as Rincon Reef rocks), in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session.
Los Angeles Harbor, Cal. Improving Los Angeles Harbor, California (heretofore called and appropriated for under the names of Wilmington Harbor, California, and San Pedro Harbor, California), three hundred and seventy-eight At San Pedro. thousand dollars, as follows: For completing improvement of harbor at San Pedro, California, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first session, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars;
At Wilmington. and for continuing improvement of harbor at Wilmington, California, with a view to securing a channel depth of thirty feet within the limits of the present project, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, two hundred thousand dollars. Dredging harbor. Improving Los Angeles Harbor (formerly Wilmington Harbor), California, in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second *Provios*.
Dredging plant. session, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if in the judgment of the Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant. Mokelumne River, Cal. Improving Mokelumne River, California: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Petaluma Creek and Napa River, Cal.
Improving Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Redwood Creek, Cal. Improving Redwood Creek, California: Completing improvement by providing a channel depth of five feet, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twelve thousand dollars. Sacramento and Feather rivers, Cal. Improving Sacramento and Feather rivers, California: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars.
Controlling débris and floods. Improving Sacramento and Feather rivers, California: Continuing improvement and toward the controlling of débris and floods, in accordance with the recommendations of the California Debris Commission in its report dated June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven (printed in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for nineteen hundred and seven, pages twenty-two hundred and sixty-two to twenty-two hundred and sixty-nine, *Provisos*.
Contribution by State. inclusive), four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended unless the State of California shall appropriate for the prosecution of said project a like sum of four hundred thousand dollars and deposit the same in the Treasury of the Authority to receive from State. United States: *Provided further*, That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to receive from the State of California any and all sums of money that have been or may hereafter be appropriated by said State for the purpose herein set forth; and when so received the said sums are hereby appropriated for said purpose to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Rights of way. supervision of the Chief of Engineers: *And provided further*, That the work herein provided for shall not be begun until all rights of way needed for levees and spoil banks have been furnished the United States free of cost. 663 The Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to sell the Yuba River basin, Cal.
Sale of lands, etc. lands and other property acquired for the construction of the Yuba River settling basin, California, and to modify the project of the California Debris Commission for improving Sacramento and Feather rivers accordingly; the proceeds of the sale to be applied to such modified project. Improving San Joaquin River, California: For maintenance, San Joaquin River, Cal. including Stockton and Mormon channels, thirty-five thousand dollars, and for continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-four, Sixtieth Congress, second session, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the latter sum shall be expended until title *Proviso*.
Title to cut-offs. to the land required for the necessary cut-offs shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost. Improving Suisun Channel, California, in accordance with the Suisun Channel, Cal. report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and ten, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended, *Proviso*. Donation of cutoffs. nor shall further appropriations be made, until the land required for the cut-offs contemplated in the plan of improvement presented shall have been donated for the purpose of said improvement free of cost to the United States.
Improving harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: For the construction of a Coos Bay, Oreg. Dredge for bar, etc. seagoing hydraulic dredge for work on the bar at the entrance, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for improving the channels within the bay with a view to securing a depth of eighteen feet up to the town of Marshfield, fifty thousand dollars; in all, four hundred thousand dollars, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session.
Improving Tillamook Bay and bar, Oregon: For maintenance, Tillamook Bay, Oreg. five thousand dollars. Improving Clatskanie River, Oregon: Completing improvement Clatskanie River, Oreg. and for maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, five thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Coos River, Oregon: For maintenance, three thousand Coos River, Oreg. dollars. Improving Coquille River, Oregon:
Completing improvement and Coquille River, Oreg. for maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty-six thousand dollars. Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon, at the mouth, in accordance Siuslaw River, Oreg, Improvement at mouth. *Post*, p. 950. with the project set forth in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War *Provisos*.
Contracts. may enter into a contract or contracts for such material and work as may be necessary to complete said project and to maintain the same for one year during construction, 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-five thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: *Provided, further*, That before Contribution by Siuslaw. beginning said work or making said contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall be satisfied by deposit or otherwise that the port of Siuslaw or other agency shall provide for the accomplishment of said project the additional sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, which said sum shall be expended by the Secretary of War in the prosecution of said work and for its maintenance in the same manner and in equal amount as the sum herein appropriated and authorized to be appropriated from the Treasury of the United 664 Reduction of amount.
States: *And provided further*, That the amount to be furnished by the port of Siuslaw or other agency may be reduced by such amounts as said port may have expended in such construction of the south jetty as can be utilized by the engineer officer in charge of the work in the execution of the plans adopted. Willamette River, Oreg. Approach to canal and locks around falls. Improving Willamette River, Oregon: For the purchase of the existing canal and locks around Willamette Falls at Oregon City, Oregon, or for the purchase of the necessary lands and the construction of a new canal and locks, in the discretion of the Secretary of War in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and two, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, *Provisos*.
Contribution by State, etc. three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended, except for the acquisition of the necessary lands and rights of way and for such antecedent surveys and preliminary work as may be necessary in this connection, until the State of Oregon shall appropriate for the aforesaid purpose a like amount; and the purchase of the existing canal and locks, or the actual construction of a new canal and locks, shall not be undertaken until the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the State of Oregon will deposit the said amount in the Treasury of the United States in Authority to receive from State. such sums and at such times as he may require: *Provided further*, That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to receive from the State of Oregon any and all sums of money that have been been or may hereafter be appropriated by said State for the purpose herein set forth; and when so received the said sums are hereby appropriated for said purpose to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers.
Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oreg. Improving Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Willamette River above Portland, and Yamhill River, sixty thousand dollars. Columbia and Willamette rivers. Below Portland. Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette rivers below Portland, Oregon: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, of which amount so much as shall be necessary may be expended in dredging the west channel at Swan Island for the use of log tows and shoal-water boats.
Columbia River, Oreg. and Wash., at the mouth. Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including repairs and operation of dredge, one million two hundred thousand dollars. Gauging. For gauging waters of Columbia River and measuring tidal and river volumes, one thousand dollars. Mouth to Vancouver. Improving Columbia River, Washington: For maintenance of improvement between the mouth of Willamette River and the city of Vancouver, Washington, ten thousand dollars.
Cascades. Improving Columbia River at Cascades, Oregon: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. The Dalles Rapids to Celilo Falls. Improving Columbia River, between the foot of The Dalles Rapids and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement with a view to completing said improvement within a period of six years, six hundred thousand dollars. Celilo Falls to mouth of Snake River. Improving Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to the mouth of Snake River, Oregon and Washington:
Continuing improvement, ninety thousand dollars. Snake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. Improving Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho: Continuing improvement and for maintenance up to Pittsburg Landing, Oregon, in accordance with the present project and the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and eleven, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bellingham, Wash. Improving harbor at Bellingham, Washington: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Docu-665ment Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-one, Sixtieth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions relative to cooperation on the part of local interests as set forth in said document, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Grays Harbor and Bar Entrance, Washington: Continuing Grays Harbor, Wash. improvement by means of extension of north jetty in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors dated March first, nineteen hundred and ten, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Twenty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington: For Inner portion and Chehalis River, Wash. maintenance of improvement of inner portion of Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, and continuing improvement of Chehalis River up to Montesano, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-five, Sixtieth Congress, second session, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Hammersley Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington: Completing Hammersley Inlet, Wash. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and thirteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, nine thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Olympia, Washington: Continuing improvement Olympia, Wash. in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors dated March ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions relative to cooperation on the part of local interests as set forth in said document, fifteen thousand dollars.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to terminate Taoma Harbor, Wash. Puyallup waterway contract terminated, etc. Vol. 33, p. 1144. the existing contract for work on the Puyallup waterway in Tacoma Harbor, Washington, and to suspend further work on the project for the improvement thereof, as recommended in the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors published in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and eighteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, until local interests shall divert the Puyallup River so it no longer empties into said waterway, or otherwise prevent excessive deposits therein from said river.
Improving Columbia River between Wenatchee and Bridgeport, Columbia River, Wash. Wenatchee to Bridgeport. Washington: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Columbia River between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls, Bridgeport to Kettle Falls. Washington: Completing improvement in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors dated March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Sixteen, Sixtieth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the State of *Proviso*.
Use of State plant. Washington shall furnish for the execution of the work the plant owned and employed by it on this section of the river. Improving Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, Washington: Continuing Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, Wash. improvement and for maintenance, including North Fork of Lewis River, and continuing improvement of Cowlitz River up to Toledo in accordance with reports submitted in House Documents Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-seven, Sixtieth Congress, second session, and Four hundred and tour, Sixty-first Congress, second session, respectively, thirty-four thousand one hundred dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars of which may be expended upon the Lewis River and the North Fork thereof.
Improving Grays River, Washington: For maintenance, five hundred Grays River, Wash. dollars. Improving Puget Sound, Washington: Continuing improvement Puget Sound, Wash. and for maintenance of Puget Sound and its tributary waters, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of said sum as *Proviso*. 666 Hatt Slough. may be necessary shall be expended in the completion of the sill across Hatt Slough. Puget Sound-Lake Washington waterways. Lock at “The Narrows.” Puget Sound-Lake Washington waterway:
Continuing improvement by the construction of a double lock, with the necessary accessory works, to be located at “The Narrows,” at the entrance to Salmon Bay, in accordance with the project set forth in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-three, Sixtieth Congress, first Contracts. session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such material and work as may be necessary to complete said lock and accessory works, to be paid for as funds may be provided from time to time by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two million two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, including the amount herein appropriated: *Proviso*.
Excavation by King County. Damages to James A. Moore. Vol. 34, pp. 231, 1108; Vol. 35, p. 613. *Provided*, That before beginning said work, or making such contract or contracts, the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that King County, or some other local agency, will do the excavation in the waterway above the lock to the dimensions recommended in said project, and will also secure the United States from liability for any claims or damages on account of the grant made to James A.
Moore or his assigns by the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, or on account of the lowering of the level of Lake Washington, raising the level of Salmon Bay, or any other alteration of the level of any part of said waterway. Puget Sound waterway to lakes Union and Washington. Improving waterway connecting Puget Sound with lakes Union and Washington: For maintenance of improvement, five thousand dollars. Skagit River, Wash. Improving Skagit River, Washington:
Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Snohomish River, Wash. Improving Snohomish River, Washington, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eight, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Swinomish Slough, Washington: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars.
Willapa River and Harbor, Wash. Improving Willapa River and Harbor, Washington: For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twenty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions relative to cooperation on the part of local interests as set forth in said document, fifty thousand dollars. Flathead Lake, Mont. Polson Bay. Improving Polson Bay, Flathead Lake, Montana: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, six thousand dollars.
Saint Michael Canal, Alaska. Improving Saint Michael Canal, Alaska: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and sixteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Hilo, Hawaii. Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Honolulu, Hawaii. Improving harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Kahului Harbor, Hawaii. Improving Kahului Harbor, Hawaii, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. San Juan, P. R. Improving harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. 667 For the necessary expenses of the proposed meeting in the United Navigation Congresses.
Meeting of International Association in United States. States of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, including the publication of the proceedings, the necessary expenses of the American delegates, and the cost of transporting foreign members of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses and authorized foreign delegates in the investigation of American waterways, fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary Invitation. of State is hereby requested to extend an official invitation to such association to visit the United States for such purpose.
The sum of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars John H. Bankhead. Services on Inland Waterways Commission. be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to be paid to John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, for his services on the Inland Waterways Commission from the fourteenth day of March to the eighteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and seven. For emergencies: To provide for the restoration of channels, or Emergencies. 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 Allotment. allotted by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That in no case shall *Provisos*. Recommendations required. such allotment be made unless recommended by the local engineer having such channel or improvement in charge, and by the Chief of Engineers, respectively: *Provided further*, That for no single channel Limit. or improvement shall a sum greater than ten thousand dollars be allotted, nor any portion of the said appropriation, unless the same is necessary in the interest of navigation or to protect and preserve existing government work in the interest of navigation.
The depth of water in tidal waters, as well as in rivers and nontidal Depth of waters defined. channels, whenever referred to in this Act shall be understood to mean the depth at mean low water unless otherwise expressed. Appropriations made for the respective works herein named, or so Maintenance, etc., of existing works. 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 provided for in this section shall, unless Surveys, etc., paid from amount for project. 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. All works of improvement herein or hereafter authorized to be prosecuted Contracts, etc., for works. 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.
Where separate works or items are consolidated if this Act and an Allotment of consolidated works. 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, another allotment or division should be made of the same. Any balances now remaining Balances carried to authorized works. 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. 668 Classification of traffic statistics.
In the collection of statistics relating to traffic, the Corps of Engineers is directed to adopt a uniform system of classification for freight, and upon rivers or inland waterways to collate ton-mileage statistics as far as practicable. Sec. 2. Combining contracts. Whenever the appropriations made by Congress for river and harbor works can be more advantageously expended by combining in one contract two or more works, such combinations shall be Insufficient appropriations. made; and whenever the appropriations made, or authorized to be made, for the completion of any such work shall prove insufficient therefor, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, apply the funds so appropriated, or authorized, to the prosecution of such work.
Sec. 3. Appropriation for examinations, etc. That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies for rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated: *Provisos*. Authority required. *Provided*, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or Supplementary reports restricted. joint resolution shall be made: *Provided further*, That after the regular or formal 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 Special authority to begin work. 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. Allotment of preliminary examinations, etc. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the localities named in this section, as hereinafter set forth, and a sufficient sum to pay the cost thereof may be allotted from the amount appropriated in Report of examination. this section.
In all cases a preliminary examination of the river, harbor, or other proposed improvement mentioned shall first be made, and a report as to the advisability of its improvement shall be submitted, Unfavorable reports. unless a survey or estimate is herein expressly directed. If upon such preliminary examination the proposed improvement is not deemed advisable, no further action shall be taken thereon without Survey, etc., if favorable. the further direction of Congress; but in case the report shall be favorable to such proposed improvement, or that a survey and estimate should be made to determine the advisability of improvement, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to cause surveys to be made, and the cost and advisability to be reported to Requirements.
Congress. And such reports containing plans and estimates shall also contain a statement as to the rate at which the work should be Review by board of engineers. Vol. 34, p. 1118. prosecuted. Such examinations and surveys shall be reviewed by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, as provided in section three of the river and harbor Act of March second, nineteen hundred *Provisos*. Additional information required. and seven: *Provided*, That every examination and survey report submitted to Congress, as provided for herein or as may be provided for hereafter, in addition to full information regarding the present and prospective commercial importance of the project covered by the report, and the benefit to commerce likely to result from any proposed plan of improvement, shall contain also such data as it may be practicable Terminal facilities.
Water transfers, etc. to secure regarding (first) the establishment of terminal and transfer facilities, (second) the development and utilization of water power for industrial and commercial purposes, and (third) such other Coordination with navigation necessary. subjects as may be properly connected with such project: *Provided further*, That in the investigation and study of these questions consideration shall be given only to their bearing upon the improvement of navigation and to the possibility and desirability of their being coordinated in a logical and proper manner with improvements 669 for navigation to lessen the cost of such improvements and to compensate the Government for expenditures made in the interest of navigation: *And provided further*, That the investigation and study Extension of existing works. of these questions as provided herein may, upon review by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors when called for as now provided by law, be extended to any work of improvement now under way and to any locality the examination and survey of which has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, authorized by Congress.
The surveys of navigable streams herein or hereafter authorized Examination of watersheds, etc., of navigable streams. shall include such stream-flow measurements and other investigations of the watersheds as may be necessary for preparation of plans of improvement and a proper consideration of all uses of the stream affecting navigation, and whenever necessary similar investigations may be made in connection with all navigable streams under improvement. Whenever permission for the construction of dams in navigable Report on dams, etc. streams is granted, or is under consideration by Congress, such surveys and investigations of the sections of the streams affected may be made as are necessary to secure conformity with rational plans for the improvement of the streams for navigation.
All reports of preliminary examinations and surveys which may be Printing preliminary examinations, etc., during recess. Examinations ordered. prepared during the recess of Congress shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be printed by the Public Printer as documents of the following session of Congress. alabama and florida. Alabama and Florida. Escambia and Conecuh rivers up to Brewton. arkansas. Arkansas. Saint Francis River, from its mouth to the mouth of L’Anguille River and L’Anguille River from its mouth to the city of Marianna.
White River, at and near Devall Bluff, with a view to improvement for navigation and the revetment of the banks in cooperation with local interests. arkansas and texas. Arkansas and Texas. Channel connecting Red and Sulphur rivers by way of Texarkana. california. California. Long Beach Harbor. Los Angeles (San Pedro) Outer Harbor, with a view to obtaining an increased depth. connecticut. Connecticut. Bridgeport Harbor, with a view to protecting the channels from the erosion of Long Beach.
Cove Harbor, with a view to providing an entrance channel of increased depth. Darien River. Thames River, west channel, from Poquetanuck drawbridge to Kiteamaug, for fourteen-foot channel. New Haven Harbor, with a view to improving the channel by way of Oyster Point to the bridge of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, on West River. East Haven River. florida. Florida. Apalachicola Bay and Saint George Sound, with a view to determining the best location for a deep-water harbor with entrance channel from the Gulf of Mexico by way of East Pass, West Pass, New Inlet, 670 or by an artificial cut across Saint George Island, consideration being given to the respective needs of the cities of Apalachicola and Carrabelle for increased harbor facilities.
Choctawhatchee Bay, with a view to securing a deeper channel to the Gulf of Mexico. Chipola River. Withlacoochee River from Port Inglis to Panasoffkee. Oklawaha River to Lake Dora. Channel from Saint Johns River through Lake Dexter, thence to Lake Woodruff, thence to Saint Johns River below Hawkinsville. Saint Johns River from Jacksonville to Palatka, with a view to securing increased depth. Saint Joseph Bay, with a view to securing increased depth at the entrance thereto. Charlotte Harbor, with a view to securing a channel of increased depth from the Gulf of Mexico to Punta Gorda.
Key West Harbor, channels leading thereto. Jupiter Inlet. Gilberts Bar. Lake Crescent and Dunns Creek, Florida, from the Saint Johns River to Crescent City. Lemon Bay to Gasparilla Sound. Biscayne Bay, with a view to providing a channel twenty feet deep and three hundred feet wide through the entrance and a channel of the same depth one hundred and fifty feet wide through the bay to the mouth of Miami River. Kissimmee and Caloosahatchee rivers and Lake Okechobee and tributaries, with a view to adopting a plan of improvement of said waters which will harmonize as nearly as may be practicable with the general scheme of the State of Florida for the drainage of the Everglades.
Georgia. georgia. Darien Harbor, with a view to securing a depth of eighteen feet across the bar. Waterways from Louisville to Savannah, including cut-off or canal from Ogeechee River to Savannah River or Harbor with a view to providing a more direct route between said cities than that afforded by existing channels. Cow Head River, from Lazaretto Creek to Tybee Creek, with a view to securing increased depth. Frederica River, at or near Fort Frederica. Savannah River and Harbor, for two miles above the upper limits of the city of Savannah, with a view to securing improved navigation.
Altamaha River. Satilla River, above Burnt Fort. Hawaii. hawaii. Harbors of the island of Kauai, with a view to determining the best location for a port. Illinois. illinois. Illinois River, between Hurricane Island and Calhoun County, for the purpose of providing a suitable channel. Mississippi River, opposite Thomas Landing, in Calhoun County, for the purpose of providing a suitable channel. Mississippi River, opposite the City of Saint Louis, from the south end of Cabaret Island to the north end of Arsenal Island, for the purpose of providing a suitable channel by revetment of the bank. 671 West Branch, South fork, Chicago River, from Robey street west to Forty-eighth avenue, with a view to securing a channel twenty-one feet deep and one hundred and seventy-five feet wide, except through rock cutting it shall be one hundred feet wide. indiana and illinois.
Indiana and Illinois. Wabash River, from its mouth to Terre Haute, with special report as to improving said river up to Mount Carmel by dredging. kentucky. Kentucky. Green River, with a view to an extension of the present system of locks and dams. louisiana. Louisiana. Abita River, from Abita Springs to Bogue Falia. Bayou Grossetete, from its source to Bayou Plaquemine. louisiana and mississippi. Louisiana and Mississippi. Amite River, from the mouth of Bayou Manchac to a point west of the town of Liberty, in Amite County, Mississippi. maine.
Maine. Portland Harbor. Boothbay Harbor. Chandlers River, with a view to its improvement by dredging from its mouth to Jonesboro. Kennebunk River. South Bristol Harbor, with a view to a channel thirty feet wide and twelve feet deep through the drawbridge. New Meadows River. Ogunquit Harbor. Bass Harbor Bar and Deer Island Thoroughfare. Corea Harbor, Gouldsboro. Camden Harbor, with a view to constructing a breakwater from the mainland to Negro Island. Medomak River. Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert. maryland.
Maryland. Broad Creek, a waterway connecting Pocomoke Sound and Little Annemessex River. Tilghman Island Harbor, with a view to securing increased depth. Northeast River from its mouth to the town of North East. Tred Avon River, with a view to securing increased width of channel from Easton Point to the mouth of Peach Blossom Creek. Slaughter Creek, with a view to removing the bar at the mouth. Winchester Harbor. Saint Martins River in Worcester County. Sinepuxent Bay, with a view to a channel five feet in depth from the mouth of Saint Martins River south.
Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River connecting Tylers River with Tangier Sound, in Chesapeake Bay. massachusetts. Massachusetts. Harbor at New Bedford and Fair Haven, with a view to extending the channel to Belleville. Malden River. 672 Boston Harbor, with a view to securing increased depth in South Bay; Chelsea Creek between the Meridian Street Bridge and the old East Boston Bridge, and the south channel of Mystic River. Salem Harbor, with a view to removing a shoal in the outer harbor of Salem and Beverly.
Weymouth Fore River, below the Quincy Point Bridge, with a view to straightening and improving the channel. Plymouth Harbor. Michigan. michigan. Saint Marys River at the Falls, with a view to the construction of an additional lock. Keweenaw Waterway, with a view to enlarging the stilling basin at the west end, and increasing size of harbor of refuge. Manistee Harbor, with a view to securing a channel not less than twenty feet deep from Lake Michigan to Lake Manistee, and the enlargement of the outer harbor, including the construction of a new south pier. arcadia harbor.
Detroit River, Wyandotte Channel, lying between Fighting Island and the City of Wyandotte, with a view to straightening the channel. Saint Marys River, with a view to the removal of shoals and reefs near Detour. Minnesota. minnesota. Harbor at Knife River. Rainy River, with a view to removing obstructions in the channel at Rainier. Mississippi River, with a view to the removal of a ledge in Aitkin County at or near Pine Knoll. Harbor and channel at Saint Paul. Saint Croix River at Afton.
Mississippi River, between Winnibigoshish and Pokegama reservoirs; and from Leech Lake dam to the mouth of Leech River, with a view to straightening and improving the channel. Minnesota and North Dakota. minnesota and north dakota. Red River of the North and its headwaters in Minnesota and North Dakota, with a view to determining whether storage reservoirs are necessary in the interest of navigation. Minnesota and Wisconsin. minnesota and wisconsin. Saint Louis River, from the head of the present project near the north end of Spirit Lake up to New Duluth, and from thence up to the stone quarries near Fond du Lac.
Mississippi. mississippi. Big Black River, from its mouth to the town of West. Quiver River. Yalobusha River, to the town of Derma. Mouth of Pascagoula River, with a view to securing increased depth in a continuous channel from the upper limits of the present project in Dog River to deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. Missouri. missouri. Gasconade River from Gascondy to Arlington. 673 nebraska. Nebraska. Missouri River near Omaha, South Omaha, Florence, and Dundee, with a view to improvement for navigation and protection of the banks in cooperation with local interests.
Missouri River at some point or points between Omaha and the mouth of the Platte River, with a view to determining by trial the practicability of the cable and sand plan for the protection of the channel and banks of the river. new jersey. New Jersey. Newark Bay and Passaic and Hackensack rivers, with a view to securing channel depths of twenty and twenty-five feet from Kill van Kull to the bridges of the Newark and New York Railroad over said rivers; a depth of twenty feet up the Passaic River, first to Center street in the city of Newark, and second to the Nairn Linoleum Works, and a suitable depth from the last-named point to the city of Passaic.
Ship canal with depths of thirty and thirty-five feet extending from a point in the city of Newark, below the junction of the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley railroads through the Newark Meadows and Newark Bay to deep water of the Kill van Kull. Woodbury Creek. Absecon Creek. Cooper Creek, with a view to an increased depth and an extension of the project. Elizabeth River, with a view to providing a channel of sufficient depth from the Broad street bridge to the channel in Staten Island Sound.
South River, with a view of deepening the channel between South River and Old Bridge to a depth of six feet. Delaware River, with a view to connecting the landing at Borden-town with the main channel. Raritan River, including a widening of the channel from the mill or Martins Creek to Martins Dock on the north side. Absecon Inlet, with a view to improving and maintaining the channel. Pensauken Creek. new york. New York. Great Sodus Bay. Harbor at Port Henry. Great Kills Harbor, with a view to securing increased anchorage area.
Buffalo Harbor, with a view to securing increased depth in the outer harbor and entrances thereto. Sag Harbor, with a view to securing increased anchorage area and protecting the channel between said harbor and Gardiners Bay from the erosion of Cedar Point. Olcott Harbor, with a view to securing increased depth. Hudson River, with a view to securing increased depth. Niagara River, with a view to securing a depth of eighteen feet from Black Rock Harbor to the foot of Sugar street in the city of Niagara Falls by way of the channel on the east side of Grand Island; also between the points named above by way of the channel on the west side of Grand Island between said island and Navy Island.
Bronx River. Lemon Creek. Little Neck Bay. Manhasset Harbor. 674 Mount Sinai Harbor. Hudson River at Ossining. Milton Harbor and Mill Creek. Larchmont Harbor. New York Harbor, with a view to determining whether additional channel width and depth are necessary in the North or Hudson River. New York and Vermont. new york and vermont. Narrows of Lake Champlain. North Carolina. north carolina. Cape Lookout Harbor, with a view to determining its availability and adaptability as a commercial harbor.
Core Creek, with a view to the improvement of navigation up to Core Creek landing. Scuppernong River to the town of Cherry. Edenton Bay. Harbor of Belhaven, and entrance thereto. Slades Creek. Channel from Core Sound to Newport River, by way of Taylors Creek or Carrot Island Slough. Elizabeth River. Fishing Creek. French Broad River. Shallotte River. Ohio. ohio. Cuyahoga River, from its mouth to a more southerly connection with the Ohio Canal, with a view to eliminating bends and securing a navigable depth of twenty-one feet, with suitable width; with a report on any proposition for cooperation by localities affected thereby.
Sandusky River, from its mouth to Fremont, with a view to securing a navigable depth of ten feet, with suitable width. Vermilion Harbor, with a view to securing additional width of harbor entrance. Sandusky Harbor. Ohio and Indiana. ohio and indiana. Maumee River, from Toledo to Fort Wayne. Oregon. oregon. Coos Bay and entrance, including the removal of Guano Rock. Umpqua River, from Scottsburg to Roseburg. Oregon Slough, branch of Columbia River, opposite Vancouver, Washington.
Willamette River, between Portland and Oregon City. Tillamook Bay and bar, with a view to securing a channel with a depth of fifteen feet and twenty feet, respectively; with a report on any proposition for cooperation by localities affected thereby. North Fork of Coquille River, for a distance of seventeen miles up the stream from the mouth. East Fork of Coquille River, for a distance of eight miles up the stream from the mouth. 675 pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Frankford Creek.
Ridley River. Chester River. Darby River. porto rico. Porto Rico. Palmas Altas Harbor. rhode island. Rhode Island. Sakonnet Harbor. south carolina. South Carolina. Waterways from Orangeburg to Charleston, including cut-off or canal from Edisto River to Ashley River with a view to providing a more direct route between said cities than that afforded by existing channels. Waterways from Columbia and Camden to Charleston, including cut-off or canal from Santee River by any existing or proposed route to Cooper River or Wando River and any of their tributaries with a view to providing a more direct route between said cities than that afforded by existing waterways.
Great Pedee River, at Gibson Dam, with a view to aiding navigation. Salkehatchie River to Morris Crossing. South Fork Edisto River to Guignards Landing. Harbor at Charleston, with a view to securing a depth of thirty feet. Archers Creek. texas. Texas. Old (Trinity) River, in Chambers County, with a view to securing increased depth. Pilkington Bayou. Tres Palacios River. Aransas Pass and tributary waters, including channels to Corpus Christi, Rockport, Aransas Pass, and to the mainland at any available point, with a view to determining the best location for a deep-water harbor or port.
Said examination and report to be made by a board of five engineers, to be appointed by the Secretary of War. Sabine River, as far as practicable above Orange. Brazos River, with a view to preventing a cut-off at Jupiters Cut. texas and oklahoma. Texas and Oklahoma. Red River, from the mouth of the Washita River to the mouth of the Big Wichita River. virginia. Virginia. Willis River. Archers Hope River, with a view to securing increased depth from its mouth to Williamsburg. Aquia Creek from Coals Landing to the mouth.
Newport News Creek, with a view to securing a depth of eight feet. Pagan River, with a view to securing a depth of twelve feet, and a turning basin at Smithfield. 676 Washington. washington. Skagit River, from Sedro-Woolley to Baker. Sammamish River. Duwamish River. Hoquiam River. Dabob Bay. Stilaguamish River. East and west waterways in Seattle Harbor, with view to maintenance by United States Government. Edmonds Harbor. For a ship canal between Port Townsend Bay, Puget Sound, and Oak Harbor.
Harbor of refuge at Neah Bay, or at such other point in the vicinity thereof as will best subserve the interests of commerce and navigation. West Virginia. west virginia. Deckers Creek, with a view to securing for a distance of two thousand five hundred 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. Wisconsin. wisconsin. Detroit Harbor. Two Rivers, with a view to the further improvement of said harbor by the construction of a south stilling basin, or otherwise.
Waupaca River, from its mouth to Weyauwega. Sec. 4. Injuries by vessels on river and harbor works. That whenever any vessel belonging to or employed by the United States engaged upon river and harbor work collides with and damages another vessel, pier, or other legal structure belonging to any person or corporation, the Chief of Engineers shall cause an immediate and thorough examination to be made, and, if in his judgment, the facts and circumstances of the collision are such as to make the whole or any part of the damage inflicted a proper charge Adjustment of claims. against the United States, the Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall have authority to adjust and settle all claims for damages caused by such collision in cases where the claim for damage does not exceed five hundred dollars, and report the same to Congress for consideration.
Sec. 5. Temporary leases allowed. [R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738). That the requirements of section thirty-seven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the lease of lands, or easements therein, or of buildings, rooms, wharves, or rights of wharfage or dockage, or to the hire of vessels, boats, and other floating craft, for use in connection with river and harbor improvements, where the period of any such lease or hire is not to exceed three months.
Approved, June 25, 1910.
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