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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · March 4, 1913 · Chapter 144

Chapter 144. 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. 144.— An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.March 4, 1913.[[H. R. 23180](/us/bill/62/hr/23180).][[Public, No. 429](/us/pl/62/429).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,River and harbor 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:
Improving Bass Harbor Bar, Maine: Completing improvement inBass Harbor Bar, Me. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $10,000. Improving Deer Island Thoroughfare, Maine: Completing improvementDeer Island Thoroughfare, Me. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $40,000. Improving Carvers Harbor, Vinalhaven, Maine:
Completing improvementVinalhaven, Me. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-four, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $16,000. Improving Pepperells Cove, Maine: Completing improvement,Pepperells Cove, Me. $63,400. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Continuing improvement,Portland, Me. $150,000. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: Completing improvement ofKennebec River, Me. channel west of Swan Island, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $30,500.
Improving Medomak River, Maine, in accordance with the reportMedomak River, Me. submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-four, Sixty-second Congress, second session: Completing improvement, $17,000. Improving Saint Croix River, Maine: Continuing improvement,Saint Croix River. Me. $75,000. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: For maintenance andBurlington, Vt. repair of breakwater, $2,000. Improving Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont:Lake Champlain, N.
Y. and Vt. For maintenance, $6,000. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For maintenance,Boston, Mass. $25,000. 802 Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts: For maintenance,Hyannis, Mass. $24,000. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Completing improvement,Lynn, Mass. $84,000. Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvementNantucket, Mass. and for maintenance, $51,312. Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: ContinuingNewburyport, Mass, improvement, $25,000.
Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Completing improvementPlymouth, Mass. in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered eleven hundred and ninety-four. Sixty-second Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions therein contained, $83,500. Improving Pollock Rip Channel, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Pollock Rip Channel, Mass. $125,000. Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts: For maintenance,Merrimac River, Mass. $10,000. Improving Mystic River, Massachusetts:
Completing improvementMystic River, Mass. below the mouth of Island End River, $25,000. Improving harbor of refuge. Block Island, Rhode Island: ContinuingBlock Island. R. I., harbor of refuge. improvement, $50,000. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: CompletingProvidence River and Harbor, R. I. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, $164,800; improving same in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $100,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Contracts authorized, 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 tune be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $827,800. exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*,Work by city or State required.
That no work in the harbor proper north of Fields Point shall be done until the Secretary of War is satisfied that the State and city have completed their proposed expenditures in the combined Providence and Pawtucket Harbors, up to at least $2,000,000, for public terminals or other permanent public harbor improvements: *Provided further*,Deposit of dredged material. That the dredged material may be deposited on shallow areas near the city of Providence if plans therefor can be arranged with local interests whereby the cost of the work to the United States will not be increased over that of towing to the present dumping ground.
Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut: ContinuingPawcatuck River, Conn, and R. I. improvement and for maintenance, $6,000. Improving harbors at Fivemile River and Greenwich and WestportGreenwich, etc,, Conn. Harbor and Saugatuck River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving harbor at Milford, Connecticut: For maintenance,Milford, Conn. $5,000. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For maintenance,New Haven, Conn. $10,000; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $80,000; in all, $90,000.
Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut: For maintenance ofConnecticut River, Conn. improvement below Hartford, $15,000. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut: Con turning improvementHousatonic River, Conn. and for maintenance, $20,000. Improving Mystic River, Connecticut: Completing improvement inMystic River, Conn. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $8,160. Improving Thames River, Connecticut:
For maintenance, $12,000.Thames River, Conn. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvementBuffalo, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Num803 bered Five hundred and fifty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $167,375. Improving harbor at Cape Vincent, New York: Continuing improvement,Cape Vincent, N. Y. $36,000. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: For maintenance,Flushing Bay, N. Y. $20,000; completing improvement of the channel up to the Main Street Bridge in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-three, Sixty-first Congress, third session, $235,700; in all, $255,700.
Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: ContinuingGowanus Bay, N. Y. improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels, $300,000. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: For maintenance,Great Sodas Bay, N. Y. $4,000. Improving Great South Bay, New York: Continuing improvementGreat South Bay, N. Y. and for maintenance by dredging and construction of jetties, $5,000. Improving Hempstead Harbor, New York: For maintenance,Hempstead, N. Y. $5,000. Improving harbor at Huntington, New York:
For maintenance,Huntington, N, Y. $5 000. Improving Jamaica Bay, New York: Continuing improvement inJamaica Bay, N. Y. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and eighty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, second session, $300,000, from winch amount the Secretary of War may reimbursePayment to New York City for dredging. the city of New York each month for the dredging and the disposition of dredged material of the preceding month at the actual unit price per cubic yard, place measurement: *Provided*, That such cost shall*Proviso*.Limit. not exceed 8 cents per cubic yard.
Improving harbor at Mattituck, New York: Continuing improvement,Mattituck, N. Y. $10,000. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance, includingNew York Harbor.Ambrose Channel. Ambrose Channel, $200,000, and the Secretary of War isRules for navigation authorized. hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations for the navigation of Ambrose Channel after the completion of its improvement as he may deem necessary or expedient to insure its safe use in all kinds of weather, night and day, for all vessels under control and running under their own power, and to this end he may, in his discretion, forbid its use to tows of every description and to sailing vessels.
Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improvement,Ogdensburg, N. Y. $37,970. Improving harbor at Olcott, New York: Completing improvementOlcott, N. Y. and for maintenance, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $4,000. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvementOswego, N. Y. in accordance with plan A and for maintenance, $110,000.
Improving harbor at Plattsburg, New York: For maintenance,Plattsburg, N. Y. $4,000. Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement,Port Chester, N. Y. $15,000. Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: For maintenance,Readout, N. Y. $5,000. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: Continuing improvementSaugerties, N. Y. and for maintenance, $2,500. Improving Bronx River, New York: For maintenance, and continuingBronx Hiver, N. Y. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $130,000.
Improving Browns Creek, New York: Continuing improvementBrowns Creek, N. Y. and for maintenance, $10,000. 804 Improving East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement,East Chester Creek, N. Y. $20,000. 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, $250,000. Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement,Harlem River, N.
Y.New project. $100,000; for improvement in accordance with the project numbered three in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $5,000: *Provided*, That no construction work shall be executed by the*Proviso*.Right of way required. Federal Government beyond the channel limits of the existing projects until local or other interests shall furnish, free of cost to the United States, the necessary land for the right of way required for said project; in all, $105,000.
Improving Hudson River, New York: For maintenance, and continuingHudson River, N. Y. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and nineteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That the expenditure*Proviso*.Conditions. of the amounts herein and hereafter appropriated for said improvement shall be subject to the conditions set forth in said document: *Provided further*, That the general plan for the improvementLocation of dam, etc. 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: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War mayContracts authorized. 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 $560,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Hudson River Channel of New York Harbor, NewRiver Channel, New York Harbor. York, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and nineteen. Sixty-second Congress, second session, $200,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Contracts. enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to 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 $250,000, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving Newtown Creek, New York: For maintenance, $30,000.Newtown Creek. N. Y.Wappinger Creek, N. Y.Westchester Creek, N. Y. Improving Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, $3,500. Improving Westchester Creek, New York: Completing improvement, $12,000. Improving Staten Island Sound, New York and New Jersey, inStaten Island Sound, N. Y. and N. J. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-four, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $500,000; for maintenance of improvement of Arthur Kill and theArthur Kill, etc. waters connecting Raritan Bay with New York Harbor, including channel north of Shooters Island, $30,000; in all, $530,000.
Improving Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek, Raritan and SouthKeyport Harbor, etc., N. J. Rivers, Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, and Cheesequake Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $33,500. Improving Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000.Raritan Bay, N. J. Improving Absecon Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $1,600.Absecon Creek, N. J. Improving Absecon Inlet, New Jersey, by dredging, to keep anAbsecon Inlet, N. J.Dredging. open channel until the completion of the dredge heretofore authorized, $45,000: *Provided*, That no partOther connected subjects. of the appropriation herein*Proviso*.Local contribution. made shall be available for expenditure until the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that local interests have made provision for furnishing the sum of $50,000 for said improvement and have placed the 805 same to his credit and subject to his order in a bank to be designated by him.
Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000.Alloway Creek, N. J. Improving Cooper River, New Jersey: Continuing improvementCooper River, N. J. and for maintenance, $5,000. Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey: Completing improvementElizabeth River. N. J. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and fifty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $15,443. Improving Hackensack River, New Jersey:
Continuing improvement,Hackensack River, N. J. $50,000. Improving Mantua Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvementMantua Creek, N. J. and for maintenance, $15,000. Improving Maurice River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Maurice River, N. J. $30,000. Improving Newark Bay and Passaic River, New Jersey: ContinuingNewark Bay and Passaic River, N. J. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $300,000.
Improving Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvementRaccoon Creek, N. J. and for maintenance, $13,000. Improving Salem River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $15,000.Salem River, N. J. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance,Shrewsbury River, N. J. $10,000. Improving Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $1,000.Toms River, N. J. Improving Tuckerton Creek, New Jersey : For maintenance, $5,000.Tuckerton Creek, N. J.Woodbridge Greek, N. J. Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey:
For maintenance, $3,000. Improving Woodbury Creek, New Jersey, in accordance with theWoodbury Creek, N. J. report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-five, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, completing improvement, $38,000. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware:Delaware River.Philadelphia to the sea.To Trenton. Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $1,750,000; for maintenance of improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to Lalor Street, Trenton, $20,000; and completing improvement above Lalor Street,At Trenton.
Trenton, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers on page two of said document, $114,000; in all, $1,884,000. Improving harbor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For maintenance,Pittsburgh, Pa. $5,000. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance byAllegheny River, Pa.Maintenance.Condition for local con tribution revoked.*Ante*, p. 216. open-channel work, $2,000.
Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and forty, Sixty-second Congress, second session: The proviso attached to the item for this improvement carried in the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, that the appropriation of $300,000 therein contained be made subject to the condition that local interests should contribute an equal amount, is hereby revoked, and in lieu thereof the expenditure of said $300,000 is made subject to the following condition: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Modification of bridges at pittsburgh required. of said amount shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall have received satisfactory assurances that the channel spans of the bridges forming unreasonable obstructions to the navigation of the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh will be modified as recommended by a 806 board of engineer officers in a report dated November twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten.
Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, by the reconstructionMonongahela River, Pa.Lock and Dam No. 6. of Lock and Dam Numbered Six, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and seventeen, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $178,200. Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: For restoration andWilmington, Del. maintenance, $30,000, Improving Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion Rivers,Appoquinimink, etc., Rivers, Del. Delaware:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance in accordance with the existing approved projects, $27,000. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance,Broad Creek River Del.Broadkill River, Del.Leipsic River, Del.Little River, Del.Saint Jones River, Del.Waterway, Rehoboth and Delaware Bays. $2,000. Improving Broadkill River, Delaware: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving Leipsic River, Delaware: For maintenance, 85,000. Improving Little River, Delaware: For maintenance, $1,000.
Improving Saint Jones River, Delaware: For maintenance, 85,000. Improving inland waterway between Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay, Delaware: Continuing improvement in accordance with the reports submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and twenty-three, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Fifty-one, Sixty-first Congress, third session, $41,725. Improving Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland: For maintenanceNanticoke River, Del. and Md. of improvement of Nanticoke River and Northwest Fork of Nanticoke River (Marshyhope Creek), Maryland, $3,600.
Improving harbor at Baltimore, Mainland, with a view to wideningBaltimore, Md. the channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, completing improvement, $305,250. Improving harbors at Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cambridge,Chesapeake Bay, etc.,Md.Eastern Shore harbors, etc. and Chester, Choptank, Warwick, Wicomico, Pocomoke, La Trappe, and Manokin Rivers, and Tyaskin Creek, Maryland:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $33,510, of which amount so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be allotted for completing the improvement of harbor at Rockhall and of Wicomico River at Salisbury in accordance with the existing approved projects. Improving Susquehanna River above and below Havre de Grace,Susquehanna River, Md.Havre de Grace.Anacostia River, D. C. Maryland: Completing improvement, $51,230. Improving Anacostia River, District of Columbia:
Continuing improvement, $75,000. Improving Potomac River: For maintenance of improvement atPotomac River, D. C. and Md. Washington, District of Columbia, $30,000; for maintenance of improvement at Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, $3,000; in all, $33,000. Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia; Continuing improvementNorfolk, Va. of channels to Norfolk and at Thimble Shoals, with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty-live feet of water from the navy yard to the sea, $165,500; for maintenance of improvement of Norfolk Harbor and the approaches thereto, including channels at Hospital Point and in the Eastern, Southern, and Western branches of Elizabeth River, and of channel to Newport News, $30,000; in all, $195,500.
Improving Western Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia: CompletingElizabeth River, Va.Western Branch. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $82,000. Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement andJames River, Va. for maintenance, $75,000. Improving Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers and Occoquan Creek,Mattaponi, etc., Rivers, Va. Virginia: For maintenance, $15,000. 807 Improving Onancock River, Virginia:
For maintenance, $1,000.Onancock River, Va. Improving Pagan River, Virginia: For maintenance, $1,000.Pagan River, Va. Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: For maintenance,Rappahannock $25,000.River, Va. Improving Upper Machodoc Creek, Virginia: For maintenance,Upper Machodoc Creek, Va. $3,200. Improving inland waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to BeaufortWaterway, Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet. Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $800,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended until the*Proviso*.Subject to purchase of Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal. canal and appurtenant property belonging to the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal Company shall have been acquired by the United States by purchase in accordance with the agreement entered into between the Secretary of War and said company under date of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twelve.
Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: For maintenance,Beaufort, N. C. $5,000. Improving Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance,Beaufort Inlet, N. C. $10,000. Improving harbor of refuge at Cape Lookout, North Carolina:Cape Lookout, N. C., harbor of refuge.*Proviso*.Contracts. Continuing improvement, $500,000: *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 m the aggregate $600,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving harbor at Morehead City, North Carolina: For maintenance,Morehead City, N. C. $2,000. Improving Bay River, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000.Bay River, N. C. Improving Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, NorthCape Fear River, N. C. Carolina: Completing improvement, $352,940. Improving Fishing Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance,Fishing Creek, N. C. $1,500. Improving Neuse and Trent Rivers, North Carolina: ContinuingNeuse and Trent Rivers, N. C. improvement and for maintenance, $12,000.
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 and of inland waterways between Beaufort Harbor and New River and between New River and Swansboro, $5,000. Improving Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina:Northeast, etc., rivers, N. C. For maintenance of improvement of Northeast and Black Rivers and of Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina, $12,000.
Improving Shallotte River, North Carolina: Completing improvementShallotte River, N. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $9,845. Improving South River, North Carolina: Of the unexpendedSouth River, N. C.Above Aurora.Vol. 36, p. 642. balance of the appropriation made by the river and harbor Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for improving South River up to the town of Aurora, $6,092.20, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for improvement of said river above Aurora, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and ninety-five, Sixty-second Congress, third session.
Improving Swift Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, $500.Swift Creek, N. C. Improving waterways connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor,Waterways, Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor, N. C. North Carolina: Completing improvement of channel by way of Taylors Creek, in accordance with the report submitted in House Docu808 ment Numbered Five hundred and forty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $20,000: *Provided*, That any part of said appropriation and*Proviso*.Turning basin. local contribution unexpended in completing the improvement of said channel may be used in improving and enlarging the turning basin in front of the town of Beaufort.
Improving Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina:Waccamaw River, N. C. and S. C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $30,000. Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: Completing improvementCharleston, S. C. of the twenty-eight-foot channel to the sea, $71,616. Improving Winy ah Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvementWinyah Bay, S. C. and for maintenance, $120,000. Improving Great Peedee River, South Carolina: For maintenance,Great Pedee River, S.
C. $15,000. Improving Archers Creek, South Carolina: The paragraph providingArchers Creek, S. C.*Ante*, p. 208. amended. for the improvement of Archers Creek, South Carolina, in the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby amended to read as follows: Improving Archers Creek, South Carolina: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirteen, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $25,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Donation of land, etc.
That the land required for the widening be donated to the United States free of cost, and that permission be given for the deposit of the dredged materials on adjacent lands free of cost to the United States. Improving Santee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers, South Carolina:Santee, etc., 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, $60,000. Improving waterways between Charleston and Alligator Creek,Waterways Charles-ton and McClellanville, S.
C. South Carolina: For maintenance of improvement of inland water-ways between Charleston Harbor and McClellanville, including branch to Morrisons Landing, $25,000. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For maintenance,Brunswick, Ga. $33,250. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Completing improvementSavannah, Ga. of the twenty-six-foot channel to the sea, $345,000. Improving Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia:Altamaha, etc., Rivers, Ga. Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered four hundred and forty-three, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $40,000.
Improving Fancy Bluff Creek, connecting Turtle River and BrunswickFancy Bluff Creek, Ga. Harbor with Little Satilla River, Georgia: Completing improvement, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and forty-two, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $8,000. Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement andFlint River, Ga. for maintenance, $15,000. Improving Satilla River, Georgia: Completing improvement betweenSatilla River, Ga.
Burnt Fort and Waycross, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and thirteen, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $10,000. Improving Savannah River, Georgia: Continuing improvement andSavannah River.Above and below Augusta, Ga. for maintenance above Augusta, $3,470; completing improvement and for maintenance below Augusta, $125,000; in all, $128,470. Improving Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia, in extension ofAt Augusta.Vol. 36, p. 648. the project authorized in the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and nineteen, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $60,000, provided a like sum of $60,000 be contributed for said improvement by the city of Augusta under theContribution by City. 809 same terms and conditions, as to such contribution, as are contained and provided in said Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten.
Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: ContinuingChattahoochee River, Ga. and Ala. improvement below Columbus, Georgia, and for maintenance, $80,000. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: Completing constructionCoosa River, Ga. and Ala. of lock and dam at Mayos Bar, near Rome, Georgia, $30,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance between Rome, Georgia, and Dam Numbered Four, Alabama, $25,000; and completingCompleting Dam No. 4, etc. construction of lock in Dam Numbered Four and the construction of Dam Numbered Five, in the State of Alabama, $81,000; in all, $136,000.
Improving waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina,Waterway, Savannah and Fernandina. Florida: Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and thirty-six, Sixtieth Congress, second session, $100,000: *Provided*, That of*Proviso*.Darien, Ga., harbor. this amount so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for maintenance of harbor at Darien, Georgia. Improving channel between Saint Johns River, Florida, and CumberlandChannel, Saint Johns River and Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla.
Sound, Georgia and Florida, by way of Sisters Creek, in accordance with the report submitted in Mouse Document Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $50,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into*Proviso*.Contract. 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 $51,000 exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Improving Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Continuing improvementApalachicola Bay, Fla. and for maintenance, including Link Channel and West Pass, $20,000. Improving Charlotte Harbor, Florida: For maintenance, $4,000.Charlotte Harbor, Fla.Channel, Clearwater to Tampa Bay, Fla. Improving channel from Clearwater Harbor through Boca Ceiga Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $3,000. improving harbor at Fernandina, Florida: For maintenance,Fernandina, Fla. including the entrance channel through Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, $40,000.
Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: Completing improvement inHillsboro Bay. Fla. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on page two of said document, $200,000. Improving harbor at Key West, Florida: For maintenance ofKey West, Fla. improvement of the northwest entrance channel, $15,000. Improving harbor at Miami (Biscayne Bay), Florida, in accordanceMiami, Fla. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-four, Sixty-second Congress, second session:
The*Ante*, p. 209. amended. proviso in the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, “that no work shall be done by the United States on said project until the Secretary of War is satisfied that the portion of the work contemplated in this project to be done by the Florida East Coast Railway Company will be promptly completed,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows: *Provided*, That no work*Provisos*.Suitable terminal facilities required. shall be done by the United States on said project until the Secretary of War is satisfied that suitable terminal facilities will be provided as contemplated by paragraph eight of the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors as set forth on page fifteen of said Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-four: *Provided further*, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as relieving theContract with Florida East Coast Railway binding. said Florida East Coast Railway Company from the obligation of 810 complying with the terms of its contract heretofore entered into with the United States.
Improving Saint Josephs Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $10,000.Saint Josephs Bay, Fla.Saint Lucie Inlet, Fla. Improving Saint Lucie Inlet, Florida, in accordance with the smaller project recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-five, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $100,000. Improving harbor at Saint Petersburg, Florida: For maintenance,Saint Petersburg, Fla. $1,500. Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida:
Completing improvement andSarasota Bay, Fla. for maintenance, $13,000. Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $9,000.Tampa Bay, Fla. Improving channel from Apalachicola River to Saint AndrewsApalachicola River, Fla. Bay, Florida: Completing improvement, $130,000. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida: Continuing improvementMaintenance, etc. and for maintenance, including the cut-off, Lee Slough, lower Chipola River, and upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth, $7,000.
Improving Caloosahatch. ee River, Florida: For maintenance,Caloosahatchee River, Fla. $2,000. Improving Crystal River, Florida: For maintenance, $2,000.Crystal River, Fla. Improving Holmes River, Florida: For maintenance of improvementHolmes River, Fla. from Vernon to the mouth, $2,500. Improving Indian River, Florida: Continuing improvement betweenIndian River, Fla. Goat Creek and Jupiter Inlet, and for maintenance, $22,000. Improving Lake Crescent and Dunns Creek, Florida, from theLake Crescent and Dunns Creek, Fla, Saint Johns River to Crescent City, Florida:
Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $25,000: *Provided*, That no part of the money herein*Proviso*.Right of way. appropriated shall be expended for the purchase of the right of way. Improving Manatee River, Florida: For maintenance, $5,000.Manatee River, Fla. Improving Orange River, Florida: For maintenance, $1,000.Orange River, Fla. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida:
Continuing improvementSaint Johns River, Fla.Distribution. and for maintenance from Jacksonville to the ocean, $550,000; completing improvement and for maintenance from Jacksonville to Palatka, $19,600; completing improvement from Palatka to Lake Harney, $42,200; in all, $611,800. Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: For maintenance, $5,000.Withlacoochee River, Fla.Chootawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala. Improving Choctawhatehee River, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance of improvement, including Cypress Top outlet, $9,000.
Improving Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama:Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Fla. and Ala. For maintenance, $8,000. Improving Mobile bar, Alabama: For maintenance, $20,000.Mobile, Ala.Bar.Harbor. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $255,000, of which amount $5,000 may be used in the removal of sunken logs, deadheads, and other obstructions. Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement andA1abama, etc., Rivers, Ala. for maintenance, including the Alabama and Coosa Rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, $100,000.
Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama:Black Warrior, etc., Rivers, Ala. Completing improvement from Mobile to Sanders Shoals on the Mulberry Fork and to Nichols Shoals on the Locust Fork of Black Warrior River by the construction of locks and dams, including the sixty-three-foot dam at Lock Numbered Seventeen, authorized by Act of Congress approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,338,500. Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi:
For maintenanceTom bigbee River, Ala. and Misa. of improvement from the mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, 312,500, and from Demopolis, Alabama, to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, $15,000; in all, $27,500. 811 Improving channel connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound,Mobile Bay, Ala.Channel to Mississippi Sound.Project modified.*Ante*, p. 211. Alabama: The project adopted by the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, may, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and approval of the Secretary of War, be modified to include the whole or any part of Grants Pass: *Provided*, That all rights claimed in and to Grants Pass shall be*Provisos*.Grants Pass released. released and surrendered to the United States, and that any saving or différence in the cost of actual construction that may result from the use of any or all of Grants Pass may, as compensation for said rights, be paid to the present owners of the pass or their assigns: *Provided further*, That the total cost of the completion of the projectCost Increased. shall not be thereby increased except to the extent of $20,000, which amount is hereby appropriated : *Provided further*, That not more thanPayment for rights, Grants Pass. $20,000 shall be paid in any case for all rights claimed in and to said Grants Pass.
Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000.Biloxi, Miss. Improving harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: Continuing improvementGulfport, Miss. and for maintenance 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, $87,000, of which amount so much as shall be necessary may, in theDredging plant. discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the completion of the dredging plant heretofore authorized.
Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000.Horn Island Pass, Miss.Pascagoula, Miss. Improving harbor at Pascagoula, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement of channel at the mouths of Pascagoula and Dog Rivers, and for continuing improvement and extending said channel throughExtending channel to the Gulf. Mississippi Sound and Horn Island Pass to the Gulf of Mexico in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $110,000.
Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi: Continuing improvementBig Sun flower River, Miss. in accordance with the report submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Two, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $120,000. Improving Pascagoula and Leaf Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance,Pascagoulaand Leaf Rivers, Miss. $14,000. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi : Continuing improvement andPearl River, Miss. for maintenance below Rockport, $37,000. Improving Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Mississippi:
For maintenance,Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Miss. $5 000. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvementYazoo River, Miss.Vicksburg harbor. of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, $10,000. Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: For maintenanceAnd tributaries. of improvement, including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, and Coldwater Rivers, Tchula Lake, Steele and Washington Bayous, Lake Washington, and Bear Creek, $40,000. Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, andWater hyacinth.Removal, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
Texas: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, $15,000. Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Maçon, D’Arbonne, and Corney,Bayous Bartholomew, etc., La. and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $16,000. Improving Bogue Falia, Bayou Manchac, and Amite, Chefuncte,Bogue Falia, etc., La. and Tickfaw Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $7,000.
Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, $2,500.Johnsons Bayou, La. Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: For maintenance, $2,000.Bayou Lafourche, La. Improving Bayou Queue de Tortue, Louisiana: For maintenance,Bayou Queue de Tortue, La. $1,000. 812 Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: Continuing improvementSouthwest Pass, Mississippi River. and for maintenance, $500,000. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: Completing improvement andBayou Teche, La. for maintenance, $40,000.
Improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana: That the proviso in theBayou Terrebonne, La.*Ante*, p. 212, amended. river and harbor act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: *“Provided*, That noNo expense for lands. expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement” Improving Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River, Louisiana:Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River.
La. For maintenance of improvement of channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River and tributaries, and continuing improvement and maintenance of Bayou Plaquemine Brule, $16,200. Inland waterway from Mermentau River to Sabine River, LouisianaWaterway, Mermentau and Sabine Rivers, La. and Tex.*Proviso*.Modified plans. and Texas: Completing improvement, $190,000: *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 and approved by the Secretary of War.
Improving Red River, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma:Red River. Ark., Tex., and Okla. Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Fulton, Arkansas, $75,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance betweenDistribution. Fulton, Arkansas, and the mouth of the Washita River, $42,000; in all $1 17,000. Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvementGalveston Channel, Tex.Thirty-foot channel. and for maintenance 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, $200,000: *Provided*, That at such time as in the discretion of the Secretary of*Proviso*.Extension.
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 submit-ted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session. Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas:Channel, Galveston to Texas City. Continuing improvement and for maintenance in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered thirteen hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions therein specified, $500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Contracts. of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $900,000, exclusive of the amounts heretofore and hereby appropriated.
Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: The Secretary of WarHouston Ship Channel, Tex.Dredging plants authorized.Vol. 36, p. 649. may enter into a contract or contracts for, or construct, two suitable dredging plants, to be used for the maintenance of the channel when completed wider the existing contract authorized by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, to be paid for out of any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made or authorized, together with such additional appropriations as may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $290,000: *Provided*, That a like amount of $200,000, or so much thereof as may*Provisos*.Local contribution. be necessary, being one-half of the estimated cost of said dredging plants, be contributed and furnished by the Harris County Ship Channel Navigation District, to be expended in connection with the $200,000 herein authorized to be appropriated for the purchase or construction of said dredging plants: *Provided further*, That beforeDeposit required. 813 letting the contract for the construction of each dredging plant or beginning the work of its construction, said navigation district shall place to the credit and subject to the order of the Secretary of War. in a United States depository to be designated by him, the sum of $50,000, and shall satisfy him that the remainder of one-half of the cost of said dredging plant will be deposited in like manner from time to time as called for by him.
Improving Port Aransas, Texas: For maintenance, and continuingPort Aransas, Tex, improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $600,000, of which $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended as part payment for the construction of a dredge to replace the United States dredge “GeneralReplacing destroyed dredge.*Provisos*.Public landing place required. C. B.
Comstock,” destroyed by fire: *Provided*, That no work shall be done on that part of the project contemplating the excavation of a twelve-foot channel from the roadstead to the north end of Mustang Island until satisfactory assurances shall have been received by the Secretary of War that a public landing place at that point will be maintained which shall be open to all upon equal terms: *Provided*Transfer of title, etc. *further*, That the title or easements in any land needed in connection with the extension of the dike to be constructed as a part of this improvement shall be vested in the United States free of cost: *And provided further*, That so much of the shoal waters lying between theShoal waters declared nonnavigable. mainland on the one side and Harbor Island and the chain of islands northward thereof on the other side, and northeasterly of the artificial channel extending from Port Aransas through Harbor Island to the town of Aransas Pass, are hereby exempted from the operation of the laws relating to navigable waterways of the United States.
Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance,Port Bolivar, Tex. $50,000. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and forSabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, Tex. maintenance of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $400,000. Improving West Galveston Bay Channel, Trinity River, AnahuacWest Galveston Bay Channel, etc., Tex.
Channel, Oyster Creek, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, Dickinson, Double, and East Bay Bayous, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $25,000, Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement fromBrazos River, Tex.Distribution. Old Washington to Waco by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $250,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, $25,000; in all, $275,000. Improving mouth of Brazos River.
Texas: For maintenance,At mouth. $125,000, of which $100,000, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, may be used as part payment for the construction of a dredge to replace the United States dredge “ General C. B. Comstock, destroyed by fire. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement with aTrinity River, Tex.Locks and dams. view to obtaining a depth of six feet between the mouth and Dallas by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized and locating two additional locks and dams, $255,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work $15,000; in all, $270, 000.
Improving channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas;Channel, Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Tex.Channel, Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Completing improvement and for maintenance, $10,000. Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: For maintenance, $5,000. 814 Improving inland waterway on coast of Texas: For maintenanceTexas inland waterways. of improvement of that section of the waterway between West Galveston Bay and Brazos River, $10,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance between Brazos River and Matagorda Bay, $25,000; and completing improvement and for maintenance of Guadalupe River up to Victoria, $15,000; in all, $50,000.
Improving Cypress Bayou. Texas and Louisiana: For maintenance,Cypress Bayou, Tex. and La. $500. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: ContinuingOuachita River, Ark. and La.Distribution. improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Three, $175,000; for maintenance of improvement by open-channel work up to Camden, $25,000, and from Camden to Arkadelphia, $2,500; in alt, $202,500. Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas and Oklahoma: For maintenanceArkansas River, Pine Bluff, Ark. of improvement, including works at Pine Bluff and the operation of dredging plant, $48,000.
Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas : Completing improvement byProtecting north bank, etc. protecting the north bank thereof in front of the Crawford County Levee, south of Van Buren, in sections eight, nine, and ten in town-ship eight north, range thirty west, which shall be considered extraordinary emergency work, $30,000. This appropriation shall be expended as soon as practicable in continuation of the work now in progress at said point, and under a plan to be prepared by the Chief of Engineers.
Improving Cache River, Arkansas: For maintenance, $2,000.Cache River, Ark. Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: For maintenance ofSaint Francis, etc., Rivers, Ark. improvement of Saint Francis and L’Anguille Rivers and Blackfish Bayou, $7,000. Improving Saline River, Arkansas: For maintenance, $3,000.Saline River, Ark.White River, Ark. Improving White River, Arkansas: For maintenance, $20,000. Improving White River at Devall Bluff, Arkansas: CompletingDevall Bluff. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions therein specified, $8,000.
Improving Black and Current Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: ForBlack and Current Rivers, Ark. and Mo. maintenance, $25,000. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: ForCumberland River, above Nashville, Tenn.Below Nashville. maintenance of improvement by open-channel work, $5,000. Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee: For maintenance of improvement by open-channel work, $5,000. Improving French Broad River, Tennessee: Continuing improvementFrench Broad River, Tenn. and for maintenance of French Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers, $15,000.
Improving Tennessee River, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky:Tennessee River. For maintenance, and continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundredDistribution, and sixty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, as follows: Above Chattanooga, Tennessee, $510,000; between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Browns Island, Alabama, $385,000; between Florence and Riverton, Alabama, $100,000; below Riverton, Alabama, $110,000; in all, $1,105,000.
Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For maintenance, $25,000.Cleveland, Ohio. Improving harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: Continuing improvement,Conneaut, Ohio. $200,000. Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: For maintenance, $500.Port Clinton, Ohio. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: Completing improvement,Toledo, Ohio. $105,000. Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement by the constructionOhio River.Locks and dams. of locks and dams with a view to securing a navigable depth 815 of nine feet, $1,800,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Provisos*.Contracts authorized. 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 $3,200,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That the balances ofBalances available for general project.Vol. 36. p. 654. appropriations and authorizations heretofore made for the construction of individual locks and dams are hereby made available for work in connection with the general project adopted by the river and harbor Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for canalization of the Ohio River 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.
Improving 01 do River: Continuing improvement and for maintenanceOpen-channel work. by open-channel work, $550,000. Improving harbor at Arcadia, Michigan: For maintenance, includingArcadia, Mich. repair of the north pier, $20,000. Improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan: Completing improvement,Cheboygan, Mich. $14,000. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: For maintenance,Frankfort, Mich. $3,000. Harbor of Refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan: For maintenance,Grand Marais, Mich. $20,000.
Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For maintenance,Ludington, Mich. $5,000. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: Completing improvementManistee, Mich. and for maintenance, $312,000. Harbor of Refuge, Marquette Bay, Michigan: For maintenance,Marquette Bay. Mich. $5,000. Improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: For maintenance,Ontonagon, Mich. $9,000. Improving Saint Joseph Harbor and River, Michigan: For maintenance,Saint Joseph, Mich. $6,000. Improving harbor at Saugatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Michigan:Saugatuck and Kalamazoo River, Mich.South Haven, Mich.
For maintenance, $3, 000. Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: For maintenance, $3,000. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: Continuing improvement ofDetroit River, Mich. the channel between Fighting Island and the city of Wyandotte, Michigan, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventeen, Sixty-second Congress, first session, $155,000. Improving Rouge River, Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000.Rouge River, Mich. Improving Clinton River, Michigan:
For maintenance, $10,000.Clinton River, Mich. Improving Saginaw River, Michigan, up to the mouth of the TittabawasseeSaginaw River, Mich. River, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty, Sixty-first Congress,Vol. 36, p. 656. second session, additional to the sums appropriated and authorized to be appropriated therefor in the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $100,000. Improving Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan:
ContinuingSaint Marys River, Mich.New lock. improvement by the construction of a fourth lock, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-four, Sixty-second Congress, first session, $500,000. Improving Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin:Menominee Harbor and River, Mich, and Wis. For maintenance, $24,000, of which amount not exceeding two-thirds may be expended for the improvement of that portion of said river above and to the westward of Ogden Street Bridge, in accord since with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and nineteen, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session. 816 Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin:
Continuing improvementAshland, Wis. and for maintenance, $40,000. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Green Bay, Wis. $14,000. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Kenosha, Wis. $24,000. Improving harbor at Kewaunee,Kewaunee, Wis. Wisconsin: For maintenance, $6,000. Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Port Washington, Wis. $4,500. Improving harbor at Port Wing, Wisconsin: Continuing improvementPort Wing, Wis. and for maintenance, $10,000.
Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Completing improvementSheboygan, Wis, in accordance with the modified project recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven, $237,000. Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Two Rivers, Wis. $4,000. Improving Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement fromFox River, Wis. Depere up to Portage, including maintenance of improvement of Wolf River and of the harbors heretofore improved on Lake Winnebago, $20,000.
Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin:Duluth and Superior. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $375,280. Improving Warroad Harbor, Minnesota: For maintenance, $2,000.Warroad, Minn. Improving Zippel Bay, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota: For maintenance,Zippel Bay, Minn. $1,000. Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota:Red River of the North, Minn, and N. Dak. For maintenance, $7,500. Improving Indiana Harbor, Indiana: Completing improvement andIndiana Harbor, Ind, for maintenance by dredging, $25,000; continuing improvement by the construction of a breakwater, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $200,000; in all, $225,000.
Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For maintenance,Calumet River, Ill. and Ind.*Proviso*.Part of old channel abandoned as navigable water. $20,000: *Provided*, That the portion of the old channel of the Calumet River in sections eighteen and nineteen, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen east, of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, which lies outside of the new channel lines established by the United States and shown on “Map of the Calumet River, Illinois, from Lake Michigan to Calumet Lake, to accompany report of W.
G. Ewing, United States attorney, to the Attorney General, respecting cession of right of way for improvement of said river under Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,”Vol. 28, p. 143. and which lies outside of the exterior limits of the turning basin to be established on said Calumet River in said sections, is hereby abandoned as navigable water of the United States from and after the time when the United States shall have secured title to the land necessary for the establishment of the turning basin at some point, to be approved by the Chief of Engineers, between One hundred and thirteenth Street and One hundred and seventeenth Street in the city of Chicago.
Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Of the amount appropriatedChicago, III.*Ante*, p. 217. in the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois,Repair of outer breakwater, etc. $100,000, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, may be allotted, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the repair of the existing outer breakwater and for maintenance dredging in the harbor; and the said sum, if so allotted, is hereby made immediately available, 817 and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to report to the House, asReport on all encroachments. early as practicable, all encroachments and obstructions in the Chicago River and all its branches, together with such encroachments as have been made in and along the lake front between Lincoln Park and the Indiana State line.
Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, $18,500.Waukegan, Ill. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For maintenance, $10,000.Chicago River, Ill. Improving Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and forIllinois River, Ill. maintenance below Copperas Creek, $100,000. Improving Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth ofMississippi River Commission.Mississippi River.Nine-foot channelHead of Passes to the Ohio. the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission:
Continuing improvement with a view to securing a permanent channel depth of nine feet, $6,000,000, 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 improvement of the river, for the building of levees, which shall be considered extraordinaryLevees up to Cape Girardeau, Mo. emergency work, and which may be done, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, by hired labor or otherwise, and without regard to limitation of hours, between the Head of Passes and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and for surveys, including the survey from theSurveys.
Head of Passes to the headwaters of the river, in such manner as in their opinion shall best improve navigation and promote the interests of commerce at all stages of the river: *Provided*, That of the money*Provisos*.Dredge boats, etc. 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 operation of the same: *Provided further*, That the watercourses connected with saidConnecting water-courses.Allotment river and the harbors upon it, now under the control of the Mississippi River Commission and under improvement, together with the mouth of the Yazoo River and harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi, which, withVicksburg harbor. any unexpended balance, arc hereby transferred to, and placed under the control and jurisdiction of, such commission, may, in the discretion of said commission, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments for improvements now under way or hereafter to be undertaken, to be paid for from the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated, $100,000,Revetment work, Helena, Ark. or such sum as may be necessary, shall be expended for revetting and otherwise improving the right bank of said river at and near Helena, Arkansas, for the purpose of preventing a breach in the levee by the caving of the bank at that point and for promoting the interest of navigation.
The Mississippi River Commission shall make an examination ofExamination from Cape Girardeau to Rock Island, for improving navigation, etc. the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Rock Island, Illinois, with a view to such improvement as will at the same time promote navigation, develop water power, and protect property adjacent to said river from damage by floods; and in making such examination consideration shall be given and recommendations made as to plans for cooperation by the localities affected; and for the purposeLocal cooperation. of such examination and for the building of such levees between said points upon the river in aid of navigation, as may be found necessary or desirable by the commission and approved by the Chief of Engineers, the sum of $200,000 is hereby appropriated.
Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River toFrom the Ohio to the Missouri. and including the mouth of the Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $1,000,000. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri RiverFrom the Missouri to Minneapolis. to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $1,500,000. 818 Improving Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Minneapolis,Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement, $185,000.
Improving the Mississippi River between Winnibigoshish andReservoirs at head-waters. Pokegama Reservoirs, and the Leech River from its mouth to Leech Lake Dam, Minnesota, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and twenty-three, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $116,000. Improving Missouri River: Continuing improvement and forMissouri River.Kansas City to mouth, for six-foot channel. maintenance, with a view to securing a permanent six-foot channel between Kansas City and the mouth of the river, $2,000,000.
Improving Missouri River; For improvement and maintenanceKansas City to Fort Benton. from Kansas City to Sioux City, $150,000, of which amount at least $75,000 may be expended for such bank revetment as, in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers, may be in the interests of navigation; continuing improvement and for maintenance from Sioux City to Fort Benton, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, first session, $175,000, of which amount, because of present emergency, anEmergency revetment work. amount not exceeding $75,000 may be expended for such bank revetment above Elk Point as in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers may be necessary to extend and protect existing revetments and regulate channel flow in the interest of navigation; in all, 8325,000.
Improving Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvementGasconade River, Mo. and for maintenance, $10,000. Improving Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement andOsage River, Mo. for maintenance, $15,000. Improving Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California: For maintenanceHumboldt Harbor and Bay, Cal. of improvement of the channel in front of Eureka, $20,00(p Improving Los Angeles Harbor, California: Completing improvementLos Angeles Harbor, Cal. of the thirty-foot channel by dredging, $101,000; completing improvement of the east and west basins, $20,000; in all, $121,000. improving harbor at Oakland, California:
Continuing improvement,Oakland, Cal. and for maintenance, $275,000: *Provided*, That if in the judgment*Proviso*.Dredging plant. 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. Improving harbor at San Diego, California: For maintenance,San Diego, Cal.New project. $35,000; completing improvement in accordance with plan numbered one in report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $208,786; in all, $243,786.
Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For maintenance of channelSan Pablo Bay, Cal. through Pinole Shoal, $40,000. Improving Mokelumne River, California: For maintenance, $1,000.Mokelumne River. Cal.Petaluma Creek and Napa River, Cal. Improving Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California: For maintenance, $18,000. Improving Redwood Creek, California: For maintenance, $3,000.Redwood Creek. Cal.Sacramento and Feather Rivers, Cal. Improving Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including improvement above Sacramento to Red Bluff in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-six, Sixty-second Congress, first session, $40,000. Improving San Joaquin River, California: For maintenance, includingSan Joaquin River, Cal.Channels, etc. Fremont Channel, McLeod Lake, Stockton and Mormon Channels, and the completed works for the rectification of said Stockton and Mormon Channels, $26,500; completing improvement of San Joaquin River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-four, Sixtieth Congress, second session, 8159,632: *Provided*, That no part of the latter sum shall beProviso.Title to cut-offs. expended until title to the land required for the necessary cut-offs 819 shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost; in all, $186,132.
Improving Suisun Channel, California: Completing improvementSuisun Channel, Cal.*Proviso*.Modified project. and for maintenance, $14,500: *Provided*, That the existing project may be modified if, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, the same shall seem desirable and such modified project can be completed for the same or less cost. Improving harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: For maintenance of theCoos Bay, Oreg. Stated channels in Coos Bay and equipping and operating the bar dredge heretofore authorized, $80,000.
And the Secretary of War isUse of local contributions for harbor improvements. authorized and directed to use any additional moneys that may be placed at his disposal by the Port of Coos Bay, or by any other organization or by individuals for the improvement of the inner harbor of Coos Bay, and the said Secretary is also authorized, in his discretion, to use any Government plant available in connection therewith at such times as it may not be needed and employed on other work authorized by Congress.
Improving Nehalem Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement,Nehalem Bay, Oreg. $100,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended*Proviso*.Local cooperation required.*Ante*, p. 220. until the conditions relative to cooperation on the part of local interests, prescribed by the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall have been complied with. Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon, in accordance with theTillamook Bay and Bar, Oreg. report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $100,000: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Contracts.
Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, not exceeding in the aggregate $614,000, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated, to be paid for, to an amount not exceeding $207,000, from appropriations which may from time to time be made by law, and to a further amount not exceeding $407,000 fromAmount from local interests. funds to be furnished by local interests; the total expenditure from funds of the United States and from those of local interests to be equal in amount: *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriations hereinNot available until deposit of, by local interests. and heretofore made shall be available for expenditure and no contract shall be entered into under the foregoing authorization until the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that said local interests have made provisions for furnishing the whole of said sum of $407,000 and have placed the same to his credit and subject to his order in a bank to be designated by him.
Improving Coquille River, Oregon: For maintenance, $6,000.Coquille River, Oreg. Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon: For maintenance, $5,000.Siuslaw River, Oreg. Improving Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon: For maintenanceWillamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oreg. of improvement of Yamhill River and of Willamette River above Oregon City, $40,000, of which amount an amount not exceedingRevetment near Independence. $10,000 may be expended in construction of a revetment near Independence, Oregon, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen, Sixty-second Congress, first session, if in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers the same is necessary in the interests of navigation; completing improvement ofPortland to Oregon City.
Willamette River from Portland to Oregon City in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, $12,000; in all, $52,000. improving Yaquina River, Oregon: Completing improvement inYaquina River, Oreg. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and nineteen, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $28,800.
Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivera below Portland,Columbia and Willamette Rivers.Below Portland. Oregon: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $160,000. 820 Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington:At the mouth. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including repairs and operation of dredge, $1,000,000. Improving Columbia River at Cascades, Oregon: Continuing improvement,Cascades. $100,000. Improving Columbia River between the foot of The Dalles RapidsThe Dalles Rapids to Celilo Falls. and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington:
Continuing improvement, $1,200,000. Improving Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to theAbove Celilo Falls. mouth of Snake River, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, $60,000. Improving Columbia River between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls,Bridgeport to Kettle Falls, Wash. Washington: Completing improvement, $40,000. Improving Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho: ContinuingSnake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. improvement and for maintenance up to Pittsburg Landing, Oregon, $25,000.
Improving Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington: ForGrays Harbor and Chehalis River, Wash. maintenance of improvement of inner portion of Grays Harbor and of Chehalis River up to Montesano, $30,000. Improving Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Washington: ContinuingCowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Wash. improvement and for maintenance, including improvement of Lewis River and the North and East Forks of Lewis River in accordance with the plan recommended in House Document Numbered Twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, first session, $23,500.
Improving Grays River, Washington: For maintenance, $500.Grays River, Wash. Improving Skagit River, Washington: For maintenance, $10,000.Skagit River, Wash. Improving Puget Sound, Washington: Continuing improvementPuget Sound, Wash. and for maintenance of Puget Sound and its tributary waters, $25,000. Improving waterway connecting Port Townsend Bay and Oak Bay,Waterway. Port Townsend and Oak Bays, Wash. Washington : Completing improvement, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $62,500.
Improving waterway connecting Puget Sound with Lakes UnionWaterway. Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, Wash.*Proviso*.Dredging. and Washington: For maintenance of completed works, $5,000: *Provided*, That of the amounts heretofore appropriated or authorized so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used for dredging in the channel below the lock to the depth recommended in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-three, Sixtieth Congress, first session.
Improving harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii: Continuing improvementHonolulu. and for maintenance, $225,000: *Provided*, That if in the judgment of*Proviso*.Dredging plant. 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. Appropriations made for the respective works herein named, or soMaintenance of existing works. much thereof as shall 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.
For emergencies: To provide for the restoration of channels orEmergencies. river and harbor improvements, heretofore or hereafter establishedUse of balances. or made by the Government, where, by reason of emergency, the usual depth of such channel or customary use of such improvement can not be maintained, and there is no sufficient fund available for such restoration, the existing balances of similar emergency appropriations underVol. 33, p. 1146; Vol. 34. p. 1110: Vol. 35. p. 815;
Vol. 6, p. 667. the Acts of March third, nineteen hundred and five, March second, nineteen hundred and seven, March third, nineteen hundred and nine, and June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be available for allotment and use by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That in no*Proviso*. 821 case shall such allotment be made unless recommended by the localRecommendations required. engineer having such channel or improvement in charge and by the Chief of Engineers, respectively: *Provided further*, That for no singleMaximum allotment channel or improvement shall a sum be allotted greater than $10,000 per year per locality, nor shall any portion of such appropriation be allotted unless the same is necessary in the interest of navigation to protect and preserve the existing Government work.
Surveys and examinations provided for in this section shall, unlessSurveys to be 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. Sec. 2. That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies forExaminations, surveys, etc. rivers and harbors, for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of $250,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Specific authority required. preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution shall be made: *Provided further*, That after the regular or formalSupplementary reports restricted. reports made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless ordered by a con-current resolution of Congress: *And provided further*, That the GovernmentSpecial authority to begin work required. 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.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to causeAllotment of preliminary examinations. preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the following-named localities, and a sufficient sum to pay the cost thereof may be allotted from the amount provided in tins section: Thomaston Harbor, Maine, with a view to securing greater depthMaine. and width of basin. Bagaduce River, Maine. Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, with a view to securing increasedMassachusetts. width and depth of channel from Mystic River to President Roads.
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, with a view to the removal of Cleveland ledge and other obstructions to such depth as will be suitable for vessels using the Cape Cod Canal; also with a view to providing a depth of twenty-five feet up to the dredged channel in the harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Harbor of Marion, Massachusetts. Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, with a view to providing a channel twelve feet deep at mean low water from the outer harbor to the mouth of the South River.
Lynn Harbor and Saugus River, Massachusetts, with a view to providing a channel fifteen feet deep up to the bridge at East Saugus. Malden River, Massachusetts, with a view to a modification of the project. Taunton River, Massachusetts, from its mouth to the head of navigation at Weir Village, with a view of securing a channel of twenty-five feet depth, or of such depth as may be considered advisable in the interest of commerce. Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts, with a view to a modification of the project.
Connecticut River from Hartford, Connecticut, to Holyoke,Connecticut. Massachusetts. Fivemile River Harbor, Connecticut. Housatonic River, Connecticut. Johnsons Creek, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Stamford Harbor, Connecticut, with a view to securing increased depth and removal of obstructions to navigation. 822 Buffalo Harbor, New York, with a view to securing a channel fromNew York. the outer harbor at or near a point opposite the middle entrance to connect with the Buffalo River at or near Louisiana Street; also with a view to the enlargement of the anchorage basin in the outer harbor to meet the demands of commerce.
New York Harbor, New York, with a view to securing additional width in Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels. New York Harbor, New York, upper bay, with a view to improving channel opposite anchorage grounds. Plattsburg Harbor and vicinity, on Lake Champlain, for a deep-water connection with suitable terminals that are to be established at Plattsburg, New York, in connection with the New York State Barge Canal. Rondout Harbor, New York, from the Hudson River to the head of navigation.
Harbor at Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, New York, with a view to securing a depth of twenty-three feet. Westchester Creek, New York, with a view to providing a channel width of one hundred and fifty feet up to the point where it is crossed by the Fort Schuyler Road. Manasquan River, New Jersey.New Jersey. Raccoon Creek, New Jersey, including the construction of a dike or jetty at the mouth if necessary. Delaware River at Camden, New Jersey, from Cooper River to Newton Creek.
Broadkill River, Delaware.Delaware. Delaware breakwater and harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware. Leipsic River, Delaware. Big Annemessex River, Maryland, with a view to providing a suitableMaryland. channel from Clear Creek Point to Muddy Creek Point. Black Walnut Harbor, Maryland. Ferry Cove, an arm of Eastern Bay, Maryland. Mouth of Fishing Creek, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Kent Island Narrows, Maryland. Tilghman Island Harbor, Maryland, with a view to a modification of the existing project.
Wicomico River, Maryland. Blackwater River, Virginia, with a view to the removal of a shoalVirginia. at the mouth. Coan River, Virginia, with a view to deepening and widening the channel at and near its main entrance. Harbor at Norfolk and Portsmouth, and approaches thereto, and channel to Newport News, Virginia, with a view to securing increased width of channel and providing additional anchorage area. Scotts Creek, Norfolk, Virginia. Harbor at Saxis, Virginia. Occoquan Creek, Virginia.
Ware River, Virginia, between Hockley wharf and the Ware-house Landing, with a view to improvement by dredging to a suit-able navigable depth. Inland waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, with a view to determining whether there should be any change in that part of the route from Alligator River southwardly to Neuse River from that heretofore recommended in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and heretofore adopted, and whether it would be desirable to extend the route from Alligator River to Pungo River, thence to Goose Creek, thence from the head of Goose Creek to Jones Bay, and thence to Neuse River, or whether any modification of said part of the route is desirable. 823 Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, with a view to providing aNorth Carolina. suitable turning basin and anchorage area in front of the town of Beaufort.
Manteo Bay, North Carolina, including its approaches, and ex-tending to the upper limits of the town of Manteo. Newport River, North Carolina, from its mouth to the head of navigation, or as far as may be advisable. Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina, for a distance of about three miles above Hilt on Bridge. Trent River, North Carolina, with a view to providing a depth of twelve feet from Newbern to Pollocksville. Thoroughfare Bay, North Carolina, from Core Sound to Cedar Bay near the mouth of Neuse River, Pamlico Sound.
Pembroke Creek, North Carolina, from its mouth up to the United States Fish Station. Channel of Little Peedee River at Williams Landing, SouthSouth Carolina Carolina. Santee River, South Carolina. Jeremy Creek, South Carolina, from Morrisons Wharf to Morrisons Bridge, with a view to providing a depth of four feet and a width of sixty feet. Inland waterway from Beaufort, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia. Inland waterway from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia.
Brunswick Harbor, Georgia, with a view to securing increasedGeorgia. depth of channel. Fig Island, or Screven Ferry, Cut connecting the forks of the Savannah River at Savannah, Georgia. Generals Cut, near Darien, Georgia. Saint Marys River, Georgia, with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty-two feet from deep water at its junction with Cumberland Sound up said river to the western corporate limits of the city of Saint Marys. Savannah Harbor, Georgia, with a view to providing an adequate turning basin. .
Savannah River from Savannah to Augusta, Georgia, with a view to securing increaser depth of channel. Savannah River at and above Augusta, Georgia. Channel to East Pass from Apalachicola River, Florida, by way ofFlorida. Crooked Channel with a view to providing suitable ship channel. Canal from Saint Johns River, Florida, to Lake Beresford with a view to making a cut-off from the river to Lake Beresford near De Land River landing. Clearwater Harbor and Big Pass, Florida, with a view to securing a channel with suitable depth and width from the Gulf of Mexico to a point at or near the town of Clearwater.
Harbor at Tampa, Florida, with a view to securing increased depth and width in the channel from the Gulf of Mexico through Tampa and Hillsboro Bays to the head of the estuary in the city of Tampa. Hillsboro River, Florida, between the Tampa Electric Company’s dam and Crystal Springs. Key West, Florida, for a harbor of refuge and a safe anchorage for vessels. Ochlockonee and Crooked Rivers, Florida. Crooked Channel, Florida. Mosquito Inlet, Florida, with a view to securing a channel with suitable depth and width from the Atlantic Ocean to a point at or near the town of New Smyrna.
Inland waterway from Pensacola Bay, Florida, to Mobile Bay,Alabama. Alabama. 824 Shell Creek, De Soto County, Florida, from Hickman to Bermont. Mobile Harbor and bar, Alabama, with a view to securing such additional depth and width of channel as the interests of commerce may require. Paint Rock River, Alabama, for a distance of twelve miles above its mouth. Canal leading from Centennial Lake at Vicksburg, Mississippi, toMississippi. the Mississippi River, with a view to the preservation of the channel.
Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana.Louisiana. Mouth of Brazos River up to Freeport, Texas, with a view toTexas. securing a depth of twenty-five feet. Channel at Seadrift, Texas, with a view to providing a suitable connection with the Texas coast waterway. Arkansas River about five miles below Dardanelle, Arkansas, andArkansas. at or near what was known as the old Gleason and Cravens mercantile establishment, with a view to the improvement of the navigation of said river. Arkansas River, just below little Rock, Arkansas, and around Fourche Island, with a view to the improvement of navigation.
Licking River, Kentucky, with a view to the prevention of a cut-offKentucky. at the town of Farmers, consideration being given to any tender of cooperation on the part of local interests. Ohio River above the dam at Louisville, Kentucky, with a view to protection against overflow caused by Government work. Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, with a view to the completion of the eastOhio. breakwater and shore arm, including any plan for cooperation on the part of the city of Cleveland. Sandusky Harbor, Ohio.
Grand River, Michigan, from its mouth to Fulton Street Bridge,Michigan. Grand Rapids, with a view to changing the existing project so as to insure a depth of fifteen feet. Black Lake Harbor, Michigan, with a view to obtaining a uniform depth of twenty-one feet from Lake Michigan to the turning basin opposite the city of Holland. Au Gres River, Michigan. Harbor at Empire, Michigan. Keweenaw waterway, Portage Lake Ship Canal, Michigan, with a view to making a cut-off at Princess Point.
Mackinac Harbor, Michigan, with a view to lengthening the break-water. Muskegon Harbor, Michigan, with a view to closing the gap in the south revetment. Pere Marquette River, Michigan, from deep water in the harbor of Ludington, following the south branch of said river, to the State road and iron bridge, and thence to the city of Scottville, with a view to the deepening of the channel by dredging and other improvements. Port Huron Harbor, Michigan, with a view to constructing some compensatory structure in the Saint Clair River fronting the city of Port Huron, between the foot of Lake Huron and a point below the Grand Trunk tunnel, that the city of Port Huron may have a depth of water not less than twenty feet from the present dock line out to the thread of the stream.
Saugatuck Harbor, Michigan, with a view to determining whether additional works are necessary or desirable to maintain the channel of the existing project. Fox River, at Kaukauna, Wisconsin, consideration being given toWisconsin. any proposition involving cooperation on the part of local interests. Harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a view to securing a channel depth of twenty-one feet. 825 Saint Louis River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with a view to redredgingMinnesota. the artificial channel in said river from the foot of Peterson Islands near Fond du Lac to Dubray Creek.
Red Lake, Minnesota, with a view to providing suitable harbor facilities at or near Redby, or at such other point or points on the lake as may be desirable. Harbor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a view to increased harbor facilities, including a turning basin. Channel of Illinois River at Meredosia, Illinois.Illinois. Little Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana, from the junction up toIndiana. Blue Island. Missouri River at Kansas City, Kansas: The provision of the riverKansas.Examination of Missouri River.*Ante*, p. 229. amended. and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, authorizing preliminary examination and survey of Missouri River, from the mouth of the Kansas River to a point at or near the western limits of Kansas City, Kansas, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
“Missouri River, from the mouth of the Kansas River to a pointExtension of examination. at or near where the west line of Kansas City, Kansas, extended, intersects the Missouri River.” Berkeley Harbor, California, with a view to the development andCalifornia. completion of the Berkeley inner harbor. Feather River, California, from its mouth up to Marysville with a view to deepening and straightening the channel and to determining what other improvements are necessary in the interests of navigation, consideration being given to any proposition for cooperation on the part of State or other local interests.
Colorado River, California and Arizona, with a view of developing and improving navigation. Inner channels of Humboldt Bay, California, Napa River, California, with a view to making the necessary cut-offs, consideration being given to any tender of cooperation on the part of local interests. Harbor of refuge at Point Arena, or other locality on the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay, California. San Leandro Bay, California, with a view to establishing at West San Leandro a deep-water channel to San Francisco Bay.
Mokelumne River, California, at and between the junctions of the North and South Forks thereof, and the junctions of the North Fork thereof with Snodgrass Slough, and the junctions of said North Fork of said river and said slough with the Sacramento River. Alsea Bay and bar, Oregon,Oregon. Grays Harbor bar, Washington. Nehalem Bay and River, Oregon, including any plan for cooperation on the part of local interests. Willapa Harbor and the bar entrance thereto. Snohomish River, Washington.Washington.
Stilaguamish River, Washington. Lake River, including Bachelors Slough, Washington. Coeur d’Alene River, Idaho.Idaho. The Apoon Mouth of the Yukon River, Alaska, from the improvementAlaska. now under way to deep water. Kalihi Harbor and Channel, Honolulu, Hawaii.Hawaii. Sec. 3. That in all cases where preliminary examinations and surveysReport on advisability. are authorized 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 unless a survey or estimate is expressly directed.
If upon such preliminaryNo further action if report unfavorable. examination the proposed improvement is not deemed advisable, no further action shall be taken thereon without the further direction of 826 Congress: but in case the report shall be favorable to such proposedSurvey, etc., if favorable. improvement, or that a survey and estimate should be made to determine the advisability of improvement, the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to cause surveys to be made, and the cost and advisability to be reported to Congress.
And such reportsProsecution of work. containing plans and estimates shall also contain a statement as to*Proviso*.Additional data required in reports. the rate at which the work should be prosecuted: *Provided*, That every report submitted to Congress, 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 also contain such data as it may be practicable to secure in regard to the following subjects:
(a)The existence and establishment of both private and publicTerminal and trans-fer facilities contiguous to projects. terminal and transfer facilities contiguous to the navigable water proposed to be improved, and, if water terminals have been constructed, the general location, description, and use made of the same, with an opinion as to their adequacy and efficiency, whether private or public If no public terminals have been constructed, or if theyNecessity for, If none exist, etc. are inadequate in number, there shall be included hi the report an opinion in general terms as to the necessity, number, and appropriate location of the same, and also the necessary relations of such proposed terminals to the development of commerce.
(b)The development and utilization of water power for industrialWater-power development. and commercial purposes.
(c)Such other subjects as may be properly connected with suchOther connected subjects.*Provisos*.Coordination with navigation essential. project: *Provided*, That in the investigation and study of these questions consideration shall be given only to their bearing upon the improvement of navigation, to the possibility and desirability of their being coordinated in a logical and proper manner with improvements for navigation to lessen the cost of such improvements and to compensate the Government for expenditures made in the interest of navigation, and to their relation to the development and regulation of commerce: *Provided further*, That the investigation and study ofInvestigation of existing works, etc. these questions may, upon review by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors when called for as provided by law, be extended to any work of improvement under way and to any locality the examination and survey of which has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, authorized by Congress. All reports on examinations and surveys which may be preparedPrinting of reports during recess. 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. Sec. 4. That all reports on examinations and surveys authorizedReview of reports by Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.Vol. 32, p. 372. by law shall be reviewed by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors as provided for in section three of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and all special reports ordered by Congress shall, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, be reviewed in like manner by said board; and the saidExaminations for Senate and House committees, etc. board shall also, on request by resolution of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate or the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, submitted to the Chief of Engineers, examine and review the report of any examination or survey made pursuant to any Act or resolution of Congress, and report, thereon through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, who shall submit his conclusions thereon as in other cases: *Provided*, That in no*Provisos*.Scope of reports limited. case shall the board, in its report thus called for by committee resolution, extend the scope of the project contemplated in the original report upon which its examination and review has been requested, or in the provision of law authorizing the original examination or 827 survey: *Provided further*, That said board shall consist of seven members,Board reduced.*Ante*, p. 232, amended. a majority of whom shall be of rank not less than lieutenant colonel. Sec. 5. That section five of the river and harbor Act approvedRiver and harbor surveys.*Ante*, p. 232, amended. July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed toCompilation of river and harbor appropriations directed. have prepared and transmitted to Congress at the earliest practicable date a compilation of preliminary examinations, surveys, and appropriation for worlds of river and harbor improvement similar in general form and subject matter to that which was prepared in accordance with the Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundredVol. 32, p. 875. and two, and printed in House Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Extended to end of ted Congress. That the report to be prepared in accordance with this provision shall be a revised edition of the report printed in the document above mentioned, extended to the end of the Sixty-second Congress.” " Sec. 6. That the first paragraph of section six of the river andRiver and harbor laws.*Ante*, p. 233, amended. harbor act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 6. That there shall be printed three thousand copies ofCompilation of river and harbor laws to be printed to include 62d Congress.Distribution. a revised edition of the laws of the United States relating to the improvement of rivers and harbors passed between and including August eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and the close of the third session of the Sixty-second Congress, of which six hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand four hundred copies for the use of the House, and one thousand copies for the use of the War Department. Said compilation shall be printed under the direction of the Secretary of War.” " Sec. 7. That where separate works or items are consolidated in thisAllotment of consolidated works. or subsequent river and harbor Acts and an aggregate amount is appropriated therefor the amounts appropriated shall, unless otherwise expressed, be expended in securing maintenance and improvement according to the respective projects adopted by Congress, after giving due regard to the respective needs of traffic. The allotments to the respective works 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. AnyBalances carried to authorized works. balances remaining to the credit of the consolidated items shall be carried to the credit of the respective aggregate amounts appropriated for the consolidated items. Sec. 8. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receiveContributions in furtherance of projects authorized. from private parties such funds as may be contributed by them to be expended in connection with funds appropriated by the United States for any authorized work of public improvement of rivers and harbors, whenever such work and expenditure may be considered by the Chief of Engineers as advantageous to the interests of navigation. Sec. 9. That in the preparation of projects under this and subsequentChannel depthsand dimensions defined. river and harbor acts, unless otherwise expressed, the channel depths referred to shall be understood to signify the depth at mean lower low water in tidal waters, and the mean depth during the month of lowest water in the navigation season in rivers and nontidal channels, and the channel dimensions specified shall be understood to admit of such increase at the entrances, bends, sidings, and turning places as may be necessary to allow of the free movement of boats. Sec. 10. That the provisions of river and harbor Acts heretoforeProjects abandoned. passed providing for the prosecution of the work of improvement of 828 the following-named localities are hereby repealed, and any amounts heretofore appropriated for said projects and not required for the payment of outstanding obligations incurred in connection therewith shall be carried to the surplus fund of the Treasury of the United States, to wit: Okanogan River, Washington.Okanogan River, Wash.Pend Oreille River, Wash.Waterway, lockport. Ill, to the Mississippi.Board of engineers continued.Vol. 36, p. 659. Pend Oreille River, Washington. Sec. 11. That the appropriation of $50,000 provided in the river and harbor Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, to pay the salaries and expenses of the board of engineers appointed under authority of said Act to consider and report upon the feasibility of a waterway from Lockport, Illinois, to the mouth of the Illinois River, and related matters, is hereby made available for paying the salaries and expenses of said board, including all necessary clerical and other personal services, from November first, nineteen hundred and ten, until the duties of said board shall have been completed and final report submitted to Congress. Approved, March 4, 1913.
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