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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · July 25, 1912 · Chapter 253

Chapter 253. 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. 253.— An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.July 25, 1912.[[H. R. 21477](/us/bill/62/hr/21477).][[Public, No. 241](/us/pl/62/241).] *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 Boothbay Harbor, Maine: Completing improvement inBoothbay Harbor, Me. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eighty-two, Sixty-second Congress, first session, eighteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine, in accordance with the reportPortland, Me. submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and eighty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving South Bristol Harbor, Maine, completing improvementSouth Bristol Harbor, Me. in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-four, Sixty-second Congress, second session, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving harbor at Sullivan Falls, Maine: Continuing improvement,Sullivan Falls, Me. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: For maintenance andBurlington, Vt. repair of breakwater, two thousand dollars. Improving Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont:Lake Champlain, N. Y. and Vt. For maintenance, six thousand dollars. Improving Pollock Rip Channel through the shoals lying nearNantucket Sound, Mass. the entrance to Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts, by dredging theBoston, Mass. channel of Chelsea Creek in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-two, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, eighty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Lynn, Mass. thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Malden River, Massachusetts: Completing improvementMalden River, Mass. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-seven, Sixty-second Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, eighty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts,New Bedford and Fairhaven, Mass. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-two, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and upon the conditions therein prescribed, fifty-six thousand six hundred and ten dollars. 202 Improving Mystic River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvementMystic River, Mass. below the mouth of Island End River, fifty thousand dollars. Improving the harbor of refuge, Block Island, Rhode Island, inBlock Island, R.
I.Harbor of refuge. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and twenty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Branford, Connecticut: ForBranford, Conn. maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving West River (New Haven Harbor), Connecticut: ForWest River, Conn. construction and maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-five, Sixty-second Congress, second session, fifty-four thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Completing improvementNew Haven, Conn. of channels in Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twenty-six, Sixty-second Congress, first session, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Southport, Connecticut: Completing improvementSouthport, Conn. in accordance with the modified project recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut: For maintenance ofConnecticut River, Conn. improvement above Hartford, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvementHousatonic River, Conn. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Mystic River, Connecticut: For maintenance,Mystic River, Conn. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and fifty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York, in accordance with theBuffalo, N. Y. report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: For maintenance,Flushing Bay, N. Y. four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mattituck, New York: Continuing improvement,Mattituck, N. Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance,New York Harbor.Ambrose Channel, N.
Y. including Ambrose Channel, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improvement,Ogdensburg, N. Y. twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvementOswego, N. Y. in accordance with plan A and for maintenance, eighty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement,Port Chester, N. Y. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Jefferson, New York: ContinuingPort Jefferson, N.
Y. improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: For maintenance, elevenRondout, N. Y. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: Continuing improvementSaugerties. N. Y. and for maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Mamaroneck, New York, in accordance withMamaroneck, N. Y. the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, third session, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That any necessary easements*Proviso*.Right of way, etc. for right of way and for the disposition of dredged material on Harbor Island be furnished by local interests free or cost to the United States.
Improving Sheepshead Bay, New York; Completing improvementSheepshead Bay, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Num203 bered Nine hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. Improving East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement,East Chester Creek, N. Y. ten thousand dollars. Removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, New York:East River and Hell Gate, N. Y. Continuing improvement, including work at the Middle Ground and in the channel between North Brother and South Brother Islands, one hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement,Harlem River, N. Y. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Newtown Creek, New York: For maintenance, fifteenNewtown Creek, N. Y. thousand dollars. Improving Niagara River, New York: Completing improvementNiagara River, N. Y. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and forty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Improving Jamaica Bay, New York, and entrance thereto in accordanceJamaica Bay, N. Y. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and eighty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dollars, from which amount the Secretary ofPayment to New York City for dredging. War may reimburse 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*,*Proviso*.Limit.
That such cost does not exceed eight cents per cubic yard. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For maintenanceArthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. of improvement of Arthur Kill and the waters connecting Raritan Bay with New York Harbor, including channel north of Shooters Island, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Absecon Inlet, New Jersey, in accordance with theAbsecon Inlet, N. J. report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-five, Sixty-first Congress, third session, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, of which amount so much as may be necessaryDredge.*Proviso*.Contract. may be used for the construction of a dredge: *Provided*, That if, m the opinion of the Secretary of War, dredges of a suitable character to do the work at Absecon Inlet are readily obtainable for doing the work by contract at reasonable rates, the amount herein appropriated shall become immediately available for the prosecution or such work.
Improving Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek, Raritan and SouthReport Harbor, Rivers, Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, and Cheesequake Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; completing improvement of South River, New Jersey, between Bissetts and Old Bridge, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twenty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, eighty-seven thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, ten thousandRaritan Bay, N. J. dollars. Improving Absecon Creek, New Jersey: Completing improvementAbsecon Creek, N. J. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-one, Sixty-second Congress, first session, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, threeAlloway Creek,N. J. thousand dollars. Improving Cohansey River, New Jersey: For maintenance, threeCohansey River, N.
J. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cooper River (Creek), New Jersey: ContinuingCooper River, N. J. improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. 204 Improving Hackensack River, New Jersey, in accordance withHackensack River, N. J. the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mantua Creek, New Jersey; Continuing improvementMantua Creek, N. J. and for maintenance, three thousand dollars.
Improving Maurice River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Maurice River, N. J. twenty thousand dollars. Improving Newark Bay and Passaic River, New Jersey, in accordanceNewark Bay and Passaic River, N. J. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, five thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For maintenance of improvementPassaic River, N. J. above the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge, live thousand dollars.
Improving Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvementRaccoon Creek, N. J. and for maintenance, four thousand dollars. Improving Salem River, New Jersey: For maintenance, five thousandSalem River, N. J. dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance, tenShrewsbury River, N. J. thousand dollars. Improving Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, one thousandToms River, N. J. dollars. Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, sixWoodbridge Creek, N.
J. thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River at Trenton, New Jersey, in accordanceDelaware River.Trenton, N. J. 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, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware:Philadelphia to the sea. Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, one million three hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Leipsic River, Delaware, in accordance with the reportLeipsic River, Del. submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-four, Sixty-first Congress, second session. Any unexpended balance of appropriation heretofore made for the improvement of Leipsic River, or so much thereof as may be required, may be expended for making cut-offs numbered one and five: *Provided*, That the land*Proviso*.Land for cut-offs, etc. required for making said cut-offs, or easements therein, shall be furnished free of cost to the United States, and the United States shall be released from all claims for damages arising from the proposed diversion of the stream.
Improving Leipsic River, Delaware, in accordance with reportLeipsic River, Del. submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and upon the condition specified in said report, nineteen thousand six hundred dollars. Improving Little River, Delaware, in accordance with the reportLittle River. Del. submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and upon the condition specified in said report, fourteen thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware, in accordance with theWilmington, Del. report submitted in House Document Numbered three hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which amount so much as may be necessary may be used for the purchase or construction of a dredging plant toDredging plant. be used in connection with the work of improving and maintaining the harbor at Wilmington, Delaware, and at other places in the engineer district, with headquarters at Wilmington: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Contract. if, m the opinion of the Secretary of War, dredges of a suitable char205 acter to do the work at Wilmington, Delaware, are readily obtainable for doing the work by contract at reasonable rates, the amount herein appropriated shall become immediately available for the prosecution of such work.
Improving harbor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For maintenance,Pittsburgh, Pa. five thousand dollars. Improving Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion Rivers,Appoquinimink, etc., rivers, Del. Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance in accordance with the existing approved projects, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware: Completing improvementBroad Creek River, Del. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Improving Broadkill River, Delaware: For maintenance, fiveBroadkill River, Del. thousand dollars. Improving inland waterway between Rehoboth Bay and DelawareWaterway, Rehoboth and Delaware Bays, Del. Bay, Delaware, 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, and subject to the condition that the land needed for right of way, orRight of way. easements therein, shall be furnished free of cost to the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
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, five thousandMarshyhope Creek, Md. dollars. Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: For maintenance ofBaltimore, Md.Patapsco River, etc. improvement of Patapsco River and channel to Baltimore, including channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Elk and Little Elk Rivers, Maryland:
CompletingElk and Little Elk Rivers, Md. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seventy, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, four thousand and forty dollars. Improving harbor at Crisfield, Maryland: Completing improvementCrisfield, Md. and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. , Improving Lower Thoroughfare. Deal Island, Maryland: CompletingLower Thoroughfare, Md. improvement and for maintenance, two thousand dollars.
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: For maintenance, thirty-four thousand dollars. Improving Tilghman Island Harbor, Maryland: Completing improvementTilghman Island Harbor, Md. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred, Sixty-second Congress, second session, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Improving Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River connectingTwitch Cove, etc., Md. Tylers River with Tangier Sound, Maryland: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-five, Sixty-second Congress, second session, two thousand nine hundred dollars. Improving Broad Creek, Maryland: Completing improvement inBroad Creek, Md. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, fifty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Improving Corsica River, Maryland: Completing improvement inCorsica River. Md. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 206 Five hundred and thirty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, five thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Improving Slaughter Creek, Maryland: Completing improvement inSlaughter Creek, Md. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eighty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, first session, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Improving Tred Avon River, Maryland: Completing improvementTred Avon River, Md. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, nine thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Tuckahoe River, Maryland: Completing improvementTuckahoe River, Md. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty, Sixtieth Congress, second session, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.
Improving Anacostia River, District of Columbia: Continuing improvementAnacostia River, D. C. and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Potomac River: Continuing improvement and for maintenancePotomac River, D. C. at Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the provisions of section eleven of the river and harbor*Provisos*.Harbor lines established.Vol. 30, p. 1151. act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby made applicable to the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, and hereafter harbor lines in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere on said rivers, shall be established or modified as therein provided; and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this proviso are hereby repealed: *Provided further*, That hereafter the officer in local charge of the improvementRent of offices. shall have authority, with approval of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, when no public building is available, to rent suitable offices, to be paid for pro rata from the appropriations for works in his charge: *And provided further*, That the proviso in theLimitation repealed.Vol. 29, p. 219.
Act of June third, eighteen Hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” under the item “Improving Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia,” is hereby repealed. Improving harbor at Milford Haven, Virginia: For maintenance,Milford Haven, Va. five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For maintenance of improvement,Norfolk, Va. including channel at Hospital Point, four thousand dollars.
Improving James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement andJames River, Va. for maintenance, seventy thousand dollars. Improving Mattaponi River, Virginia: Continuing improvementMattaponi River. Va. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Pagan River, Virginia: For maintenance, one thousandPagan River, Va. dollars. Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: For maintenance, fiveRappahannock River, va. thousand dollars. Improving Aquia Creek, Virginia, in accordance with the reportAquia Creek, Va. submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, twenty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
Improving waterway from Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, to AlbermarleInland waterways.Norfolk to Albemarie Sound. Sound, North Carolina: For maintenance of improvement of inland water route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Albermarle Sound, North Carolina, through Currituck Sound, three thousand dollars. Improving inland waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to BeaufortNorfolk to Beaufort Inlet. Inlet, North Carolina, in accordance with the report planted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, five hundred thousand dollars.
And thePurchase of Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal. Secretary of War is hereby authorized to purchase from the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal Company the canal and appurtenant 207 property belonging to said company in accordance with, the agreement entered into between the Secretary of War and said company under date of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, printed in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and the foregoing appropriation shall be devoted to that purpose; for the improvementMaintenance. and maintenance of said inland waterway, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, six hundred thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: For maintenance,Beaufort, N. C. five thousand dollars. Improving Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance, tenBeaufort Inlet, N. C. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Morehead City, North Carolina: For maintenance,Morehead City, N. C. one thousand dollars. For the construction of a harbor of refuge at Cape Lookout, NorthCape Lookout, N. C., harbor of refuge. Carolina, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, or such modification of the plan contained in said report as may be deemed advisable after examination and survey, three hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Shallowbag Bay, North Carolina: For maintenance, oneShallowbag Bay, N. C. thousand dollars. Improving Bay River, North Carolina: Completing improvementBay River, N. C. and for maintenance, one thousand dollars. Improving Contentnia Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance,Contentnia Creek, N. C. two thousand dollars. Improving Fishing Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, oneFishing Creek, N. C. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Neuse and Trent Rivers, North Carolina:
ContinuingNeuse and Trent Rivera, N. C. improvement and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving New River and waterways to Beaufort, North Carolina:New River, and waterways to Beaufort, N. C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance of New River and of inland waterways between Beaufort Harbor and New River and between New River and Swansboro, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear Rivers. North Carolina:Northeast, etc., rivers, N.
C. For maintenance of improvement of Northeast and Black Rivers and Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina, twelve thou-sand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina,Cape Fear River, N. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina: CompletingPamlico and Tar Rivers, N.
C. improvement up to Greenville and for maintenance of improvement above Greenville, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy, Sixty-second Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Scuppernong River, North Carolina: For maintenance,Scuppernong River, N. C. two thousand dollars. Improving Swift Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, fiveSwift Creek, N. C. hundred dollars. Improving waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, NorthWaterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N.
C. Carolina: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina:Waccamaw River, N. C. and S. C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: Continuing improvementCharleston, S. C.Channels. of the twenty-eight-foot channel to the sea, fifty thousand dollars; completing improvement of a twenty-foot channel in Ashley River up to Standard Wharf, in accordance with the report printed 208 in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Four, Sixty-second Congress, second session, fifty-one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; completing improvement of Shipyard Creek in accordanceShipyard Creek. with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors submitted in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and upon the conditions set forth therein, five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvementWinyah Bay, S. C. and for maintenance, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. Improving Archers Creek, South Carolina: Completing improvementArchers Creek, S. C.*Post*, p. 808. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirteen, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina:
For maintenance,Great Pedee River, S. C. ten thousand dollars. Improving Mingo Creek, South Carolina: Completing improvementMingo Creek, S. C. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, twenty-two thousand dollars. Improving Santee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers, South Carolina:Santee, etc., rivers, S. C. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the EsthervilleMinim Creek Canal and the Congaree River as far up as the Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, sixty-four thousand dollars.
Improving waterways between Charleston and Alligator Creek,Waterways, Charleston and McClellanville, S. C. South Carolina: For maintenance of improvement of inland water-ways between Charleston Harbor and McClellanville, including branch to Morrisons Landing, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For maintenance, thirty-threeBrunswick, Ga. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvementSavannah, Ga. of the twenty-six-foot channel to the sea, four hundred thousand dollars; completing improvement of the twenty-one-foot channel from the upper limits of the present project to the foot of Kings Island, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-three, Sixty-second Congress, second session and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Improving Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia, inAltamaha, etc., rivers, Ga. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-three, Sixty-second Congress, second session, forty thousand dollars. Improving Cowhead River, Georgia: Completing improvement inCowhead River, Ga. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and nine, Sixty-second Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, three thousand dollars.
Improving Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement andFlint River, Ga. for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Satilla River, Georgia: Completing improvement andSatilla River, Ga. for maintenance in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Forty-one, Sixty-second Congress, first session, ten thousand dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, Georgia and Florida, in accordanceSaint Marys River, Ga. and Fla. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session, nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. 209 Improving Savannah River, Georgia:
Continuing improvementSavannah River. and for maintenance above Augusta, three thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance below Augusta, one hundred and five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eight thousand dollars. Improving Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: ContinuingChattahoochee River, Ga. and Ala. improvement below Columbus, Georgia, and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvementCoosa River.
Ga. and Ala. and for maintenance Between Rome, Georgia, and Dam Numbered Four, Alabama, twenty thousand dollars; continuing improvement by the construction of a lock in Dam Numbered Four, and by the construction of Dam Numbered Five, in the State of Alabama, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars; and that the provision in the river and harbor Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to enter into contract with the Ragland Water Power CompanyContract with Ragland Water Power Company continued.Vol. 36, p. 939. to complete the dam partially built by the United States at Lock Numbered Four, on the Coosa River, is hereby reenacted, and the time fixed therein for making said contract and for beginning said work is hereby extended one year from February twenty-seventh,Time extended. nineteen hundred and twelve.
Improving waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina,Waterway, Savannah and Fernandina. Florida, as recommended in the reports submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and thirty-six, Sixtieth Congress, second session, and in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Darien, Ga., harbor. That of 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 from Clearwater Harbor through Boca CeigaChannel, Clearwater Harbor to Tampa Bay, Fla. Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: Completing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fernandina, Florida: For maintenance,Fernandina, Fla. including the entrance channel through Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: Continuing 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improvement at Key West, Florida: Deepening and widening theKey West, Fla.Channels, etc. main ship channel at the entrance and at Triangle Shoals, so as to afford a channel thirty feet deep and three hundred feet wide, and removing shoals in the anchorage in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, forty-eight thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement of the northwest entrance channel, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand dollars.
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, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no work shall be done by*Proviso*.Work by Florida East Coast Railway Company. 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, nor until the Secretary of War is satisfied that suitable terminal facilities will be provided as contemplated by paragraphTerminal facilities. eight of the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors 210 as set forth on page fifteen of said document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-four.
Improving harbor at Saint Petersburg, Florida: CompletingSaint Petersburg, Fla. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and twelve, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, thirty-two thousand dollars. Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement andSarasota Bay, Fla. for maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, nine thousandTampa Bay, Fla. dollars.
Improving channel from Apalachicola River to Saint AndrewsChannel Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Fla.Apalachicola River. Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement, seventy thousand dollars. Improving Apalachicola River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the cut-off, Lee Slough, lower Chipola River, and upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Caloosahatchee River, Florida: For maintenance, fiveCaloosahatchee River, Fla. thousand dollars.
Improving Crystal River, Florida: For maintenance, two thousandCrystal River, Fla. dollars. Improving Holmes River, Florida: For maintenance of improvementHolmes River, Fla. from Vernon to the mouth, two thousand dollars. Improving Manatee River, Florida: For maintenance, five thousandManatee River, Fla. dollars. Improving Oklawaha River, Florida: Continuing improvement andOklawaha River, Fla. for maintenance from the mouth to Leesburg, including Silver Springs Run, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such part of this sum*Proviso*.Maintenance of lake levels.Vol. 36, p. 645. and of the amount now available as is necessary may be expended for maintenance of levels in the lakes at the head of the stream as provided for by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, or in such further improvement of the stream as may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers.
Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: Continuing improvementSaint Johns River, Fla.Distribution. and for maintenance from Jacksonville to the ocean, three hundred thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance from Jacksonville to Palatka, fifteen thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance from Palatka to Lake Harney, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. Improving the entrance of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, in accordanceCharlotte Harbor, Fla. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, twenty thousand dollars, upon the condition that local interests contribute one-half of the estimated original cost of said improvement.
Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: Completing improvementWithlacoochee River, Fla. and for maintenance, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Improving the entrance to Saint Josephs Bay, Florida, so as toSaint Josephs Bay, Fla. secure and provide an available channel twenty-four feet deep at mean low water and three hundred feet wide through the bar, twenty thousand dollars, the work to be done by the Government plant: *Provided*, That local interests will contribute an equal sum toward*Proviso*.Local contribution. the execution of the project, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty, Sixty-second Congress, second session.
Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama: ForChoctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala. maintenance of improvement, including Cypress Top outlet, eight thousand dollars. Improving Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama:Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Fla. For maintenance, five thousand dollars. 211 Improving Mobile bar, Alabama: Continuing improvement and forMobile, Ala.Bar. maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvementHarbor. and for maintenance, four hundred and three thousand dollars, of which amount three thousand dollars may be used in the removal of sunken logs, deadheads, and other obstructions.
Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvementAlabama, etc., rivers, Ala. and for maintenance, including the Alabama and Coosa Rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance,Tombigbee River, Ala, and Miss. from the mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, ten thousand dollars, and from Demopolis, Alabama, to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, eight thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand dollars.
Improving channel connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound,Mobile Bay. Ala.Channel to Mississippi Sound. Alabama: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty-seven, Sixtieth Congress, first session, fifty thousand dollars. That the provision in the river and harbor act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five (Thirty-third Statutes, page eleven hundred and twenty-eight), granting Louis M. Tisdale the rightLouis M.
Tisdale.Right to construct channel, etc., revived.Vol. 33, p. 1128. and authority to construct and operate a channel through Mobile Bay, and to construct and maintain wharves, piers, anchorage and turning basins, and other similar structures in said bay, is hereby revived and reenacted: *Provided*, That the said provision is hereby*Provisos*.Transfer to South Mobile Terminal Company. so amended as to vest in the South Mobile Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, all the rights, privileges, and authority thereby granted to the said Louis M.
Tisdale, subject to all the terms and conditions of said Act, upon full and complete assignment and trans-fer of all such rights, privileges, and authority of said Tisdale to the said South Mobile Terminal Company: *Provided also*, That the saidTime extended. provision is hereby further amended so as to extend the time for completing the work therein authorized for a period of five years from the approval of this Act: *And provided also*, That the right toRight to alter, etc. alter, amend, or repeal this Act, in so far as it relates to this franchise, is hereby expressly reserved.
Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, fourBiloxi, Miss. thousand dollars. 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, two hundred thousand dollars, of which amount one hundred and twentyDredging plant. thousand dollars may be applied to the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant: *Provided*, That the United States dredge*Proviso*.Transfer of dredge “Barnard.
” Barnard may be transferred back to the improvement from which it was transferred by Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the balance remaining on hand of the sixtyUse of balance.Vol. 36, p. 942. thousand dollars authorized by the Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, to be expended for the repair and modification of the United States dredge Barnard, may be expended for the purchase or construction of the dredging plant herein authorized.
Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi: For maintenance, twoHorn Island Pass. Miss. thousand dollars. Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi, in accordance withBig Sunflower River, Miss. the report submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Two, Sixty-second Congress, second session, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvementPascagoula River, Miss. and for maintenance, including channel up Dog River, twenty thousand dollars. 212 Improving Pearl River, Mississippi:
Continuing improvement andPearl River, Miss. for maintenance below Rockport, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance,Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Miss. five thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvementYazoo River, Miss. of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, five thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: ContinuingAnd tributaries. improvement and for maintenance, including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, and Coldwater Rivers, Tchula Lake, Steele and Washington Bayous, Lake Washington, and Bear Creek, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana: OfWater hyacinth.Removal from Mississippi waters.Vol. 36, p. 943. the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States of Louisiana and Texas so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for their removal from the navigable waters in the State of Mississippi, and the operating plant pertaining to the work in Louisiana is hereby made available for use in Mississippi in the discretion of the Secretary of War.
Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Mapon, D’Arbonne, and Corney,Bayous Bartholomew, etc., La. and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana: Completing improvementBayou Grossetete, La. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, eighteen thousand dollars. Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, twoJohnsons Bayou, La. thousand five hundred dollars.
Improving Bayou Queue de Tortue, Louisiana: Completing improvementBayou Queue de Tortue, La. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: Continuing improvementSouthwest Pass, Mississippi River. and for maintenance, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana:
Continuing improvement andBayou Teche, La. for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana: That the proviso in the River andBayou Terrebonne.Vol. 36, p. 647. Harbor Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, making appropriation for improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “*Provided*, That*Proviso*.Additional right of way. *Post*, p. 812. before any expenditures are made the right of way for the additional width required for excavation and for depositing dredged material be given by local interests free of cost to the United States.
” Improving Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River, Louisiana:Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River. 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,Bayou Plaquemine Brule. five thousand dollars. Improving waterway from Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana:Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to purchase, for use as a part of said waterway, the so-called Hanson Canal, in accordancePurchase of Hanson Canal. with the recommendation made by the Chief of Engineers, at a cost not to exceed sixty-five thousand dollars, to be paid out of funds heretofore appropriated for this project.
Inland waterway from Mermentau River to Sabine River, LouisianaWaterway, Mermentau and Sabine Rivers. and Texas: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this amount may be applied to any modified*Proviso*.Modified plans. plan for this section of the waterway that may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. 213 Improving Red River, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma:Red River. La., Ark Tex., and Okla. Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Fulton, Arkansas, fifty thousand dollars; for maintenance and continuing improvement between Fulton, Arkansas, and the mouth of the Washita River, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-one, Sixty-first Congress, first session, seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvementGalveston Channel, Tex. 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, one hundred thousand dollars: *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 submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight.
Sixty-first Congress, second session. Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For maintenance, byGalveston, Tex. dredging and repair of the jetties, seventy-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of War may appoint a board of three EngineerTexas harbors, etc.Board of officers to examine for 35-foot channel, etc. officers whose duty it shall be to examine and report upon the following harbors and channels in Texas, at or near Galveston, to wit: Galveston Harbor and Channel, Texas City Harbor and Channel, Port Bolivar Harbor and Port Bolivar Channel leading thereto, allDikes, etc. with a view to securing a depth of thirty-five feet.
The said board shall also make an investigation as to the advisability of constructing a dike or dikes along the Houston Ship Channel and report whether or not such dike or dikes will operate in lieu of the dike recommended in the report for Greater Galveston to be built east of the Texas City Channel for the purpose of protecting the Texas City Channel and Galveston Channel. The Secretary of War may appoint a board of three engineer officers,Port Aransas.Board of officers to report on 25-foot basin. whose duty it shall be to examine Port Aransas (Aransas Pass and the Flarbor Island basin), Texas, and make an estimate of the cost of securing a depth of twenty-five feet, or such depth as may be considered advisable in the interest of commerce.
And said board shallScope of report. report fully upon all matters pertaining to the creation of a deep-water harbor of the first class, including the dike on Saint Joseph Island and harbor facilities at the northern end of Mustang Island. And the said board shall also report whether the waters lying between Harbor Island and the mainland may be exempted from the operation of the laws relating to navigable waterways of the United States. Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas:Channel, Galveston to Texas City, Tex.
Continuing improvement and for maintenance by dredging within the limits recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance,Port Bolivar, Tex. twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For maintenance, and continuingSabine Pass, Tex. improvement 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, four hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Improving the Sabine Neches Canal, Texas, from the Port ArthurSabine-Neches Canal, Tex. Ship Canal to the mouth of the Sabine River, the Neches River up to the town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of 214 Orange: The authorization for the improvement adopted by the riverExtension of improvementVol. 36, p. 943. and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page nine hundred and forty-three), is hereby extended so as to include the cutting off of bends or the widening of the channels to such extent as may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Limit of cost.
That the total cost shall not be increased beyond that specified in the Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall change the terms ofLocal cooperation. cooperation specified in said Act. 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, including mouths of adjacent streams, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement from OldBrazos River, Tex.Distribution. Washington to Waco by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eight and commencing the construction of two additional locks and dams, two hundred thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washing-ton, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Improving mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For maintenance, twenty-fiveMouth. thousand dollars.
Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement with aTrinity River, Tex. view to obtaining a depth of six feet between the mouth and Dallas by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, and forLocks and dams. an accurate instrumental survey of the river as recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work, fifteenOpen-channel work. thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Improving inland waterway on coast of Texas: For maintenance ofTexas inland water-ways. improvement of that section of the waterway between West Galveston Bay and Brazos River, ten thousand dollars; continuing improvement between Brazos River and Matagorda Bay, sixty-two thousand dollars, of which amount twelve thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary may be expended in the construction of highway bridges at points where the said waterway will intersect existingBridges. county roads; and completing improvement of the Guadalupe River up to Victoria, forty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
The Secretary of War is authorized to change the route of the channelPort O’Connor, Tex. from Aransas Pass to Pass Cavallo so as to pass by the town of Port O’Connor, Texas, and to expend available funds for this work instead of maintaining the channel along its present route, in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers, nineteen hundred and eleven. Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas and Louisiana: For maintenance,Cypress Bayou, Tex. five thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana:
ContinuingOuachita River, Ark. and La. improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Three and Seven, one hundred thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement by open-channel work up to Camden, fifteen thousand dollars, and from Camden to Arkadelphia, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas: For maintenance of improvement,Arkansas River.Pine Bluff, Ark. including works at Pine Bluff and the operation of dredging plant, thirty thousand dollars. 215 For improving the Arkansas River, in Arkansas:
For protecting theProtecting banks. north bank thereof, in the bend in front of the Crawford County Levee, south of Van Buren, in sections eight, nine, and ten in township eight north, range thirty west, which shall be considered extraordinary emergency work, thirty thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be expended as soon as practicable in accordance with plans to be prepared by the Chief of Engineers of the War Department. Improving Cache River, Arkansas: For maintenance, three thousandCache River, Ark. dollars.
Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: For maintenance ofSaint Francis, etc., Rivers, Ark. improvement of Saint Francis and L’Anguille Rivers and Blackfish Bayou, nine thousand dollars. Improving Saline River, Arkansas: For maintenance, three thousandSaline River, Ark. dollars. Improving White River, Arkansas: For maintenance, eighteenWhite River, Ark. thousand dollars. Improving Black and Current Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri:Black and Current Rivers, Ark. and Mo. For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.
Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: ForCumberland River.Above Nashville, Tenn. maintenance of improvement by open-channel work, five thousand dollars; for the purchase of flowage rights over lands submerged as a result of the construction, operation, and maintenance of Dams Numbered Six and Seven, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee: ContinuingBelow Nashville, Tenn. improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams B, C, and D, three hundred thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement by open-channel work, five thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and five thousand dollars.
Improving French Broad River, Tennessee: Continuing improvementFrench Broad, etc., rivers, Tenn. and for maintenance of French Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Clinch River, Tennessee and Virginia: The sum of twoClinch River, Tenn, and Va. thousand dollars authorized by the river and harbor act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, to be expended on Clinch River in the State of Virginia, is hereby made available forBalance available.Vol. 36, p. 652. improving said river in the State of Tennessee as recommended on page seven hundred and thirty of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven.
Improving Hiwassee River, Tennessee: For maintenance, fiveHiwassee River, Tenn. thousand dollars. 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 hundred and sixty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, as follows: AboveDistribution. Chattanooga, Tennessee, one hundred and five thousand dollars; between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Browns Island, Alabama, ten thousand dollars; between Florence and Riverton, Alabama, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; below Riverton, Alabama, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
That the item in the river and harbor Act of June twenty-fifth,Madison County, Tenn.Reimbursement to.Vol. 36, p. 652. nineteen hundred and ten, making appropriation for improving Kentucky River, and providing that, of the amount appropriated, “the sum of six thousand dollars may be expended for the construction of a bridge across Tates Creek and the restoration of the county road near Otter Creek,” be, and is hereby, so amended as to authorize the Secretary of War to use so much of said sum as may be necessary (not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars), for reimbursing the county of Madison, in the State of Kentucky, the moneys ex216 pended by said county for the restoration of the said county road near Otter Creek.
Improving harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: For maintenance, fivePort Clinton, Ohio. hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: Continuing improvement,Toledo, Ohio. seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement by the constructionOhio River. of locks and dams with a view to securing a navigable depth ofLocks and dams. nine feet, three million two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts. That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to 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 two million two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Improving Ohio River: Continuing improvement and for maintenanceOpen channel work. by open-channel work, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River: For the raising and strengthening of theLevees.Cairo, Ill. levees in the city of Cairo, Illinois, on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and in the Cairo drainage district, which shall be considered extraordinary emergency work, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the city of Cairo shall expend, or cause to be expended,*Proviso*.Part by City. the same amount for the same purpose.
For the raising and strengthening of the levees in the city of MoundMound City, Ill. City, Illinois, on the Ohio River, which shall be considered extraordinary emergency work, twenty thousand dollars, on the condition that the city of Mound City shall furnish an equal amount for thePart by City. same purpose. Improving the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, in accordance withAllegheny River, Fa. the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and forty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*.
That local interests contribute an equal*Proviso*.Local contribution.*Post*, p. 805.Ludington, Mich. amount. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: Completing improvement, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the harbor at Manistee, Michigan, in accordanceManistee, Mich. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Arcadia, Michigan: Continuing improvementArcadia, Mich. and for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Manistee County, Michigan:Portage Lake. Mich. For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving Saint Joseph Harbor and River, Michigan: For maintenance,Saint Joseph Harbor and River, Mich. fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Saugatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Michigan:Saugatuck, and Kalamazoo River, Mich.
For maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan: For maintenance,South Haven, Mich. three thousand dollars. Improving Black River at Port Huron, Michigan: For maintenance,Black River, Mich. one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, two thousandClinton River, Mich. dollars. Improving Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan, by the constructionSaint Marys River, Mich.New lock. of a fourth lock, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-four, Sixty-second Congress, first session, three hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin:Menominee, Mich, and Wis. For maintenance, nine thousand dollars. 217 Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin: Continuing improvementAshland, Wis. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Green Bay, Wis. thirty-two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: For maintenance, fifteenKenosha, Wis. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kewaunee, Wisconsin:
For maintenance, tenKewaunee, Wis.*Proviso*.Condition waived. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the third condition imposed upon the city of Kewaunee, Wisconsin, as set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and authorized by the river and harbor act of June twenty-fifth,Vol. 36, p. 656. nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and fifty-six), be, and the same hereby is, waived in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve.
(House Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Seven, Sixty-second Congress, second session.) Improving harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Port Washington, Wis. two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Port Wing, Wisconsin: Continuing improvementPort Wing, Wis. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in accordance withSheboygan, Wis. the modified project recommended in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for nineteen hundred and eleven, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement, two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance,Two Rivera, Wis. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin:Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one Hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Warroad Harbor, Minnesota: For improving and deepeningWarroad Harbor, Minn. channel to secure and maintain a depth of eight feet, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota:Red River of the North, Minn, and N.
Dak. For maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars. Improving Lake Traverse, Minnesota and South Dakota: CompletingLake Traverse, Minn, and S. Dak. improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-first Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, seven thousand five hundred and ten dollars. Improving Indiana Harbor, Indiana: Continuing improvement andIndiana Harbor, Ind. for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Inproving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: For maintenance,Michigan City, Ind. including repair and maintenance of the east breakwater, ten thou-sand dollars. Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois, by the construction of aChicago, Ill.Outer Harbor. breakwater to form an outer harbor, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ten, Sixty-second Congress, second session, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the work hereby contemplated*Proviso*.Work by city required. shall not be commenced until assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War shall have been received that the work contemplated by the city of Chicago as a part of said improvement will be actually under-taken and completed by said city.
Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, fiveWaukegan, Ill. thousand dollars. Improving Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and forIllinois River, Ill. maintenance below Copperas Creek, twenty thousand dollars. 218 Improving Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth ofMississippi River Commission.Mississippi River. 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 ofNine-foot channel Head of Passes to the Ohio. nine feet, six million dollars, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission, as approved by the Chief of Engineers, for the general improvement of the river, for the building of levees, which shall be considered extraordinaryLevees. emergency work, 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 in view of the*Provisos*.Emergencies.*Post*, p. 633. existing emergency four million dollars of the money hereby appropriated is set apart for the repair and construction of levees: *Provided further*, That of the residue of the money hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary shall be expended in the construction of suitable and necessary dredge boats and other devices and appliancesDredges, etc. and in the maintenance and operation of the same: *Provided further*, That the water courses connected with said river and theConnecting water courses.Allotments. harbors upon it, now under the control of the Mississippi River Commission and under improvement, may, in the discretion of said commission, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments for improvements now under way or hereafter to be undertaken, to be paid for from the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*,Repairs, Arkansas River levees.
That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted, from the appropriation made in this paragraph, to the Auburn and Linwood levee districts on the Arkansas River, in the counties of Lincoln and Desha, in the State of Arkansas, for the purpose of repairing or rebuilding the levees under the control of said districts, respectively, damaged or destroyed during the over-flow of the waters of the Mississippi River during the present year of nineteen hundred and twelve or by protecting the bank in front of said levees; the proportion in which said sum shall be allotted toAllotment. said districts, and the specific work for which the same shall be expended therein, shall be made as the Mississippi River Commission shall direct.
The traveling expenses of the civilian members of the MississippiTravel, civilian members and assistant engineer of board. River Commission, and of the Assistant Engineer of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, when on duty, shall be computed and paid in the same way as the traveling expenses of the Army members of said commission and of said board. The Mississippi River Commission is hereby authorized andSurvey, etc., of east bank, Brunswick, Miss., to Baton Rouge, La., and Bessie to Memphis, Tenn. directed to make an examination and survey of all the lands, subject to overflow from the Mississippi River, situate on the east bank of the river between Brunswick, Warren County, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and between Bessie, Lake County, Tennessee, and Memphis, Tennessee, for the purpose of ascertaining the location, quantity, character, and value of such lands, and for the purpose of ascertaining what portions of such lands, if any, it would be advisable to protect from overflow by levee construction, and the cost of such construction, and for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of acquiring such portions of said lands as it would not be advisable to protect from overflow by levee protection.
The commission is further directed to prepare topographic maps of theMaps, etc. lands so examined and surveyed, and to make its report on such examination and survey, with its recommendation thereon, to the Chief of Engineers before the first of November, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the Chief of Engineers shall transmit the said report 219 to Congress on or before the first Monday of December, nineteen hundred and twelve. The sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of making and reporting the foregoing prescribed examination and survey.
Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio RiverFrom the Ohio to the Missouri. to and including the mouth of the Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one million dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri RiverTo Minneapolis. to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Levees. That of this amount twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended for the repair and maintenance of existing levees constructed by the United States.
Improving Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Minneapolis,Saint Paul to Minneapolis. Minnesota: Continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Reservoirs at headwaters of Mississippi River: For completingReservoirs at headwaters.Gull Lake dam. construction of low reservoir dam at Gull Lake, Minnesota, provided for in the river and harbor act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eleven hundredVol. 34, p. 1105. and five), fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum so much as may be necessary may be applied to the erection of dam-tender’s dwelling and to the digging of necessary ditches between Gull Lake and Round Lake, and between Round Lake and Long Lake, including purchase of the rights-of way needed in connection therewith, and construction of necessary bridges.
Improving Missouri River, with a view to securing a permanentMissouri River.Kansas City to mouth.Six-loot channel. six-foot channel between Kansas City and the mouth of the river, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, third session, and with a view to the completion of such improvement within a period of ten years, eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Local cooperation. That cooperation from the localities benefited may be required in the prosecution of the said project in case any comprehensive plan is hereafter adopted by Congress for an apportionment of expense generally applicable to river and other projects in which any improvement now or hereafter adopted confers special or exceptional benefit upon the localities affected: *Provided further*, ThatNo postponement of expenditure. nothing herein contained shall postpone the expenditure of the amount hereby appropriated or any further appropriation for said project without action by Congress.
Improving Missouri River: For improvement and maintenanceKansas City to Fort Benton. from Kansas City to Sioux City, seventy-five thousand dollars; for improvement and maintenance from Sioux City to Fort Benton in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, first session, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvementGasconade River, Mo. and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars.
Improving Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement andOsage River, Mo. for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Kansas River, Kansas: For improvement of KansasKansas River, Kans. River up to Argentine, Kansas, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ninety-four, Sixty-second Congress, first session, four thousand dollars. Improving Los Angeles Harbor, California: Continuing improvementLos Angeles, Cal.Thirty-foot channel. of the thirty-foot channel by dredging, twenty-five thousand dollars. 220 Improving Los Angeles outer harbor in accordance with the reportOuter harbor. submitted in House Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized toExchange of lands with City.Description. grant to the city of Los Angeles, California, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that portion of the submerged land around the military reservation of Deadmans Island, acquired under act of the Legislature of the State of California approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, which lies west of the westerly pierhead line of Los Angeles Harbor between station fifteen, as established by the Secretary of War July twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, and station twelve, as established May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eleven, containing an area of nine and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, more or less, in exchange for the grant by said city to the United States, for use for public purposes, of an approximately equal area of submerged land of said city in that portion of Los Angeles Harbor known as the outer harbor, having a frontage of nine hundred and fifty and fifty-three one-hundredths feet on West Channel, and lying adjacent to and southerly of the submerged lands in front of the San Pedro Military Reservation.
Improving harbor at Monterey, California, in accordance with theMonterey, Cal. report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-four, Sixty-first Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvement,Oakland, Cal. one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if in*Proviso*.Dredging plant. the judgment of the Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant.
Improving Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California: For maintenance,PetalumaCreek and Napa River, Cal. nine thousand dollars. Improving Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California: ContinuingSacramento and Feather Rivers. Cal. 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, sixty-five thousand dollars. Improving San Joaquin River, California:
For maintenance, includingSan Joaquin River, Cal. Stockton and Mormon Channels, forty thousand dollars. Improving Stockton Harbor, San Joaquin River, California, byStockton Harbor, Cal. dredging McLeod Lake and Fremont Channel, with a view to securing a permanent channel depth of nine feet, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, eleven thousand dollars.
Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For maintenance, fiveTillamook Bay and Bar, Oreg. thousand dollars. Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon, in accordance with the 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Nehalem Bar and entrance to Nehalem Bay, Oregon,Nehalem Bar and Bay, Oreg. in accordance with report, submitted in House Document ’Numbered Six hundred and twenty-three, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to conditions set forth in said document, one hundred thousand dollars. 221 Improving Clatskanie River, Oregon:
For maintenance, one thousandClatskanie River, Oreg. dollars. Improving Coos River, Oregon: For maintenance, three thousandCoos River, Oreg. dollars. Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon: For maintenance, five thousandSiuslaw River, Oreg. dollars. Improving Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon: For maintenanceWillamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oreg. of improvement of Yamhill River and of Willamette River above Oregon City, twenty thousand dollars; improving 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, twelve thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers below Portland:Columbia and Willamette Rivers, below Portland. Continuing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-first Congress, third session, one hundred and eighty-thousand dollars. Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington:Columbia River, Oreg, and Wash.At the mouth. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including repairs and operation of dredge, one million dollars.
For gauging waters of Columbia River and measuring tidal andGauging. river volumes, one thousand dollars. Improving Oregon Slough, Oregon, in accordance with the reportOregon Slough, Oreg. submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and twelve, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Columbia River between the foot of The Dalles RapidsThe Dalles Rapids to Celilo Fails. and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington:
Continuing improvement, seven hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War shall submit a report whether any saving can be effected, and if so, how much, by a more rapid prosecution of this improvement. Improving Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls toCelilo Falls to Snake River. the mouth of Snake River, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho: ContinuingSnake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. improvement and for maintenance up to Pittsburg Landing, Oregon, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Columbia River between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls,Columbia River, Wash. Washington: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Washington: For maintenance,North Fork of Lewis River, Wash. including North Fork of Lewis River, five thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cowlitz, Lewis, and Clatskanie Rivers, Washington andCowlitz, etc., rivers, Wash, and Oreg. Oregon: For the construction of a combined dredge and snag boat for use in connection with the improvement and maintenance of the Cowlitz, Lewis, and Clatskanie Rivers, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, first session, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Improving Hoquiam River, Washington: Completing improvementHoquiam River, Wash. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Skagit River, Washington: For maintenance, fifteenSkagit River, Wash. thousand dollars. Improving Puget Sound, Washington: Continuing improvementPuget Sound, etc., Wash. and for maintenance of Puget Sound and its tributary waters, including Stilaguamish River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nineteen, Sixty-second Congress, first session, twenty-five thousand dollars. 222 Improving Apoon mouth of Yukon River, Alaska, in accordanceYukon River, Alaska. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-six, Sixty-second Congress, second session, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: Completing improvement byHilo. Hawaii. dredging in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seventeen, Sixty-second Congress, second session, seventy-six thousand dollars. Improving Kahului Harbor, Hawaii: Completing improvement,Kahului Harbor, Hawaii.*Proviso*.Breakwater. one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to Congress as to the advisability of providing for the west breakwater referred to under project numbered two in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-three, Sixty-first Congress, second session.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorizedNational Waterways Commission.Payment of expenses of report, etc. and directed to pay, upon vouchers approved by the former chairman of the National Waterways Commission, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses of the National Waterways Commission necessarily incurred for clerical and stenographic services in publishing hearings (Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-four) and completing the final report (Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty-nine); and the books, maps, charts, and other material relating to waterwaysDisposal of books, charts, etc. remaining in possession of the National Waterways Commission shall be turned over to the Engineer School, Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, under the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate and the Chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives; and all similar material relating to railways shall be turned over to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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. The Chief of Engineers, in his discretion, and after approval by theRemoval of temporary obstructions. Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to make preliminary examinations and minor surveys and to remove snags and other temporary or readily removable obstructions from tributaries of waterways already under Federal improvement or in general use by navigation, to be paid from the appropriations for the adjoining waterways: *Provided*, That the cost of such work in any single year shall not*Proviso*.Limit. exceed five hundred dollars per tributary.
Surveys and examinations provided for in this section shall, unlessSurveys, etc., paid for from amount for projects. otherwise expressed, be paid for from the appropriations made for the respective improvements or projects to which they pertain or in connection with which they are mentioned. All works of improvement herein or hereafter authorized to beWork by contract or otherwise. prosecuted or completed under contracts may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be carried on by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical or advantageous to the United States.
Where separate works or items are consolidated in this Act and anAllotment of consolidated works. aggregate amount is appropriated therefor, the amounts herein appropriated shall, unless otherwise expressed, be expended in securing maintenance and improvement according to the respective projects herein or heretofore adopted by Congress, after giving due regard to the respective needs of traffic. The allotments to the respective works herein consolidated shall be made by the Secretary of War 223upon 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 now remaining to the credit of the consolidated items in this Act shall be carried to the credit of the respective aggregate amounts appropriated for the consolidated items herein contained.
In the collection of statistics relating to traffic, the Corps of EngineersClassification of freight statistics. is directed to adopt a uniform system of classification for freight, and upon rivers or inland waterways to collateton-mileage statistics as far as practicable. Sec. 2. That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies forExaminations, surveys, etc.Allotment from unexpended balances. rivers and harbors, for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars shall be allotted from the unexpended balance of the amounts heretofore appropriated for emergencies in the river and harbor Acts approvedVol. 33, p. 1146.
March third, nineteen hundred and five, March second, nineteenVol. 34. p. 1110.Vol. 36, p. 667. hundred and seven, and June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten: *Provided*, That no preliminary examination, survey, project,*Provisos*.Specific authority required.Supplementary reports restricted. or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution shall be made: *Provided further*, That after the regular or formal reports made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless ordered by a concurrent resolution of Congress: *And provided further*, That the Government shall not be deemed to haveSpecial authority to begin work required. 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 this section: Wills Strait between Orrs and Bailey Islands, Casco Bay, Maine.Maine. Harbor at Criehaven, Maine. Wessaweskeag River, South Thomaston, Maine. Beverly Harbor, Massachusetts, with a view to securing a channelMassachusetts. depth of twenty-four feet and of widening the channel on the northern side by the removal of the ledge near the Essex Bridge.
Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, with a view to securing increased width and depth in the channel from President Roads to the sea; also with a view to providing deep-water connection with such suit-able terminals as may be established by the directors of the port of Boston. Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, with a view to removing certain ledges in Harbor Cove and securing a depth of fifteen feet. Merrimac River, Massachusetts, with a view to securing increased depth from Lowell to the sea or in any part of this section of the river.
Harbor of refuge at or near Scituate, Massachusetts. Harbor at Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island.Rhode Island. Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, with a view to the construction of a breakwater at or near the life-saving station. Dutch Island Harbor, Rhode Island, with a view to the removal of rocks now obstructing the approach channel. Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut.Connecticut. Greenwich Harbor, Connecticut. Milford Harbor, Connecticut. New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. 224 New London Harbor, Connecticut, with a view to securing increased depth of channel and for report upon the question of cooperation on the part of the State of Connecticut in the improvement of said harbor and its approaches.
Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut. Westport Harbor and Saugatuck River, Connecticut. Wethersfield Cove, Connecticut River, Connecticut, with a view to securing a navigable channel from said river into said cove. Buffalo Harbor, New York, with a view to increasing the width ofNew York. the entrance of the inner harbor to four hundred feet by removing the Government south pier at the mouth of Buffalo River; also with a view to increasing the width of Black Rock Harbor and the entrances thereto.
Charlotte Harbor, New York, with a view to deepening and widening the channel, to an extension of the jetties, and to providing a turning basin. Great Chazy River, New York, from the village of Champlain, New York, to the mouth thereof. Salmon River, New York, at and below Fort Covington. East Rockaway Inlet, Long Island, New York. Glencove Creek, Long Island, New York. Gravesend Bay, New York, with a view to the construction of a breakwater. Channel between Great Peconic Bay and Little Peconic Bay, Long Island, New York.
Newtown Creek, New York. Westchester Creek, New York. Alloway Creek, New Jersey, above Quinton.New Jersey. Cedar Creek, Cumberland County, New Jersey, with a view to deepening and straightening the channel. Matawan Creek, New Jersey. Rahway River, New Jersey, including the construction of the necessary cut-offs, and with a view to the consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Salem River, New Jersey, with a view to the construction of a cut-off at the mouth.
Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey. Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, including the north and south branches. Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, with a view to the reconstructionPennsylvania. of Locks and Dams Numbered Four and Six. That a preliminary investigation be made to determine whether aImpounding Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivera. system of impounding reservoirs at the headwaters of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries is needed and practicable to provide sufficient water during dry seasons to operate the present and proposed system of locks and dams in these rivers, and to what extent the Federal Government, on the basis of their benefit to navigation, is justified in cooperating with local communities which may be interested in the construction of such reservoirs primarily for the purpose of flood prevention, and the feasibility of operating such reservoirs for the double purpose of flood prevention and improving navigation; and that this investigation be conducted by a board of three Engineer officers, to be designated by the ChiefBoard of Engineer officers. of Engineers, United States Army; and that the results of this investigation be reported to Congress, with such additions as may be made thereto by the said Chief of Engineers, not later than December seventh, nineteen hundred and twelve; and that for this purpose theAppropriation. sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
Indian River Inlet, Delaware.Delaware. 225 Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, with a view to securing greater widthMaryland. in the channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay. Channel in Curtis Bay, and in Patapsco River, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, with a view to securing a channel depth of thirty-four feet, or such increased depth over the completed project as may be deemed advisable. Cabin Branch and Curtis Creek, Maryland, to connect with the main channel from the Patapsco River to the pier of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Chester River, Maryland, from Crumpton to Millington. Fox Creek, Dorchester County, Maryland. Herring Bay and Rockhole Creek, Fairhaven, Maryland. North and south forks of Tred Avon River, Maryland. Pocomoke River, Maryland. Southeast River, Maryland. Warwick River, Maryland. Hunting Field Creek, Maryland. Rock Hall Harbor, Maryland, with a view to extending navigation beyond its present head. Breton Bay, Maryland. Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, off Pooles Island, on the route between Baltimore and Philadelphia, between the southwest bar and the northeast bar.
Potomac River from Washington, District of Columbia, to Cumberland, Maryland. Locklies Creek, Virginia.Virginia. Lynnhaven River, Virginia, with a view to securing increased depth. Mill Creek, Middlesex County, Virginia. Nansemond River, Virginia, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of repairing and replacing the dikes at or near the western branch. Channel from Tangier Island, Virginia, to the mainland. Roanoke River, from Clarksville, Virginia, to the present head of steamboat navigation, below Weldon, North Carolina.
From deep water to Oyster, Virginia, to provide a channel one hundred feet wide and six feet deep, with a suitable anchorage for small boats. Chesapeake Bay, with a view to providing a suitable channel at Tangier, Virginia. Jackson Creek Bar, Virginia, with a view of cutting through same to provide a harbor at Deltaville. Nassawadox Creek, Virginia, with a view to the removal of the bar at its mouth so as to connect with the bay and provide a suitable channel. Chesapeake Bay, with a view to straightening the north side of the channel at the entrance of the harbor at Cape Charles City, Virginia, and to increasing the width of the channel two hundred feet.
Hampton Creek, Virginia, for purpose of making this river deeper and more suitable for anchorage and use of boats and vessels. Savages Creek, Virginia, with a view to providing a suitable channel from Chesapeake Bay to Eastville. Eastern Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia, from Norfolk and Western Railway Bridge to Broad Creek. Bennett River, North Carolina, up to Gatesville and above to theNorth Carolina. head of navigation. Cape Channel, including the inner and outer approaches thereto, on the east side of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina.
Harbor at Morehead City, North Carolina, with a view to extending the present project westerly to the main channel of Bogue Sound, 226 and to widening the channel in front of the wharves so as to provide a turning basin of adequate area. Newbegun Creek, North Carolina. New River, North Carolina, from Jacksonville as far up as practicable. Shelter River, North Carolina. Harbor at Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island, and entrance thereto from Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. Inland waterway from Pamlico River through Goose Creek to Jones Bay, Pamlico County, North Carolina.
Lumber River, North Carolina and South Carolina, from its mouth to the turnpike bridge over said river in Hoke and Scotland Counties, North Carolina. Northwest prong Bay River to public wharf at dam in town of Bayboro, North Carolina. Meherrin River, North Carolina, from its mouth to the head of navigation. Trent River from Newbern to Pollocksville, North Carolina, for a depth of ten feet. Cape Fear River, below Wilmington, North Carolina, with a view to securing a depth of twenty feet to quarantine station.
Black River, South Carolina, up to KingstreeSouth Carolina.. Congaree River, South Carolina. Inland waterway between McClellanville and Winyah Bay, South Carolina, and inland waterway between Charleston and McClellanville by way of Alligator Creek and Sewee Bay. Savannah River at North Augusta, South Carolina, with a view to determining what improvements are necessary in the interest of navigation. Tugalo River, Georgia and South Carolina, from the mouth of Panther Creek to the head of Chandlers Shoals, with a view to its improvement by means of open-channel work.
Darien Harbor, Georgia, with a view to securing the best channelGeorgia. to the sea. Fancy Bluff Creek, connecting Turtle River and Brunswick Harbor with Little Satilla River, Georgia. Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia, with a view to determining what improvements are necessary in the interest of navigation by way of enlarging and extending the project authorized by the river and harbor Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten. Terry Creek and Back River from the mouth to its junction with Mackeys River, tributary to Brunswick Harbor, Georgia.
Anclote River, Florida.Florida. Big Marco Pass and harbor at Marco, Florida. Boca Ceiga Bay, Florida, with a view to securing a channel from the eight-foot contour near Point Pinelos and Maximo Point to the existing channel to Clearwater Harbor at a point near Gulfport for the purpose of shortening said channel to Clearwater Harbor. Caloosahatchee River, Florida. Harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida. Deep Creek, Saint John County, Florida. Fenholloway River, Florida. Hillsboro River, Florida.
Holmes River, Florida. Lake Worth Inlet, Florida. Little Manatee River, Florida. New River, Dade County, Florida, from the head of navigation to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocean, with a view to creating a deep-water harbor for seagoing vessels. 227 Sarasota Bay, Florida, including Little Sarasota Bay and Big Sarasota Pass. Sixmile Creek, including channel at the mouth in Hillsboro Bay, Florida. Steinhatchee River, Florida. Suwanee River, Florida. Channel from Pineland, on Pine Island, Lee County, Florida, running westerly to deep water at a point in Pine Island Sound, about one mile in length, such channel to be not less than five feet deep and of sufficient width.
Inland waterway connecting Haw Creek and Tomoka River, Florida. Withlacoochee River, Florida, including channel from Port Inglis to the anchorage in the Gulf of Mexico, and between Stokes Ferry and Panasoffkee. Yellow River, Florida. Saint Johns River, Florida, from outlet of Lake Harney to Lake Washington, including removal of bars in Lakes Harney and Puzzle. Charlotte Harbor, Florida, from’the twenty-four-foot contour inside Boca Grande Pass to the sixteen-and-on e-half-foot contour west of Punta Gorda Point, thence to the town of Punta Gorda, with a view to obtaining a channel twenty feet in depth with suitable width.
Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama, up to Geneva,Florida and Alabama. Alabama. Inland waterway from Pensacola Bay through Bay La Launch, toAlabama. the western shore of Wolf’s Bay, Florida and Alabama. Wills Creek, Alabama. Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, Alabama and Florida, from River Falls to the mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. Waterway between Black Warrior River and Fivemile Creek, Alabama, by way of Valley River or other practicable route, through or near Bessemer and Birmingham.
Waterway to connect Tennessee River with Tombigbee River, inMississippi. the State of Mississippi, by way of Big Bear Creek or other practicable route, with a separate report on the improvement of Tombigbee River from Demopolis, Alabama, to Columbus, Mississippi, with a view to securing continuous navigation by means of locks and dams. Old bed of Tchula Lake, Mississippi, from Marksville to the mouth of Abiacre Creek. Horse Shoe Lake, which leaves Tchula Lake in Holmes County, Mississippi.
Yalobusha River, Mississippi, from its mouth to the town of Grenada. Pearl River from Bogalusa, Louisiana, to Columbia, Mississippi.Louisiana. Choctaw Bayou, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Mouth of Bayou Saint John, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, with a view to the removal of the middle ground between the Rigolets and the north draw of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad bridge. Vermilion River, Louisiana, and channel to connect Vermilion River with the inland waterway between Franklin and Mermentau at Schooner Bayou.
Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas, up to Logansport, Louisiana.Texas. Arroyo Colorado, Texas, up to Harlingen. Harbor at Brazos Island, Texas. Colorado River, Texas, with a view to its improvement by means of locks and dams, or otherwise, and to the taking over by the General Government of the artificial cut to Matagorda. Navidad and Lavaca Rivers, Texas. Nueces River, Texas. 228 Inland waterway on the coast of Texas from Corpus Christi to a suitable point on Baffins Bay. Rio Grande River, from Velarde, New Mexico, to the sixth standardNew Mexico. parallel south New Mexico meridian.
Petit Jean River, Arkansas.Arkansas. Saint Francis River, Arkansas, from its mouth to Madison and the L’Anguille River from its junction with Saint Francis to Marianna, for the purpose of ascertaining the feasibility and cost of providing permanent navigation thereon. Red River at or near Fulton, Arkansas, with a view to the prevention of a cut-off. Black River, Arkansas, near Buttermilk Bank, with a view of protecting the bank in the interests of navigation. Saint Francis River, Missouri.Missouri.
Licking River, Kentucky, for a distance of about ten miles aboveKentucky. its mouth. Tradewater River, Kentucky. Tug and Levisa Forks of Big Sandy River, Kentucky and WestWest Virginia. Virginia. New River, from Radford, Virginia, to Hinton, West Virginia. Coal River, West Virginia, from the mouth to Boone. Elk River, West Virginia, from the mouth to Clay. Kanawha River, West Virginia, with a view to increasing the height of the locks and dams on said river so as to make a nine-foot stage to the Ohio River.
Little Kanawha River, West Virginia, from Creston to the head of practicable navigation. Hughes River, West Virginia. Ohio River at or near Elizabethtown, Illinois.Illinois. Harbor at Spring Bay, on the Illinois River, between Copperas Creek and La Salle, Illinois, with a view of improving it by dredging to a suitable navigable depth. Little Wabash River, Illinois. Wabash River, at Maunie, Illinois. Saline River, Illinois. Michigan City Harbor, Indiana.Indiana.Ohio. Artificial waterway from Lake Erie at or near Toledo, Ohio, to the southerly end of Lake Michigan by way of Maumee River and the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, or other practicable route.
Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, with a view to widening, deepening, and straightening the channel of Ashtabula River. Fairport Harbor, Ohio, with a view to enlarging and improving the outer harbor area. Huron Harbor, Ohio. Lorain Harbor, Ohio, with a view to widening, deepening, and straightening the channel of Black River. Mahoning River, Ohio, with a view to snagging that portion bet ween Warren and Levittsburg and five miles farther toward its source. Black River, Michigan.Michigan.
Harbor at Elk Rapids, Michigan. Charlevoix Harbor, Michigan, with a view to an increased depth between Lake Michigan and Pine Lake. Survey, for the purpose of charting only, of Crooked Lake, Burt Lake, and Mullett Lake, and their connecting waters, constituting the so-called inland route extending easterly from the vicinity of Petoskey, Michigan. Grays Reef Passage, off Waugoshance, in Lake Michigan, with a view to removing shoals and deepening passage. Rapid River Harbor, Michigan, with a view to the removal of a bar at the entrance. 229 Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin, with aWisconsin. view to securing increased depth and width of channel and to extending the improvement as far as practicable above the Ogden Street Bridge.
Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wisconsin, with a view to providing a turning basin at or near the western end. Fox River, Wisconsin, with a view to determining what repairs or extensions, if any, should be made to the levee at Portage, Wisconsin, in the interests of navigation, and to prevent injury to the Government works on Fox River, consideration being also given to the question of cooperation on the part of the State of Wisconsin and other local interests in the repair, extension, and maintenance of such levee.
Wolf River, Wisconsin. Mouth of the Siskiwit River, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior. Brule Harbor, Wisconsin, with a view to its improvement for minor lake craft. Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, with aMinnesota and Wisconsin. view to extending the twenty-foot channel up the Saint Louis River to Commonwealth Avenue, New Duluth, including a channel of the same depth on the south and east sides of Big Island. Waterway from Lake Superior to the Mississippi River by way of Allouez Bay, at the easterly end of the Duluth-Superior Harbor, and the Amnicon, Moose, and Saint Croix Rivers, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, from the mouth to Taylors Falls, with a view to the removal of logs and other obstructions, consideration being also given to the question of cooperation on the part of local interests in the construction of harbors, levees, and terminals at various points along said river. Reservoirs at headwaters of Mississippi River, with a view to theMinnesota. construction of locks in the dams heretofore built at Pokegama, Winnibigoshish, and Leech Lakes, in the State of Minnesota.
Baudette Harbor and River, Minnesota. Mille Lacs Lake and Onamia Lake, Minnesota, with view to improving the navigability of the Mississippi River by constructing a dam across Rum River at or near Onamia and thereby creating a reservoir in said lakes. Mississippi River at Dresbach and Dakota, Minnesota. Red River of the North, from Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Breckenridge, Minnesota, to the international boundary line, with a view to its improvement by the construction of locks and dams or otherwise.
The Kansas River, from the mouth to the western limits of KansasKansas.*Post*, p. 825. City, Kansas, with a view to removing all obstructions therefrom, dredging and widening the mouth and extending the improvement so as to fit the same for navigation, and to consider propositions for cooperation on the part of local authorities and interests. Missouri River, from the mouth of the Kansas River to a point at or near the western limits of Kansas City. Kansas. Missouri River, at Saint Joseph.
Missouri, with a view to preventing a diversion of the river through Lake Contrary and contiguous lakes. San Francisco Bay, California, from the mouth of the GuadaloupeCalifornia. River to a point four thousand one hundred and fifty feet northwest therefrom, with a view of securing a permanent channel three hundred feet wide with a depth of eighteen feet at low tide. Belvedere Harbor, California. Corte Madera Channel, California. Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, California, and their tributary waters, with a view to the improvement of said harbors and to 230 their protection from the deposit of silt, consideration being given to the question of cooperation on the part of local interests.
Crescent City Harbor and vicinity, California, with a view to securing a suitable harbor. Oakland Harbor, California. Petaluma Creek, California, with a view to securing increased depth at the mouth in San Pablo Bay. San Diego Harbor, California, including both the inner harbor and the bar entrance. Redondo Harbor, California. San Luis Obispo Harbor, California, with a view to the removal of rocks and other obstructions. San Rafael Creek, California. Stockton and Mormon Channels, California, including the diversion canal, with a view to determining what, if anything, may or should be done by the United States, either alone or in conjunction with the city of Stockton and the State of California, or with either of them, in order to increase the capacity of said diversion canal from its upper end in Mormon Channel to the mouth of Calaveras River in the San Joaquin River, so that said canal shall carry the entire flood flow of Mormon Channel and thus prevent the deposit of material in the navigable portions of Stockton and Mormon Channels.
Coos Bay and bar entrance, Oregon, including consideration of anyOregon. proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Coquille River and bar entrance, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Siuslaw River, Oregon, from Florence to Acme, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Willamette River, Oregon, with a view to providing a channel six feet deep between Oregon City and Corvallis and between Corvallis and Eugene by means of locks and dams, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests.
Yaquina Bay and bar entrance, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Port Orford Harbor, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests. Port Orford Harbor, at Grave Yard Point, Oregon, with a view to improving the same for the establishment of a harbor of refuge. Youngs Bay and River, Oregon. Anacortes Harbor, Washington, with a view to improving Cap SanteWashington.
Waterway and constructing a waterway between Fidalgo Bay and Similk Bay. Columbia River, Washington, between Vancouver and the mouth of the Willamette, with a view to improvement in cooperation with the port of Vancouver. Columbia River at Cathlamet, Washington. Columbia River, Washington, from and through Rickey and Grand Rapids to the international boundary line, with a view to open river navigation. Seattle Harbor, Washington, with a view to the maintenance of the East and West Waterways and to deepening and straightening the lower Duwamish River.
Skagit River, Washington. Skamokawa Creek, Washington. Snohomish River, Washington, to the head of navigation. Swinomish Slough and Padilla Bay, Washington, with a view to improvement in cooperation with local interests. Waterway connecting Similk Bay with Padilla Bay, Washington. Padilla Bay, Skagit County, Washington, with a view of ascertaining the desirability of modifying or relocating the navigable channels in said bay. 231 Willapa Harbor and Willapa River, Washington, from Raymond to the sea, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local interests.
Nasel, North, and other streams entering Willapa Harbor, Washington, with a view to snagging the same. Channel connecting Admiralty Inlet with Crockett Lake, Washington. Kootenai River, Idaho, between Bonners Ferry and the internationalIdaho. boundary line. Saint Marys and Saint Joe Rivera, Idaho. Channels from Catano Bay to San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico.Porto Rico. San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico, with a view to improvement in cooperation with the local government. In all cases a preliminary examination of the river, harbor, or otherReport on advisability. 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 herein 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 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 hereby authorized, in his discretion, to cause surveys to be made, and the cost and advisability to be reported to Congress.
And such reports containingProsecution of work. plans and estimates shall also contain a statement as to the rate at which the work should be prosecuted: *Provided*, That every*Proviso*.Additional data required in reports. report submitted to Congress in pursuance of this section, 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 transfer facilities.Adequacy, etc. 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, etc. are inadequate in number, there shall be included in 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 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 andExtension to existing works, etc. study of these questions as provided herein may, upon review by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors when called for as now provided by law, be extended to any work of improvement now under way and to any locality, the examination and survey of which has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, authorized by Congress. All reports on examinations and surveys which may be preparedPrinting reports during recess. during the recess of Congress shall, in the discretion of the Secretary 232 of War, be printed by the Public Printer as documents of the following session of Congress. Sec. 3. That all reports on examinations and surveys authorizedReview of reports by Boardof Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.Vol. 32, p. 872. in any section of this Act 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 said board shall also, on request by resolution of the CommitteeExaminations on request of Senate or House committees. 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*,*Provisos*.Limit on scope of reports. That in no case shall the board, in its report thus called for by committee resolution, extend the scope of the project contemplated in the original report upon which its examination and review has been re-quested, or in the provision of law authorizing the original examination or survey: *Provided further*, That the Chief of Engineers may,Board increased.*Post*, p. 827. at his discretion, increase to not to exceed nine the number of Engineer officers constituting said board: *And provided further*, That a majority of said board shall be of rank not less than lieutenantRank of majority. colonel. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed toWater terminals and transfer facilities.Examination, etc., of, contiguous to harbor works, etc. have made during the years nineteen hundred and twelve and nine-teen hundred and thirteen through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, so far as practicable, an investigation and examination of all water terminal and transfer facilities contiguous to any harbor, river, or other waters under improvement by the United States, and reports on the same shall be submitted to Congress in annual reportsData required. or otherwise. Such examination and report shall include among other things the following:
(a)The general location and description of water terminals and theLocation, conditions of use, etc. extent and method of their use by water carriers and their general efficiency, and whether open to use by all water carriers on equal terms, and such information as may be accessible as to the terms and conditions of use;
(b)Whether physical connection exists between such water terminalsConditions for interchange of traffic, etc. and the railroad or railroads serving the same territory or municipality, and also whether there exists between any of the water carriers operating upon waters under improvement or heretofore improved and any railroad or railroads a mutual contract for interchange of traffic by prorating as to such long-distance traffic as may be desired to be carried partly by rail and partly by water to its destination;
(c)Whether improved and adequate highways have been constructedExistence of highways. to each water terminal;
(d)If no water terminals exist, there shall be included an opinionNecessity, etc., for, if none exist. in general terms as to the necessity, number, and appropriate location of terminals upon such waters. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed toCompilation of rivet and harbor surveys, appropriations, etc., directed.*Post*, p. 827. have prepared and transmitted to Congress at the earliest practicable date a compilation of preliminary examinations, surveys, and appropriations for works 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 hundred and two, andVol. 32, p. 375. printed in House Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.To include 1902 to 1912. report to be prepared in accordance with this provision shall be an extension of the report printed in the document above mentioned 233 and shall cover the period between July first, nineteen hundred and two, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided*Changes. *further*, That such changes may be made in the form of the report as may be deemed desirable by the Chief of Engineers. Sec. 6. That there shall be printed three thousand copies of theCompilation of river and harbor laws 1907–1912, to be printed.*Ante*, p. 827. laws of the United States relating to the improvement of rivers and harbors passed between March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, until and including the laws of the second session of the Sixty-secondDistribution. 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. There shall also be printed one thousand five hundred copies of theIndex to Engineer Reports 1866 to 1912, to be printed. index to the Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, to include the reprinting of House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-nine, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session, covering the period from eighteen hundred and sixty-six toVol. 32, p. 375. nineteen hundred, inclusive, authorized by section thirteen of the Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two; the additional information covering nineteen hundred and one to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, to be furnished by the Secretary of War. Sec. 7. Unless otherwise expressed, the channel depths referred toChannel depths and widths construed. in this Act shall be understood to signify the depth at mean low water in tidal waters, and the mean depth during the month of lowest water in the navigation season in rivers and non-tidal channels; and the channel widths specified shall be understood to admit of such increase in width at the entrances, bends, sidings, and turning places as may be necessary to allow of the free movement of boats. Sec. 8. Whenever the appropriations made by Congress forCombining contracts. river and harbor works can be more advantageously expended by combining in one contract two or more works, such combinations shall be made. And whenever the appropriations made, or authorizedUse of insufficient appropriations. to be made, for the completion of any river and harbor work shall prove insufficient therefor, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, apply the funds so appropriated or authorized to the prosecution of such work. Sec. 9. In their execution and inspection of river and harbor improvementHire of transportation by officers. work, at points beyond easy reach of ordinary regular transportation lines, Engineer officers are authorized to hire and use such transportation as they may consider desirable and advantageous to the progress of work. Sec. 10. The Chief of Engineers is authorized in case of emergenciesAdditional office force for emergencies.*Post*, p. 765. during the preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills to employ such additional office force as he may find necessary for that purpose, to be paid from the appropriation for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors. Sec. 11. For the construction at the Engineer School of a buildingEngineer School, D. C.Appropriation for building for river and harbor instruction. with library accommodations and other facilities for the instruction of officers of the Corps of Engineers in duties pertaining to the improvement of rivers and harbors, one hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 12. In order to make possible the economical future developmentDams.To provide for development of water power. of water power the Secretary of War, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to provide in the permanent parts of any dam authorized at any time by Congress for the improvement of navigation such foundations, sluices, and other works, as may be considered desirable for the future development of its water power. 234 Sec. 13. The printing of matter relating to river and harbor works,Reports, etc. including all reports, compilations, regulations, and so forth, whose Payment for printing.preparation is allowable under War Department regulations, may, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and approval by the Secretary of War, be paid for from river and harbor appropriations. Approved, July 25, 1912.
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