Chapter 41. To improve navigation on Black Warrior River, in the State of Alabama
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CHAP. 41.— An Act To improve navigation on Black Warrior River, in the State of Alabama. August 22, 1911.[[S. 943](/us/bill/62/s/943).][[Public, No. 40](/us/pl/62/40).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Black Warrior River, Ala.Change authorized in plans for Lock and Dam 17 That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to change the detailed plans and specifications for the construction of Lock and Dam Seventeen, on the Black Warrior River, Alabama, so as to increase the height of the pool level over the dam crest of Lock Seventeen to a height of sixty-three feet above the pool level of Lock Sixteen, so as to render unnecessary the building of Locks Eighteen and Nineteen, as now authorized, and so as to provide for the extension of slack water up the Mulberry and Locust Forks of the Black Warrior River to Sanders Shoals and Nichols Shoals, respectively, and for the development of water power.
Sec. 2. Detailed plans, etc., to be prepared.Suspension of work. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to have prepared such detailed plans and estimates as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this Act, and he is further authorized in his discretion to suspend operations during his investigations and to enter into supplemental agreements with the present contractors for Lock and Dam Seventeen, providing for the annulment of existing contracts or for their modification so as to cover the work required for the construction of the higher lock and dam, as be may deem most advantageous for the interests of the United States.
Sec. 3. Use of appropriations if changes advisable.Vol. 35, pp. 359, 998.Vol. 36, pp. 646, 729, 742, 1406. Should the construction of the higher dam at site seventeen be found advisable the appropriations and authorizations heretofore made for the cost of locks and dams on the Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama, shall be available for the construction of Dam Seventeen and such locks as may be necessary to overcome the lift between the pools created by Dams Sixteen and Seventeen.
Approved, August 22, 1911.