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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · July 27, 1916 · Chapter 260

Chapter 260. 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. 260.— An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. July 27, 1916[[H. R. 121](/us/bill/64/hr/121)][[Public, No. 168](/us/pl/64/168)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums ofRiver and harbor appropriations. money be, and are hereby, appropriated, 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:
Georges River (Thomaston Harbor), Maine: For maintenance,Thomaston, Me. $10,000. Harbor at Burlington, Vermont: For maintenance and repair ofBurlington, Vt. breakwater, $22,000. Harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $20,000.Newburyport, Mass. Harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $100,000.Boston, Mass. Harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvementNantucket, Mass. and for maintenance, $10,000. Pollock Rip Channel, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement,Pollock Rip Channel, Mass.*Proviso*.Use of dredge. $150,000: *Provided*, That, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, the Secretary of War is authorized to temporarily transfer to this work any Government dredge which may be available, without compensation to the appropriation for the project to which said dredge belongs.
Merrimack River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $10,000.Merrimack River, Mass. Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $15,000.Weymouth Fore River, Mass. Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement, including the removal of the small shoal south of the west end of Peddocks Island, in accordance with the report printed in Senate Committee Document Numbered Thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $200,000.
Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut: For maintenance,Pawcatuck River, R. I. and Conn. $1,000. Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut: For maintenance, $5,000.Norwalk, Conn. Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut, in accordanceNew London, Conn. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $170,000. Thames River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $9,000.Thames River, Conn.
Connecticut River, Connecticut: Of the appropriation authorizedConnecticut River. Conn.Above Hartford. in the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen 392Vol. 37, p. 202.hundred and twelve, so much as may be necessary may, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, be expended for maintenance dredging in said river above Hartford. Below Hartford.Connecticut River, Connecticut: For maintenance below Hartford, $15,000. Housatonic River, Conn.Housatonic River, Connecticut:
Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $12,000. Duck Island, Conn., Harbor of refuge.Harbor of refuge at Duck Island, Connecticut: For restoring depth behind Duck Island breakwater, $71,000. Port Chester, N. Y.Harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement, $27,500. Mamaroneck, N. Y.Harbor at Mamaroneck, New York: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $7,000. Port Jefferson, N. Y.Harbor at Port Jefferson, New York: For maintenance, $5,000. Saugerties, N. Y.Harbor at Saugerties, New York:
For maintenance, $11,250. Rondout, N. Y.Harbor at Rondout, New York: For maintenance, $4,250. Peekskill, N. Y.Harbor at Peekskill, New York: For maintenance, $1,000. Tarrytown, N. Y.Harbor at Tarrytown, New York: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $10,000. New York Harbor. Ambrose Channel.New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance, including Ambrose Channel, $40,000. Gowanus Bay Channel.Channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement of Red Hook Channel, $150,000.
Hudson River Channel.Hudson River Channel, New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, $450,000. Buffalo, N. Y.Harbor at Buffalo, New York: For maintenance, $140,000. Black Rock Harbor, N. Y.Unexpended balances available.Improving Black Rock Harbor, New York: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of Black Rock Harbor and Channel, New York, and Tonawanda Harbor and Niagara River, New York, are hereby consolidated and made available for completing improvement of Black Rock Harbor and Channel and Tonawanda Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.
Charlotte, N. Y.Harbor at Charlotte, New York: For maintenance, $12,000. Great Sodus Bay, N. Y.Harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: For maintenance, $19,000. Oswego, N. Y.Harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement in accordance with plan A, $100,000. Cape Vincent, N. Y.Harbor at Cape Vincent, New York: For maintenance, $20,000. Plattsburg, N. Y.Harbor at Plattsburg, New York: For maintenance, $11,000. Bronx River, N. Y.Bronx River, New York: Continuing improvement, $250,000.
East Chester Creek, N. Y.East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $6,000. East River, N. Y.Channel to navy yard.East River, New York: For improvement with a view to providing a channel thirty-five feet deep from deep water in New York Harbor to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in accordance with so much of the report published in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, first session, as applies to the *Provisos*,Contracts.channel west of the navy yard, $200,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $500,000, exclusive of the amount Restrictions.herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as adopting the said project beyond the work to the extent and in the manner specified.
Harlem River, N. Y.Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement, $250,000. Newtown Creek, N. Y.Newtown Creek, New York: For maintenance, $10,000. 393 Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement and forHudson River, N. Y.*Proviso*.Contracts. maintenance, $640,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $610,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, $3,500.Wappinger Creek, N. Y. Staten Island Sound, New York and New Jersey: Continuing improvement,Staten Island Sound, N. Y. and N. J. $500,000. Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000.Raritan Bay, N. J. Absecon Inlet, New Jersey: For maintenance, $25,000.Absecon Inlet, N. J. Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For maintenance, $40,000.Cold Spring Inlet, N. J. Newark Bay and Passaic River, New Jersey: Continuing improvementNewark Bay and Passaic River, N.
J. and for maintenance, $175,000. Hackensack River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $6,000.Hackensack River, N. J. Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey: For maintenace, $3,000.Woodbridge Creek, N. J. Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek, Raritan, South, and ElizabethKeyport Harbor, etc., N. J. Rivers, Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000. Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000.Shrewsbury River, N. J. Cooper River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000.Cooper River, N.
J. Woodbury Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $6,000.Woodbury Creek, N. J. Mantua Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000.Mantua Creek, N. J. Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000.Racoon Creek, N. J. Salem River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000.Salem River, N. J. Maurice River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,Maurice River, N. J. $10,000. Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $2,000.Toms River, N. J. Absecon Creek, New Jersey:
For maintenance, $1,600.Absecon Creek, N. J. Harbor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $2,500.Pittsburgh, Pa. Harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $10,000.Erie, Pa. Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance by open-channelAllegheny River, Pa. work, $15,000. Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: Completing the reconstructionMonongahela River, Pa. of Lock and Dam Numbered Six, $29,460. Chester River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $3,000.Chester River, Pa.Crum River.
That Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain and the BaldwinDiversion of channel, by Alba B. Johnson, etc. Locomotive Works, abutting property owners upon Crum River where the same empties into the Delaware River, be, and they are hereby, authorized to change and divert the present course and channel of Crum River and to straighten same, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, from the right of way of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company to the low-water line in the Delaware River, and that the said river shall be of the width of not less than one hundred feet at mean low water; and that hereafter the said Crum River, as so straightened, shall be a public navigable stream, and the present course and channel of the said river from theOld channel abandoned. right of way of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company to the low-water line in the Delaware River shall be abandoned and vacated when the above-mentioned new channel shall have been completed to a depth of four feet at mean low water, with a bottom width of sixty-two feet and width of one hundred feet at mean low-water*Provisos*.Public use of new channel. level:
Provided, That the Government shall have such right, title, and interest in and to the bed of said new channel as will assure the public the right to the perpetual use of said channel for all theBridge required. purposes of navigation and commerce: *Provided*, That the said Alba B. Johnson, and Samuel M. Vauclain and the Baldwin Locomotive Works shall construct and maintain at their expense a bridge, satisfactory to the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Commerce, over the new course of Crum Creek, available for the passage of persons 394and vehicles for purposes of the United States, said bridge to take the direction of the present right of way of the United States at the place where the same is to be cut by the proposed new course of Crum Creek, and to be maintained so long as title to the property now owned by the United States at the mouth of Crum Creek remains in said United States.
Delaware River, N. J. and Del.Philadelphia to the sea.To Trenton.At Trenton.*Proviso*.Contracts.Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $2,100,000; for maintenance of improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to Lalor Street, Trenton, $25,000; and completing improvement above Lalor Street, Trenton, $40,000; in all, $2,165,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the project, from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $600,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Marcushook, Pa.Ice Harbor at Marcushook, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $1,000. Wilmington, Del.Harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: For maintenance, $30,000. Appoquinimink, etc., Rivers, Del.Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion Rivers, Delaware: For maintenance, $15,000. Little River, Del.Little River, Delaware: For maintenance, $3,000. Smyrna River.*Proviso*.Title to cut-off.Smyrna River, Delaware: Continuing improvement, $10,000: *Provided*, That no part of said amount shall be expended until satisfactory title to the land required for the necessary cut-offs shall have been transferred to the United States free of cost.
Leipsic River, Del.Leipsic River, Delaware: For maintenance, $5,000. Waterway, Rehoboth and Delaware Bays.Inland waterway between Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay, Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $50,000. Lewes, Del.Maintenance of iron pier.Government iron pier in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance in accordance with the report printed in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-fourth *Provisos*.Public use.Congress, first session, $10,000: *Provided*, That hereafter said pier shall be open to public use under regulations to be prescribed by the Transfer to Treasury revoked.Vol. 26, p. 969.Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the provision of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, authorizing the transfer of said pier to the Treasury Department is hereby repealed.
Broad Creek River, Del.Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance, $1,500. Eastern Shore harbors, etc., Md.Harbors at Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cambridge, and Chester, Choptank, Warwick, Wicomico, Pocomoke, La Trappe, and Manokin Rivers, and Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: For maintenance, $12,500. Elk and Little Elk Rivers, Md.Elk and Little Elk Rivers, up to the Bridge Street bridge, Elkton, Maryland: For maintenance, $8,500. Nanticoke River, Del. and Md.Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland:
For maintenance of improvement of Nanticoke River and Northwest Fork of Nanticoke River (Marshyhope Creek), Maryland, $5,000. Potomac River, D. C.Potomac River: For maintenance of improvement at Washington, District of Columbia, $32,000. Mattaponi River, etc., Va.Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers, and Occoquan and Aquia Creeks, Virginia: For maintenance, $15,000. Rappahannock River, Va.Rappahannock River, Virginia: For maintenance, $30,000. James River, Va.James River, Virginia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $190,000.
Coast waterway, Va.Waterway on the coast of Virginia: For maintenance, $1,000. Inland waterway, Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort, N. C.Inland Waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, $1,000,000. Shallowbag Bay, N. C.Shallowbag Bay, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. Beaufort Inlet, N. C.Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: For maintenance, $10,000. Morehead City, N. C.Harbor at Morehead City, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,600. 395 Meherrin River, North Carolina:
For maintenance, $2,500.Meherrin River, N. C. Fishing Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000.Fishing Creek, N. C. Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina : For maintenance, $4,500.Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C. Bay River, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000.Bay River, N. C. Neuse and Trent Rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000.Neuse and Trent Rivers, N. C. Swift Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000.Swift Creek, N. C. Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina:Waterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N.
C. For maintenance, $6,500. Waterway connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor, NorthCore Sound and Beaufort, N. C. Carolina: For maintenance of channel by way of Taylors Creek, $2,000. New River and waterways to Beaufort, North Carolina: ForNew River, etc., N. C. maintenance of New River and of inland waterways between Beaufort Harbor and New River and between New River and Swansboro, $6,000. Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina: ForNortheast, etc., Rivers, N.
C. maintenance of improvement of Northeast and Black Rivers and of Cape Fear River above Wilmington, $8,500. Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina: CompletingCape Fear River, N. C., above Wilmington. improvement and for maintenance, $83,000. Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina:Wilmington and below. Completing improvement and for maintenance, $135,000. Winyah Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement and forWinyah Bay, S. C. maintenance, $100,000.
Waterways between Charleston and Alligator Creek (oppositeWaterways, Charleston and Alligator Creek, S. C. McClellanville) South Carolina: For maintenance, including branch to Morrisons Landing, $15,000. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: Completing improvement ofCharleston, S. C. the twenty-eight-foot channel to the sea, $70,000; for maintenance of improvement of Ashley River, $10,000; in all, $80,000. Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina: CompletingWaccamaw River, N.
C. and S. C. improvement and for maintenance, $8,500. Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For maintenance, $5,000.Great Pedee River, S. C. Santee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: For maintenanceSantee, etc., Rivers, S. C. of improvement, including the Estherville-Minim Creek Canal and the Congaree River as far up as the Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, $55,000. Inland waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Beaufort,Waterway, Savannah, Ga., and Beaufort, S. C. South Carolina:
For maintenance, $2,500. Harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Completing improvement and forSavannah, Ga. maintenance, $545,000. Improving Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia: CompletingSavannah River at Augusta, Ga. improvement in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Four, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $33,000. Harbor at Darien, Georgia: For maintenance, $4,000.Darien, Ga. Harbor at Brunswick, Georgia:
For maintenance, $36,250.Brunswick, Ga. Savannah River, Georgia: For maintenance below Augusta,Savannah River below Augusta. $29,000. Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: ContinuingAltamaha, etc., Rivers, Ga. improvement and for maintenance, $60,000. Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,Flint River, Ga. $60,000. Waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, Florida:Waterway, Savannah and Fernandina. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $40,000.
Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvementChattahoochee River, Ga. and Ala. below Columbus, Georgia, and for maintenance, $120,000. Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvement andCoosa River, Ga. and Ala.Locks and dams. for maintenance between Rome, Georgia, and Dam Numbered Four, Alabama, $68 000; completing construction of the lock in Dam Num-396bered Four and completing construction of Dam Numbered Five, in the State of Alabama, $30,000; in all, $98,000.
Miami, Fla.*Proviso*.Contract.Vol. 37, p. 209.Harbor at Miami (Biscayne Bay), Florida: Continuing improvement, $140,000: *Provided*, That the work proposed under the project adopted by the river and harbor Act of July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, may be done by contract if reasonable prices can be obtained. Sarasota Bay, Fla.Sarasota Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $2,500. Tampa Bay, Fla.Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $6,000. Saint Petersburg, Fla.Harbor at Saint Petersburg, Florida:
Completing improvement and for maintenance, $14,500. Hillsboro Bay, Fla.Hillsboro Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $325,000. Apalachicola Bay, Fla.Apalachicola Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $10,000. Pensacola, Fla.Harbor at Pensacola, Florida: For maintenance, $20,000. Saint Johns River, Fla.Saint Johns River, Florida: Completing improvement and for maintenance from Jacksonville to the ocean, $300,000; from Jacksonville to Palatka, $16,000; from Palatka to Lake Harney, $16,000; in all, $332,000.
Oklawaha River, Fla.*Provisos*.Conveyance of Kyle and Young Canal, etc.Oklawaha River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $10,000: *Provided*, That there shall be conveyed to the United States, free of cost, title to the land occupied by what is known as the “Kyle and Young Canal” and the “Morrison Landing extension” of the same, on the Oklawaha River, in the State of Florida, together with title to a strip of land on the east side of said canal of such width as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be required for the future widening of said canal and extension by the United States; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept said land and navigation improvements as the property of the United States upon the delivery to him by the owners of a clear and indefeasible title; and the said canal and extension shall thereupon become a free public waterway of the United States in place of the Extension by J.
D. Young authorized.existing natural bed of the river: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit J. D. Young, or his assigns, to construct an extension of the foregoing improvements from Morrison Landing to Starks Ferry or Lake Griffin in accordance with plans Conditions.recommended by the Chief of Engineers: *And provided further*, That said J. D. Young, or assigns, convey to the United States, free of cost, title to the land to be occupied by said proposed extension, together with any lands immediately adjoining the same on the west side, which may be needed for further improvement by the United States.
Indian River, Fla.Indian River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $20,000. Kissimmee River, Fla.Kissimmee River, Florida: For maintenance, $3,000. Caloosahatchee River, Fla.Caloosahatchee River, Florida: For maintenance, $3,000. Orange River, Fla.Orange River, Florida: For maintenance, $1,000. Manatee River, Fla.Manatee River, mouth to Mitchellsville Bridge, Florida: For maintenance, $5,000. Hillsboro River, Fla.Hillsboro River, Florida: For maintenance, $6,500.
Anclote River, Fla.Anclote River, Florida: For maintenance, $3,000. Withlacoochee River, Fla.Withlacoochee River, Florida: For maintenance, $5,000. Water hyacinth.Removing, from Florida waters.Removing the water hyacinth, Florida: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the State of Florida, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, $10,000. Apalachicola River, Fla.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, $6,000.
Channel, Saint Johns River and Cumberland Sound, Fla. and Ga.Channel between Saint Johns River and Cumberland Sound, Florida and Georgia: For maintenance, $1,000. Clearwater to Tampa Bay, Fla.Channel from Clearwater Harbor through Boca Ceiga Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $3,000. 397 Channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Florida:Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Fla.Calhoun County, Fla.Payment for damages, etc. For maintenance, $10,000; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to pay to the treasurer of Calhoun County, Florida, out of any funds heretofore or herein appropriated for improving channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, the sum of $400 as full compensation for damage done public highways of said county at points where the adopted line of said channel intersect said highways.
Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance ofChoctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala. improvement, including Cypress Top Outlet, $20,000. Mobile Harbor and Bar, Alabama: For maintenance, $155,000.Mobile, Ala. Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,Alabama River, Ala. including the Alabama and Coosa Rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, $100,000. Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance ofTombigbee River, Ala. and Miss. improvement from the mouth to Demopolis, $25,000, and from Demopolis, Alabama, to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, $10,000; in all, $35,000.
Channel connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: For maintenance,Channel, Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound. $5,000. Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and forPascagoula Harbor, Miss.Channels. maintenance of channels through Horn Island Pass, Mississippi Sound, Pascagoula River, and Dog River, $80,000. Harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000.Biloxi, Miss. Harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and forGulfport, Miss. maintenance of Gulfport Harbor, and for maintenance of Ship Island Pass, $85,000.
Pascagoula, Leaf, and Chickasahay Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance,Pascagoula, etc., Rivers, Miss. $10,000. Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000.Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Miss. East Pearl River, Mississippi: For maintenance, $6,000.East Pearl River, Miss. Pearl River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenancePearl River, Miss. below Rockport, $35,000. Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement,Yazoo River and tributaries, Miss. including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Coldwater, and Big Sunflower Rivers, Tchula Lake, Steele and Washington Bayous, Lake Washington, and Bear Creek, $45,000: *Provided*, That the sums herein*Proviso*.Direction of expenditures. and hereafter appropriated for maintenance of improvement of mouth of Yazoo River, together with any unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made therefor, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Big Sunflower River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, $50,000.Big Sunflower River, Miss. Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River: Continuing improvementMississippi River passes. and for maintenance, $1,000,000. Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For maintenance, including GrandBayou Plaquemine, La. River and Pigeon Bayous, $20,000. Bayou Teche, Louisiana: For maintenance, $10,000.Bayou Teche, La. Inland waterway on the coast of Louisiana: For maintenance fromWaterway, Louisiana coast, Franklin to Sabine River.
Franklin to Mermentau, $10,000, and from Mermentau River to Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas; $10,000; in all, $20,000. Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvementCalcasieu River and Pass, La. of mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, $2,500. Bogue Falia, Bayou Manchac, Amite, Chefuncte, and Tickfaw Rivers:Bogue Falia, etc. For maintenance, $5,000. Bayous Vermilion and Plaquemine Brule, and Mermentau River,Bayous Vermilion and Plaquemine Brule, and Mermentau River, La.*Proviso*.Removal of dam.
Louisiana: For maintenance, including channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion, and tributaries of Mermentau River, $13,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated the sum of $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in removing the wrecked lock and dam near the mouth of the Mermentau River. 398 Water hyacinth.Removing, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.Removing the water hyacinth, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States named in so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, $20,000.
Bayou Terrebonne, La.Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana: For maintenance, $3,000. Atchafalaya River, La.Atchafalaya River, Louisiana: For maintenance, $50,000. Bayou Grossetete, La.Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $5,000. Bayou Queue de Tortue, La.Bayou Queue de Tortue, Louisiana: For maintenance, $3,000. Johnsons Bayou, La.Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, $2,500. Red River, Ark. and La.Red River, Arkansas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Fulton, Arkansas, $55,000.
Bayous Bartholomew, etc., La.Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, D’Arbonne, and Corney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $10,000. Galveston, Tex.Harbor at Galveston, Texas: For maintenance, $325,000. Galveston Channel, Tex.Sea-wall extension.Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement by construction of sea-wall extension in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, subject to the conditions therein *Provisos*.Donation of lands by Galveston, etc., required.named, $200,000: *Provided*, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended and no contract shall be entered into under this appropriation until the county or city of Galveston and other local interests shall have donated the lands to the United States, as set forth in said Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety, and shall have quieted all claims to the present San Jacinto Reservation, Construction of sea wall by Galveston.nor until the said county or city of Galveston shall have obtained a right of way and made provision in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War for paying the cost of constructing at least three thousand three hundred feet of similar sea-wall extension in addition to Direction of construction, etc.that herein appropriated for:
Provided further, That the entire work of construction shall be done under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the funds appropriated by Congress and those furnished by the county or city of Galveston shall be expended by him. Maintenance of channel.Galveston Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $100,000. Channel to Texas City.Channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: For maintenance, $185,000. Channel to Port Bolivar.Channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance, $50,000.
Port Aransas, Tex.Port Aransas, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $100,000. Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, Tex.Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, $590,000. Houston Ship Channel, Tex.Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $250,000. Anahuac Channel, etc., Tex.Anahuac Channel, Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, Dickinson, Double, and East Bay Bayous: For maintenance, $30,000.
Texas inland waterways.Inland waterway on the coast of Texas: For maintenance of the West Galveston Bay-Brazos River section, $15,000; for maintenance of the Brazos River-Matagorda Bay section, $30,000; for maintenance of the Aransas Pass-Pass Cavallo section, $30,000; for maintenance *Proviso*.Transfer of allotments.of Guadalupe River up to Victoria, $23,500; in all, $98,500: *Provided*, That any portion of the amount hereby appropriated for a given section of said waterway may, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, be transferred by the Secretary of War and made available for maintenance of improvement in any other section.
Brazos River, Tex.At mouth.Mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For maintenance, $175,000. Distribution.Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement from Old Washington to Waco by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $200,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, $15,000; in all, $215,000. 399 Channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For maintenance,Channel, Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Tex. $15,000.
Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas: For maintenance of that portion fromSabine-Neches Canal, Tex. the mouth of the Neches River to the junction with the Port Arthur Ship Canal, $20,000. Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenanceTrinity River. by open-channel work, $50,000; for improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams numbered Three and Five, $250,000: *Provided*, That no part of the latter amount shall be expended until*Proviso*.Contribution by Dallas, etc. the city of Dallas or other local interests shall have contributed the sum of $50,000 toward the improvement.
Cypress Bayou and waterway between Jefferson, Texas, and Shreveport,Cypress Bayou, etc., Tex. and La. Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. Red River, Arkansas and Texas: Continuing improvement and forRed River, Ark. and Okla. maintenance and repair of levees destroyed by overflows in nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen betweeen Fulton, Arkansas, and Washita River, Oklahoma, $50,000. Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: Continuing improvementOuachita River, Ark. and La. by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $474,000; for maintenance of improvement by open-channel work up to Camden, $25,000; in all, $499,000.
Arkansas River, Arkansas and Oklahoma: For maintenance ofArkansas River. Ark. and Okla. improvement, including bank protection at Pine Bluff and Little Rock and vicinity and the operation of dredging plant, $234,700. White River, Arkansas: For maintenance, and for preventing cutoffWhite River, Ark. at De Vail’s Bluff, in accordance with House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, thirdUse of balance.Vol. 37, p. 814. session, $30,500. In addition thereto the sum of $8,000, appropriated by the river and harbor Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is made available unconditionally.
Cache River, in Arkansas: That the Cache River in the State ofCache River, Ark.Declared nonnavigable stream. Arkansas be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. This provision shall become void after one year fromConditions. the date of the approval of this Act unless within said period the Legislature of Arkansas shall pass an act expressly approving this declaration. The right of the Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this paragraph is hereby expressly reserved.
Black and Current Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For maintenance,Black and Current Rivers, Ark. and Mo. $18,000. Saint Francis River and tributaries, Arkansas: For maintenance ofSaint Francis River, etc., Ark. improvement of Saint Francis and L’Anguille Rivers and Blackfish Bayou, $9,500. Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky: For maintenanceCumberland River, Tenn, and Ky. above Nashville, $5,000; continuing improvement below Nashville, $705,000; in all, $710,000. Tennessee River, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky:
For maintenanceTennessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky.Distribution. and continuing improvement by open-channel work above Chattanooga, Tennessee, $300,000, and of this amount not to exceed $5,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of War, for the maintenance of the Clinch and Holston Rivers at or near the mouth of said rivers; for maintenance and continuing improvement by open-channel work between Florence and Riverton, Alabama, $120,000; for continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Browns Island, Alabama, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty, Sixty-second Congress, second session, as modified by the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered One, Sixty-fourth 400*Provisos*.Payment of flowage damages.Congress, first session, $500,000: *Provided*, That no contract shall be entered into for the construction thereof until the local interests shall assume and pay all claims for flowage damage or arrange to do so in manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, Dams authorized.That one high dam or two low dams may be constructed according as the local interests may contribute the cost of all claims for flowage damage arising from either type of dams, respectively: *And provided further*, Determination of type.That the Secretary of War shall ultimately determine the type of dams to be constructed; for continuing improvement and for maintenance below Riverton, Alabama, $24,000; in all, $944,000.
Toledo, Ohio.Harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For maintenance, $20,000. Port Clinton, Ohio.Harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio: For maintenance, $1,000. Sandusky, Ohio.Harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: For maintenance, $10,000. Huron, Ohio.Harbor at Huron, Ohio: For maintenance, $2,500. Vermilion, Ohio.Harbor at Vermilion, Ohio: For maintenance, $4,500. Cleveland, Ohio.*Proviso*.Location of pierhead.Harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For maintenance, $65,000: *Provided*, That the pierhead for marking the east end of the east breakwater extension provided for in the existing project shall be located at the east extremity of ,the breakwater as now built, said pierhead to be constructed with funds heretofore appropriated for the construction of said breakwater.
Ohio River.Open channel work.Ohio River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work, $509,500. Locks and dams.Ohio River: Continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams with a view to securing a navigable depth of nine feet, $5,000,000. Ontonagon, Mich.Harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan: For maintenance, $9,000. Grand Marais, Mich.Harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Michigan: For maintenance, $10,000. Manistique, Mich.Harbor at Manistique, Michigan:
Completing improvement and for maintenance, $14,000. Menominee Harbor and River, Mich, and Wis.Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: For maintenance, $20,400: *Provided*, That of this amount $3,400 may be expended for dredging above Ogden Street Bridge. Saint Joseph, Mich.Saint Joseph Harbor and River, Michigan: For maintenance, $36,500. South Haven, Mich.Harbor at South Haven, Michigan: For maintenance, $10,900. Saugatuck and Kalamazoo River, Mich.Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, Michigan:
For maintenance, $4,000. Holland, Mich.Harbor at Holland, Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. Grand Haven, Mich,Harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan: For maintenance, $71,750. Muskegon, Mich.Harbor at Muskegon, Michigan: For maintenance, $7,500. Ludington, Mich.Harbor at Ludington, Michigan: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $250,000. Frankfort, Mich.Harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. Charlevoix, etc. Mich.Harbor at Charlevoix and entrance to Pine Lake, Michigan:
For maintenance, $3,500. Alpena, Mich.Harbor at Alpena, Michigan: For maintenance, $2,000. Harbor Beach, MichHarbor of refuge at Harbor Beach, Michigan: For repairs to breakwater and for maintenance, $125,000. Grand River, Mich.Grand River, Michigan: For maintenance, $5,800. Lake Saint Clair Mich.Ship channel connecting waters of the Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo: For maintenance of improvement *Proviso*.Channel at Port Huron.through Lake Saint Clair, $108,325: *Provided*, That of this amount the sum of $83,325 may be expended for the purpose of securing a channel in Saint Clair River along the water front of Port Huron, Michigan, in accordance with the report printed in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-two, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.
Saint Marys River Mich.New lock.Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan: Continuing improvement by the construction of a fourth lock, $800,000. 401 Black River at Port Huron, Michigan: Completing improvementBlack River, Mich. At Port Huron. and for maintenance, $25,000. Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, $1,500.Clinton River, Mich. Harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $18,000.Green Bay, Wis. Harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $3,500.Two Rivers, Wis.
Harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $2,500.Port Washington, Wis. Harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including harbor of refuge: ForMilwaukee, Wis. maintenance, $11,000. Harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, $200,000.Racine, Wis. Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement from DepereFox River, Wis. up to Portage, including maintenance of improvement of Wolf River and of the harbors heretofore improved on Lake Winnebago, $30,000. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to convey, by quitclaimConveyance of “Portage Levee” authorized. deed, to the" State of Wisconsin, or to the city of Portage, free of cost, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the “Portage Levee,” including the right of way on which it is built, whenever the proper authorities of said State, or of said city, shall satisfy the Secretary of War that they are empowered by law to accept the same.
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: For maintenance,Duluth and Superior, Minn, and Wis. $43,000. Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: ContinuingEnlarging basin, Superior. improvement by enlarging the Superior Harbor basin in accordance with report printed in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-one, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $180,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts. That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials or work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $180,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Warroad Harbor and River, Minnesota: For maintenance, $2,000.Warroad, Mich. Zippel Bay, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota: For maintenance,Zippel Bay, Minn. $1,000. Harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: For maintenance, $6,000.Grand Marais, Minn. Indiana Harbor, Indiana: Continuing improvement and forIndiana Harbor, Ind. maintenance, $400,000. Harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: For maintenance, $20,000.Michigan City, Ind. Harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, $16,000.Waukegan, Ill.
Harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement, by theChicago, Ill. construction of a breakwater to form an outer harbor, $714,300. Harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For maintenance, $25,000.Calumet, Ill. Chicago River, Illinois: For maintenance, $30,000.Chicago River, Ill. Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For maintenance, $20,000:Calumet River, Ill. and Ind.*Proviso*.Limit. *Provided*, That the upper Emit of said project shall be at the intersection of the Grand Calumet River and the Indiana Harbor Canal.
Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenanceIllinois River, Ill. below Copperas Creek, $55,000. Mississippi River: Government dike, in Illinois, directly oppositeMississippi River.Dike at Louisiana, Mo. the city of Louisiana, Missouri, for raising dike at least seven feet, $15,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary. Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the OhioMississippi River Commission.Mississippi River.From Head of Passes to the Ohio.Securing nine-foot channel.
River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: Continuing improvement with a view to securing a permanent channel depth of nine feet, $6,000,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission, as approved by the Chief of Engineers, for the general improvement of the river, for the building of levees, and which may be done, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, by hired labor or otherwise, between Head of Passes and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and for surveys,Surveys. 402including the survey from 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: *Provisos*.Dredge boats, etc.*Provided*, That of the money hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary shall be expended in the construction of suitable and necessary dredge boats and other devices and appliances and in the maintenance Connecting waters, harbors, etc.and operation of the same: *Provided further*, That the watercourses connected with said river and the harbors upon it, now under the control of the Mississippi River Commission and under improvement, Jurisdiction over Vicksburg harbor and the Ohio to mouth of Cache River.together with the harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Ohio River from its mouth to the mouth of the Cache River, which are hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of such commission, may, in the discretion of said commission, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments for improvements now under way or hereafter to be undertaken, to be paid for Canal at Vicksburg.from the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That the report of the Mississippi River Commission, contained in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, second session, shall not be construed as a project requiring special Locks and dams of Ohio River not included.congressional action: *Provided further*, That no part of the improvement of the Ohio River, with a view to the construction of locks and dams, shall be considered as transferred to or placed under the Atchafalaya River.Survey, etc.control and jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission: *Provided further*, That a survey with a report shall be made by the Mississippi River Commission of the Atchafalaya River in accordance with the general plan of said commission for the improvement of the Mississippi River, and in making such survey and report, if in their opinion the improvement of the Atchafalaya is desirable, consideration shall be given and recommendation made as to any plans for cooperation on the part of local interests.
Arkansas River.Jurisdiction of Commission extended to Jefferson County.The jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission is hereby extended so as to include that part of the Arkansas River between its mouth and the intersection thereof with the division line between Lincoln and Jefferson Counties, and any funds which are herein or may be hereafter appropriated by Congress for improving the Mississippi River between Head of Passes and the mouth of the Ohio Levees, etc., allotments.River, and which may be allotted to levees and bank revetment, may be expended within the limits of said extended jurisdiction 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, and upon like terms and conditions for levees and bank revetment upon any part of the Mississippi River now under the jurisdiction of said commission, and in such manner as will best promote and accomplish the purposes for which commission was created, in so far as the territory hereby added to its said jurisdiction may be involved.
Expenditures for levees from Head of Passes to Rock Island. Ill.Any funds which are herein, or may hereafter be, appropriated by Congress for improving the Mississippi River between Head of Passes and the mouth of the Ohio River, and which may be allotted to levees, may 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 levees upon any part of said river between Head of Passes and Rock Island, Illinois, in such manner as, in their opinion, shall best improve navigation and promote the interest of commerce at all stages of the river.
Improvements, etc.From the Ohio to the Missouri.Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $350,000. 403 Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River to Minneapolis,From the Missouri to Minneapolis. Minnesota: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $1,500,000. That the Chief of Engineers, or such board as the Secretary of WarExperiments in transporting heavy freights between specified points. may appoint, shall, within two years after the passage of this Act, make such experiments in the transportation of heavy freights on said Mississippi River between the mouth of the Ohio River and Saint Louis and between Dubuque, Iowa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, at all stages of water in said river, with the experimental tows and barges described in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, second session, as will fully demonstrate the economy or lack of economy in the transportation of such heavy freights, and particularly upstream in parts of said river in which said improvement has been completed or practically completed, and for the making of such experiments said Chief of Engineers or board is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the $500,000 appropriated by the ActVol. 36, p. 659. of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for designing and constructing experimental towboats and barges and loading and unloading facilities for towing and delivering supplies along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minnesota:Saint Paul to Minneapolis. Completing improvement, $170,000. Mississippi River between Brainerd and Grand Rapids, Minnesota:Brainerd to Grand Rapids, Minn. For maintenance, $2,000. Mississippi and Leech Rivers, Minnesota: Continuing improvement,Mississippi and Leech Rivers. $60,000. Reservoirs at headwaters of Mississippi River.—That soReservoirs at headwaters.Project abandoned. much of the adopted project for the construction of a low reservoir dam at Gull Lake, Minnesota, as provides for the digging of ditches between Gull Lake and Round Lake and between Round Lake and Long Lake, is hereby abandoned; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to surrender to the parties entitled thereto the flowage rights on Long Lake heretofore granted the United States for the aforesaid work.
Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,Osage River, Mo. $15,000. Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvement and forGasconade River, Mo.*Proviso*.Removal of dams. maintenance, $10,000: *Provided*, That the dam near Heckman’s Mill, at Pryor’s Bend, and any other obstruction to the flow of water at or near that point, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be removed, and so much of this appropriation as necessary may be expended for that purpose.
Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance,Missouri River.Kansas City to mouth. with a view to securing a permanent six-foot channel between Kansas City and the mouth of the river, $1,500,000. Missouri River: For improvement and maintenance from KansasKansas City to Sioux City. City to Sioux City, $50,000, of which amount at least $25,000 may be expended for such bank revetment as in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers may be in the interest of navigation; continuing improvementSioux City to Fort Benton. and for maintenance from Sioux City to Fort Benton, $125,000, of which amount at least $50,000 may be expended for such bank revetment as in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers may be in the interest of navigation; in all, $175,000.
In the interest of navigation and in view of the existing emergencyVermilion, S. Dak.Revetment. and to prevent further loss and destruction of property, the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for bank revetment work or other improvement at or near the city of Vermilion, Clay County, South Dakota: *Provided, however*, That before this*Proviso*.Local contribution. appropriation shall become available or any work is undertaken by the United States thereunder assurances satisfactory to the Secre-404tary of War shall be given that the said city of Vermilion, or county of Clay, or other agencies, will provide and contribute in money, labor, or materials, an amount equal to thirty-three and one-third per centum of the amount herein appropriated for such improvement.
Saint Joseph, Mo.*Proviso*.Contribution by Saint Joseph, etc.Missouri River at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For improvement, $75,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be expended until the city of Saint Joseph or other agency shall have deposited to the credit of the Secretary of War in some duly recognized depositary of the United States to be designated by him such sum as may be satisfactory to him to be expended together with an equal amount Proportion.of the funds herein appropriated: *Provided*, That the amount required to be paid by the city of Saint Joseph or other agency shall not be in excess of two-fifths of the total amount expended and in no event to exceed $50,000.
Colorado River, Ariz.Colorado River, Arizona: For improvement and maintenance by the repair, enlargement, and protection of the Government levee on the Gila River near its junction with the Colorado River at Yuma, $14,000. Los Angeles, Cal.Diverting dam.Los Angeles Harbor, California: Continuing improvements by the construction of a diverting dam for the protection of Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors in accordance with the report printed in House Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty-two, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $500,000.
Maintenance.Los Angeles Harbor, California: For maintenance, $75,000. San Diego, Cal.San Diego Harbor, California: For improvement and maintenance, $220,000, in accordance with House Document Numbered Six hundred *Proviso*.Donation of lands.and forty-eight, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session: *Provided*, This appropriation is made on the condition precedent that the city of San Diego shall donate to the United States Government five hundred acres of tide lands known as Dutch Flats.
San Francisco, Cal.Harbor at San Francisco, California: For maintenance, $15,000. Oakland, Cal.*Proviso*.Dredging plant.Harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $106,500: *Provided*, That if in the judgment of the Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant.
San Pablo Bay, Cal.San Pablo Bay, California: For maintenance, $105,500. Humboldt Harbor and Bay, Cal.Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $450,000. Redwood Creek, Cal.Redwood Creek, California: For maintenance, $10,250. San Joaquin River, Cal.San Joaquin River, California: For maintenance, including McLeod Lake and Fremont Channel, $11,000. Stockton and Mormon Channels, Cal.Stockton and Mormon Channels, California: For maintenance, $10,000.
Mokelumne River, Cal.Mokelumne River, California: For maintenance, $500. Petaluma Creek and Napa River, Cal.Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California: For maintenance, $30,500. Sacramento and Feather Rivers, Cal.*Provisos*.Contribution by local interests.Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including above Sacramento to Red Bluff, $115,000: *Provided*, That $10,000 of this amount shall be expended for improvement on the Feather River, subject to the condition precedent that local interests contribute a like sum toward the Provision for engineer board repealed.Vol. 29, p. 232.improvement: *Provided further*, That so much of the river and harbor Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as authorizes the appointment of a board of engineers to have charge of the examination, survey, and improvement of Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California, is hereby repealed.
Controlling debris and floods.Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California: Continuing improvement in accordance with the recommendations of the California 405Debris Commission in its report dated June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven (printed in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for nineteen hundred and seven, pages twenty-two hundred and sixty-two to twenty-two hundred and sixty-nine, inclusive), $75,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum*Proviso*.Contribution by State. shall be expended until the State of California shall have deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Secretary of War a sum which, together with that heretofore furnished by said State, shall equal the total amount appropriated by the United States for said work.
Harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement and forCoos Bay, Oreg. maintenance of the channels in Coos Bay, $70,000. Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For maintenance of the channelTillamook Bay and Bar, Oreg. from Bay City to Tillamook City, $5,000. Coquille River, Oregon: For maintenance, $6,000.Coquille River, Oreg. Coos River, Oregon: For maintenance, $3,000.Coos River, Oreg. Siuslaw River, Oregon: For maintenance, $5,000.Siuslaw River, Oreg. Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho:
Continuing improvementSnake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. and for maintenance from the mouth to Pittsburg Landing, Idaho, $25,000. Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to the mouth ofColumbia River, etc. the Snake River, Oregon and Washington: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $38,000. Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon: Continuing improvementWillamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oreg. and for maintenance of Willamette River above Portland and of Yamhill River, $47,000.
Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers below Vancouver, Washington,Columbia and Willamette Rivers.Below Vancouver and Portland. and Portland, Oregon: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $360,000. Mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: ContinuingColumbia River, at mouth. improvement and for maintenance, $1,200,000. Clatskanie River, Oregon: For maintenance, $1,000.Clatskanie River, Oreg. Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington: For maintenanceGrays Harbor and Chehalis River, Wash. of improvement of inner portion of Grays Harbor and of Chehalis River up to Montesano, $30,000.
Willapa Harbor and River, Washington: For improvement inWillapa Harbor and River, Wash. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and six, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $100,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or*Proviso*.Contracts. contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $247,950, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Waterway connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington,Waterway, Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, Wash. Washington: Continuing improvement, $348,000. Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Washington: Continuing improvementCowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Wash. and for maintenance of Lewis River and the North and East Forks of Lewis River, and for the maintenance of Cowlitz River, $17,500. Grays River, Washington: For maintenance, $500.Grays River, Wash. Harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii:
Continuing improvement and forHonolulu, Hawaii. maintenance, $106,800. Harbor at Kahului, Hawaii: For maintenance, $10,000.Kahului, Hawaii. And for the construction of the west breakwater, Kahului Harbor, in accordance with the report published in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $100,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter*Proviso*.Contracts. 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 $150,000, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. 406 San Juan, P.
R.Harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For maintenance, $10,000. Sec. 2. Examinations, surveys, etc.*Provisos*.Specific authority for new works. That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies for rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of $350,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution Supplemental reports restricted.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 Special authority required to begin work.concurrent resolution of Congress: *And provided further*, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this Act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law.
Allotment of preliminary examinations, surveys, etc.The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause 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: Maine.Androscoggin River, Marne, between Merrymeeting Bay and Lewiston and Auburn. Channel west of Swan Island, Kennebec River, Maine, near the town of Richmond. Kennebec River, Maine, Parker Head Harbor and Channel.
Massachusetts.Island End River, Massachusetts. Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, at its upper end, with a view to providing additional anchorage area and improving the approaches to the Cape Cod Canal, in so far as it may be the duty of the United States to improve the same. ConnecticutQuinnipiac River, Connecticut, from New Haven Harbor to Meriden. Naugatuck River, Connecticut, between the head of navigation at Derby and Waterbury, Connecticut, with a view to the construction of a barge canal.
Rhode Island.Preliminary examination, report, and estimate for the removal of shoal spots in the westerly entrance of the Point Judith Harbor of Refuge, Rhode Island, and in the harbor itself. New York.Bronx (Harlem) Kills, New York, from the lower end of Harlem River to Long Island Sound. New York Harbor, New York, with a view to securing an increase in depth up to forty feet and suitable widths in the North or Hudson River Channel from deep water in the upper bay as far north as Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
Great Kills, Staten Island, New York. Lemon Creek, Staten Island, New York. Harbor at Classon Point, New York. Sea Gate, Coney Island, New York, and connecting waters from Gravesend Bay to Ambrose Channel. Sheepshead Bay, New York. Shore front from Jones Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, New York, with a view to obtaining data as to tide, current, drift, and depth of water with a view to determining whether or not the interests of navigation are being endangered by the erosion thereof.
Shinnecock Bay, New York. Cape Vincent Harbor, New York. Ship channel LakeErie to Lake Ontario.Waterway or ship channel along the most practicable route between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario of sufficient capacity to admit the largest vessels now in use on the Great Lakes. Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo Creek and Buffalo Ship Canal, New York, with a view to increasing the dimensions thereof to meet the demands of present and prospective commerce. 407 Charlotte Harbor, New York, including the portions of Lake Ontario and Genesee River adjacent thereto.
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, with a view to dredging channel atNew Jersey. the southern end. Hackensack River, New Jersey, from the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Bridge to the Hackensack Water Company Dam at New Milford. Hackensack River, New Jersey, with a view of obtaining a depth of sixteen feet up to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey bridge. Overpeck Creek, New Jersey, from Little Ferry to Leonia. Inland waterway on the Atlantic coast of the State of New Jersey between Cape May and New York Bay, New York and New Jersey.
Hereford Inlet, Cape May County, New Jersey. Newton Creek, Camden County, New Jersey, from the Delaware River to Mount Ephriam Turnpike on the north and south branches, respectively, and to Cuthbert Avenue, Collingswood, on the main stream. Indian River Inlet, Delaware.Delaware. Harbor at Havre de Grace, Maryland.Maryland. Elk River, Maryland. Aquia Creek, Virginia, with a view to extending the present project.Virginia. Channel connecting York River, Virginia, with Back Creek to Slaight’s Wharf, with a view to securing a depth of ten feet and widths of two hundred and one hundred feet, respectively.
Northwest River, Virginia and North Carolina, with a view to its improvement from its mouth as far up as may be practicable. Willis River, Virginia. Beach Creek, Virginia, with a view to increasing the dimensions of the channel to a depth of six feet and a width of sixty feet. Mattaponi River, Virginia, with a view to removing the bars and securing increased depth of water at the mouth. Queens Creek, Virginia, with a view to securing increased depth of water at the mouth. Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina, with a view to providingNorth Carolina. a channel depth of eleven or twelve feet, respectively, with adequate widths at and below Washington, and such additional depth and width as may be advisable up to Tarboro.
Channel leading into Carolina Beach Pier, Cape Fear River, in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Town Creek, Brunswick County, North Carolina. Little River, South Carolina.South Carolina. Winyah Bay, South Carolina, with a view to securing a channel of increased depth and adequate width from a point on the Sampit River one mile above the limits of the city of Georgetown to the entrance of Winyah Bay. Ashley River, South Carolina. Front River, Georgia, near Clark’s dock, Sapelo Harbor.Georgia.
Tugaloo River, Georgia. Flint River, Georgia, from Albany to the limit of practicable navigation above said city. Kings Creek, Cambden County, Georgia. Savannah River at North Augustus, South Carolina, with a view to ascertaining what, if any, revetment work is necessary in the interest of navigation. Savannah River, Georgia, from the foot of Kings Island to a point five miles above. Northwest Channel, Key West, Florida, with a view to securing aFlorida. channel thirty feet in depth and of sufficient width from the harbor to deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. 408 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.
Silver Springs to Ocala, Florida, with a view to the construction of a waterway of such width and depth as will meet the demands of commerce. From the docks at Apalachicola, Florida, through Saint George’s Sound to the Gulf of Mexico, on such route as may be most desirable for the demands of commerce. Caloosahatchee River, Florida, from the mouth to Fort Myers. Manatee River, Florida, at Palma Sola. Waterway between Sarasota Bay, near Venice, and Miakka River, Florida, with a view to giving such channel dimensions as commerce may demand.
Inland waterway on the Gulf coast of Florida, connecting Saint George Sound with Tampa Bay. Channel from the Gulf through Johns Pass to Boca Ciega Bay, Florida. Escambia River, Florida. Key West Harbor, Florida, with a view to removing the middle ground. Onosohatchee River, Florida. Alabama.The Mulberry Fork of the Warrior River above Sanders Shoals. One Mile Creek and Bayou Marmotte, Alabama. Valley Creek, Jefferson County, Alabama. Mississippi.Tchula Lake, Mississippi. Indian Bayou, from Sunflower River, Mississippi, to Indianola, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation by local interests.
Pearl River, Mississippi, between Jackson and Edinburg. Louisiana,Kelso Bayou, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Bayou Queue de Tortue, Louisiana. Bayous des Cannes and Nezpique, Louisiana. Bayou des Glaizes from Simmesport, Louisiana, to the junction of Bayou des Glaizes with Bayou du Lac and Bayou Rouge, one mile east of Cottonport. Tangipahoa River, Louisiana. Texas.Neches River, Texas, with a view to making a cut-off or cut-offs at lower end of Harbor Island in order to facilitate the navigation of said stream.
Channel from Harbor Island and the Port of Aransas, Texas, to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Wharf at Rockport, Texas, with a view to securing a least depth of twelve feet. Houston Ship Channel, Texas, with a view to securing such increased width and depth as may be advisable, by using the two dredges provided for this project or otherwise. Buffalo Bayou, Texas, with a view to improving the channel to accommodate commerce between the ship channel turning basin and mouth of White Oak Bayou.
San Bernard River, Texas. Turtle Cove Channel, Port Aransas, Texas. Trinity River, near Liberty, Texas. Texas City Harbor, Texas, with a view to enlargement and protection. Brazos River, San Antonio River, Colorado River, Trinity River, and the tributaries of these rivers, all in Texas; Red River and its tributaries, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, with a view to devising plans for flood protection and determining the extent to which the United States should cooperate with the States and other 409communities and interests in carrying out such plans, its share beingArkansas. based on the value of protection to navigation.
Sulphur River, Texas and Arkansas. Sulphur River and Days Creek, Texas and Arkansas. San Antonio River. Saint Francis River, Arkansas and Missouri, commencing at the head of what is known as the “sunk lands,” at or near the town of Saint Francis, Clay County, Arkansas, and extending to the foot of said “sunk lands” at or near the town of Marked Tree, Poinsett County, Arkansas, and in making such examination and survey, which shall be thorough and complete, the engineer or engineers having the same in charge shall also prepare plans, specifications, and make estimates of the cost of said improvement, and define the channel or course of said canal, and shall take into account and make report upon any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project in connection with the reclamation of contiguous lands or other lands subject to overflow by said stream.
Arkansas River, from Little Rock to its mouth, an instrumental survey with a view to determining if a minimum depth at all seasons of four and one-half feet can be maintained, and if so, a detailed estimate of the cost thereof. White River, Arkansas, above Batesville, with a view to providing year-round navigation by the construction of additional locks and dams. Obed River, Tennessee, from its mouth to its fork at Eastport, orTennessee. Spurrier, Tennessee. Forked Deer River, Tennessee, from Dyersburg to its mouth.
Ohio River at Uniontown, Kentucky, with a view to removing theKentucky. sand bar in front of the wharf or landing, and to determine whether a levee should be constructed in front of said town in the interest of navigation. Rouge River, Michigan.Michigan. Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view to improving the mouth. Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, with a view to securing increased width. Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view of clearing the channel and providing suitable breakwater to protect the same.
Harbor at Mackinac Island, Michigan, with a view of extending the east breakwater a distance of four hundred feet. Black Lake Harbor, on Macatawa Bay, Michigan, from piers to point two hundred feet east of Graham and Morton dock, sixteen feet, with a view to establishing car-service ferry. The Les Cheneaux Channels, Michigan, with a view of deepening and widening the same on the northeast side of La Salle Island from a point opposite Reibers Point to Cedarville, thence south on the south west side of La Salle Island to Rocky Reef; also the channel on the northeasterly side of Marquette Island between said island and the mainland; also the channel leading into Hessel between Grover and Wheeler Island and Haven Island.
Red Lake, Minnesota, and Red Lake River from its outlet at RedMinnesota. Lake to its junction with the Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota, with a view to devising plans for regulating works whereby the level of said lake and the flow of said stream may be controlled in the interest of navigation, and in making such examination and survey any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project shall be taken into consideration. Saint Paul (Minnesota) Harbor, with a view of determiningObstructions to traffic, Mississippi River, Saint Paul, Minn. whether the channel of the Mississippi River can be changed to or near the bluffs on the west side thereof.
As a part of the examination which the Secretary of War is hereby required to make, he is 410directed to report whether access to the river at St. Paul harbor, by persons and shippers desiring to use the same for the purposes of transportation or travel thereon, is so completely dominated by private control as to materially impede or burden traffic originating or terminating there; and, if he shall so find, he is further directed to report what steps are necessary to free said landing place from such improper control or obstruction, and also if, in his opinion, it is advisable for the United States to acquire the fee simple to the said landing place and the approach thereto, by condemnation or otherwise.
Traverse and Big Stone Lakes, on the boundary between Minnesota and South Dakota, with a view to flood control and to connecting and extending navigation on and between said lakes. Mississippi River, near Deer River, Minnesota, with view to the construction of a new channel the termini and course of said channel to be determined with greater particularity by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, the purpose of said new channel being to improve navigation, to enable a more perfect control of waters by Pokegama Dam.
Illinois.Harbor of refuge at Evanston, Illinois. Nebraska.Missouri River from the city of Florence, Nebraska, to the northern limits of Decatur, Nebraska. Kansas.Flood investigation.State of Kansas, floods in: Investigate the flood periods of the Kansas River and its tributaries, the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers in the State of Kansas by an examination of the territory and from data already gathered by governmental, State, private efforts, and by the Board of Engineers of the War Department, and to devise some general plan which will best guard against the recurrence of floods and diminish their damaging effects upon the lower valleys of the Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers.
California.San Joaquin River and Stockton Channel, California. Black John Slough, California. Playa del Rey Inlet and Basin, Venice, California. Eel River, California. Oregon.Channel from the town of Saint Helens, Oregon, to deep water in Columbia River. Umpqua River bar and entrance, Oregon. Siuslaw River, Oregon, from Acme to the entrance. Harbor at and channel from the town of Rainier, Oregon, to deep water in the Columbia River. Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation of local interests.
Hoquarton Slough, Oregon, from Tillamook City to head of navigation on Tillamook Bay, to provide for a straight channel. Washington.Columbia River from The Dalles, Oregon, to Vancouver, Washington. Willamette River from Corvallis to Eugene, Oregon. Washougal Slough, Washington. Everett Harbor, Washington. Lake River, Washington. Channel of Bakers Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to the docks at Ilwaco, Washington. Channel of Youngs Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to a point one mile above County Road Bridge.
Idaho.Saint Marys and Saint Joe Rivers, Idaho. Columbia River from the mouth of the Snake to Priest Rapids with a view to improving open-river navigation. Columbia River from Celilo Falls, Oregon, to the mouth of the Snake River; Snake River to Pittsburg Landing, Idaho, with a view to the construction of locks and dams for navigation; Clearwater River from its mouth to Orofino; and in making such examination 411and survey the engineer or engineers having same in charge shall take into account any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project in connection with the development of hydroelectric power.
Tolovano River, Alaska.Alaska. Virgin River, Nevada, between its intersection with the east lineNevada. of the State of Nevada and the Colorado River, with a view to confining such river within its channel and the protecting of the banks against erosion. Harbors and connecting waters of the Great Lakes, with a view toGreat Lakes harbors, etc. determining what additional improvements would be necessary in order to permit those waterways to accommodate vessels able to pass through the Welland Canal when enlarged by the Dominion of of Canada, including report as to the character and drafts of vessels which may be expected to use the canal when so enlarged.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized andNewport, Cal.Harbor lines, etc. directed to fix and establish pierhead and bulkhead lines, either or both, at Newport Harbor, California, in accordance with plan dated United States Engineer Office, Los Angeles, California, March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and entitled Newport Bay, California, showing harbor lines, beyond which no piers, wharfs, bulkheads, or other works shall be extended or deposit made, except under such regulations as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 4. That there shall be printed one thousand five hundredIndex to Engineer reports 1866 to 1917.Printing, etc., ordered. copies of the index to the annual reports of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, to include the reprinting of House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty, Sixty-third Congress, second session, covering the period from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, authorized by section six of the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nmeteen hundred and twelve, the additional information covering the period from nmeteen hundred and twelve to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, to be furnished by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorizedStatue of Liberty, New York Harbor.Acceptance, etc., of donated electric plant for lighting. to accept for and on behalf of the United States, with thanks to the donors, funds raised or to be raised by the New York World by popular subscription for the construction of an electric lighting plant adequate for the illumination of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island, New York Harbor, with the understanding that the funds will be applied to the purpose for which donated, and that the lighting plant, after construction, will be maintained at the expense of the United States.
Sec. 6. That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be usedRestriction on private contract work. to pay for any work done by private contract if the contract price is more than twenty-five per centum in excess of the estimated cost of doing the work by Government plant. Approved, July 27, 1916.
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