Chapter 34.
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CHAP. 34.— Joint Resolution Extending the time within which the “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River” shall remain in effect. June 30, 1917.[[S. J. Res. 13](/us/bill/65/sjres/13).][[Pub. Res. No. 8](/us/bill/65/pubres/8).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That public resolution numbered Niagara River.Additional diversion of water from, above the Falls, continued for one year.Vol. 39, p. 867.*Post*, p. 633.forty-five of the Sixty-fourth Congress, approved January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River,” is continued in full force and effect, and under the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations, until July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed *Proviso*.Investigation of water diversion, etc.to make a comprehensive and thorough investigation, including all necessary surveys and maps, of the entire subject of water diversion from the Great Lakes and the Niagara River, including navigation, sanitary and power purposes, and the preservation of the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls and the rapids of Niagara River, and to report to Congress thereon at the earliest practicable date.
To carry Appropriation.out the provisions of this proviso, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000. Approved, June 30, 1917.