Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing improvement, four hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Rockland, Me.

Boston, Mass.

Buffalo, N. Y.

Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: For com- Dunkirk, N.Y. pleting improvement, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars.

Del.

Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continu- Delaware Bay, ing construction, three hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.

S. C.

Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing Winyah Bay, improvement of harbor at Winyah Bay, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improve-Sabine Pass, ment of harbor at Sabine Pass, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Cleveland, Ohio.

and Bay.

Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be Maumee River made a survey and estimate of cost of deepening and widening the straight channel in Maumee River and Bay, with a view to obtaining and permanently securing a channel of a uniform width of four hundred feet and twenty feet deep at low water, the cost of said survey to be paid out of money already appropriated for the improvement of said channel.

Harbor of refuge at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin: For completing improvement, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-one

cents.

Milwaukee Bay, Wis.

Superior, Wis.

Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Duluth, Minn., Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, four hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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harbor improve

Provisos.

Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing Oakland, Cal. improvement under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. And the provision of the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to improving harbor at Oakland, California, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing Continuing improvement under existing project, twenty thousand dol- ment. lars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred and Limit. sixty-six thousand dollars: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, be- Limit for fiscal ginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount hereby authorized to be expended."

Contracts.

year.

lowance to member of.

The officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey detailed to Board to locate serve on the Board to locate a deep-water harbor for comdeep-water har bor at Port Los merce and of refuge at Port Los Angeles, in Santa Monica Angeles, etc., al: Bay, California, or at San Pedro, in said State, which Board was created by an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other Vol. 29, p. 213. purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, United States Statutes at Large, page two hundred and thirteen, shall receive from the appropriation in said Act provided with relation to said harbor, in addition R. S.. sec. 1566, to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes, and notwithstanding its provisions, such a per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper.

p. 269.

Grays Harbor, Wash.

Providence River and Narra

Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement of harbor and bar entrance, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, gansett Bay, R.I. Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Allegheny River, Pa.

Great Kanawha River, W. Va.

River, W. Va.

Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the Great Kanawha River, West Virginia: Completing improvement, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars.

Monongahela Improving upper Monongahela River, West Virginia: For continuing improvement by the construction of six locks and dams, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Ohio River.

4, and 5.

amended.

Improving the Ohio River: For continuing construction Dams Nos. 2, 3, of Dams Numbered Two, Three, and Four, between Davis Vol. 29, p. 225, Island Dam and Dam Numbered Six, four hundred thousand dollars; and the provision in the river and harbor appropriation Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, authorizing contracts to be made for improving Ohio River by the construction of Dams Numbered Two, Three, Four, and Five is hereby amended to read as follows:

Provisos.
Contracts.

Limit.

"Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for the whole or any part of the material and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay Limit for fiscal in any one fiscal year, beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended."

year.

er, Ky.

Kentucky Riv. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven and Eight, two hundred thousand dollars; and the provision of the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair,

amended.

Contracts.

and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen Vol. 29, p. 324, hundred and ninety-six, relating to improving Kentucky River, Kentucky, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Sec- Provisos. retary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement in accordance with the present project for same, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million three hundred Limit. and forty-nine thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated: Provided, That of the amount authorized to be expended eighty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in addition to the fifty thousand dollars herein appropriated in continuing construction and completion of Lock and Dam Numbered Seven, by contract or otherwise,Lock and dam and said eighty-three thousand dollars shall be immediately available: Provided further, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, beginning July Limit for fiscal first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twentyfive per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended."

No. 7.

year.

Miss.

mine, La.

Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For continuing Yazoo River, improvement of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For continuing Bayou Plaqueimprovement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennes-Cumberland see: For continuing improvement by construction of Locks Numbered Five, Six, and Seven, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

River, Tenn.

Falls and Indiana

Completion of

wise, etc.

Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: Ohio River For continuing improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, Chute. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That Proviso. the Secretary of War may carry to completion the present improvement by project of improving the falls of the Ohio River and Indiana contract or other Chute Falls, Ohio River, by contract, as provided in the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," which became a law June Vol. 29, p. 224. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; or the necessary materials may be purchased and the work done otherwise than by contract, in his discretion, if more economical and advantageous to the United States.

Ill.

Ohio River.

Dam No. 6.

Locks and dams in Ohio River: For completing construction of Dam Numbered Six, at or below the mouth of Beaver River, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing im-, Chicago River, provement from its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, in pursuance of the provisions of "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and improvement of certain public works

Vol. 29, p. 228.

Intent.

Proviso.

Total cost.

Illinois and Mississippi

Canal.

Waterway, Keweenaw Bay to

on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the said provisions of said Act relating to the improvement of said Chicago River that all of the work in the improvement of said river which was recommended or suggested to be done in the interest of commerce by Captain William L. Marshall, of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, in his report of August ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, may be done: Provided, That the total cost of such improvement or work shall not exceed the limit provided for in said Act.

Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake SupeLake Superior. rior, Michigan: For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

River.

Mississippi Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio Mouth of Ohio River to Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improveRiver to St. Paul. ment from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the

Mouth of Missouri River to

St. Paul.

Provisos.

Removal of sand bars at Du

catine, Iowa.

Missouri River, six hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven. cents: Provided, That thirty thousand dollars of said sum, or as much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended buque and Mus in removing the sand bar which obstructs the channel of the Mississippi River in front of Dubuque, Iowa, and the entrance to the harbor of refuge at Dubuque, Iowa, and that fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in removing the sand bar which obstructs the channel of the Mississippi River in Artificial banks front of Muscatine, Iowa: Provided further, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for continuing the work of constructing artificial banks between the mouth of Flint River and running along the west bank of the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Iowa River. Improving Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon: For completing mprovement, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

from mouth of Flint to month of Iowa Rivers.

Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon.

gion.

Mississippi Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improveRiver Commis- ment of Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the Head of Passes mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, Expenses, etc. traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi

to the Ohio.

River Commission, two million nine hundred and thirtythree thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars; which sum, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, may be immediately available for expenditure under contract or otherwise. And of the sum hereby appropriated, six hundred thousand dollars shall be deducted from the sum of two million five hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars authorized to be appropriated and expended for the fiscal year ending June thir

tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, by the "Act Vol. 29, p. 230. making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," which became a law on June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

break into Cache

For the purpose of preventing the Mississippi River Prevention of from breaking through into the Cache River at or near River, etc. a point known as Beach Ridge, a few miles north of Cairo, whereby the National Cemetery at Mound City, at the mouth of the Cache River, and the Marine Hospital at Cairo would be in imminent danger of destruction, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available.

Improving Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City, Iowa: For continuing improvement of Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges, three hundred thousand dollars; of the sum heretofore appropriated for improving the Missouri River, the Secretary of War is directed to expend not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars to repair and protect the works in the neighborhood of Nebraska City, in the State of Nebraska.

Misson River Expenses, etc.

Commission.

Nebraska City,

Nebr.

Fla.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Suwanee River, improvement of the Suwanee River, Florida, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for deepening the West Pass of the Suwanee River at its

mouth.

Minn.

A sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, or so much Gull Lake, thereof as may be necessary, of the money heretofore appropriated for the construction of reservoirs at the head waters of the Mississippi River may be used and is hereby made available for the payment of damages for lands and tenements overflowed or injured by the construction of a reservoir and dam at Gull Lake, Minnesota.

acinth, investi

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, author- The water hyized to investigate the extent of the obstruction of the gation of, etc. navigable waters of Florida, Louisiana, and other South Atlantic and Gulf States by the aquatic plant known as the water hyacinth, and to perform such experimental work as he shall deem necessary to determine some suitable and feasible plan or method of checking and removing such obstacle, so far as it is a hindrance to interstate or foreign commerce, and to report the results of such investigation and experimental work; and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the cost thereof.

Warrior River to

That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed Waterway from to cause a survey to be made to examine into the feasibility Five Mile Creek, and advisability of the improvement of the waterway be. etc. ginning at a point at or near the site selected for Lock Numbered Thirteen, on the Warrior River, and continuing up Valley River from its mouth, following the general course of said stream, to Bessemer, Alabama; thence up