per East bays, and Fla. Fla. Proviso. Improving Blackwater and Upper East bays, and Blackwater River, Blackwater and UpFlorida, from Milton to the mouth, in accordance with the report sub- Blackwater River, mitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-three, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: Continuing improvement Saint Johns River, and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and 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 three hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida, at Orange Mills Flats: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Volusia bar, Florida: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Orange Mills Flats, Fla. Volusia bar, Fla. Fla. Improving Oklawaha River, Florida: Continuing improvement and poklawaha for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Indian River, between Goat Creek and Jupiter Inlet, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War shall cause a survey to be made of Sebastian Inlet. Improving Kissimmee River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seven thousand dollars. Improving Orange River, Charlotte Harbor, and Caloosahatchee River, Florida: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving Crystal, Anclote, Suwanee, and Withlacoochee rivers, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of fifteen thousand dollars each may be expended on the Crystal and Withlacoochee, and five thousand dollars each on the Anclote and Suwanee rivers. Improving Manatee River, Florida, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventeen, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars. River Indian River, Fla. Kissimmee River, Fla. lotte Harbor, Caloosa hatchee River, Fla. Crystal, Anclote, Su wance, and Withlacoochee rivers, Fla. Manatee River, Fla. Florida. Proviso. For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters of the State of Florida so far as it is or may become an obstruction to hyacinth. navigation, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no chemical Injurious chemical process injurious to cattle which may feed upon the water hyacinth process. shall be used. Apalachicola River, Improving Apalachicola River, Florida, including the Cut-Off, and etc., Fla. the lower Chipola River, also the upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twelve thousand dollars. Choctaw hatchee Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama: Continu- River, Fla. ing improvement and for maintenance, ten thousand dollars, of which amount six thousand dollars shall be expended between Newton and Geneva, Alabama, and four thousand dollars for dredging the channel at Cypress Top outlet of said river. Improving Holmes River, Florida, from Vernon to its mouth: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Holmes River, Fla. Mobile, Ala. Provisos. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than ten thousand dollars of such amount may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the removal of dead heads, sunken logs, and other obstructions arising from the freshets on the rivers entering into Mobile Bay: Provided further, That the Secretary Dredging, etc., chanof War may cause a survey and estimate to be made of the cost of dredging and deepening the said channel to a depth of twenty-seven nel. Mobile Bar, Ala. Louis M. Tisdale. Granted right of way for ship canal. deep-water basin, Mobile Bay, Ala. Provisos. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. Toll. feet, the said channel to have a clear bottom width throughout of one hundred feet, with appropriate side slopes. Improving Mobile Bar, Alabama, with a view to deepening and widening the channel near Fort Morgan, fifty thousand dollars. That Louis M. Tisdale, his heirs or assigns, be, and is hereby, granted the right of way through the waters of the United States, to enable Mon Louis Island to him, his heirs or assigns, to construct and operate a ship canal or channel from a point on Mon Louis Island, Mobile County, State of Alabama, through Mobile Bay to the deep-water basin in Mobile Bay between Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, Alabama, with power and authority to construct and maintain all necessary harbors, locks, dams, channel dikes, levees, and piers without expense to the United States: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall first approve the plans for such canal or channel, and that the same shall in no manner interfere with or affect the usual and ordinary navigation of said waters; and that Mobile Bay or the channel between the same and Mississippi Sound shall in no way be thereby closed to navigation: Provided, That, in the transportation of military or naval stores, troops, or munitions of war of the United States, no toll shall be charged; and that the tolls or tonnage charges by said Louis M. Tisdale, his heirs or assigns, shall be fixed, from time to time, by the Secretary of War: Provided, That vessels of five tons burden and less shall be exempt from tolls for the use of said canal when they do not pass through the lock; and that no tolls shall be charged on any boats or vessels navigating any of the waters in the said canal or channel which could have been navigated by such vessels had not such canal been built: Provided further, Time of construc- That this franchise shall not be effective unless said Louis M. Tisdale, his heirs or assigns, shall in good faith commence such construction within two years from the passage of this Act, and shall complete the same within five years. Congress reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal any of the provisions of this Act in so far as it relates to this franchise. Exemption. tion. Amendment. Alabama River, Ala. Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tom bigbee rivers, Ala. - Provisos. Contracts. Improving Alabama River, Ålabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars; which amount the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to expend, with a view to obtaining, as nearly as possible, a continuous channel of a depth not less than four feet by open-channel work. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama, by the construction of locks and dams numbered one and two in the Tombigbee River, and the completion of lock and dam numbered one, in the Tombigbee River near Demopolis, and those numbered two and three in the Warrior River next above, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the construction of said locks and dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore Maximum expendi- appropriated: Provided further, That the Secretary of War may expend a portion of the amount herein appropriated or authorized af not more than forty thousand dollars for the construction of a dredge and of not more than thirty thousand dollars for the construction of lock houses necessary for the operation of locks and dams in said rivers. ture for dredge, etc. Tom bigbee River from mouth to Demopolis, Ala. From Demopolis, Miss. Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, from the mouth to Demopolis: For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Tombigbee River from Demopolis, Alabama, to ColumMia, to Columbus, bus, Mississippi: For maintenance, twelve thousand dollars; of which amount the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, expend a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars for improving said river between Columbus and Walkers Bridge, Mississippi. Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, nine thou- Biloxi, Miss. sand dollars. Miss. Channel. Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi, with a view to obtaining Horn Island Pass, a channel twenty-one feet in depth and three hundred feet in width across the outer bar, two hundred feet wide elsewhere, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and six, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, forty thousand four hundred and eighty dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts can be made at a sum not to exceed the unit price of eleven cents per cubic yard, or such work can be performed by Government dredge. Proviso. Miss. A Pascagoula and Leaf rivers, Miss. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement Pascagoula River, and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula and Leaf rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That two thousand dollars of said amount may be expended on the Chickasahay River between the mouth and Bucatunna. Proviso. Pearl River, Miss., Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, below Rockport: Continuing below Rockport. improvement and for maintenance, seven thousand dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Edinburg and Jackson: For maintenance, four thousand dollars. Improving Homochitto River, Mississippi: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Coldwater, and Big Sunflower rivers, and Tchula Lake, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Improving the mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars. Between Edinburg and Jackson, Miss. Homochitto River, Miss. Yazoo, etc., rivers, Miss. Calcasieu River, La. Proviso. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Grand River, and Pigeon Bayous, Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For maintenance, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the improvement in Bayou Plaquemine, to be paid for, as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: For maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars, and the Secretary of War shall cause a resurvey to be made of the project submitted in House Document Numbered Sixty-nine, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session. Improving Chefuncte River, Bogue Falia, Tickfaw River and tributaries, also Amite River and Bayou Manchac, Louisiana: For maintenance, six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion, and Mermentau River and tributaries, Louisiana: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Bayou Teche, La. Chefuncte River, etc., La. Bayou Vermilion," etc., La. ana. For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters Texas and Louisiin the States of Texas and Louisiana, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, forty thousand dollars. Removal of water hyacinth. Red River, La., Ark., Tex., and Ind. T. Provisos. Fulton and Deni Improving Red River in the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas and Indian Territory: For continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That of this amount one hundred thousand dollars may be expended between Ful- son. ton, Arkansas, and Denison, Texas: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated for improvement below Fulton fifteen thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be spent in the improvement of the channel at Alexandria, Louisiana. Channel at Alexan Bayou Bartholomew, Boeuf River, etc., La. and Ark. Sabine Pass, Tex. and La. Brazos River, Tex, Proviso. Aransas Pass, Tex. Restriction. Galveston, Tex. Improving Bayou Bartholomew, Boeuf River, Tensas River, and Bayou Maçon, and Bayous D'Arbonne and Corney, Louisiana and Arkansas: For maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the mouth of the Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Aransas Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appro priations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: Provided further, That the amounts herein appropriated and authorized shall be applied to the completion of the project in accordance with the design and specifications of the Aransas Pass Harbor Company, and in continuation of the work heretofore done, and to such additional work as may be necessary for strengthening the jetty. Improving Galveston Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Galveston channel, Texas: Continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, use not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of said amount to purchase or build a Diversion of appro- dredge for use in said channel: Provided further, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, divert the sum of fifty thousand dollars from the amounts appropriated and authorized for improving Galveston Harbor, Texas, and apply it to this improvement. Dredge. priation. Galveston shipchannel, etc., Tex. Provisos. Contracts. Improving Galveston ship channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: Continuing improvement to a point at or near the head of Long Reach, in accordance with the modification of the original project as recommended in the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors of date December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may he entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, as modified by said report, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: Unexpended bal. Provided further, That the amount on hand is hereby made available for the project as modified by said report. ance available. West Galveston Bay channel, etc., Tex. Brazos River, Tex., Velasco to Old Washington. Old Washington to Improving West Galveston Bay channel, Double Bayou, and mouths of adjacent streams, Texas, including Trinity River Anahuac channel and Cedar Bayou: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Brazos River, Texas, from Velasco to Old Washington: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Brazos River, Texas, from Old Washington to Waco: The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to cause an examination of this section of the river with a view of determining whether Maximum expendi ture. Provisos. four or six months' navigation can be secured to Waco at a reasonable cost by any method other than by locks and dams, and if not the least number of locks and dams that will furnish such navigation, and in the event it should appear feasible to secure four or six months' navigation by open-channel work or by not to exceed nine locks and dams the Secretary of War may expend for the improvement of said river an amount not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, which amount under the conditions named is hereby appropriated. Improving Trinity River, Texas: The balance now available for the Trinity River, Tex. construction of locks and dams between the mouth of the river and section one is hereby diverted from said purpose and made available for the construction of locks and dams numbered one, four, and six in section one, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said locks and dams, numbered one, four, and six, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars, exclusive of the amount herein diverted and made available for the said construction: Provided further, That none of the amount made available herein or authorized to be contracted for herein shall be expended unless the citizens of Dallas shall pay over to the Secretary of War the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars, which sum, if paid over, shall be applied to the construction of dams in said section one, at Old River and Parsons Slough, for the easing of bends and for the improvement of said section: And provided further, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, construct locks and dams numbered two or three or five instead of number four, should he determine that navigation would be better subserved thereby. Improving mouths of Sabine and Neches rivers, Texas, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, by connecting the same with Taylors Bayou, or a point in Sabine Lake near to the mouth of said bayou, by a channel at or near the west shore of Sabine Lake; the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or 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 four hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated: Provided, That the channel may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be constructed through the land near the lake for any part of said route: Provided further, That the right of way is furnished without expense to the United States. Cypress Bayou, Texas: The available balance on hand may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in cleaning and clearing the bayou and lakes between Jefferson, Texas, and Mooringsport, Louisiana. And the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to survey Cypress Bayou and the channels connecting Shreveport, Louisiana, with Jefferson, Texas, including an examination of the falls near Little Pass. Improving Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the locks and dams in the Ouachita River, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate forty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Restriction on expenditure. Locks and dams. Sabine and Neches rivers, Tex. Improving mouth. Provisos. Right of way. Cypress Bayou; Tex. Survey. Ouachita and Black rivers, Ark. and La. Proviso. Contracts. |