San Luis Obispo, Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Cal. Wilmington, Cal. Proviso. To await decision of deep-water harbor. Ante, p. 213. Coos Bay, Oreg. Yaquina Bay, Oreg. Proviso. Limit. Coos Bay, Oreg. tus. Improving Wilmington Harbor, California, in accordance with the project submitted February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That 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 forty-two thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated; but no such contracts shall be entered into until the Board provided for in this Act to determine the location of a deep water harbor for commerce and of refuge, as between Port Los Angeles in Santa Monica Bay and San Pedro, in the State of California, has made its report to the Secretary of War, and not at all if said report shall be in favor of San Pedro as the location of said harbor. Improving entrance and harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement, ninety-five thousand dollars. Improving Yaquina Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement, twentyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be neces sary to complete the project as recommended by the Board of Officers of the Engineer Corps October eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million dollars, exclusive of amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon, fourteen thousand three hundred and ninety dollars: Provided, That so much of this sum as may Dredging appara be necessary shall be added to the amount now on hand for the construction or purchase of a dredge and two hopper scows, and that dredging within the limit of this appropriation may be contracted for in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, and in such portion of the bay as may be found necessary. Port Orford, Oreg. of War. Improving Port Orford Harbor, at Grave Yard Point, Oregon, according to plan recommended by Captain Thomas W. Symons, of the Corps Necessity for, to be of Engineers, as per House Document Numbered Three hundred and decided by Secretary thirteen, Fifty-third Congress, third session, January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to cost not to exceed two hundred and three thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation heretofore made March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for the establishment of a harbor of refuge on the Pacific coast is hereby transferred to be expended on this improvement, if in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of commerce demand such expenditure. Vol. 20, p. 372. Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: Continuing improvement, seventeen thousand dollars. Improving Grays Harbor and bar entrance, Washington, in accordance with plan submitted in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time. be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars, exclusive of the sum herein appropriated, and the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, transfer the Government plant, or any part of it, now at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Grays Harbor. Improving Olympia Harbor, Washington: Continuing improvement, thirty-two thousand dollars; and that a survey be made of the Deschutes River at its entrance in Olympia Harbor, and the cost of its improvement to be estimated. Improving Everett Harbor, Washington: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. For survey of Portland Channel, Alaska, five thousand dollars. Improving Bagaduce River, Maine: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: Continuing improvement, fiftyfive thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, expend so much of this as may be necessary for repairing damages to improvements heretofore made, by the recent freshet. Improving Narragaugus River, Maine: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Saco River, Maine, including breakwater: Continuing Saco River, Me. improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Lubec Channel, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirtytwo thousand dollars. Improving Union River, Maine, by dredging, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Georges River, Maine, in accordance with plan submitted January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand dollars. Improving Sasanoa River, Maine, according to plan submitted December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, completing improvement, nineteen thousand dollars. Improving Cocheco River, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Otter Creek, Vermont: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Powow River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Union River, Me. Georges River, Me. Sasanoa River, Me. Cocheco River, N.H. Otter Creek, Vt. Powow River, Mass, Taunton River. a Improving Weymouth River, Massachusetts: Continuing improve-Weymouth ment, fifteen thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars shall be used in the improvement of Weymouth Back River. Improving Essex River, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. River, Essex River, Mass. rivers, Mass. Improving Mystic and Malden rivers, Massachusetts: Continuing Mystic and Malden improvement, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of the channel of the Merrimac River, Massachusetts, by removing certain rocks therein below Rock Bridge, five thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is directed to furnish to the House of Representatives an estimate of the cost of improving the Merrimac River, Massachusetts, by dredging the channel thereof between Newburyport and Haverhill of the width of one hundred and fifty feet and of the depth of seven feet at mean low water, provided the estimate can be furnished from surveys already made. Improving Town River, Massachusetts, in accordance with recommendations submitted in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-one, ten thousand dollars. Improving Sakonnet River, Rhode Island: For widening and deepening the passage at the draw of the Stone Bridge over the Sakonnet River, Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Pawtucket River, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Merrimac River, Mass. Estimate. Town River, Mass. Sakonnet River, R. I. R. I. Pawtucket River, Pawcatuck River, R. I. and Conn. Providence River Proviso. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, according to the report of the Chief of Engi- and Narragansett neers, dated April ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred and seven thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Green Jacket Shoal, Providence, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Limit. Green Jacket Shoal, R. I. Connecticut River, Conn. Housatonic River, Conn. Thames River, Conn. Mystic River, Conn. Harlem River, N. Y. Vol. 26, p. 437. Improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Housatonic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Thames River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Mystic River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Harlem River, New York: Continuing improvement, one Secretary of War to hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War prescribe rules for is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe suitable rules and regutugs. lations in respect to the height and construction of the pilot houses, flag poles, and smokestacks of all tugs propelled by steam, with or without vessels in tow, habitually using said river, from and after the completion of the bridges at Third and Fourth avenues now being modified by direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the Act of Congress approved September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," to the end that the draws of said bridges shall not be required to be opened or operated oftener than necessary between ten o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon: Provided, That the draw of the bridge at the mouth of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, authorized by the Secretary of War August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to be reconstructed at the height of only three and one-half feet above high water, be opened at all times during the day and night when approached by boats desiring to pass it. Improving East River and Hell Gate, New York: Continuing improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Proviso. Draw over Spuyten Duyvil Creek. East River and Hell Gate, N. Y. Browns Creek, N.Y. East Chester Creek, N. Y. Patchogue River, N. Y. Saint Lawrence River, N. Y. Niagara River, N.Y. Bronx River, N. Y. Passaic River, N. J. Raritan River, N. J. Shrewsbury River, N. J. South River, N. J. Alloway Creek, N.J. Dennis Creek, N. J. Elizabeth River, N. J. Improving Browns Creek, Sayville, Long Island, New York: Continuing improvement, four thousand dollars. Improving East Chester Creek, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Patchogue River, New York: Completing improvement, thirteen thousand dollars. Improving shoal between Sister Islands and Cross-Over Light, Saint Lawrence River, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended for improving shoals between Sister Islands and Cross-Over Light and in the Saint Lawrence River between Ogdensburg and the foot of Lake Ontario. Improving Niagara River from Tonawanda to Port Day, in accordance with plan adopted by Congress in the river and harbor Act of August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Bronx River, New York, in accordance with the plan submitted in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-one, ten thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Raritan River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving South River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Alloway Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving Dennis Creek, New Jersey, in accordance with the project submitted January seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand dollars. Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey: Completing improvement, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Improving Mattawan Creek, New Jersey: For dredging, three thousand dollars. Improving Rancocas River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended in the improvement of the Lumberton branch of said river. Improving Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended for extending the improved channel farther toward the five-foot contour of Raritan Bay. Improving Goshen Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars. Improving Cooper Creek, New Jersey: Completing improvement in Cooper Creek, N. J. accordance with the plan submitted January fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty-seven thousand dollars, of which amount two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in rebuilding the dike on Government reservation in the Delaware River at Woodbury Creek. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improve. Allegheny River, Pa. ment, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Herr Island dam, etc. For continuing construction of lock and dam at Herr Island, Allegheny River, under existing project, and commencing construction of two additional locks and dams on said river, one above the head of Six Mile Island and the other at Springdale, according to report submitted January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary Proviso. of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the projects of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate eight hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Contract. Limit. Schuylkill River, Pa. Delaware River, Pa. and N. J. Distribution. Provisos. Dredging Dan Ba Board of officers to Reedy Island and Lisreport on dike between ton's Point. Improving Delaware River, from Trenton to its mouth, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars shall be expended in the improvement of the channel over Perriwig Bar, and three thousand dollars shall be expended in rebuilding and enlarging the dike, on Government reservation, at the junction of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, at Fort Mifflin: Provided, That so much of said sum of five hundred thousand dollars as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Sec- ker Shoal. retary of War, be expended in dredging a channel through Dan Baker Shoal to the depth of twenty-six feet at low water: And provided further, That no part of said appropriation or of any appropriations hereto fore made shall be expended upon the building of a dike between Reedy Island and Liston's Point, until a board of three engineer officers, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, shall consider and report to the Secretary of War on the first Monday in December of the current year; as to the project of said dike with reference to preserving and improving the navigation of the Appoquinimink River and Blackbird Creek, and the riparian rights and facilities of the Delaware shore as well as to deepening the main channel of said river. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to carry out the recommendations of said board; and to modify the present contract, if necessary, and adjust be carried out. any loss with the contractor occasioned by the provisions of this Act, and to pay the same out of the appropriation under which the said contract was made; also to expend the additional sum of twenty-five thou sand dollars in his discretion for such dredging as may be necessary for the maintenance of channels from the mouths of the Appoquinimink River and Blackbird Creek to the channel of the Delaware River through the dike now being constructed from Reedy Island to Liston's Point for the improvement of the Delaware. Recommendations to Dredging channels. Improving the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: The Secretary of Monongahela River, Pa. Expenses. Condemnation pro- War is hereby authorized and directed to institute and carry to comceedings authorized. Vol. 28, p. 348. pletion proceedings for the condemnation of all the property and its appurtenances of the Monongahela Navigation Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania, said condemnation proceedings to be as prescribed and regulated by the provisions of the general railroad law of Pennsylvania approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fortynine, and its supplements, except that the United States shall not be required to give any bond, and except that jurisdiction of said proceedings is hereby given to the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, with right of appeal by either party to the Supreme Court of the United States. And the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the necessary costs of said proceedings; and upon final judgment being entered therein, the Secretary of War, if in his opinion the judgment is reasonable, is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the amount of said judgment and costs, and said amount for the payment thereof is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. And when said property and its appurtenances shall have been acquired by the United States, whether by purchase or condemnation, the Secretary of Tolls to be abolished, War shall take charge thereof and the same shall thereafter be subject Judgment. etc. Appoquinimink River, Del. Smyrna River, Del. Murderkill River, Del. Waterway Delaware and Chincoteague bays. Proviso. Right of way. Broad Creek River, Del. Choptank River, Md. Chester River, Md. Manokin River, Md. Wicomico River, Md. to the provisions of section four of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Improving Appoquinimink River, Delaware: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Smyrna River, Delaware: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Murderkill River, Delaware: Continuing improvement, six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the inland waterway from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay, at or near Lewes, Delaware, to be used from Delaware Bay to Indian River: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the right of way is secured without cost to the United States, but the right of way over any railroad or through any railroad or county bridge shall not be subject to this proviso, and may be secured by condemnation proceedings. Improving Broad Creek River, Delaware: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving Choptank River, Maryland: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Chester River, Maryland: Continuing improvement, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Manokin River, Maryland: Continuing improvement, four thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be expended in improving said river between Dashiells Creek and a point on said river known as the Red Bridge or County Wharf. Improving Wicomico River, Maryland: Completing improvement, Pocomoke River, Md. three thousand seven hundred dollars. Improving Pocomoke River, Maryland, below Snow Hill, in accordance with report submitted February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand dollars. Warwick River, Md. Patapsco River, Md. Nanticoke River, Del. and Md. Improving Warwick River, Maryland: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving Patapsco River and channel to Baltimore: For maintenance, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland: Continuing improvement, in accordance with report and plan submitted February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars. |