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 RIVER AND HARBOR BILL 
 
 COMPARATIVE PRINT 
 
 SHOWING 
 
 SECTION OF H. R. 13811 
 
 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, 
 
 AND PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS ON RIVERS 
 
 AND HARBORS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
 
 AS PASSED BY THE HOUSE, AS REPORTED TO THE SENATE 
 AND THE SUBSTITUTE SUBMITTED BY MR. BURTON 
 
 SEPTEMBER 18 (CALENDAR DAT, SEPTEMBER 19), 1914. Ordered to be printed. 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 1914 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 H. R. 13811, AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND PRES- 
 ERVATION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS ON RIVERS AND HARBORS, AND FOR OTHER 
 PURPOSES. 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and 
 House of Representatives of the 
 United States of America in Congress 
 assembled, .That the following sums 
 of money be, and are hereby, appro- 
 priated, to be paid out of any money 
 in the Treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated, to be immediately avail- 
 able, and to be expended under the 
 direction of the Secretary of War 
 and the supervision of the Chief of 
 Engineers, for the cons;ruction, 
 completion, repair, and preservation 
 of the public works hereinafter 
 named : 
 
 Improving Tenants Harbor, 
 Maine : Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in Rivers and Harbors Commit- 
 tee Document Numbered Twelve, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, $12,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Portland, 
 Maine: Continuing improvement, 
 $105,000. 
 
 Improving Wills Strait, Casco 
 Bay, Maine: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Fourteen hundred and 
 sixteen, Sixty-second Congress, 
 third session, $16,500. 
 
 Improving Saint Croix River, 
 Maine: Completing improvement, 
 $84,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Burlington, 
 Vermont: For maintenance and 
 repair of breakwater, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Narrows of Lake 
 Champlain, New York and Ver- 
 mont : 
 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Beverly, 
 Massachusetts, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Two hundred 
 and twenty, Sixty-third Congress, 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and 
 House of Representatives of the 
 United States of America in Congress 
 assembled, That the following sums 
 of money be, and are hereby, appro- 
 priated, to be paid out of any money 
 in the Treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated, to be immediately avail- 
 able, 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: 
 
 Improving Tenants Harbor, 
 Maine : Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in Rivers and Harbors Commit- 
 tee Document Numbered Twelve, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, $12,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Portland, 
 Maine : Continuing improvement, 
 $105,000. 
 
 Improving Wills Strait, Casco 
 Bay, Maine: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Fourteen hundred and 
 sixteen, Sixty-second Congress, 
 third session, $16,500. 
 
 Improving Saint Croix River, 
 Maine : Completing improvement, 
 $8:, 000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Burlington, 
 Vermont: For maintenance and 
 repair of breakwater, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Narrows of Lake 
 Champlain, New York and Ver- 
 mont, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 seven, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $200,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Beverly, 
 Massachusetts, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Two hundred 
 and twenty, Sixty-third Congress, 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and 
 House of Representatives of the 
 United States oj America in Congress 
 assembled, That the following sums 
 of money be, and are hereby, appro- 
 priated, to be paid out of any money 
 in the Treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated, to be immediately avail- 
 able, 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 tlife public works hereinafter 
 named: 
 
 Improving harbor at Portland, 
 Maine : Continuing improvement, 
 $105,000. 
 
 Improving Wills Strait, Casco 
 Bay, Maine: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Fourteen hundred and 
 sixteen, Sixty-second Congress, 
 third session, $16,500. 
 
 Improving Saint Croix River, 
 Maine : Completing improvement, 
 $84,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Burlington, 
 Vermont: For maintenance and 
 repair of breakwater, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Narrows of Lake 
 Champlain, New York and Ver- 
 mont, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 seven, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $200,000. 
 
 Improving" harbor at Beverly, 
 Massachusetts, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Two hundred 
 and twenty, Sixty-third Congress, 
 
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BIVEB AND HABBOE BILL. 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 first session, and subject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document, 
 as modified in the report in Rivers 
 and Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $123,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Salem, Mas- 
 sachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $7,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Boston, 
 Massachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Pollock Rip Channel, 
 Massachusetts : Continuing improve- 
 ment, $125,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts : 
 Completing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $67,000. The para- 
 graph providing for the improve- 
 ment of harbor at New Bedford 
 and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, is hereby amended in 
 accordance with recommendation 
 in the report in Rivers and Harbors 
 Committee Document Numbered 
 Thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, to read as follows: 
 "Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Four hundred and forty-two, 
 Sixty-second Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $56,610: Provided, That no 
 work shall be undertaken on the 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 first session, and subject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document, 
 as modified in the report in Rivers 
 and Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $123,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Salem, Mas- 
 sachusetts : For maintenance, 
 $7,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Boston, 
 Massachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Maiden River, Massa- 
 chusetts: The amount appropriated 
 for this improvement by the river and 
 harbor Act approved July twenty- 
 fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is 
 hereby made available for expenditure 
 on the modified project recommended 
 in the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Eight hundred 
 and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, subject to the 
 conditions set forth in said document. 
 
 Improving Weymouth Fore River, 
 Massachusetts: Of the balance re- 
 maining available from the appropria- 
 tion made for this improvement by the 
 river and harbor Act approved Febru- 
 ary twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred 
 and eleven, so much as shall be neces- 
 sary is hereby authorized to be ex- 
 pended in increasing the width of 
 the existing eighteenrfoot channel to 
 approximately four hundred feet, as 
 recommended in the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Eight 
 hundred and three, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session. 
 
 Improving Pollock Rip Channel, 
 Massachusetts: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $125,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts: 
 Completing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $67,000. The para- 
 graph providing for the improve- 
 ment of harbor at New Bedford 
 and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, is hereby amended in 
 accordance with recommendation 
 in the report in Rivers and Harbors 
 Committee Document Numbered 
 Thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, to read as follows: 
 "Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Four hundred and forty-two, 
 Sixty-second Congress, second ses- 
 sion. $56,610: Provided, That no 
 wort shall be undertaken on the 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 first session, andVubject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document, 
 as modified in the report in Rivers 
 and Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Eight, Sixty-third , Con- 
 gress, second session, $123,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Salem, Mas- 
 sachusetts : For maintenance, 
 $7,500. ' 
 
 Improving harbor at Boston, 
 Massachusetts : For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Maiden River, Massa- 
 chusetts: Ihe amount appropriated 
 for this improvement by the river and 
 harbor Act approved July twenty- 
 fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is 
 hereby made available for expenditure 
 on the modified project recommended 
 in the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Eight hundred 
 and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, subject to the 
 conditions set forth in said document. 
 
 Improving Weymouth Fore River, 
 Massachusetts: Of the balance re- 
 maining available from the appropria- 
 tion made for this improvement by the 
 river and harbor Act approved Febru- 
 ary twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred 
 and eleven, so much as shall be neces- 
 sary is hereby authorized to be ex- 
 pended in increasing the width of 
 the existing eighteen-foot channel to 
 approximately four hundred feet, as 
 recommended in the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Eight 
 hundred and three, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session. 
 
 Improving Pollock Rip Channel, 
 Massachusetts: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $125,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts: 
 Completing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $67,000. The para- 
 graph providing for the improve- 
 ment of harbor at New Bedford 
 and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, is hereby amended in 
 accordance with recommendation 
 in the report in Rivers and Harbors 
 Committee Document Numbered 
 Thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, to read as follows: 
 "Improving harbor at New Bed- 
 ford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Four Hundred and forty-two, 
 Sixty-second Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $56,610: Provided, That no 
 work shall be undertaken on the 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 project herein adopted until the 
 local authorities shall provide a 
 draw opening in the bridge at Cog- 
 geshall Street affording at least 
 eighty feet horizontal clearance and 
 the city shall construct a substan- 
 tial wharf upon its property at 
 Belleville.; 1 
 
 Improving harbor at Fall River, 
 Massachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $12,000. 
 
 Improving Providence River and 
 Harbor, Rhode Island: That the 
 second proviso in the paragraph of 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred and 
 thirteen, providing for the im- 
 provement of Providence River 
 and Harbor, Rhode Island, be mod- 
 ified in accordance with recommen- 
 dation in the report in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, to read as 
 follows: "Provided further, That no 
 work in the harbor proper north of 
 Fields Point shall be done until the 
 Secretary of War is satisfied that 
 the State and the city have com- 
 pleted their proposed expenditures 
 in the combined Providence and 
 Pawtucket Harbors up to at least 
 $2,000,000 for public terminals or 
 other permanent harbor improve- 
 ments, or shall have given to the 
 Secretary of War assurance satis- 
 factory to him that the expenditure 
 of the" $2,000,000 aforesaid will be 
 completed within a time satisfac- 
 tory to him and not later than three 
 years from the passage of this 
 amendment." 
 
 Improving harbor at Stonington, 
 Connecticut: For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Lon- 
 don, Connecticut, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, and subject to ihe 
 conditions set forth in said docu- 
 ment, $170,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Haven, 
 Connecticut: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $70,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Milford, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and thirty- 
 two, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $6,700. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 project herein adopted until the 
 local authorities shall provide a 
 draw opening in the bridge at Cog- 
 geshall Street affording at least 
 eighty feet horizontal clearance and 
 the city shall construct a substan- 
 tial wharf upon its property at 
 Belleville.;' 
 
 Improving harbor at Fall River, 
 Massachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $12,000. 
 
 Improving Providence River and 
 Harbor, Rhode Island: That the 
 second proviso in the paragraph of 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred and 
 thirteen, providing for the im- 
 provement of Providence River 
 and Harbor, Rhode Island, be mod- 
 ified in accordance with recommen- 
 dation in the report in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, to read as 
 follows: "Provided further, That no 
 work in the harbor proper north of 
 Fields Point shall be done until the 
 Secretary of War is satisfied that 
 the State and the city have com- 
 pleted their proposed expenditures 
 in the combined Providence and 
 Pawtucket Harbors up to at least 
 $2,000,000 for public terminals or 
 other permanent harbor improve- 
 ments, or shall have given to the 
 Secretary of War assurance satis- 
 factory to him that the expenditure 
 of the $2,000,000 aforesaid will be 
 completed within a time satisfac- 
 tory to him and not later than three 
 years from the passage of this 
 amendment." 
 
 Improving harbor at Stonington, 
 Connecticut : For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Lon- 
 don, Connecticut, in accordance 
 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 docu- 
 ment, $70,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Haven, 
 Connecticut: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Milford, 
 Connecticut : Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and thirty- 
 two, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $6,700. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 project herein adopted until the 
 local authorities shall provide a 
 draw opening in the bridge at Cog- 
 geshall Street affording at least 
 eighty feet horizontal clearance and 
 the city shall construct a substan- 
 tial wharf upon its property at 
 Belleville." 
 
 Improving harbor at Fall River, 
 Massachusetts: For maintenance, 
 $12,000. 
 
 Improving Providence River and 
 Harbor, Rhode Island: That the 
 second proviso in the paragraph of 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred and 
 thirteen, providing for the im- 
 provement of Providence River 
 and Harbor, Rhode Island, be mod- 
 ified in accordance with recommen- 
 dation in the report in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, to read as 
 follows: " Provided further, That no 
 work in the harbor proper north of 
 Fields Point shall be done until the 
 Secretary of War is satisfied that 
 the State and the city have com- 
 pleted their proposed expenditures 
 in the combined Providence and 
 Pawtucket Harbors up to at least 
 $2,000,000 for public terminals or 
 other permanent harbor improve- 
 ments, or shall have given to the 
 Secretary of War assurance satis- 
 factory to him that the expenditure 
 of the $2,000,000 aforesaid will be 
 completed within a time satisfac- 
 tory to him and not later than three 
 years from the passage of this 
 amendment." 
 
 Improving harbor at Stonington, 
 Connecticut: For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Lon- 
 don, Connecticut, in accordance 
 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 docu- 
 ment, $70,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at New Haven, 
 Connecticut: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Milford, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and thirty- 
 two, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $6,700. 
 
BIVEB AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 6 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Greenwich, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and eighty- 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $35,000. 
 
 Improving Thames Kiver, Con- 
 necticut: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Connecticut River, 
 Connecticut: For maintenance of 
 improvement below Hartford, 
 $15,000. 
 
 Improving Connecticut River, 
 Connecticut: Of the appropriation 
 authorized in the river and harbor 
 Act approved July twenty-fifth, 
 nineteen hundred and twelve, so 
 much as may be necessary, may, in 
 the discretion of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, be expended for maintenance 
 dredging in said river above Hart- 
 ford. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Ches- 
 ter, New York: Continuing im- 
 provement, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Sterling Basin, Green- 
 port Harbor, New York: Complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Eight hun- 
 dred and seventy-four, Sixty-first 
 Congress, second session, $22,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mattituck, 
 New York: 
 
 Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huntington, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Hempstead Harbor, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saugerties, 
 New York: Coiilinuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Rondout, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 2* 
 
 BEPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Greenwich, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and eighty- 
 nine, Sixty- third Congress,' first 
 session, $35,000. 
 
 Improving Thames River, Con- 
 necticut: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Connecticut River, 
 Connecticut: For maintenance of 
 improvement below Hartford, 
 $15,000. 
 
 BUBTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Greenwich, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and eighty- 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $35,000. 
 
 Improving Thames River, Con- 
 necticut: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Connecticut River, 
 Connecticut: For maintenance of 
 improvement below Hartford, 
 $15,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Bridgeport, 
 Connecticut: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted^ in House Document Num- 
 bered Eight hundred and ninety- 
 eight, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, $50,000. The unexpended 
 balance of appropriations heretofore 
 made for improvement of the harbor 
 at Bridgeport, Connecticut, is hereby 
 made available for continuing im- 
 provement of said harbor in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in said 
 House Document Numbered Eight 
 hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session. 
 
 Improving harbor at Bridgeport, 
 Connecticut: > Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Eight hundred and ninety- 
 eight, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, $50,000. The unexpended 
 balance of appropriations heretofore 
 made for improvement of the harbor 
 at Bridgeport, Connecticut, is hereby 
 made available for continuing im- 
 provement of said harbor in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in said 
 House Document Numbered Eight 
 hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Ches- Improving harbor at Port Ches- 
 ter, New York: Continuing im- ter, New York: Continuing im- 
 provement, $15,000. provement, $15,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mattituck, 
 New York: 
 
 Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huntington, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Hempstead Harbor, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saugerties, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Rondout, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mattituck, 
 New York: 
 
 COMPLETING improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $14,350. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huntington, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Hempstead Harbor, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saugerties, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Rondout, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
BIVEB AND HAKBOB BILL. 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor -at Tarrytown, 
 New York: Completing improve 
 ment and for maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Sheepshead Bay, New 
 York: For maintenance, S3, 000. 
 
 Improving New York Harbor, 
 New York: Improving channel in 
 upper bay in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $250,000. 
 
 Improving channel in Gowanus 
 Bay, New York: Continuing im- 
 provement of Bay Ridge and Red 
 Hook Channels, $300,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River Chan- 
 nel of New York Harbor, New 
 York : Continuing improvement, 
 $125,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Buffalo, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $167,375. 
 
 Improving Black Rock Harbor, 
 New. York: The unexpended bal- 
 ances of appropriations heretofore 
 made and authorized for the im- 
 provement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel, New York, and Tpna- 
 wanda Harbor and Niagara River, 
 New York, are hereby consolidated 
 and made available for completing 
 improvement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel and Tonawanda Har- 
 bor in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House "Document 
 Numbered Six hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty- third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charlotte, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $24,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Oswego, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment in accordance with plan A and 
 for maintenance, $100,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Plattsburg, 
 New York : 
 
 For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Bronx River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Tarrytown, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Sheepshead Bay, New 
 York: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving New York Harbor, 
 New York: Improving channel in 
 upper bay in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $150,000. 
 
 Improving channel in Gowanus 
 Bay, New York: Continuing im- 
 
 6x>vement of Bay Ridge and Red 
 ook Channels, $200,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River Chan- 
 nel of New York Harbor, New 
 York : Continuing improvement, 
 $125,000 
 
 : Provided, That of the 
 amount heretofore appropriated or 
 authorized the unused balance of the 
 estimate for removing the shoal off 
 Hamburg Avenue, Hobolcen, to a 
 depth of forty feet may be applied to 
 such further dredging to that depth as 
 may be required for the safe maneuv- 
 ering of the deep-draft vessels using 
 that part of the harbor. 
 
 Improving harbor at Buffalo, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $167,375. 
 
 Improving Black Rock Harbor, 
 New York: The unexpended bal- 
 ances of appropriations heretofore 
 made and authorized for the im- 
 provement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel, New York, and Tona- 
 wanda Harbor and Niagara River, 
 New York, are hereby consolidated 
 and made available for completing 
 improvement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel and Tonawanda Har- 
 bor in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Docuri ent 
 Numbered Six hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document. 
 
 Improving harbor at ( harlotte, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $24,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at 1 Oswogo, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment in accordance with plan A and 
 for maintenance, $100,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Plattsburg, 
 New York: 
 
 For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Bronx River, New 
 York : Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Tarrytown, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Sheepshead Bay, New 
 York: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving New York Harbor, 
 New York: Improving channel in 
 upper bay in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $150,000. 
 
 Improving channel in Gowanus 
 Bay, New York: Continuing im- 
 provement of Bay Ridge and Red 
 Hook Channels, $200,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River Chan- 
 nel of New York Harbor, New 
 York: Continuing improvement, 
 $125,000 
 
 Improving harbor at Buffalo, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $167,375. 
 
 Improving Black Rock Harbor, 
 New York: The unexpended bal 
 ances of appropriations heretofore 
 made and authorized for the im- 
 provement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel, New York, and Tona- 
 wanda Harbor and Niagara River, 
 New York, are hereby consolidated 
 and made available for completing 
 improvement of Black Rock Harbor 
 and Channel and Tonawanda Har- 
 bor in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Six hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the con- 
 ditions set forth in said document. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charlotte, 
 New York: For maintenance, 
 $24,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Oswego, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment in accordance with plan A and 
 for maintenance, $100,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Plattsburg, 
 New York: COMPLETING IMPROVE- 
 MENT AND 
 
 for maintenance, $2,868. 
 
 Improving Bronx River, New 
 York : Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
BIVER AND HAEBOB BILL. 
 
 8 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving East Chester Creek, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Westchester Creek, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $36,500. 
 
 Improving East River and Hell 
 Gate, New York, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and eighty-eight, Sixty- third Con- 
 gress, first session, 
 
 $500,000: Pro- 
 vided, That so much as may be 
 necessary of this and any other 
 appropriations made for specific 
 portions 'of New York Harbor and 
 its immediate tributaries may be 
 allotted by the Secretary of War 
 for the maintenance of these water- 
 ways by the collection and removal 
 of drift. 
 
 Improving Harlem River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000; and the Secretary of War 
 is authorized and directed to cede 
 to the State of New York all the 
 lands heretofore acquired by the 
 United States in the bed of that 
 part of the Harlem River lying out- 
 side of the channel lines proposed 
 for the Harlem River improvement 
 in project numbered three, printed 
 in House Document Numbered Five 
 hundred and fifty-sevtn, Sixty- 
 second Congress, second session, to 
 a new bulkhead line to be estab- 
 lished by the Secretary of War along 
 the lines of said channel according 
 to the project: Provided, That the 
 cession hereby authorized and made 
 shall take effect only upon the 
 cession to the United States by the 
 State of New York of the land and 
 land under water with any improve- 
 ments thereon lying between the 
 channel lines proposed in said proj- 
 ect : Provided further, That posses- 
 sion of the land hereby authorized 
 to be ceded by the United States to 
 the State of New York shall not be 
 surrendered to said State until and 
 only when the Chief of Engineers of 
 the United States Army shall have 
 certified that the new channel is 
 open for navigation and that the 
 land ceded is no longer necessary 
 for the right of way of the Harlem 
 River Ship Canal. 
 
 Improving Newtown Creek, New 
 York: For maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $750,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving East Chester Creek, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Westchester Creek, 
 New York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $36,500. 
 
 Improving East River and Hell 
 Gate, New York, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, 
 
 $400,000: Pro- 
 vided, That so much as may be 
 necessary of this and any other 
 appropriations made for specific 
 portions of New York Harbor and 
 its immediate tributaries may be 
 allotted by the Secretary of War 
 for the maintenance of these water- 
 ways by the collection and removal 
 of drift. 
 
 Improving Harlem River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000; and the Secretary of War 
 is authorized and directed 4o cede 
 to the State of New York all the 
 lands heretofore acquired by the 
 United States in the bed of that 
 part of the Harlem River lying out- 
 side of the channel lines proposed 
 for the Harlem River improvement 
 in project numbered three, printed 
 in House Document Numbered Five 
 hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty- 
 second Congress, second session, to 
 a new bxilkhcad line to bo estab- 
 lished by the Secretary of War along 
 the lines of said channel according 
 to the project: Provided, That the 
 cession hereby authorized and made 
 shall take effect only upon the 
 cession to the United States by the 
 State of Now York of the land and 
 land under water with any improve- 
 ments thereon lying between the 
 channel lines proposed in said proj- 
 ect : Provided further, That posses- 
 sion of the. land hereby authorized 
 to bo cedod by the United States to 
 the State of New York shall not be 
 surrendered to said State until and 
 only when the Chief of Engineers of 
 the United States Army shall have 
 certified that the new channel is 
 open for navigation and that the 
 land ceded is no longer necessary 
 for the right of way of the Harlem 
 River Ship Canal. 
 
 Improving Newtown Creek, New 
 York: For maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River, New 
 York : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $750,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving East Chester Creek, 
 New York: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Westchester Creek, 
 Now York: Completing improve- 
 ment, $36,500. 
 
 Improving East River and Hell 
 Gate, New York, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, 
 
 $400,000: Pro- 
 vided, That so much as may be 
 necessary of this and any other 
 appropriations made for specific 
 portions of New York Harbor and 
 its immediate tributaries may be 
 allotted by the Secretary of War 
 for the maintenance of those water- 
 ways by the collection and removal 
 of drift. 
 
 Improving Harlem River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000; and the Secretary of War 
 is authorized and directed to cede 
 to the State of New York all the 
 lands heretofore acquired by the 
 United States in the bed of that 
 part of the Harlem River lying out- 
 side of the channel lines proposed 
 for the Harlem River improvement 
 in project numbered three, printed 
 in House Document Numbered Five 
 hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty- 
 second Congress, second session, to 
 a new bulkhead line to be estab- 
 lished by the Secretary of War along 
 the lines of said channel according 
 to the project: Provided, That the 
 cession hereby authorized and made 
 shall take effect only upon the 
 cession to the United States by the 
 State of New York of the land and 
 land under water with any improve 
 ments thereon lying between the 
 channel lines proposed in said proj- 
 ect: Provided further, That posses- 
 sion of the land hereby authorized 
 to be ceded by. the United States to 
 the State of New York shall not be 
 surrendered to said State until and 
 only when the Chief of Engineers of 
 the United States Army shall have 
 certified that the new channel is 
 open for navigation and that the 
 land ceded is no longer necessary 
 for the right of way of the Harlem 
 River Ship Canal. 
 
 Improving Newtown Creek, New 
 York: For maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Hudson River, New 
 York: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $750,000. 
 
BIVEB AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 9 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Hudson River at Os- 
 sining, New York, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Three hun- 
 dred and fifty, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $35,000. 
 
 Improving Staten Island Sound, 
 New York and New Jersey: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, $500,000. 
 
 Improving Raritan Bay, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Newark Bay and Pas- 
 saic River, New Jersey: Continuing 
 improvement, $150,000. 
 
 Improving Woodbridge Creek, 
 New Jersey: For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving Keyport Harbor, Mat- 
 awan Creek, Raritan, South, and 
 Elizabeth Rivers, Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, and Cheesequake 
 Creek, New Jersey: For mainte- 
 nance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Matawan Creek, New 
 Jersey: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Forty-three, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, $72,000. 
 
 Improving Raritan River, New 
 Jersey, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Thirteen hundred and 
 forty-one, Sixty-second Congress, 
 third session, $250,000. 
 
 Improving Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, New Jersey: Com- 
 pleting improvement in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Forty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $56,800. 
 
 Improving Shrewsbury River, 
 New Jersey: For maintenance, 
 $10,000; 
 
 for improvement in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered 
 Twelve hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, $100,000; in all, $110,000. 
 
 Improving Cooper River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Raccoon Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Salem River, New 
 Jersey:- For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Alloway Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Maurice Rivor, New 
 Jersey: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Toms River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 BEPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Hudson River at Os- 
 sining, New York, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Three hun- 
 dred and fifty, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $35,000. 
 
 Improving Staten Island Sound, 
 New York and New Jersey: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, $400,000. 
 
 Improving Raritan Bay, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Newark Bay and Pas- 
 saic River, New Jersey: Continuing 
 improvement, $150,000. 
 
 Improving Woodbridge Creek, 
 Now Jersey: For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving Keyport Harbor, Mat- 
 awan Creek, Raritan, South, and 
 Elizabeth Rivers, Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, and Cheesequake 
 Creek, New Jersey: For mainte- 
 nance, $8,000. 
 
 BUBTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Raritan River, New 
 Jersey, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Thirteen hundred and 
 forty-one, Sixty-second Congress, 
 third session, $150,000. 
 
 Improving Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, New Jersey: Com- 
 pleting improvement in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Forty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $56,800. 
 
 Improving Shrewsbury River, 
 New Jersev: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Cooper River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Raccoon Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Salem River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Alloway Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Maurice River, New 
 Jersey: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Toms River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Staten Island Sound, 
 New York and New Jersey: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, $400,000. 
 
 Improving Raritan Bay, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Newark Bay and Pas- 
 saic River, New Jersey: Continuing 
 improvement, $150,000. 
 
 Improving Woodbridge Creek, 
 New Jersey: For maintenance, 
 $6,000. 
 
 Improving Keyport Harbor, Mat- 
 awan Creek, Raritan, South, and 
 Elizabeth Rivers, Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, and Cheesequake 
 Creek, New Jersey: For mainte- 
 nance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Shoal Harbor and 
 Compton Creek, New Jersey: Com- 
 pleting improvement in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Forty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $56,800. 
 
 Improving Shrewsbury River, 
 New Jersey: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Cooper River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Raccoon Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $8,000. 
 
 Improving Salem River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $10,0(10. 
 
 Improving Alloway Creek, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Maurice River, New 
 Jersey: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Toms River, New 
 Jersey: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
BIVEB AND HAEBOB BILL. 
 
 10 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pittsburgh, 
 Pennsylvania: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Monongahela River, 
 Pennsylvania, by the reconstruc- 
 tion of Lock and Dam Numbered 
 Six: Completing improvement, 
 $178,200. 
 
 Improving Chester River, Penn- 
 sylvania: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and seventy- 
 seven, Sixty-second Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $3,600. 
 
 Improving Delaware River, Penn- 
 sylvania, New Jersey, and Dela- 
 ware: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance from Allegheny 
 Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, 
 $1,000,000: 
 
 Provided, That the Sec- 
 retary of War may. enter into a 
 contract or contracts for such ma- 
 terials and work as may be neces- 
 sary to prosecute the said project, 
 to be paid for as appropriations may 
 frc m time to time oe made by law, 
 not to exceed in the aggregate 
 $1,000,000, exclusive of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated. 
 
 Improving harbor at Wilming- 
 ton, Delaware: For maintenance, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink, Mur- 
 derldll, and Mispfllion River*, Dela- 
 ware : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink River, 
 Delaware : Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and forty- 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $11,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Absecon Inlet, New 
 Jersey: The appropriation condi- 
 tionally made by the river and harbor 
 Act of March fourth, nineteen hun- 
 dred and thirteen, for the purpose of 
 dredging to Tceep an open channel until 
 the completion of the dredge previously 
 authorized is hereby made available 
 or the maintenance and operation off 
 said dredge after completion. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pittsburgh -, 
 Pennsylvania : For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Monongahela River, 
 Pennsylvania, by the reconstruc- 
 tion of Lock and Dam Numbered 
 Six : Completing . improvement, 
 $178,200. 
 
 Improving Chester River, Penn- 
 sylvania: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and seventy- 
 seven, Sixty-second Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $3,600. 
 
 Improving Delaware River, Penn- 
 sylvania, New Jersey, and Dela- 
 ware : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance from Allegheny 
 Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, 
 $1,000,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pittsburgh, 
 Pennsylvania: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Monongahela River, 
 Pennsylvania, by the reconstruc- 
 tion of Lock and Dam Numbered 
 Six : Completing improvement, 
 $178,200. 
 
 Improving Chester River, Penn- 
 sylvania: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and seventy- 
 seven, Sixty second Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $3,600. 
 
 Improving Delaware River, Penn- 
 sylvania, New Jersey, and Dela- 
 ware : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance from Allegheny 
 Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, 
 $1,000,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Wilming- Improving harbor at Wilming- 
 ton, Delaware: For maintenance, ton, Delaware: For maintenance, 
 $40,000. $40,000. 
 
 of which amount $5,000, or so much 
 thereof as shall be necessary, may be 
 expended in the completion of the 
 dredging plant and appurtenances 
 heretofore authorized. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink, Mur- 
 derkill, and Mispillion Rivers, Dela- 
 ware : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink River, 
 Delaware: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and forty- 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $11,000. 
 
 of which amount $5,000, or so much 
 thereof as shall be necessary, may be 
 expended in the completion of the 
 dredging plant and appurtenances 
 heretofore authorized. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink, Mur- 
 derkill, and Mispillion Rivers, Dela- 
 ware : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Appoquinimink River, 
 Delaware : Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and forty- 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $11,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 3* 
 
KIVER AND HAHBOE BILL. 
 
 11 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Murderkill River, Del- 
 aware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in ITou-^e Document 
 Numbered Ten hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $12,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Mispillion River, Dela- 
 ware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Six hundred and seventy- 
 eight, Sixty-second Congress, second 
 session, $35,200 : Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Little River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Leipsic River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway be- 
 tween Rehoboth Bay and Delaware 
 Bay, Delaware: Continuing im- 
 provement, $60,000 : 
 
 Provided, That 
 
 the Secretary of War is hereby au- 
 thorized to condemn a right of way 
 through the tracks of 
 
 the Delaware, 
 Maryland, and Virginia Railway 
 
 Company where the line of said wa- 
 terway intersects said railroad 
 tracks, the basis of condemnation to 
 be the building, maintenance, and 
 operation of a proper drawbridge by 
 the United States, or the payment 
 by the United States to the railroad 
 company of such sum of money as 
 may be awarded in the condemna- 
 
 BEPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Murderkill River, Del- 
 aware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Ten hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $12,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Mispillion River, Dela- 
 ware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Six hundred and seventy- 
 eight, Sixty-second Congress, second 
 session, $35,200: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Saint Jones River, Del- 
 aware: TTie provisos attached to the 
 items making appropriation for the 
 improvement of Saint Jones River, 
 Delaware, in the river and harbor 
 Acts of June twenty-fifth, nineteen 
 hundred and ten, and February 
 twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and 
 eleven, are hereby modified to read as 
 follows: Provided, That no part of 
 said amount shall be expended for the 
 excavation of any cut-off until a satis- 
 factory title to the land required for 
 that cut-off shall have been trans- 
 ferred to the United States, free of 
 cost, and the United States shall have 
 been released from all claims for 
 damages arising from the proposed 
 diversion of the stream. 
 
 Improving Little River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Leipsic River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway be- 
 tween Rehoboth Bay and Delaware 
 Bay, Delaware: Continuing im- 
 provement, $109,000: ' 
 
 Provided, That 
 
 the Secretary of War is hereby au- 
 thorized to condemn a right of way 
 through the tracks of 
 
 The Delaware. 
 Maryland, and Virginia Railroad 
 
 Company where the line of said wa- 
 terway intersects said railroad 
 tracks, the basis of condemnation to 
 be the building, maintenance, and 
 operation of a proper drawbridge by 
 the United States, or the payment 
 by the United States to the railroad 
 company of such sum of money as 
 may be awarded in the condemna- 
 
 BUBTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Murderkill River, Del- 
 aware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Ten hundred and fifty- 
 eight, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $12,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Mispillion River, Dela- 
 ware, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Six hundred and 
 seventy-eight, Sixty-second Con- 
 gress, second session, $35,200: Pro- 
 vided, That no expense shall be in- 
 curred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement. 
 
 Improving Saint Jones River, Del- 
 aware: The provisos attached to the 
 items making appropriation for the 
 improvement of Saint Jones River, 
 Delaware, in the river and harbor 
 Acts* of June twenty-fifth, nineteen 
 hundred and ten, and February 
 twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and 
 eleven, are hereby modified to read as 
 follows: Provided, That no part of 
 said amount shall be expended for the 
 excavation of any cut-off until a satis- 
 factory title to the land required for 
 that cut-off shall have been trans- 
 ferred to the United States, free of 
 cost, and the United States shall have 
 been released from all claims for 
 damages arising from the proposed 
 diversion of the stream. 
 
 Improving Little River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Leipsic River, Dela- 
 ware: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway be- 
 tween Rehoboth Bay and Delaware 
 Bay, Delaware: Continuing im- 
 provement, $109,000: 
 
 Provided, That 
 
 the Secretary of War is hereby au- 
 thorized to condemn a right of way 
 through the tracks of 
 
 The Delaware, 
 Maryland, and Virginia Railroad 
 
 Company where the line of said wa- 
 terway intersects said railroad 
 tracks, the basis of condemnation to 
 be the building, maintenance, and 
 operation of a proper drawbridge by 
 the United States, or the payment 
 by the United States to the railroad 
 company of such sum of money as 
 may be awarded in the condemna- 
 
EIVEB AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 12 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 tion proceedings, as full compensa- 
 tion for such right of way, including 
 actual cost of constructing such 
 bridge and the capitalized cost of its 
 maintenance and operation, which- 
 ever method may, in the judg- 
 ment of the Secretary of War, be 
 deemed most advantageous and 
 economical to the United States; 
 and any funds appropriated for im- 
 proving said waterway are hereby 
 made available for paying the 
 award that may be made in said 
 proceedings : Provided further, That 
 of the appropriation herein made the 
 sum of $12,300, or so much thereof 
 as shall be necessary, may be applied 
 to the restoration of the channel be- 
 tween Assawaman Bay and Indian 
 River Bay, and for the repair and 
 alteration of existing bridges built 
 by the United States across said 
 channel. 
 
 Improving inland waterway from 
 Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, 
 Delaware and Maryland, 
 
 by the pur- 
 chase of the existing Chesapeake and 
 Delaware Canal and appurtenant 
 property, 
 
 in accordance with the 
 project recommended by the Chief 
 of Engineers in paragraph three of 
 his report dated August ninth, nine- 
 teen hundred and thirteen, as pub- 
 lished in House Document N um- 
 bered One hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $1,300,000. 
 
 And the Secretary of 
 War is hereby authorized to pur- 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 tion proceedings, as full compensa- 
 tion for such right of way, including 
 actual cost of constructing such 
 bridge and the capitalized cost of its 
 maintenance and operation, which- 
 ever method may, in the judg- 
 ment of the Secretary of War, be 
 deemed most advantageous and 
 economical to the United Sta'-es; 
 and any funds appropriated for im- 
 proving said waterway are hereby 
 made available for paying the 
 award that may be made in said 
 proceedings: Provided further, Thai 
 of the appropriation herein made the 
 sum of $12,300, or so much thereof 
 as shall be necessary, may be applied 
 to the restoration of the channel be- 
 tween Assawaman Bay and Indian 
 River Bay, and for the repair and 
 alteration of existing bridges built 
 by the United States across said 
 channel. 
 
 Improving inland waterway from 
 Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, 
 Delaware and Maryland, 
 
 in accordance with the 
 project recommended by the Chief 
 of Engineers in paragraph three of 
 his report dated August ninth, nine- 
 teen hundred and thirteen, as pub- 
 lished in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session: 
 
 The Secretary of War is hereby 
 authorized to enter into negotiations 
 
 chase said canal and appurtenant for the purchase of the existing Chesa- 
 property at a cost not to exceed the vea k e and Delaware Canal, and aU 
 .erein appropriated for the property, rights of property, fran- 
 such purpose. chises, and appurtenances used or 
 
 acquired for use in connection there- 
 with or appertaining thereto, and he 
 is further authorized, if in his judg- 
 ment the price is reasonable and sat- 
 isfactory, to make, a contract for the 
 purchase of the same subject to future 
 ratification and appropriation by the 
 Congress. 
 
 In the event of the inability of the 
 Secretary of War to make a satis- 
 factory contract for the voluntary pur- 
 chase of said canal and its appurte- 
 nances, he is hereby authorized and 
 directed through the Attorney General 
 to institute and carry to completion 
 proceedings for the condemnation of 
 said canal and its appurtenances, the 
 acceptance of the award in said pro- 
 ceedings to be subject to the future 
 ratification and appropriation by 
 Congress. Such condemnation pro- 
 ceedings shall be instituted and con- 
 ducted in, and jurisdiction of said 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 tion proceedings, as full compensa- 
 tion for such right of way, including 
 actual cost of constructing sucn 
 bridge and the capitalized cost of its 
 maintenance and operation, which- 
 ever method may, in the judg- 
 ment of the Secretary of War, be 
 deemed most advantageous and 
 economical to the United States; 
 and any funds appropriated for im- 
 proving said waterway are hereby 
 made available for paying the 
 award that may be made in said 
 proceedings: Provided further, That 
 of the appropriation herein made the 
 sum of $12,300, or so much thereof 
 as shall be necessary, may be applied 
 to the restoration of the channel be- 
 tween Assawaman Bay and Indian 
 River Bay, and for the repair and 
 alteration of existing bridges built 
 by the United States across said 
 channel. 
 
BIVEB AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 18 
 
 HOUSE BILL. REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 proceedings is hereby given'to, the 
 District Court of the ' United States 
 for the District of Delaware substan- 
 tially as provided in "An Act to au- 
 thorize condemnation of land for sites 
 for public buildings and for other 
 purposes," approved August first, 
 eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, 
 and the sum of $5,000 is hereby ap- 
 propriated to pay the necessary costs 
 thereof and expenses in connection 
 therewith. 
 
 Improving Curtis Bay Channel, Improving Curtis Bay Channel, 
 Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Seven, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $61,850. 
 
 Improving Herring Bay and Rock- 
 hole Creek, Fairhaven, Maryland: 
 Completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the reports submitted in 
 House Document Numbered One 
 hundred and sixty-one, Sixty-third 
 Congress, first session, as modified 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Eleven, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said committee document, 
 $11,800. 
 
 Improving harbors at Rockhall, 
 Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cam- 
 bridge, and Chester, Choptank, War- 
 wick, Wicomico, Pocomoke, La 
 Trappe, and Manokin Rivers, and 
 Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: For 
 maintenance, $30,500. 
 
 Improving Breton Bay, Mary- 
 land: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and twenty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth m said document, 
 $3,000 
 
 Imp roving Elk and Little Elk 
 Rivers, Maiyland: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving Corsica River, Mary- 
 land : Completing improvement, 
 $4,800. 
 
 Improving Tuckahoe River, Mary- 
 and: For maintenance, $1,500. 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Seven, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $123,700. 
 
 Improving harbors at Rockhall, 
 Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cam- 
 bridge, and Chester, Choptank, War- 
 wick, Wicomico, Pocomoke, La 
 Trappe, and Manokin Rivers, and 
 Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: For 
 maintenance, $30,500. 
 
 Improving Breton Bay, Mary- 
 land: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and twenty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $3,000. 
 
 Improving Elk and Little Elk 
 Rivers, Maryland: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving Corsica River, Mary- 
 land : Completing improvement, 
 $4,800. 
 
 Improving Tuckahoe River, Mary- 
 land: For maintenance, $1,500. 
 
 Improving^ Chester River, Mary- 
 land: Completing * improvement in 
 accordance with the" report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Seven 
 hundred 'and ninety-seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, and subject 
 to the conditions setforth t in said doc- 
 ument, $12,000" 
 
 Improving Curtis Bay Channel, 
 Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, 
 
 COMPLETING IMPROVEMENT 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Seven, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $128,700. 
 
 Improving harbors at Rockhall, 
 Queenstown, Claiborne, and Cam- 
 bridge, and Chester, Choptank, War- 
 wick, Wicomico, Pocomoke, La 
 Trappe, and Manokin Rivers, and 
 Tyaskin Creek, Maryland: For 
 maintenance, $30,500. 
 
 Improving Breton Bay, Mary- 
 land: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and twenty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $3,000. 
 
 Improving Elk and Little Elk 
 Rivers, Maryland: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving Corsica River, Mary- 
 land : Completing improvement, 
 $4,800. 
 
 Improving Tuckahoe River, Mary- 
 land: For maintenance, $1,500. 
 
 Improving Chester River, Mary- 
 land: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Seven 
 hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, and subject 
 to the conditions set forth in said doc- 
 ument, $12,000. 
 
EIVER AND HABBOR BILL. 
 
 14 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Tred Avon River, 
 Maryland: Completing improve- 
 ment of the North Fork of Tred 
 Avon River in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Twenty-seven, Six- 
 ty-third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $19,600. 
 
 Improving Potomac River: For 
 maintenance of improvement at 
 Washington, District of Columbia, 
 $20,000. 
 
 Improving Anacostia River, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia: Continuing im- 
 provement, $75,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Norfolk, 
 Virginia, and vicinity, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and five, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $270,000. 
 The unexpended balance of appro- 
 priations Heretofore made for im- 
 provement of channel to Norfolk, 
 Virginia, is hereby made available 
 for continuing improvement of said 
 channel in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in said House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 five. Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving Mattaponi and Pa- 
 munkey Rivers, Virginia : For main- 
 tenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving Rappahannock River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Nansemond River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $3,000; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Twelve 
 hundred and forty-six, Sixty-second 
 Congress, third session, $4,500; in 
 all, $7,500. 
 
 Improving James River, Vir- 
 ginia : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $200,000. 
 
 Improving Appomattox River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving waterway on the coast 
 of Virginia: For maintenance, 
 $1,000. 
 
 Improving Hampton Creek, 
 Virginia: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Twenty-nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $27,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 4* 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Tred Avon Rive r 
 Maryland: Completing improve- 
 ment of the North Fork of Tred 
 Avon River in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Twenty-seven, Six- 
 ty-third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $19,600. 
 
 Improving Potomac River: For 
 maintenance of improvement at 
 Washington, District of Columbia. 
 $20,000. 
 
 Improving Anacostia River, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia: Continuing im- 
 provement, $75,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Norfolk, 
 Virginia, and vicinity, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and five, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $170,000. 
 The unexpended balance of appro- 
 priations heretofore made for im- 
 provement of channel to Norfolk, 
 Virginia, is hereby made available 
 for continuing improvement of said 
 channel in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in said House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 five, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving Mattaponi and Pa- 
 munkey -Rivers, Virginia: For main- 
 tenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving Rappahannock River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Nansemond River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $3,000; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Twelve 
 hundred and forty-six, Sixty-second 
 Congress, third session, $4,500; in 
 all, $7,500. 
 
 Improving James River, Vir- 
 ginia: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $100,000. 
 
 Improving Appomattox River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving waterway on the coast 
 of Virginia: For maintenance, 
 $1,000. 
 
 Improving Hampton Creek, Vir- 
 ginia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Twenty-nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $27,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Tred Avon River, 
 Maryland : Completing improve- 
 ment of the North Fork of Tred 
 Avon River in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Twenty-seven, Six- 
 ty-third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $19,600. 
 
 Improving Potomac River: For 
 maintenance of improvement at 
 Washington, District of Columbia, 
 $20,000. 
 
 Improving Anacostia River, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia: Continuing im- 
 provement, $75,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Norfolk, 
 Virginia, and vicinity, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and five, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $170,000. 
 The unexpended balance of appro- 
 priations heretofore made for im- 
 provement of channel to Norfolk, 
 Virginia, is hereby made available 
 for continuing improvement of said 
 channel in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in said House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 five, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving Mattaponi and Pa- 
 munkey Rivers, Virginia : For main- 
 tenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving Rappahannock River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 Improving Nansemond River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $3,000; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Twelve 
 hundred and forty-six, Sixty-second 
 Congress, third session, $4,500; in 
 all, $7,500. 
 
 Improving James River, Vir- 
 ginia: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenanQe, $100,000. 
 
 Improving Appomattox River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Virginia: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving waterway on the coast 
 of Virginia: For maintenance, 
 $1,000. 
 
 Improving Hampton Creek, Vir- 
 ginia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Twenty-nine, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $27,000. 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 15 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Tangier Channel, 
 Virginia: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and seven, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $16,434. 
 
 Improving Oyster Channel, Vir- 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Oyster Channel, Vir- 
 
 ginia: Completing improvement ginia: Completing improvement 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and nine, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, 
 
 and 
 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $11,250. 
 
 Improving Locklies Creek, Vir- 
 ginia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and twelve, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $4,100. 
 
 Improving . Occoquan Creek, 
 Virginia, 
 
 in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 sixty-one, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $21,500. 
 
 Improving inland waterway 
 from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort 
 Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing 
 improvement, $800,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from Nor- 
 folk, Virginia, to sounds of North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge at 
 Cape Lookout, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement, $300,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Beaufort, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Morehead 
 City, North Carolina: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,000. 
 
 fifty feet wide and Jive feet deep 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and nine, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, 
 
 $11,500. 
 
 Improving Locklies Creek, Vir- 
 ginia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and twelve, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $4,100. 
 
 Improving Occoquan Creek, 
 Virginia, 
 
 completing improvement 
 
 in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 sixty-one, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $43,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway 
 from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort 
 Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing 
 improvement, $500,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from Nor- 
 folk, Virginia, to sounds of North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $3.000, 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge at 
 Cape Lookout, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement, $300,000 
 
 : 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 appropria- 
 tions may from time to time be made 
 by law, not to exceed in the aggregate 
 $700,000, exclusive of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated 
 or authorized. 
 
 Improving harbor at Beaufort, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Morehead 
 City, North Carolina: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Locklies Creek, Vir- 
 ginia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and twelve, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion,, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $4,100. 
 
 Improving Occoquan Creek, 
 Virginia, 
 
 completing improvement 
 
 in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 sixty-one, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $43,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from Nor- 
 folk, Virginia, to sounds of North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge at 
 Cape Lookout, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement, $300,000. 
 
 : 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 saw 
 project, to be paid for as appropria- 
 tions may from time to time be made 
 by law, not to exceed in the aggregate 
 $700,000, exclusive of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated 
 or authorized. 
 
 harbor at Beaufort, 
 North* Carolina : For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Morehead 
 City, North Carolina: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,000." 
 
EIVEK AND HAEBOB BILL. 
 
 16 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Meherrin River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Roanoke River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Scuppernong River, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Eleven hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third session, 
 $31,800; in all, $33,800. 
 
 Improving Fishing Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Pamlico and Tar Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina: Completing im- 
 provement up to Greenville and for 
 maintenance of improvement above 
 Greenville, $18,500. 
 
 Improving Bay River, North Car- 
 olina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Contentnia Creek, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000. 
 
 Improving Smiths Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Neuse and Trent Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina : Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance, 
 $37,000. 
 
 Improving Swift Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving waterway from Pam- 
 lico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $4,000. 
 
 Improving New River and water- 
 ways to Beaufort, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance of New River and of 
 inland waterways between Beaufort 
 Harbor and New River and between 
 New River and Swansboro, $28,500. 
 
 Improving Northeast, Black, and 
 Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement of 
 Northeast and Black Rivers and of 
 Cape Fear River above Wilmington, 
 North Carolina, $13,000; completing 
 improvement of Northeast River, in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Thirteen hundred and fifty-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $25,375; 
 in all, $38,375. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River above 
 Wilmington, North Carolina: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, with a view 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Meherrin River. North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Roanoke River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Pembroke Creek, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and thirty, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, -second session, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Scuppernong River, 
 Nortn Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000 ; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Eleven hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third session, 
 $31,800; in all, $33,800. 
 
 Improving Fishing Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Pamlico and Tar Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina : Completing im- 
 provement up to Greenville and for 
 maintenance of improvement above 
 Greenville, $18,500. 
 
 Improving Bay River, North Car- 
 olina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Contentnia Creek, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000. 
 
 Improving Smiths Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Neuse and Trent Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance, 
 $37,000. 
 
 Improving Swift Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving waterway from Pam- 
 lico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $4,000. 
 
 Improving New River and water- 
 ways to Beaufort, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance ot New River and of 
 inland waterways between Beaufort 
 Harbor and New River and between 
 New River and Swansboro, $28,500. 
 
 Improving Northeast, Black, and 
 Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement of 
 Northeast and Black Rivers and of 
 Cape Fear River above Wilmington, 
 North Carolina, $13,000 ; completing 
 improvement of Northeast River, in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Thirteen hundred and fifty-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $25,375; 
 in all, $38,375. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River above 
 Wilmington, North Carolina: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, with a view 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Meherrin River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Roanoke River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 improving Pembroke Creek, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and thirty, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Scuppernong River, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Eleven hundred and ninety-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third session, 
 $31,800; in all, $33,800. 
 
 Improving Fishing Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Pamlico and Tar Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina : Completing im- 
 provement up to Greenville and for 
 maintenance of improvement above 
 Greenville, $18,500. 
 
 Improving Bay River, North Car- 
 olina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Contentnia Creek, 
 North Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $2,000. 
 
 Improving Smiths Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Neuse and Trent Riv- 
 ers, North Carolina: COMPLETING 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 $64,500. 
 
 Improving Swift Creek, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving waterway from Pam- 
 lico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $4,000. 
 
 Improving New River and water- 
 ways to Beaufort, North Carolina: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance of New River and of 
 inland waterways between Beaufort 
 Harbor and New River and between 
 New River and Swansboro, $28,500. 
 
 Improving Northeast, Black, and 
 Cape Fear Rhers, North Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement of 
 Northeast and Black Rivers and of 
 Cape Fear River above Wilmington, 
 North Carolina, $13,000; completing 
 improvement of Northeast River, in 
 accordance with the report submit- 
 ted in House Document Numbered 
 Thirteen hundred and fifty-six, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $25,375; 
 in all, $38,375. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River abo^ e 
 Wilmington, North Carolina: Con- 
 tinuing improvement, with a view 
 
HIVEK AND HAKBOB BILL. 
 
 17 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 eight feet up to Fay ettcville, $9 1,000. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River at 
 and below "\ <, ilmington, North Caro- 
 lina: Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $115,000. 
 
 Improving Shallotte River, North 
 Carolina: tor maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Bennett River, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and sixty- 
 two, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $6,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Deep Creek, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 three, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $5,400. 
 
 Improving Newbegun Creek, 
 North Carolina: Completing im- 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Twenty-four, Sixty 
 third Congress, first session, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charleston, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance of 
 Ashley River channel, $15,000. 
 
 Improving waterway between 
 Charleston and Winyah Bay, South 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 of Jeremy Creek, South Carolina, in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $5,000. The un- 
 expended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made for improvement 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 eight feet up toFayetteville, $91,000. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River at 
 and below Wilmington, North Caro- 
 lina: Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $115,000 
 
 .- Pro- 
 vided, That not exceeding $5,000 
 thereof may be used for clearing to a 
 depth of ten feet and a width of one 
 hundred and fifty feet the channel or 
 cut between the main channel of the 
 river and the Carolina Beach Pier, 
 
 Improving Shallotte River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Bennett River, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and sixty- 
 two, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $6,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Newbegun Creek, 
 North Carolina: Completing im- 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Twenty-four, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charleston, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance of 
 Ashley River channel, $15,000 
 
 ; com- 
 pleting improvement of the Cooper 
 River Channel in accordance with the 
 report submitted in Rivers and Har- 
 bors Committee Document Numbered 
 Nineteen, Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, $14,000; in all, $29,000. 
 
 Improving waterway between 
 Charleston and Winyah Bay, South 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 of Jeremy Creels, South Carolina, in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, secoad session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $5,000. The un- 
 expended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made for improvement 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 eight feet up Fayetteville, 
 
 $91,000. 
 
 Improving Cape Fear River at 
 and below Wilmington, North Caro- 
 lina: Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $115,000 
 
 : Pro- 
 vided, That not exceeding $5,000 
 thereof may be used for clearing to a 
 depth of ten feet and a width of one 
 hundred and fifty feet the channel or 
 cut between the main channel of the 
 river and the Carolina Beach Pier. 
 
 Improving Shallotte River, North 
 Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Bennett River, North 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and sixty- 
 two. Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $6,000: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands* required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charleston, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance of 
 Ashley River channel, $15,000. 
 
 Improving waterway between 
 Charleston and Winyah Bay, South 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 of Jeremy Creek, South Carolina, in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $5,000. The un- 
 expended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made for improvement 
 
EIVEB AND HAEBOE BILL. 
 
 18 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 of waterway between Charleston 
 Harbor and McClellanville, South 
 Carolina, or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary, is hereby made avail- 
 able for completing improvement 
 of waterway between McClellan- 
 ville and Winyah Bay, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session. 
 
 Improving Little Peedce and 
 Lumber Rivers, South Carolina: 
 Completing improvement of Lum- 
 ber River in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered One hundred and 
 thirty-eight; Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Great Peedee River, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Santce, Wateree, and 
 Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of Wateree and Congareo Rivers, 
 $30,000; completing improvement 
 of Santee River in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and three, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $10,000; in all, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from 
 Orangeburg to Charleston, South 
 Carolina: Completing improvement 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and six, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $35,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from 
 Charleston, South Carolina, to 
 Savannah, Georgia, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and twenty-seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $50,000: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement. 
 
 Improving Savannah Harbor, 
 Georgia: For maintenance, $250,- 
 000; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $154,000; 
 in aU, $404,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Bruns- 
 wick, Georgia: For maintenance. 
 $33,250. 
 
 Improving Savannah River, 
 Georgia: For maintenance below 
 Augusta, $25,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 682, 63-2 6 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 of waterway between Charleston 
 Harbor and McClellanville, South 
 Carolina, or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary, is hereby made avail- 
 able for completing improvement 
 of waterway between McClellan- 
 ville and Winyah Bay, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session. 
 
 Improving Great Peedee River, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Santee, Wateree, and 
 Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of Wateree and Congaree Rivers, 
 $30,000; completing improvement 
 of Santee River in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and three, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $10,000; in all, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from 
 Charleston, South Carolina, to 
 Savannah, Georgia, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and twenty-seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $50,000: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement. 
 
 Improving Savannah Harbor, 
 Georgia: For maintenance, $250,- 
 000; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $154,000; 
 in all, $404,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Bruns- 
 wick, Georgia: For maintenance, 
 $33,250. 
 
 Improving Savannah River, 
 Georgia: For maintenance below 
 Augusta, $25,000. 
 
 BURTON" SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 of waterway between Charleston 
 Harbor and McClollanville, South 
 Carolina, or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary, is hereby made avail- 
 able for completing improvement 
 of waterway between McClellan- 
 ville and Winyah Bay, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered One hundred 
 and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session. 
 
 Improving Great Peedee River, 
 South Carolina: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Santee, Wateree, and 
 Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of Wateree and Congaree Rivers, 
 $30,000; completing improvement 
 of Saiftee River in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and three, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $10,000; in all, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving waterway from 
 Charleston, South Carolina, to 
 Savannah, Georgia, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and twenty-seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $50,000: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement. 
 
 Improving Savannah Harbor, 
 Georgia: for maintenance, $250,- 
 000; completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $154,000; 
 in all, $404,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Bruns- 
 wick, Georgia: For maintenance, 
 $33,250. 
 
 Improving Savannah River, 
 Georgia: For maintenance below 
 Augusta, $25,000. 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 19 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Altamaha, Oconee, 
 and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: 
 Continuing improvement, $75,000. 
 
 Improving Generals Cut, Georgia : 
 Completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Five 
 hundred and eighty-one, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $1,000. 
 
 Improving Back River, Georgia: 
 Completing improvement in accord 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Thir- 
 teen hundred and ninety-one, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $5,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Altamaha, Oco Improving Altamaha, Oconee, 
 
 and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: 
 Continuing improvement, $4 0. Continuing improvement, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Flint River, Georgia: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Chattahoochee River, 
 Georgia and Alabama: Continuing 
 improvement below Columbus,Geor- 
 gia, and for maintenance, $120,000. 
 
 Improving Coosa River, Georgia 
 and Alabama: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance be- 
 tween Rome, Georgia, and Dam 
 Numbered Four, Alabama, $65,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fernandina, 
 Florida: For maintenance, includ- 
 ing the entrance channel through 
 Cumberland Sound, Georgia and 
 Florida, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 For maintenance, $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saint Pe- 
 tersburg, Florida: For maintenance, 
 $1,500. 
 
 Improving Apalachicola Bay, 
 Florida: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including 
 Link Channel and West Pass, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Andrews Bay, 
 Florida: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $60,000. 
 
 Improving the Narrows in Santa 
 Rosa Sound, Florida: For mainte- 
 nance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving waterway between Sa- 
 vannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, 
 Florida: Completing improvement oj 
 Generals Cut, Georgia, in accordance 
 with, the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Five Tmndred 
 and eighty-one, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $1,000; completing 
 improvement of Back River, Georgia, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Numbered 
 Thirteen hundred and ninety-one, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third session, 
 $5,000; in all, $6,000. 
 
 Improving Flint River, Georgia: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Chattahoochee River, 
 Georgia and Alabama: Continuing 
 improvement below Columbus,Gcor- 
 gia, and for maintenance, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Coosa Rivor, Georgia 
 and Alabama: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance be- 
 tween Rome, Georgia, and Dam 
 Numbered Four, Alabama, $30,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fernandina, 
 Florida: For maintenance, includ- 
 ing the entrance channel through 
 Cumberland Sound, Georgia and 
 Florida, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 For maintenance, $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saint Pe- 
 tersburg, Florida: For maintenance, 
 $1,500. 
 
 Improving Apalachicola Bay, 
 Florida: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including 
 Link Channel and West Pass, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Andrews Bay, 
 Fiorina: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $60,000. 
 
 Improving the Narrows in Santa 
 Rosa Sound, Florida: For mainte- 
 nance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving waterway between Sa- 
 vannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, 
 Florida: Completing improvement of 
 Generals Cut, Georgia, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Five hundred 
 and eighty-one, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $1,000; completing 
 improvement of Back River, Georgia, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Numbered 
 Thirteen hundred and ninety-one, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third session, 
 $5,000; in all, $6,000. 
 
 Improving Flint River, Georgia: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Chattahoochee River, 
 Georgia and Alabama: Continuing 
 improvement below Columbus,Geor- 
 gia, and for maintenance, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Coosa River, Georgia 
 and Alabama: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance be- 
 tween Rome, Georgia, and Dam 
 Numbered Four, Alabama, $30,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fernandina, 
 Florida: For maintenance, includ- 
 ing the entrance channel through 
 Cumberland Sound, Georgia and 
 Florida, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 For maintenance, $6,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Saint Pe- 
 tersburg, Florida: For maintenance, 
 $1,500. 
 
 Improving Apalachicola Bay, 
 Florida: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including 
 Link Channel and West Pass, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Andrews Bay, 
 Florida : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $60,000. 
 
 Improving the Narrows in Santa 
 Rosa Sound, Florida: For mainte- 
 nance, $5,000. 
 
BIVEB ASTD HABBOB BILL. 
 
 20 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Saint Johns River, 
 Florida: Continuing improvement 
 from Jacksonville to the ocean, 
 $300,000. 
 
 Improving Lake Crescent and 
 Dunns Creek, Florida: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Deep Creek, Florida, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ninety-nine, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $9,000: Provided, That no ex- 
 pense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Oklawaha River, 
 Florida, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Five hundred and four- 
 teen, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $175,000. 
 
 Improving Kissimmee River, 
 Florida, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and thirty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $47,000. 
 
 Improving Caloosahatchee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $2,000; 
 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered One 
 hundred and thirty-seven, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $25,000 : 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement; in 
 all, $27,000. 
 
 Improving Crystal River, Flor- 
 ida, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in Rivers and Harbors 
 Committee Document Numbered 
 Four, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Anclote River, Flor- 
 ida, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Eighteen, Sixty-third 
 Congress, first session, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Withlacoochee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $1 ,000. 
 
 Improving 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, 
 $15,000. 
 
 B.EPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Saint Johns River, Improving Saint Johns River, 
 
 Florida: Continuing improvement Florida: Continuing improvement 
 
 from Jacksonville to the ocean, from Jacksonville to the ocean, 
 
 $175,000. $175,000. 
 
 Impi-oving Lake Crescent and 
 Dunns Creek, Florida: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Deep Creek, Florida, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ninety-nine, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $9,000: Provided, That no ex- 
 pense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Oklawaha River, 
 Florida, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Five hundred and four- 
 teen, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Improving Kissimmee River, 
 Florida, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and thirty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $47,000. 
 
 Improving Caloosahatchee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $2,000; 
 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered One 
 hundred and thirty-seven, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session. $25,000: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement; in 
 all, $27,000. 
 
 Improving Crystal River, Flor- 
 ida, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in Rivers and Harbors 
 Committee Document Numbered 
 Four, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Anclote River, Flor- 
 ida, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Eighteen, Sixty-third 
 Congress, first session, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Withlacoochee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving 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, 
 $15,000. 
 
 Improving Lake Crescent and 
 Dunns Creek, Florida: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Deep Creek, Florida, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ninety-nine, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $9,000: Provided, That no ex- 
 pense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving Caloosahatchee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Anclote River, Flor- 
 ida, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Eighteen, Sixty-third 
 Congress, first session, $22,000. 
 
 Improving Withlacoochee River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving 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, 
 $15,000. 
 
BIVEB AND HABBOE BILL. 
 
 21 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Holmes River, Flor- 
 ida: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment from Vernon to the mouth, 
 $3,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, 85,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Clear- 
 water Harbor through Boca Ceiga 
 Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 
 For maintenance, $3,000; 
 
 channel from 
 
 Tampa Bay to Boca Ceiga Bay, in 
 accordance with .the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and thirty-five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $10,700; in all, $13,700. 
 
 Improving channel from Apa- 
 lachicola River to Saint Andrews 
 Bay, Florida: Completing im- 
 provement, $65,000; and the Secre- 
 tary of War is hereby authorized 
 to pay to the treasurer of Calhoun 
 County, Florida, out of any funds 
 heretofore appropriated for im- 
 proving 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 inter- 
 sects said highways. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Holmes River, Flor- 
 ida: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment from Vernon to the mouth, 
 $3,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Clear- 
 water Harbor through Boca Ceiga 
 Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 
 Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $12,000; 
 
 channel from 
 
 Tampa Bay to Boca Ceiga Bay, in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and thirty-five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $10,700; in all, $22,700. 
 
 Improving channel from Apa- 
 lachicola River to Saint Andrews 
 Bay, Florida: Completing im- 
 provement, $65,000; and the Secre- 
 tary of War is hereby authorized 
 to pay to the treasurer of Calhoun 
 County, Florida, out of any funds 
 heretofore appropriated for im- 
 proving 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 inter- 
 sects said highways. 
 
 The Secretary of War is authorized 
 to appoint a board of three officers of 
 the Engineer Corps of the United 
 States Army, to examine and appraise 
 the value of the work and franchises of 
 the East Coast Canal, from the Saint 
 Johns River to Key West, Florida, 
 with reference to the desirability of 
 purchasing said canal by the United 
 States and the construction over the 
 route of the said canal of a free and 
 open waterway, having a depth and 
 capacity sufficient for inland naviga- 
 tion. Said board, to the extent that 
 the same can be done from surveys 
 heretofore made under the direction of 
 the War Department and within the 
 limits of the appropriation herein 
 made, shall also examine and investi- 
 gate the feasibility, for the purpose of 
 such a waterway, of any parallel 
 route between said points. The said 
 board shall make a report of its work, 
 together with its conclusions upon the 
 probable cost and commercial advant- 
 ages and military and naval uses of 
 said route or routes, to the Secretary 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Holmes River, Flor- 
 ida: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment from Vernon to the mouth, 
 $3,000. 
 
 Improving Blackwater River, 
 Florida: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Clear- 
 water Harbor through Boca Ceiga 
 Bay to Tampa Bay, Florida: 
 
 Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $12,000; 
 
 channel from 
 
 Tampa Bay to Boca Ceiga Bay, in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and thirty-five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $10,700; in all, $22,700. 
 
 The Secretary of War is authorized 
 to appoint a board of three offi&rs of 
 the Engineer Corps of the United 
 States Army, to examine and appraise 
 the value of the work and franchises of 
 the East Coast Canal, from the Saint 
 Johns River to Key West, Florida, 
 with reference to the desirability of 
 purchasing said canal by the United 
 States and the construction over the 
 route of the said canal of a free and 
 open waterway, having a depth and 
 capacity sufficient for inland naviga- 
 tion. Said board, to the extent that 
 the same can be done from surveys 
 heretofore made under the direction of 
 the War Department and within the 
 limits of the appropriation herein 
 made, shall also examine and investi- 
 gate the feasibility, for the purpose of 
 such a waterway, of any parallel 
 route between saw, points. The said 
 board shall make a report of its work, 
 together with its conclusions upon the 
 probable cost and commercial advan- 
 tages and military and naval uses of 
 said route or routes, to the Secretary 
 
RIVER AND HAEBOR BILL. 
 
 22 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Choctawhatchee 
 River, Florida and Alabama: 
 
 For maintenance of improvement, 
 
 in- 
 
 cluding Cypress Top outlet, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Escambia and Cone- 
 cuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Removing the water hyacinth, 
 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas: For the re- 
 moval of the water hyacinth from 
 the navigable waters in the States of 
 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas, so far as it is 
 or may become an obstruction to 
 navigation, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mobile, 
 A 1 a D a m a : For maintenance, 
 $125,000, of which amount $5,000 
 may be used in the removal of 
 sunken logs, deadheads, and other 
 obstructions. 
 
 Improving Mobile Bar, Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Alabama River, Ala- 
 bama: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including the 
 Alabama and Coosa Rivers between 
 Montgomery and Wetumpka, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Improving Black Warrior, War- 
 rior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Ala- 
 bama: Completing improvement 
 from Mobile to Sanders Shoals on 
 the Mulberry Fork and to Nichol 
 Shoals on the Locust Fork of Black 
 
 8. Doc. 582, 63-2 6* 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 of War, who shall transmit the same 
 to Congress as soon as practicable. 
 The sum of $10,000, or so much 
 thereof as may lie necessary, is hereby 
 appropriated to pay the expenses of 
 said board, including such clerical and 
 other assistance as may be deemed 
 necessary by said board. 
 
 Improving Choctawhatchee 
 River, Florida and Alabama: 
 
 Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance, 
 
 in- 
 cluding Cypress Top outlet, $25,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Pensacola 
 Bay, Florida, to Mobile Bay, Ala- 
 bama, in accordance with the report 
 of the special Board of Engineers, as 
 recommended on pages twenty-six and 
 twenty-seven of said report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and ten, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, to the extent of 
 providing a channel seven feet deep 
 and seventy-five feet vnde on bottom, 
 $25,000: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United States 
 for acquiring any lands required for 
 'the purpose of this improvement. 
 
 Improving Escambia and Cone- 
 cuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Removing the water hyacinth, 
 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas: For the re- 
 moval of the water hyacinth from 
 the navigable waters in the States 
 of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas, so far as it is 
 or n;ay become an obstruction to 
 navigation, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mobile, 
 A 1 a b a m a : For maintenance, 
 $125,000, of which amount $5,000 
 may be used in the removal of 
 sunken logs, deadheads, and other 
 obstructions. 
 
 Improving Mobile Bar, Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Alabama River, Ala- 
 bama: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including the 
 Alabama and Coosa Rivers between 
 Montgon ery and Wetumpka, 
 $75,000. 
 
 Improving Black Warrior, War- 
 rior, and Tombigbeo Rivers, Ala- 
 bama: Completing improvement 
 from Mobile to Sanders Shoals on 
 the Mulberry Fork and to Nichol 
 Shoals on the Locust Fork of Black 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 of War, who shall transmit the same 
 to Congress as soon as practicable. 
 The sum of $10,000, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
 apf-ropriated to pay the expenses of 
 said board, including such clerical and 
 other assistance as may be deemed 
 necessary by said board. 
 
 Improving Choctawhatchee 
 River, Florida and Arabama: 
 
 Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tena.nce, 
 
 in- 
 cluding Cypress Top outlet, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Escambia and Cone- 
 cuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Removing the water hyacinth, 
 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas: For the re- 
 moval of the water hyacinth from 
 the navigable waters in the States 
 of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Louisiana, and Texas, so far as it is 
 or may become an obstruction to 
 navigation, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Mobile, 
 Alabama : For maintenance, 
 $125,000, of which amount $5,000 
 may be used in the removal of 
 sunken logs, deadheads, and other 
 obstructions. 
 
 Improving Mobile Bar, Alabama: 
 For maintenance, $20,000. 
 
 Improving Alabama River, Ala- 
 bama: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, including the 
 Alabama and Coosa Rivers between 
 Montgomery and Wetumpka, 
 $75,000. 
 
 Improving Black Warrior, War- 
 rior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Ala- 
 bama : Completing improvement 
 from Mobile to Sanders Shoals on 
 the Mulberry Fork and to Nichol 
 Shoals on the Locust Fork of Black 
 
RIVER AND HAEBOR BILL. 
 
 23 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Warrior River by the construction 
 of locks and dams, including the 
 sixty-three-foot dam at Lock Num- 
 bered Seventeen, authorized by 
 Act of Congress approved August 
 twenty-second, nineteen hundred 
 and eleven, $500,000. 
 
 Improving Tombigbee River, Ala- 
 bama and Mississippi: For main- 
 tenance of improvement from the 
 mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, 
 $12,500, and from Demopolis, Ala- 
 bama, to Walkers Bridge, Missis- 
 sippi, $18,000; in all, $30,500. 
 
 Improving channel connecting 
 Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: 
 For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway from 
 Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Missis- 
 sippi River 
 
 in accordance with the 
 recommendation of the Chief of 
 Engineers made in the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ten, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $100,000: Provided, That no ex- 
 pense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any 
 lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pascagoula, 
 Mississippi: The paragraph in the 
 river and harbor Act, approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred 
 and thirteen, providing for the 
 improvement of harbor at Pasca- 
 goula, Mississippi, is hereby amend- 
 ed to read as follows: "Improving 
 harbor at Pascagoula, Mississippi: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of channel at the mouths of Pasca- 
 goula and Dog Rivers, and impiov- 
 ing channel through Horn Island 
 Pass, Mississippi Sound, Pascagoula 
 River, and Dog River, in accord- 
 ance with the recommendation of 
 the Chief of Engineers and the 
 Board of Engineers for Rivers and 
 Harbors in report dated February 
 tenth, nineteen hundred and four- 
 teen, and printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Twelve, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $110,000: 
 Provided, That local interests shall 
 furnish space for public wharves, 
 both at Moss Point and at Pasca- 
 goula, eight hundred feet in length 
 and of such width as may be satis- 
 factory to the Secretary of War." 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Warrior River by the construction 
 of locks and dams, including the 
 sixty-three-foot dam at Lock Num- 
 bered Seventeen, authorized by 
 Act of Congress approved August 
 twenty second, nineteen hundred 
 and eleven, $750,000. 
 
 Improving Tombigbee River, Ala- 
 bama and Mississippi: For main- 
 tenance of improvement from the 
 mouth to Domopolis, Alabama, 
 $12,500, and from Demopolis, Ala- 
 bama, to Walkers Bridge, Missis- 
 sippi, $18,000; in all, $30,500. 
 
 Improving channel connecting 
 Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: 
 For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway from 
 Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Missis- 
 sippi River 
 
 , with a view to securing 
 a channel seven feet deep and seventy 
 five feet wide on the bottom, 
 
 in cordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docij- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 ten, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, $25,000: Provided, That the 
 Secretary of War shall submit a 
 further report as to the most desir- 
 able route, all things considered, for 
 the said seven-foot channel from Mo- 
 bile Bay to the Mississippi River 
 with an estimate of cost of the same. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pascagoula, 
 Mississippi: The paragraph in the 
 river and harbor act, approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred 
 and thirteen, providing for the 
 improvement of harbor at Pasca- 
 goula, Mississippi, is hereby amend- 
 ed to read as follows: "Improving 
 harbor at Pascagoula, Mississippi: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of channel at the mouths of Pasca- 
 goula and Dog Rivers, and improve- 
 ing channel through Horn Island 
 Pass, Mississippi Sound, Pascagoula 
 River, and Dog River, in accord- 
 ance with the recommendation of 
 the Chief of Engineers and the 
 Board of Engineers for Rivers and 
 Harbors in report dated February 
 tenth, nineteen hundred and fo\ir- 
 te.en, and printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Twelve, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $110,000: 
 Provided, That local interests shall 
 furnish space for public wharves, 
 both at Moss Point and at Pasca- 
 goula, eight hundred foot in length 
 and of such width as may be satis- 
 factory to the Secretary of War." 
 
 BURTON" SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Warrior River by the construction 
 of locks and dams, including the 
 sixty-three-foot dam at Lock Num- 
 bered Seventeen, authorized by 
 Act of Congress approved August 
 twenty-second, nineteen hundred 
 and eleven, $750,000. 
 
 Improving Tombigbee River, Ala- 
 bama and Mississippi: For main- 
 tenance of improvement from the 
 mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, 
 $12,500, and from Demopolis, Ala- 
 bama, to Walkers Bridge, Missis- 
 sippi, $18,000; in all, $30,500. 
 
 Improving channel connecting 
 Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: 
 For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Pascagoula, 
 Mississippi: The paragraph in the 
 river and harbor act, approved 
 March fourth, nineteen hundred 
 and thirteen, providing for the 
 improvement 01 harbor at Pasca- 
 goula, Mississippi, is hereby amend- 
 ed to read as follows: "Improving 
 harbor at Pascagoula, Mississippi: 
 For maintenance of improvement 
 of channel at the mouths of Pasca- 
 goula and Dog Rivers, and improve- 
 mg channel through Horn Island 
 Pass, Mississippi Sour.d, Pascagoula 
 River, and Dog River, in accord- 
 ance with the recommendation of 
 the Chief of Lngineers and the 
 Board of Engineers for Rivers and 
 Harbors hi report dated February 
 tenth, nineteen hundred and four- 
 teen, and printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Twelve, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $110,000: 
 Provided, That local interests shall 
 furnish space for public wharves, 
 both at Moss Point and at Pasca- 
 goula, eight hundred feet in length* 
 and of such width as may be satis- 
 factory to the Secretary of Var." 
 
BTVEB AND HABBOE BILL. 
 
 24 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Gulfport, 
 Mississippi : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of 
 anchorage basin at Gulfport and 
 channel therefrom to the anchorage 
 or roadstead at Ship Island, and for 
 the improvement and maintenance 
 of channel at Ship Island Pass, 
 $85,000. 
 
 Improving Pascagoula and Leaf 
 Rivers, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance, $14,000. 
 
 Improving Pearl River, Missis- 
 sippi: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance below Rockport, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River, Missis- 
 sippi: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment of mouth of Yazoo River, 
 $10,000. The sums herein and here- 
 after appropriated for such main- 
 tenance, together with any unex- 
 pended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made, shall be expended 
 under the direction of the Secretary 
 of War. 
 
 Improving harbor at Vicksburg, 
 Mississippi, in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 sixty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, and subject to the 
 conditions therein stated, $125,000. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River end trib- 
 utaries, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance of improvement, including 
 Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, 
 and Coldwater Rivers, Tallahatchie 
 River above the mouth of Cold- 
 water River, Tchula Lake, Steele 
 and Washington Bayous, Lake 
 Washington, and Bear Creek, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sunflower River, 
 Mississippi: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $90,000. 
 
 Iniproving Southwest Pass, Mis- 
 sissippi River: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, 
 $400,000. 
 
 Improving Bayou Teche, Loui- 
 siana: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $30,000; for im- 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Thirteen hundred 
 and twenty-nine, Sixty-second Con- 
 gress, third session, $100,000: 
 
 Pro- 
 vided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States 
 for acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement; 
 in all, $130,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Gulfport, 
 Mississippi : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of 
 anchorage basin at Gulfport and 
 channel therefrom to the anchorage 
 or roadstead at Ship Island, and for 
 the improvement and maintenance 
 of channel at Ship Island Pass, 
 $50,000. 
 
 Improving Pascagoula and Leaf 
 Rivers, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance, $14,000. 
 
 Improving Pearl River, Missis- 
 sippi : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance below Rockport, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River, Missis- 
 sippi: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment of mouth of Yazoo River, 
 $10,000. The sums herein and here- 
 after appropriated for such main- 
 tenance, together with any unex- 
 pended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made, shall be expended 
 under the direction of the Secretary 
 of War. 
 
 Improving harbor at Vicksburg, 
 Mississippi, in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Six hundred and 
 sixty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, and subject to the 
 conditions therein stated, $125,000. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River and trib- 
 utaries, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance of improvement, including 
 Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, 
 and Coldwater Rivers, Tallahatchie 
 River above the mouth of Cold- 
 water River, Tchula Lake, Steele 
 and Washington Bayous, Lake 
 Washington, and Bear Creek, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sunflower River, 
 Mississippi : Continuing improve- 
 ment, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Southwest Pass, Mis- 
 sissippi River: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, 
 $800,000. 
 
 Improving Bayou Teche, Loui- 
 siana: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $30,000; for im- 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Thirteen hundred 
 and twenty-nine, Sixty-second Con- 
 gress, third session, $50,000: 
 
 Pro- 
 vided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement; 
 in all, $80,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Gulfport, 
 Mississippi : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of 
 anchorage basin at Gulfport and 
 channel therefrom to the anchorage 
 or roadstead at Ship Island, and for 
 the improvement and maintenance 
 of channel at Ship Island Pass, 
 $50,000. 
 
 Improving Pascagoula and Leaf 
 Rivers, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance, $14,000. 
 
 Improving Pearl River, Missis- 
 sippi : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance below Rockport, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River, Missis- 
 sippi: For maintenance of improve- 
 ment of mouth of Yazoo River, 
 $1 0,000. The sums herein and here- 
 after appropriated for such main- 
 tenance, together with any unex- 
 pended balance of appropriations 
 heretofore made, shall be expended 
 under the direction of the Secretary 
 of War. 
 
 Improving Yazoo River and trib- 
 utaries, Mississippi: For mainte- 
 nance of improvenu nt, including 
 Yazoo, Tallahatchi >, Big Sunflower, 
 and Coldwater Rivers, Tallahatchie 
 River above the mouth of Cold- 
 water River, Tchula Lake, Steel? 
 and Washington Bayous, Lake 
 Washington, and Bear Creek, 
 $40,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sunflower River, 
 Mississippi: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Southwest Pass, Mis- 
 sissippi River: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, 
 $300,000. _ 
 
 Improving Bayou Teche, Loui- 
 siana: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $30,000; for im- 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Thirteen hundred 
 and twenty-nine, Sixty-second Con- 
 gress, third session, $50,000: 
 
 Pro- 
 vided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for 
 the purpose of this improvement; 
 in all, $80,000. 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 25 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Bayou Vermilion and 
 Mermen tau Kiver, Louisiana: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 channel, bay, and passes of Bayou 
 Vermilion and Mermen tau River 
 and tributaries, and continuing im- 
 provement and maintenance of 
 Bayou Plaquemme Brule, $12,000. 
 
 Improving Vermilion Kiver, Loui- 
 siana, and channel to connect Ver- 
 milion River with the inland water- 
 way at Schooner Bayou, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Thir- 
 teen hundred and thirty-six, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $37,500: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United 
 States for acquiring any lands re- 
 quired for the purpose of this im- 
 provement. 
 
 Improving Bayou Terrebonne, 
 Louisiana: Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Atchafalaya River, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Lake Pontchartrain, 
 Louisiana: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and 
 seventy-six, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $32,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving waterway from Missis- 
 sippi River to Bayou Teche, Louisi- 
 ana, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ten, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $50,000, and in constructing said 
 waterway the Secretary of War may 
 use such portion or portions of any 
 private canals as may be suitable for 
 the purpose and can be acquired upon 
 satisfactory terms. 
 
 Improving waterway from Bayou 
 Teche to Mermentau River, Louisi- 
 ana: The unexpended balance of 
 amounts heretofore appropriated for 
 the waterway from Franklin to Mer- 
 mentau, Louisiana, is hereby made 
 available for expenditure in accord- 
 ance with the plan for improving the 
 waterway from Bayou Teche to Mer- 
 mentau River submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and ten, sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, which plan of improvement is 
 hereby adopted: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any lands 
 required for the purpose of this im- 
 provement. 
 
 Improving Bayou Vermilion and 
 Mermentau River, Louisiana: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 channel, bay, and passes of Bayou 
 Vermilion and Mermentau River 
 and tributaries, and continuing im- 
 provement and maintenance of 
 Bayou Plaquemine Brule, $12,000. 
 
 Improving Vermilion River, Loui- 
 siana, and channel to connect Ver- 
 milion River with the inland water- 
 way at Schooler Bayou, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Thir- 
 teen hundred and thirty-six, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $37,500: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United 
 States for acquiring any lands re- 
 quired for the purpose of this im- 
 provement. 
 
 Improving Bayou Terrebonne, 
 Louisiana : Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Atchafalaya River, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Lake Ponchartrain, 
 Louisiana: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and 
 seventy-six, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $32,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving waterway from Bayou 
 Teche to Mermentau River, Louisir- 
 ana: The unexpended balance of 
 amounts heretofore appropriated for 
 the watenvay from Franklin to Mer- 
 mentau, Louisiana, is hereby made 
 available for expenditure in accord- 
 ance with the plan for improving the 
 waterway from Bayou Teche to Mer- 
 mentau River submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Six hundred 
 and ten, ^ixty-third Congress, second 
 session, which plan of improvement is 
 hereby adopted: Provided, That no 
 expense shall be incurred by the 
 United States for acquiring any lands 
 required for the purpose of this im- 
 provement. 
 
 Improving Bayou Vermilion and 
 Mermentau River, Louisiana: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 channel, bay, and passes of Bayou 
 Vermilion and Mermentau River 
 and tributaries, and continuing im- 
 provement and maintenance of 
 Bayou Plaqueirine Brule, $12,000. 
 
 Improving Vermilion River, Loui- 
 siana, and channel to connect Ver- 
 milion River with the inland water- 
 way at Schooner Bayou, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Thir- 
 teen hundred and thirty-six, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $37,500: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United 
 States for acquiring any lands re- 
 quired for the purpose of this im- 
 provement. 
 
 Improving Bayou Terrebonne, 
 Louisiana: Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Atchafalaya River, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Lake Ponchartrain, 
 Louisiana : Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and 
 seventy-six, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $32,000. 
 
BIVEB AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 26 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Bayou Grossetete, 
 Louisiana : Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $9,000. 
 
 Improving Johnsons Bayou, 
 Louisiana : For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Bayous Bartholo- 
 mew, Macon, D'Arbomie, and Cor- 
 ney, and Boeuf and Tensas Kivers, 
 Louisiana : For maintenance, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Galveston Channel, 
 Texas : Continuing improvement by 
 construction of sea wall extension in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, 
 
 $1,185,000: 
 
 Provided, That no 
 part of the amount herein appro- 
 priated 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 do- 
 nated the necessary lands to the 
 United States, and shall have 
 quieted all claims to the present 
 San Jacinto Reservation, nor until 
 the said county or city of Galveston 
 shah 1 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 hun- 
 dred feet of sea Avail extension in 
 addition to that herein appropriated 
 for: Provided further, That the en- 
 tire work of construction shall be 
 done under the direction of the Sec- 
 retary of War, and the funds appro- 
 priated by Congress and those fur- 
 nished by the county or city of Gal- 
 veston shall be expended by him: 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Bayou Grossetete, 
 Louisiana : Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $9,000. 
 
 Improving Johnsons Bayou, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Bayous Bartholo- 
 mew, Macon, D'Arbonne, and Cor- 
 ney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Galveston Channel, 
 Texas : Continuing improvement by 
 construction of sea wall extension 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, 
 
 which is hereby adopted under 
 the conditions therein named 
 $100,000: 
 
 Provided, That no 
 part of the amount herein appro- 
 priated shall be expended, 
 
 except for 
 surveys and other preliminary work, 
 
 and no contract shall be entered into 
 under this appropriation until the 
 county or city of Galveston and 
 other local interests shall have do- 
 nated the necessary lands to the 
 United States, and shall have 
 quieted all claims to the present 
 San Jacinto Reservation, nor until 
 the said county or city of Galveston 
 shah" 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 hun- 
 dred feet of sea wall extension in 
 addition to that herein appropriated 
 for: Provided further, That the en- 
 tire work of construction shall be 
 done under the direction of the Sec- 
 retary of War, and the funds appro- 
 priated by Congress and those fur- 
 nished by the county or city of Gal- 
 veston shall be expended by him: 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Bayou Grossetete, 
 Louisiana : Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $9,000. 
 
 Iirprjving Johnsons Bayou, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Bayous Bartholo- 
 mew, Macon, D'Arbonne, and Cor- 
 ney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, 
 Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $16,000. 
 
 Improving Galveston Channel, 
 Texas : Continuing improvement by 
 construction of sea wall extension 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and ninety, 
 Sixty-second Congress, third ses- 
 sion, 
 
 which is hereby adopted under 
 the conditions therein named 
 $100,000: 
 
 Provided, That no 
 part of the amount herein appro- 
 priated shall be expended, 
 
 except for 
 surveys and other preliminary work, 
 
 and no contract shall be entered into 
 under this appropriation until the 
 county or city of Galveston and 
 other local interests shall have do- 
 nated the necessary lands to the 
 United States, and shall have 
 quieted all claims to the present 
 San Jacinto Reservation, 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 loast three thousand three hun- 
 dred feet of sea wall extension in 
 addition to that herein appropriated 
 for: Provided further, That the en- 
 tire work of construction shall be 
 done under the direction of the Sec- 
 retary of War, and the funds appro- 
 priated by Congress and those fur- 
 nished by the county or city of Gal- 
 veston shall be expended by him: 
 
 And provided 
 
 also, That the structure shall in all 
 respects conform 
 
 to that heretofore 
 constructed by the county of Gal- 
 veston. 
 
 Improving Galveston Channel, 
 Texas : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance under the ex- 
 isting project, which contemplates 
 8. Doc. 582. 63-2 ? 
 
 And provided also, That the pave- And provided also, That the pave- 
 ment of the roadway and sidewalk ment of the roadway and sidewalk 
 the new sea wall shatt conorm along the new sea wall shall conform 
 
 in width 
 
 jr the new sea wall shatt conform 
 in width 
 
 to that heretofore to that heretofore 
 
 constructed by the county of Gal- constructed by the county of Gal- 
 
 veston. veston. 
 
 Improving Galveston Channel, Improving Galveston Channel, 
 
 Texas: Continuing improvement Texas: Continuing improvement 
 
 and for maintenance under the ex- and for maintenance under the ex- 
 
 isting project, which contemplates isting project, which contemplates 
 
BIVEB AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 27 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 the excavation of a channel thirty 
 feet deep and one thousand two 
 hundred feet wide from the inner 
 bar to Fifty-first Street and seven 
 hundred feet wide from Fifty-first 
 to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: 
 Provided, That at such time as in 
 the discretion of the Secretary of 
 War the same may be required in 
 the interests of navigation and 
 commerce the western terminus of 
 said channel may be extended to 
 Fifty-seventh Street with a width 
 of one thousand feet between Fifty- 
 first and Fifty-seventh Streets, as 
 recommended in the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Three hundred and twenty- 
 eight, Sixty-first Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving channel to Port Bol- 
 ivar, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Port Aransas, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement, $800,000. 
 
 Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance of Sabine Pass and 
 Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. 
 
 Improving the Sabine-Neches Ca- 
 nal, Texas, from the Port Arthur 
 Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine 
 River, the Neches River up to the 
 town of Beaumont, and the Sabiue 
 River up to the town of Orange, as 
 provided for in the river and harbor 
 Act of February twenty-seventh, 
 nineteen hundred and eleven: 
 
 That the channels which the 
 Beaumont Navigation District, or 
 other local interests, and the Orange 
 Navigation District, or other local 
 interests, are required, by the afore- 
 said Act to maintain for a term of 
 three years, free of cost to the 
 United States, are hereby defined as, 
 respectively, the channel from the 
 mouth of the Neches River up to 
 Beaumont, Texas, and the channel 
 from the mouth of the Neches River 
 up to Orange, Texas. 
 
 Improving Houston Ship Chan- 
 nel, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Anahuac Channel, 
 Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and 
 Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 the excavation of a channel thirty 
 feet deep and one thousand two 
 hundred feet wide from the inner 
 bar to Fifty-first Street and seven 
 hundred feet wide from Fifty-first 
 to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: 
 Provided, That at such time as in 
 the discretion of the Secretary of 
 War the same may be required in 
 the interests of navigation and 
 commerce the western terminus of 
 said channel may be extended to 
 j'ifty-sevonth Street with a width 
 of one thousand feet between Fifty- 
 first and Fifty-seventh Streets, as 
 recommended in the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Three hundred and twenty- 
 eight, Sixty-first Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving channel to Port Bol- 
 ivar, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Port Aransas, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement, $800,000. 
 
 Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance or Sabine Pass and 
 Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. 
 
 Improving the Sabine-Neches Ca- 
 nal, Texas, from the Port Arthur 
 Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine 
 River, the Neches River up to the 
 town of Beaumont, and the Sabine 
 River up to the town of Orange, as 
 provided for in the river and harbor 
 Act of February twenty-seventh, 
 nineteen hundred and eleven: 
 
 That the channels which the 
 Beaumont Navigation District, or 
 other local interests, and the Orange 
 Navigation District, or other local 
 interests', are required, by the afore- 
 said Act to maintain for a term of 
 three years, free of cost to the 
 United States, are hereby defined as, 
 respectively, the channel from the 
 mouth of the Neches River up to 
 Beaumont, Texas, and the channel 
 from the mouth of the Neches River 
 up to Orange, Texas 
 
 : Provided, That 
 
 nothing herein shall be construed as 
 ' relieving said Beaumont Navigation 
 District of its obligation to provide for 
 the operation and maintenance of the 
 guard lock witho^it cost to the United 
 States as required by said river and 
 JiarborAct of February twenty-seventh, 
 nineteen hundred and eleven. 
 
 Improving Houston Ship Chan- 
 nel, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Anahuac Channel, 
 Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and 
 Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 the excavation of a channel thirty 
 feet deep and one thousand two 
 hundred feet wide from the inner 
 bar to Fifty-first Street and seven 
 hundred feet wide from Fifty-first 
 to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: 
 Provided, That at such time as in 
 the discretion of the Secretary of 
 War the same may be required in 
 the interests of navigation and 
 commerce the western terminus of 
 said channel may be extended to 
 Fifty-seventh Street with a width 
 of one thousand feet between Fifty- 
 first and Fifty-seventh Streets, as 
 recommended in the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Throe hundred and twenty- 
 eight, Sixty-first Congress, second 
 session. 
 
 Improving channel to Port Bol- 
 ivar, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Port Aransas, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement, $800,000. 
 
 Improving babine Pass, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance of Sabine Pass and 
 Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. 
 
 Improving the Sabine-Neches Ca- 
 nal, Texas, from the Port Arthur 
 Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine 
 River, the Neches River up to the 
 town of Beaumont, and the Sabine 
 River up to the town of Orange, as 
 provided for in the river and harbor 
 Act of February twenty-seventh, 
 nineteen hundred and eleven: 
 
 That the channels which the 
 Beaumont Navigation District, or 
 other local interests, and the Orange 
 Navigation District, or other local 
 interests, are required, by the afore- 
 said Act to maintain for a term of 
 three years, free of cost to the 
 United States, are hereby defined as, 
 respectively, the channel from the 
 mouth of the Neches River up to 
 Beaumont, Texas, and the channel 
 from the mouth of the Neches River 
 up to Orange, Texas 
 
 : Provided, That 
 
 nothing herein shall be construed as 
 relieving said Beaumont Navigation 
 District of its obligation to provide for 
 the operation and maintenance o/ the 
 flunrd lock without cost to the United 
 States as required by said river and 
 harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, 
 nineteen hundred and eleven. 
 
 Improving Houston Ship Chan- 
 nel, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Improving Anahuac Channel, 
 Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and 
 Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 28 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Dickinson, Double, and East Bay 
 
 Bayous: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway on 
 
 coast of Texas: For maintenance 
 
 of that section of the waterway be- 
 tween 
 
 West Galveston Bay and 
 Brazos River Canal, $15,000; for 
 maintenance of channel between 
 Brazos River and Matagorda Bay, 
 $25,000; for maintenance of chan- 
 nel from Aransas Pass to Pass 
 Cavallo, $30,000; 
 
 for 
 
 completing improvement and for 
 maintenance of Guadalupe River 
 up to Victoria, $15.000; 
 
 for improvement of that 
 section between Galveston and the 
 Sabine River in accordance with 
 the report printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Seven, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $150,000; 
 
 for improve- 
 ment of that section between Corpus 
 Christ) Bay and Baffins Bay in 
 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ten, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, $80,- 
 000; in all, $315,000: 
 
 Provided, 
 
 That 110 expense shall be incurred 
 by the United States for acquiring 
 any lands required for the purpose of 
 this improvement. 
 
 Improving mouth of Brazos 
 River, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Brazos River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement from Old 
 Washington to Waco by the con- 
 struction of locks and dams here- 
 tofore authorized, $200,000; con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance by open-channel work from 
 Velasco to Old Washington, 
 $25,000; in all, $225,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Pass 
 Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Aransas 
 Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Trinity River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement with a 
 view to obtaining a depth of six 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Dickinson, Double, and East Bay 
 
 Bavous: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway on 
 
 coast of Texas: For maintenance 
 
 of the 
 
 West Galveston Bay-Brazos 
 River section, $15,000; for mainte- 
 nance of the Brazos niver- Mata- 
 gorda Bay section, $25,000; for 
 maintenance of the Aransas Pass- 
 Pass Cavallo section, $80,000; 
 
 for 
 
 completing improvement and for 
 maintenance of Guadalupe River 
 up to Victoria, $15,000; 
 
 for im- 
 provement of the Galveston-Sabine 
 River section hi accordance with 
 the report jmnted in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Seven, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, first session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth jn said 
 document, $85,000: 
 
 Provided, That the Secretary 
 of War may, on the recommendation 
 of the Chief of Engineers, make such 
 changes in the location of said channel 
 as may be considered desirable, and 
 can be made without increased cost; 
 for improvement of that section be- 
 tween Aransas Pass and Brazos Santi- 
 ago 
 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Six hundred and ten, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, $80,- 
 000: 
 
 Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United 
 States for acquiring any lands re- 
 quired for the purpose of this im- 
 provement; in all $190,000. 
 
 Improving mouth of Brazos 
 River, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Brazos River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement from Old 
 Washington to Waco by the con- 
 struction of locks and dams here- 
 tofore authorized, $200,000; con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance by open-channel work from 
 Velasco to Old Washington, 
 $25,000; in all, $225,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Pass 
 Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Aransas 
 Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Trinity River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement with a 
 view to obtaining a depth of six 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Dickinson, Double, and East Bay 
 
 Bayous: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving inland waterway on 
 
 coast of Texas: For maintenance 
 
 of the 
 
 West Galveston Bay-Brazos 
 River section, $15,000; for mainte- 
 nance of the Brazos River- Mata- 
 gorda Bay section, $25,000; for 
 maintenance of the Aransas Pass- 
 Pass Cavallo section, $30,000; 
 
 for 
 
 completing improvement and for 
 maintenance of Guadalupe River 
 up to Victoria, $15,000; 
 
 in all, $85,000. 
 
 Improving mouth of Brazos 
 River, Texas: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Brazos River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement from Old 
 Washington to Waco by the con- 
 struction of locks and dams here- 
 tofore authorized, $200,000; con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance by open-channel work from 
 Velasco to Old Washington, 
 $25,000; in all, $225,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Pass 
 Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving channel from Aransas 
 Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Trinity River, Texas: 
 Continuing improvement with a 
 view to obtaining a depth of six 
 
BTVEB AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 29 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 feet between the mouth and Dallas 
 by the construction of locks and 
 dams heretofore authorized, 
 $140,000; for the construction of 
 locks and dams Numbered Three 
 and Five, $50,000; for maintenance 
 of improvement by open-channel 
 work, $15,000; in all, $205,000. 
 
 Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas 
 and Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Red River, 
 
 Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma: 
 
 Continuing 
 
 improvement and for maintenance 
 between Fulton, Arkansas, and the 
 mouth of the Washita River, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Colorado River, Texas: 
 Completing improvement in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Three, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Ouachita River, Ar- 
 kansas and Louisiana: Continuing 
 improvement by the construction 
 of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, 
 Four, Six, and Eight, $194,000; 
 
 for 
 
 maintenance of improvement by 
 open-channel work up to Camden, 
 $25,000, and from Camden to Arka- 
 delphia, $2,500; hi all, $221,500. 
 
 Improving Saline River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Arkansas River, Ar- 
 kansas and Oklahoma: Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including works at Pine Bluff and 
 the completion and operation of 
 dredging plant, $164,700. 
 
 Improving White River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $31,800. 
 
 Improving Cache River, Arkan- 
 sas: i< or maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Black and Current 
 Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For 
 maintenance, $33,150. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 feet between the mouth and Dallas 
 by the construction of locks and 
 dams heretofore authorized 
 $140,000; for the construction of 
 locks and dams Numbered Three 
 and Five, $50,000; for maintenance 
 of improvement by open-channel 
 work, $15,000; in all, $205,000. 
 
 Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas 
 and Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Red River, 
 
 Louisiana, 
 
 Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance below Fulton, Arkan- 
 sas, $50,000; 
 
 continuing 
 
 improvement and for maintenance 
 between Fulton, Arkansas, and the 
 mouth of the Washita River, 
 $25,000; in all, $75,000. 
 
 Improving Colorado River, Texas: 
 Completing improvement in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Three* Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Ouachita River, Ar- 
 kansas and Louisiana: Continuing 
 improvement by the construction 
 of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, 
 TJtree, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, 
 and Nine $300,000; 
 
 for 
 
 maintenance of improvement by 
 open-channel work up to Camden, 
 $25,000, and from Camden to Arka- 
 delphia, $2,500; in all, $827,500. 
 
 Improving Saline River, Arkan- 
 sas : For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Arkansas River, Ar- 
 kansas and Oklahoma: Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including works at Pine Bluff and 
 the completion and operation of 
 dredging plant, $110,000. 
 
 Improving White River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $31,800. 
 
 Improving White River at Du 
 Vails Bluff, Arkansas: Completing 
 improvement in accordance -unth the 
 report submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Twelve hundred and fifty- 
 nine, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $14,000. 
 
 Improving Cache River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Black and Current 
 Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For 
 maintenance, $33,150. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 feet between the mouth and Dallas 
 by the construction of locks and 
 dams heretofore authorized 
 $140,000; for maintenance 
 
 of improvement by open-channel 
 work, $15,000; in all, $155,000. 
 
 Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas 
 and Louisiana: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Colorado River, Texas 
 Completing improvement in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Three, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth 
 in said document, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Saline River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Arkansas River, Ar- 
 kansas and Oklahoma: Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including works at Pine Bluff and 
 the completion and operation of 
 dredging plant, $64,700. 
 
 Improving White River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $31,800. 
 
 Improving Cache River, Arkan- 
 sas: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Black and Current 
 Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For 
 maintenance, $33,150. 
 
EIVEE AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 30 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Saint Francis River, 
 Arkansas: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Saint Francis and 
 L'Anguille Rivers and Blackfish 
 Bayou, $6,000. 
 
 Improving French Broad River, 
 Tennessee: Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of 1- rench 
 Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers, 
 $23,515. 
 
 Improving Tennessee River, Ten- 
 nessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, as follows: Above 
 Chattanooga, Tennessee, $150,000; 
 between Chattanooga, Tennessee,' 
 and Browns Island, Alabama, 
 $150,000; between Florence and 
 Riverton, Alabama, $130,000; 
 
 be- 
 low Riverton, Alabama, $120,000; 
 
 in all, $550,000. 
 
 Improving Cumberland River be- 
 low Nashville, Tennessee: Continu- 
 ing improvement by the construc- 
 tion of Locks and Dams B, C, and 
 D, $250,000. 
 
 Improving Cumberland River 
 above Nashville, Tennessee) in ac- 
 cordance with the recommenda- 
 tion of the Chief of Engineers and 
 the Board of Engineers for Rivers 
 and Harbors, printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Ten, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, and subject 
 to the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $340,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sandy River, West 
 Virginia and Kentucky: For com- 
 pleting guide wall below Lock 
 Numbered One, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Toledo, 
 Ohio : Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $135,000. 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 8 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Saint Francis River, 
 Arkansas: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Saint Francis and 
 L'Aiiguille Rivers and Blackfish 
 Bayou, $6,000. 
 
 Improving French Broad River, 
 Tennessee : Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of French 
 Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers, 
 $23,515. 
 
 Improving Tennessee River, Ten- 
 nessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, as follows: Above 
 Chattanooga, Tennessee, $150,000; 
 between Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
 and Browns Island, Alabama, 
 $150,000; between Florence and 
 Riverton, Alabama, $130,000; 
 
 be- 
 low Riverton, Alabama, $120,000; 
 
 in all, $550,000. 
 
 Improving Tennessee River be- 
 tween Browns Island and the rail- 
 road bridge below the city of Florence, 
 Alabama: For the completion of the 
 detailed surveys, foundation borings, 
 and preparation of plans for the im- 
 provement of this section of the river 
 for the purposes of navigation, com- 
 bined with the development of water 
 power by the United States alone, or 
 m cooperation with private interests, 
 $150,000: 
 
 Provided, That the work 
 hereby authorized is understood to be 
 of a preliminary nature only and in 
 extension of investigations heretofore 
 authorized, and that the United States 
 is in no wise committed to the execu- 
 tion of any plan of improvement 
 which may be contemplated or pro- 
 posed without the further and express 
 action of Congress. 
 
 Improving Cumberland River be- 
 low ^Nashville, Tennessee: Continu- 
 ing 'improvement by the construc- 
 tion of Locks and Dams B, C, and 
 D, $250,000. 
 
 Improving Cumberland River 
 above Nashville, Tennessee, in ac- 
 cordance with the recommenda- 
 tion of the Chief of Engineers and 
 the Board of Engineers for Rivers 
 and Harbors, printed in Rivers and 
 Harbors Committee Document 
 Numbered Ten, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, and subject 
 to the conditions set forth in said 
 document, $340,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sandy River, West 
 Virginia and Kentucky: For com- 
 pleting guide wall below Lock 
 Numbered One, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Toledo, 
 Ohio : Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $135,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Saint Francis River, 
 Arkansas: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Saint Francis and 
 L'Anguille Rivers and Blackfish 
 Bayou, $6,000. 
 
 Improving French Broad River, 
 Tennessee : Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance of French 
 Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers, 
 $23,515. 
 
 Improving Tennessee River, Ten- 
 nessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, as follows: 
 
 Be- 
 low Riverton, Alabama, $120,000. 
 
 PROVIDED, THAT NQ FUR- 
 THER AMOUNT SHALL BE EXPENDED 
 ON LOCKS OR DAMS IN THIS RIVER 
 UNTIL FURTHER AND EXPRESS AC- 
 TION OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Improving Cumberland River be- 
 low Nashville, Tennessee: Continu- 
 ing improvement by the construc- 
 tion of Locks and Dams B, C, and 
 D, $250,000. 
 
 Improving Big Sandy River, West 
 Virginia and Kentucky: For com- 
 pleting guide wall below Lock 
 Numbered One, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Toledo, 
 Ohio: Completing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $135,000. 
 
RIVEK AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 31 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Clinton, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huron, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $2,500; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $34,500: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred Ly the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement; in 
 all, $37,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Vermilion, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Cleveland, 
 Ohio: For maintenance by dredging 
 and repair of breakwaters, $200,000. 
 
 Cuyahoga River, Ohio: The sum 
 of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to 
 enable the Secretary of \V ar to pre- 
 pare, in cooperation with local inter- 
 ests, a complete and definite plan of 
 improvement, as recommended in 
 House Document Numbered Seven 
 hundred and seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session: Provided, 
 That the Government shall not be 
 deemed to have entered upon such 
 project until funds for the com- 
 mencement of work under the plan 
 to be submitted to Congress in ac- 
 cordance with this authority shall 
 have been actually appropriated by 
 law. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fairport, 
 Ohio, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and six, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $158,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Conneaut, 
 Ohio : Continuing improvement, 
 $243,530. 
 
 Improving Ohio River: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance by open-channel work, 
 $350,900. 
 
 Improving Ohio RiA'cr: Continu- 
 ing improvement by the construc- 
 tion of locks and dams with a view 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 nine feet, $2,000,000: 
 
 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 appropria- 
 tions may from time to time be 
 made by law, not to exceed in the 
 aggregate $3,000,000, exclusive of 
 the amounts herein and heretofore 
 appropriated. 
 
 BEPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Clinton, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huron, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $2,500; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $34,500: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurred by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement; in 
 all, $37,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Vermilion, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Cleveland, 
 Ohio : For maintenance by dredging 
 and repair of breakwaters, $200,000. 
 
 Cuyahoga River, Ohio: The sum 
 of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to 
 enable the Secretary of War to pre- 
 pare, in cooperation with local inter- 
 ests, a complete and definite plan of 
 improvement, as recommended in 
 House Document Numbered Seven 
 hundred and seven, "Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session: Provided, 
 That the Government shall not be 
 deemed to have entered upon such 
 project until funds for the com- 
 mencement of work under the plan 
 to be submitted to Congress in ac- 
 cordance with this authority shall 
 have been actually appropriated by 
 law. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fairport, 
 Ohio, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundred and six, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $158,000. _ 
 
 Improving harbor at Conneaut, 
 Ohio: Continuing improvement, 
 $243,530. 
 
 Improving Ohio River: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance by open-channel work, 
 $350,900. 
 
 Improving Ohio River: Continu- 
 ing improvement by the construc- 
 tion of locks and dams with a view 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 nine feet, $2,000,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Clinton, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Huron, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $2,500; 
 completing improvement in accord- 
 ance with the report submittid in 
 House Document Numbered Five, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $34,500: 
 Provided, That no expense shall be 
 incurr d by the United States for 
 acquiring any lands required for the 
 purpose of this improvement; in 
 all, $37,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Vermilion, 
 Ohio: For maintenance, $7,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Cleveland, 
 Ohio: For maint: nance by dredging 
 and r, pair of breakwaters, $150,000. 
 
 Cuyahoga River, Ohio: The sum 
 of $5,000 is her* by appropriated to 
 enable the S cretary of War to pre- 
 pare, in cooperation with local inter- 
 ests, a complete and definite plan of 
 improvement, as recommended in 
 House Document Numbered Seven 
 hundred and seven, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session: Provided, 
 That the Government shall not be 
 deemed to have entered upon such 
 project until funds for the com- 
 mencement of work under the plan 
 to be submitted to Congress -in ac- 
 cordance with this authority shall 
 have been actually appropriated by 
 law. 
 
 Improving harbor at Fairport, 
 Ohio, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Two hundreel and six, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session, 
 $158,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Conneaut, 
 Ohio: Continuing improvement, 
 $243,530. 
 
 Improving Ohio River: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance by open-channel work, 
 $350,900. 
 
 Improving Ohio River: Continu- 
 ing improvement by the construc- 
 tion of locks and dams with a view 
 to securing a navigable depth of 
 nine feet, $2,000,000. 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 32 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ontonagon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Marquette, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Menominee Harbor 
 and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: 
 For maintenance, $7,500; complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered Two hundred and 
 twenty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $3,400; in all, $10,900. 
 
 Improving harbor at South 
 Haven, Michigan : For maintenance, 
 $17,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Muskegon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ludington, 
 Michigan : For maintenance, $21,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Frankfort, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charlevoix 
 and entrance to Pine Lake, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $4.000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Alpena. 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge ;:t 
 Harbor Beach, Michigan: For re- 
 pairs to piers and maintenance of 
 improvement, $362,380. 
 
 Waterway across Keweenaw 
 Point, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of 
 harbor of refuge at the eastern en- 
 trance, $75,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Marys River at 
 the falls, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of a 
 fourth lock, $250,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ontonagon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Marquette, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Menominee Harbor 
 and River, Michigan and Wisconsin : 
 For maintenance, $7,500; complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered Two hundred and 
 twenty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $3,400; in ah 1 , $10,900. 
 
 Improving harbor at South 
 Haven, Michigan : For maintenance, 
 $17,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Muskegon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ludington, 
 Michigan : For maintenance, $2 1 ,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Frankfort, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charlevoix 
 and entrance to Pine Lake, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $4,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Alpena, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge at 
 Harbor Beach, Michigan: For re- 
 pairs to piers and maintenance of 
 improvement, $362,380. 
 
 Waterway across Keweeiiaw 
 Point, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of 
 harbor of refuge at the eastern en- 
 trance, $75,000. 
 
 ;for making a cut-off 
 across Princess Point in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Eight hundred 
 and thirty-five, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, $138,000; in all, 
 $213,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Arcadia, 
 Michigan: Completing repairs to 
 the north and south piers from the 
 shore line of Lake Michigan to the 
 shore line of the inner harbor, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Marys River at 
 the falls, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of a 
 fourth lock, $250,000 
 
 : Provided, That 
 
 so much as may be necessary of the 
 unexpended balance of appropria- 
 tions heretofore made for the construc- 
 tion of the new third lock may, in the 
 discretion of the Secretary of War, be 
 applied to the deepening and enlarge- 
 ment of the tailrace of the United 
 States power plant, in order to in- 
 crease me capacity of said plant. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 In i proving harbor at Ontonagon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $10, 000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Marquette, 
 Michigan: tor maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Menominee Harbor 
 and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: 
 For maintenance, $7,500: complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered Two hundred" and 
 twenty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, 
 first session, $3,400; in all, $10,900'. 
 
 Improving harbor at South 
 Haven, Michigan : For maintenance, 
 $17,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Muskegon, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ludington, 
 Michigan: For maintenance,$21,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Frankfort, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Charleyoix 
 and entrance to Pine Lake, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $4,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Alpena, 
 Michigan: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving harbor of refuge at 
 Harbor Beach, Michigan: For re- 
 pairs to piers and maintenance of 
 improvement, $362,380. 
 
 Waterway across Keweenaw 
 Point, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of 
 harbor of refuge at the eastern en- 
 trance, $75,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Arcadia, 
 Michigan: Completing repairs to 
 the north and south piers from the 
 shore line of Lake Michigan to the 
 shore line of the inner harbor, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Saint Marys River at 
 the falls, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement by the construction of a 
 fourth lock, I $250,000 
 
 : Provided, That 
 
 so much as may be necessary of the 
 unexpended balance of appropria- 
 tions heretofore made for the construc- 
 tion of the new third lock may, in the 
 discretion of the Secretary of War, be 
 applied to the deepening arid enlarge- 
 ment of the tailrace of the United 
 States power plant, in order to in- 
 crease the capacity of said plant. 
 
BIVEB AND HAEBOB BILL. 
 
 33 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Black River at Port 
 Huron, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance, 
 $30,000. 
 
 Improving Clinton River, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ashland, 
 Wisconsin : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Sturgeon Bay and 
 Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wiscon- 
 sin: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 two, ' Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $33,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Two Rivers, 
 Wisconsin : For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Wash- 
 ington, Wisconsin: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Racine, Wis- 
 consin: For maintenance and con- 
 tinuing improvement in accordance 
 with the reports submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Sixty-two, 
 Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, 
 and in the Annual Report of the 
 Chief of Engineers, United States 
 Army, for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and nine, $182,400. 
 
 Improving harbor at Kenosha, 
 Wisconsin : For maintenance, 
 $7,500. 
 
 Improving Fox River, Wisconsin : 
 Continuing improvement from De- 
 pcre up to Portage, including main- 
 tenance of improvement of Wolf 
 River and of the harbors heretofore 
 improved on Lake Winnebago, 
 $25,000. And the Secretary of War 
 is hereby authorized to convey, by 
 quit-claim 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. 
 
 Improving Warroad Harbor, Min- 
 nesota: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Zippel Bay, Lake of 
 the Woods, Minnesota: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Agate Bay, 
 Minnesota : For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Baudette Harbor and 
 River, Minnesota: Completing im- 
 
 REPOKTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Black River at Port 
 Huron, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance, 
 $30,000. 
 
 Improving Clinton River, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Ashland, 
 Wisconsin : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Sturgeon Bay and 
 Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wiscon- 
 sin: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in ITou=e Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 two. Sixty-second Congre-s, third 
 session, $33,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Two Rivers, 
 Wisconsin: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Wash- 
 ington, Wisconsin: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Racine, Wis- 
 consin: For maintenance and con- 
 tinuing improvement in accordance 
 with the reports submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Sixty-two, 
 Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, 
 and" in the Annual Report of the 
 Chief of Engineers, United States 
 Army, for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and nine, $182,400. 
 
 Improving harbor at Kenosha, 
 Wisconsin: For maintenance, 
 $7,500. 
 
 Improving Fox River, Wisconsin : 
 Continuing improvement from De- 
 pere up to Portage, including main- 
 tenance of improvement of Wolf 
 River and of the harbors heretofore 
 improved on Lake Winnebago, 
 $25,000. And the Secretary of War 
 is hereby authorized to convey, by 
 quit-claim 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. 
 
 Improving Warroad Harbor, Min- 
 nesota: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Zippel Bay, Lake of 
 the Woods, Minnesota: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Agate Bay, 
 Minnesota: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Baudette Harbor and 
 River, Minnesota: Completing im- 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Black River at Port 
 Huron, Michigan: Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance, 
 $30,000. 
 
 Improving Clinton River, Michi- 
 gan: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving 'harbor at Ashland, 
 Wisconsin: Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Sturgeon Bay and 
 Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wiscon- 
 sin: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Thirteen hundred and eighty- 
 two, Sixty-second Congress, third 
 session, $33,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Two Rivers, 
 Wisconsin: For maintenance, 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Port Wash- 
 ington, Wisconsin: For mainte- 
 nance, $2,500. 
 
 Improving harbor at Racine, Wis- 
 consin: For maintenance and con- 
 tinuing improvement in accordance 
 with the reports submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Sixty-two, 
 Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, 
 and in the Annual Report of the 
 Chief of Engineers, United States 
 Army, for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and nine, $182,400. 
 
 Improving harbor at Kenosha, 
 Wisconsin: For maintenance, 
 $7,500. 
 
 Improving Fox River, Wisconsin : 
 Continuing improvement from De- 
 pere up to Portage, including main- 
 tenance of improvement of Wolf 
 River and of the harbors heretofore 
 improved on Lake Winnebago, 
 $25,000. And the Secretary of War 
 is hereby authorized to convey, by 
 quit-claim 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. 
 
 Improving Warroad Harbor, Min- 
 nesota: For maintenance, $2,000. 
 
 Improving Zippel Bay, Lake of 
 the Woods, Minnesota: For main- 
 tenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Agate Bay, 
 Minnesota: For maintenance, 
 $5,000. 
 
 Improving Baudette Harbor and 
 River, Minnesota: Completing im- 
 
EIVEB AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 34 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 provernent in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered One hundred and 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $2,750. 
 
 Improving Indiana Harbor, In- 
 diana: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Inproving harbor at Michigan 
 Ciuy, Indiana: Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $48,600. 
 
 REPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered One hundred and 
 nine, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $2,750. 
 
 Improving Red River of the North, 
 Minnesota and North Dakota: Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance, $7,500. 
 
 Improving Indiana Harbor, In- 
 diana: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Michigan 
 City, Indiana: Co mpleting improve- 
 ment and for maintenance in ac- 
 cordance with th? report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $48,600. 
 
 Grand Calumet River, Indiana: 
 That a change in the location of the 
 channel of the Grand Calumet River 
 through the lands of the Gary Land 
 Company and the Indiana Steel 
 Company, corporations organized 
 under the laws of -the State of In- 
 diana, in sections tKirty-four, thirty- 
 five, and thirty-six, township thirty- 
 seven north, range eight west, and %n 
 sections two and three, township 
 thirty-six north, range eight west, 
 Lake County, Indiana, from the orig- 
 inal location of such channel to a 
 new location within the strip of land 
 hereinafter described and the con- 
 struction of a new channel within 
 said strip of land, as the same has 
 been done by said companies, is 
 hereby authorized and approved: Pro- 
 vided, That the said Gary Land Com- 
 pany and the said Indiana Steel Com- 
 pany shall convey to the United States, 
 free of cost, the right and easement to 
 use said new channel and said strip 
 of land as and for a free public water- 
 way of the United States, and upon 
 the acceptance of such conveyance by 
 the Secretary of War the old channel 
 of the river through the said lands 
 shall be abandoned as a navigable 
 waterway, and in its stead the afore- 
 said new channel,_ and any enlarge- 
 ment thereof which Congress may 
 hereafter authorize, shall become and 
 forever remain a free public water- 
 way of the United States and shall be 
 subject to the laws heretofore and here- 
 after enacted by Congress for the im- 
 provement, preservation, and 'protec- 
 tion of navigable waters: Provided 
 further, That the said companies or 
 corporations sJiatt have the right to 
 occupy and use so much of the said 
 strip of land as lies outside the high- 
 
 BUBTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 provement in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered One hundred and 
 nine, Sixty- third Congress, first 
 session, $2,750. 
 
 Improving Red River of the North, 
 Minnesota and North Dakota: Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance, $7,500. 
 
 Improving Indiana Harbor, In- 
 diana: For maintenance, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Michigan 
 City, Indiana: Completing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Six 
 hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-third 
 Congress, second session, $48,600. 
 
 Grand Calumet River, Indiana: 
 That a change in the location of the 
 channel of the Grand Calumet River 
 through the lands of the Gary Land 
 Company and the, Indiana Steel 
 Company, corporations organized 
 under the laws of the State of In- 
 diana,, in sections thirty-four, thirty- 
 five, and thirty-six, township thirty- 
 seven north, range eight west, and in 
 sections two and three, township 
 thirty-six north, range eight west, 
 Lake County, Indiana, from the orig- 
 inal location of such channel to a 
 new location within the strip of land 
 hereinafter described and the con- 
 struction of a new channel within 
 said strip of land, as the same has 
 been done by said companies, is 
 hereby authorized and approved: Pro- 
 vided, That the said Gary Land Com- 
 pany and the said Indiana Steel Com- 
 pany shall convey to the United States, 
 free of cost, the right and easement to 
 use said new channel and said strip 
 of land as and for a free public water- 
 way of the United States, and upon 
 the acceptance of such conveyance by 
 the Secretary of War the old channel 
 of the river through the said lands 
 shall be abandoned as a navigable 
 waterway, and in its stead, the afore- 
 said new channel^ and any enlarge- 
 ment thereof which Congress may 
 hereafter authorize, shall become and 
 forever remain a free public water- 
 way of the United States and shall be 
 subject to the laws heretofore and here- 
 after enacted by Congress for the im- 
 provement, preservation, and protec- 
 tion of navigable waters: Provided 
 further, Thai the said companies or 
 corporations shall have the right to 
 occupy and use so much of the said 
 strip of land as lies outside the high- 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 8* 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 35 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 water limits of the said new channel 
 until such time as Congress shall 
 authorize and make provision for the 
 enlargement, widening, or other im- 
 provement of said channel, it being 
 understood that such occupation and 
 use shall be for temporary purposes 
 only and that the said companies or 
 corporations shall place no structures 
 or works of any Kind on said strip 
 or do anything that will tend to ob- 
 struct said channel or interfere with 
 its free navigation by the public: 
 Ana provided further, That nothing 
 herein contained shall be construed 
 as conferring any right, power, or 
 privilege in conflict with any law or 
 statute of the State of Indiana, in 
 which said river is located. 
 
 The said strip of land above re- 
 ferred to is described as follows: 
 Beginning at a point on the west line 
 of section three, township thirty-six 
 north, range eight west, Lake County, 
 Indiana, which is three hundred and 
 twenty-three and, three-tenths feet 
 south of the northwesfcorner of said 
 section; thence running easterly three 
 thousand four hundred and thirty 
 feet, more or less, along a straight line 
 which, if continued, would, intersect 
 the east line of said section three at a 
 point which is three hundred and 
 nineteen and six-tenths feet south of 
 the northeast corner of said section 
 three; thence along a curve convex to 
 the south one thousand and seventeen 
 and forty-five one-hundredths feet, 
 said curve having a radius of five 
 thousand eight hundred and twenty- 
 nine and six-tenths feet; thence north- 
 easterly one thousand five hundred 
 and eighty feet, more or less, along a 
 straight line, said straight line mak- 
 ing an angle of ten degrees with the 
 first-described straight line; thence 
 along a curve convex to the north nine 
 hundred feet, more or less, said curve 
 having a radius of five thousand six 
 hundred and twenty-nine and six- 
 tenths feet, to a point which is one 
 hundred feet, more or less, north of 
 the south line of section thirty-five 
 and also one thousand one hundred 
 and seventy feet, more or less, west of 
 the middle line of said section thirty- 
 jive; thence along a curve convex to 
 the north one thousand one hundred 
 and seventy-one and five-tenths feet, 
 more or less, said curve having a 
 radius of eleven thousand five hun- 
 dred and sixty-three and two-tenths 
 feet, to a point on the middle line of 
 section thirty-five which is one hun- 
 dred and fifty-four feet north of the 
 south line of said section thirty-five; 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 imfi > I'/mitx of tin Niiid in ir //niiiiitl 
 until such time as Conf/n-xx shall 
 authorize and make provision for the 
 enlargement, widening, or other im- 
 provement of said channel, it being 
 understood that such occupation find 
 use shall be for temporary purposes 
 only and that the said companies or 
 corporations shall place no structures 
 or works of any kind on said strip 
 or do anything that will tend to ob- 
 struct said channel or interfere with 
 its free navigation by the public: 
 And provided further, That nothing 
 herein contained shall be construed 
 as conferring any right, power, or 
 privilege in conflict with any law or 
 statute of the State of Indiana, in 
 which said river is located. 
 
 The said strip of land above re- 
 ferred to is described as follows: 
 Beginning at a point on the west line 
 of section three, township thirty-six 
 north, range eight west, Lake County, 
 Indiana, which is three hundred and 
 twenty-three and three-tenths feet 
 south of the northwest corner of said 
 section; thence running easterly three 
 thousand four hundred and thirty 
 feet, more or less, along a straight line 
 which, if continued, would intersect 
 the east line of said section three at a 
 point which is three hundred and 
 nineteen and six-tenths feet south of 
 the northeast corner of said section 
 three; thence along a curve convex to 
 the south one thousand and seventeen 
 and forty-five one-hundredths feet, 
 said curve having a radius of five 
 thousand eight hundred and twenty- 
 nine and six-tenths feet; thence north- 
 easterly one thousand five hundred 
 and eighty feet, more or less, along a 
 straight line, said straight line mak- 
 ing an angle of ten degrees with the 
 -first-described straight line; thence 
 along a curve convex to the north nine 
 hundred feet, more or less, said curve 
 having a radius of flve thousand six 
 hundred and twenty-nine and six 
 tenths feet, to a point which is one 
 hundred feet, more or less, north of 
 the south line of section thirty-five 
 and also one thousand one hundred 
 and seventy feet, more or less, west of 
 the middle line of said section thirty- 
 five: thence along a curve convex to 
 the north one thousand one hundred 
 and seventy-one and five-tenths feet, 
 more or less, said curve having a 
 radius of eleven thousand flve hun- 
 dred and sixty-three and two-tenths 
 feet, to a point on the middle line of 
 section thirty-flve which is one hun- 
 dred and fifty-four feet north of the 
 south line of said section thirty-flve; 
 
RIVEK AND HARBOK BILL. 
 
 36 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 thence easterly one thousand six hun- 
 dred and twelve and Jive-tenths feet, 
 more or less, along a straight line 
 which, if continued, would intersect 
 tlie east line of said section thirty-five 
 at a point which is one hundred and 
 seventy-six feet north of the south- 
 east corner of said section thirty-five; 
 thence along a curve convex to the 
 southeast four hundred and thirteen 
 and six one-hundredths feet, said 
 curve having a radius of six hundred 
 and twenty-three and seven-tenths 
 feet; thence northeasterly along a 
 straight line one thousand one hun- 
 dred and fifty feet, more or less, to 
 the south shore of the old river bed 
 of the Grand Calumet River, said 
 straight line making an angle of 
 thirty-eight degrees with the last- 
 described straight line,; thence west- 
 erly four hundred and fifty feet, more 
 or less, along the south shore of the 
 said old river bed of the Grand Calu- 
 met River; tlience southwesterly seven 
 hundred feet, more or less, along a 
 straight line which is ^parallel to the 
 aforementioned one thousand one 
 hundred and fifty foot line and one 
 hundred and fifty feet distant from 
 same (measured at right angles); 
 thence along a curve convex to the 
 southeast three hundred and thirteen 
 and eighty-eight one-hundredths feet, 
 said curve having a radius of four 
 hundred and seventy-three and seven- 
 tenths feet and being parallel to the 
 aforementioned four hundred and 
 thirteen and six one-hundredths foot 
 curve and one hundred and fifty feet 
 distant from same (measured at right 
 angles'); thence westerly two thousand 
 seven hundred feet, more or less, along 
 a straight line which is parallel to the 
 aforementioned one thousand six hun- 
 dred and twelve and five-tenths foot 
 line and one hundred and fifty feet 
 distant from same (measured at right 
 angles); thence along a curve convex 
 to the north one thousand and seven- 
 teen and forty-five one-hundredths 
 feet, said curve having a radius of 
 five thousand eight hundred and 
 twenty^nine and six-tenths feet and 
 being parallel to the aforementioned 
 nine hundred foot curve and two hun- 
 dred feet distant from same (meas- 
 ured at right angles); thence south- 
 westerly along a straight line one 
 thousand five hundred and eighty feet, 
 more or less, said line being parallel 
 to the aforementioned one thousand 
 five hundred and eighty foot line and 
 two hundred feet distant from same 
 (measured at right angles); thence 
 along a curve convex to the south nine 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 thence easterly one thousand six hun- 
 dred and twelve and five-tenths feet, 
 more or less, along a straight line 
 which, if continued, would intersect 
 the east line of said section thirty-five 
 at a point which is one hundred and 
 seventy-six feet north of the south- 
 east corner of said section thirty-five; 
 thence along a curve convex to the 
 southeast four hundred and thirteen 
 and six one-hundredths feet, said 
 curve having a radius of six hundred 
 and twenty-three and seven-tenths 
 feet; thence northeasterly along a 
 straight line one thousand one hun- 
 dred and fifty feet, more or less, to 
 the south shore of the old river bed 
 of the Grand Calumet River, said 
 straight line making an angle of 
 thirty-eight degrees with the last- 
 described straight line; thence west- 
 erly four hundred and fifty feet, more 
 or less, along the south shore of the 
 said old river bed of the Grand Calu- 
 met River; thence southwesterly seven 
 hundred feet, more or less, along a 
 straight line which is parallel to the 
 aforementioned one thousand one 
 hundred and fifty foot line and one 
 hundred and fifty feet distant from 
 same (measured at right angles): 
 thence along a curve convex to the 
 southeast three hundred and thirteen 
 and eighty-eight one-hundredths feet, 
 said curve having a radius of four 
 hundred and seventy-three and seven- 
 tenths feet and being parallel to the 
 aforementioned four hundred and 
 thirteen and six one-hundredths foot 
 curve and one hundred and fifty feet 
 distant from same (measured at right 
 angles); thence westerly two thousand 
 seven hundred feet, more or less, along 
 a straight line which is parallel to the 
 aforementioned one thousand six hun- 
 dred and twelve and jive-tenths foot 
 line and one hundred and fifty feet 
 distant from same (measured at right 
 angles); thence along a curve convex 
 to the north one thousand and seven- 
 teen and forty-five one-hundredths 
 feet, said curve having a radius of 
 five thousand eight hundred and 
 twenty-nine and six-tenths feet and 
 being parallel to the aforementioned 
 nine hundred foot curve and two hun- 
 dred feet distant from same (meas- 
 ured at right angles); thence south- 
 westerly along a straight line one 
 thousand five hundred and eighty feet, 
 more or less, said line being parallel 
 to the aforementioned one thousand 
 five hundred and eighty foot line and 
 two hundred feet distant from same 
 (measured at right angles); thence 
 along a curve convex to the south nine 
 
EIVEK AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 37 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Waukegan, 
 Illinois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Calumet, 
 Illinois : Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and thirty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $38,170. 
 
 Improving Chicago River, Illi- 
 nois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Calumet River, Illi- 
 nois and Indiana: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Head of Passes to the mouth of the 
 Ohio River, including salaries, cler- 
 ical, office, traveling, and miscel- 
 laneous expenses of the Mississippi 
 River Commission: Continuing im- 
 provement with a view to securing 
 a permanent channel depth of nine 
 feet, 
 
 $7,000,000, 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 gen- 
 eral 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, Mis- 
 souri, and for surveys, including the 
 survey from Head of Passes to the 
 headwaters of the river, in such 
 manner as in their opinion shall 
 best improve navigation and pro- 
 mote the interests of commerce at all 
 
 BEPOBTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 hundred and eighty-two and fifty-four 
 one-hundredths feet, said curve hav- 
 ing a radius of five thousand six hun- 
 dred and twenty-nine and six-tenths 
 feet and being parallel to the afore- 
 mentioned one thousand and seven- 
 teen and forty-five one-hundredths foot 
 curve and two hundred feet dis- 
 tant from same (measured at right 
 ingles); thence westerly three thou- 
 sand four hundred and thirty feet, 
 more or less, along a straight line 
 which is parallel to the aforemen- 
 tioned three thousand four hundred 
 and thirty foot line and two hundred 
 -feet distant from same (measured at 
 right angles) to a point on the west 
 line of section three; thence southerly 
 along said line of said section three 
 two hundred feet, more or less, to the 
 point of beginning, containing approx- 
 imately forty-six and two hundred and 
 nine one-thousandths acres. 
 
 Improving harbor at Waukegan, 
 Illinois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Calumet, 
 Illinois : Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and thirty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $38,170. 
 
 Improving Chicago River, Illi- 
 nois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Calumet River, Illi- 
 nois and Indiana: For maintenance, 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Head of Passes to the mouth of the 
 Ohio River, including salaries, cler- 
 ical, office, traveling, and miscel- 
 laneous expenses of the Mississippi 
 River Commission: Continuing im- 
 provement 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 gen- 
 eral 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, Mis- 
 souri, and for surveys, including the 
 survey from Head of Passes to the 
 headwaters of the river, in such 
 manner as in their opinion shall 
 best improve navigation and pro- 
 mote the interests of commerce at all 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 hundred and eighty-two and fifty-four 
 one-hundredths feet, said curve hav- 
 ing a radius of five thousand six hun- 
 dred and twenty-nine and six-tenths 
 feet and being parallel to the afore- 
 mentioned one thousand and seven- 
 teen and forty-five one-hundredths foot 
 curve and two hundred feet dis- 
 tant from same (measured at right 
 angles); thence westerly three thou- 
 sand four hundred and thirty feet, 
 more or less, along a straight line 
 which is parallel to the aforemen- 
 tioned three thousand four hundred 
 and thirty foot line and two hundred 
 feet distant from same (measured at 
 right angles) to a point on the west 
 line of section three; thence southerly 
 along said line of said section three 
 two hundred feet, more or less, to the 
 point of beginning, containing approx- 
 imately forty-six and two hundred and 
 nine one-thousandths acres. 
 
 Improving harbor at Waukegan, 
 Illinois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Calumet, 
 Illinois : Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Two hundred and thirty- 
 seven, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $38,170. 
 
 Improving Chicago River, Illi- 
 nois: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Calumet River, Illi- 
 nois and Indiana: For maintenance 
 $10,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Head of Passes to the mouth of the 
 Ohio River, including salaries, cler- 
 ical, office, traveling, and miscel- 
 laneous expenses of the Mississippi 
 River Commission: Continuing im- 
 provement 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 gen- 
 eral 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, Mis- 
 souri, and for surveys, including the 
 survey from Head of Passes to the 
 headwaters of the river, in such 
 manner as in their opinion shall 
 best improve navigation and pro- 
 mote the interests of commerce at all 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 38 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 stages of the river: 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 and opera- 
 tion of the same: Provided further, 
 That the watercourses connected 
 with said river and the harbors 
 upon it, now under the control of 
 the Mississippi lliver Commission 
 and under improvement 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 from the 
 amount herein appropriated. 
 
 Any funds which are herein, or 
 may hereafter be, appropriated by 
 Congress for improving the Missis- 
 sippi Kiver between Head of Passes 
 and the mouth of the Ohio River, 
 and which may be allotted to levees, 
 may be expended, tinder the direc- 
 tion of the Secretary of War, in 
 accordance with the plans, specifi- 
 cations, and recommendations of 
 the Mississippi River Commission, 
 as approved by the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, for levees upon any part of said 
 river between Head of Passes and 
 Rock Island, Illinois, in such man- 
 ner as, in their opinion, shall best 
 improve navigation and promote 
 the interest of commerce at all 
 stages of the river. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Ohio River to and 
 inchiding the mouth of the Missouri 
 River: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $1,000,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Missouri River to 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 $1,500,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 10* 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 stages of the river: 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 and opera- 
 tion 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 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 from the 
 amount herein appropriated 
 
 : Pro- 
 vided further, That a survey with 
 report shall be made by the Missis- 
 sippi River Commission of the Atcha- 
 falaya 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: Provided further, That 
 the salary of the civilian members of 
 the Mississippi River Commission 
 shall hereafter be $5,000 per annum. 
 
 Any funds which are herein, or 
 may hereafter be, appropriated by 
 Congress for improving the Missis- 
 sippi River between Head of Passes 
 and the mouth of the Ohio River, 
 and which may be allotted to levoos, 
 may be expended, under the direc- 
 tion of the Secretary of War, in 
 accordance with the plans, specifi- 
 cations, and recommendations of 
 the Mississippi River Commission, 
 as approved by the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, for levees upon any part of said 
 river between Head of Passes and 
 Rock Island, Illinois, in such man- 
 ner as, in their opinion, shall best 
 improve navigation and promote 
 the interest of commerce at all 
 stages of the river. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Ohio River to and 
 including the mouth of the Missouri 
 River : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $300,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Missouri River to 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota : Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 $750,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 stages of the river: 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 and opera- 
 tion 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 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 from the 
 amount herein appropriated 
 
 : Pro- 
 vided further, That a survey with 
 report shall be made by the Missis- 
 sippi River Commission of the Atcha- 
 falaya 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: Provided further, That 
 the salary of the civilian members of 
 the Mississippi River Commission 
 shall hereafter be $5,000 per annum. 
 
 Any funds which are herein, or 
 may hereafter be, appropriated by 
 Congress for improving the Missis- 
 sippi River between Head of Passes 
 and the mouth of the Ohio River, 
 and which may be allotted to levees, 
 may be expended, under the direc- 
 tion of the Secretary of War, in 
 accordance with the plans, specifi- 
 cations, and recommendations of 
 the Mississippi River Commission, 
 as approved t>y the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, for levees upon any part of said 
 river between Head of Passes and 
 Rock Island, Illinois, in such man- 
 ner as, in their opinion, shall best 
 improve navigation and promote 
 the interest of commerce at all 
 stages of the river. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Ohio River to and 
 including the mouth of the Missouri 
 River: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $250,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 the mouth of the Missouri River to 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota : Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 $800,000. 
 
BIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
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 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Saint Paul fro Minneapolis, Minne- 
 sota: Continuing improvement, 
 $170,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River in 
 Minnesota, oetween Brainerd and 
 Grand Rapids: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $8,000. 
 
 Improving the Mississippi Rivor 
 between Winnibigoshish and Poke- 
 gama Reservoirs, and the Leech 
 River liom its mouth to Leech Lake 
 Dam, Minnesota: Continuing im- 
 provement, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Osage River, Missouri : 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Gasconade River, Mis- 
 souri : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $15,000; complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered One hundred and 
 ninety, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $6,500; in all, $21,500. 
 
 Improving Kansas River, Kansas : 
 In accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Five hundred and eighty-four, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $6,000; and 
 the sum of $4,000, appropriated by 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, for improvement of 
 Kansas River, Kansas, up to Ar- 
 gentine, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Ninety-four, Sixty-sec- 
 ond Congress, first session, is hereby 
 made available for completing the 
 project herein adopted. 
 
 Improving Missouri River: Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance, with a view to securing a 
 permanent six-foot channel between 
 Kansas City and the mouth of the 
 river, $2,000,000. 
 
 Improving Missouri River: For 
 improvement and maintenance from 
 Kansas City to Sioux City, $150,000, 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minne- 
 sota: Continuing improvement, 
 $70,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River in 
 Minnesota, between Brainerd and 
 Grand Rapids: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $8,000. 
 
 Improving the Mississippi River 
 between Winnibigoshish and Poke- 
 gama Reservoirs, and the Leech 
 River from its mouth to Leech Lake 
 Dam, Minnesota: Continuing im- 
 provement, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Osage River, Missouri : 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Gasconade River, Mis- 
 souri : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $15,000; complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered One hundred and 
 ninety, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $6,500; in all, $21,500. 
 
 Improving Kansas River, Kansas : 
 In accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Five hundred and eighty-four, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $6,000; and 
 the sum of $4,000 appropriated by 
 the river and harbor Act approved 
 
 July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, for improvement of 
 Kansas River, Kansas, up to Ar- 
 gentine, in accordance witn the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Ninety-four, Sixty-sec- 
 ond Congress, first session, is hereby 
 made available for completing the 
 project herein adopted. 
 
 Improving Missouri River, Con- 
 tinuing improvement and for main- 
 tenance, with a view to securing a 
 permanent six-foot channel between 
 Kansas City and the mouth of the 
 river, $1,000,000. 
 
 Improving Missouri River: For 
 improvement and maintenance from 
 Kansas City to Sioux City, $50,000, 
 
 of which amount at least $75,000 of which amount at least $25,000 
 
 may be expended for such bank re- 
 vetment as, in the judgment of the 
 Chief of Engineers, may be hi the 
 interests of navigation; continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance 
 from Sioux City to Fort Benton, 
 $150,000; 
 
 may be expended for such bank re- 
 vetment as, in the judgment of the 
 Chief of Engineers, may be in the 
 interests of navigation; continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance 
 from Sioux City to Fort Benton, 
 $50,000, 
 
 of which, amount at least 
 $25,000 may be expended for such 
 lank revetment as in the judgment of the 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River from 
 Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minne- 
 sota : Continuing improvement, 
 $70,000. 
 
 Improving Mississippi River in 
 Minnesota, between Brainerd and 
 Grand Rapids: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $8,000. 
 
 Improving the Mississippi River 
 between Winnibigoshish and Poke- 
 gama Reservoirs, and the Leech 
 River from its mouth to Leech Lake 
 Dam, Minnesota: Continuing im- 
 provement, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Osage River, Missouri : 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, $15,000. 
 
 Improving Gasconade River, Mis- 
 souri : Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance, $15,000; complet- 
 ing improvement in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered One hundred and 
 ninety, Sixty-third Congress, first 
 session, $6,500; in all, $21,500. 
 
 Improving Kansas River, Kansas : 
 In accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Five hundred and eighty-four, 
 Sixty-third Congress, second session, 
 and subject to the conditions set 
 forth in said document, $6,000; and 
 the sum of $4,000 appropriated by 
 the river and harbor Act approved' 
 
 July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, for improvement of 
 Kansas River, Kansas, up to Ar- 
 gentine, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Ninety-four, Sixty-sec- 
 ond Congress, first session, is hereby 
 made available for completing the 
 project herein adopted. 
 
 Improving Missouri River: For 
 improvement and maintenance from 
 Kansas City to Sioux City, $50,000 
 
 ; continuing 
 
 improvement and for maintenance 
 from Sioux City to Fort Benton, 
 $50,000, 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 40 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 in all, $300,000. 
 
 Improving Los Angeles Harbor, 
 California: For maintenance of im- 
 provement by dredging in the inner 
 harbor, East and West Basins, and 
 entrance channel, $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at San Fran- 
 cisco, California: For maintenance, 
 9,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Oakland, 
 California: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $98,000 : Pro- 
 vided, 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 appro- 
 priated as shall be necessary may be 
 expended for the purchase or con- 
 struction of a suitable dredging 
 plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Richmond, 
 California, in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 fifteen, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Improving San Pablo Bay, Cali- 
 fornia: For maintenance of channel 
 through Pinole Shoal, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Humboldt Harbor and 
 Bay, California : For completion and 
 repair of the jetties at the entrance, 
 $525,000. 
 
 EEPOETED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Chief of Engineers may be in (lie in- 
 terest of navigation; 
 
 in all, $100,000. 
 
 Improving Los Angeles Harbor, 
 California: For maintenance of im- 
 provemont by dredging in the inner 
 harbor, East and West Basins, and 
 entrance channel, $75,000. 
 
 Improving Los Angeles Harbor, 
 California, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Eight hundred and nine- 
 ty-six, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $ WO, 000. 
 
 Improving harbor at San Fran- 
 cisco, California: For maintenance, 
 $9,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Oakland, 
 California : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $98,000: Pro- 
 vided, 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 appro- 
 priated as shall bo necessary may be 
 expended for the purchase or con- 
 struction of a suitable dredging 
 plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Richmond, 
 California, in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 fifteen, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $50,000. 
 
 Improving San Pablo Bay, Cali- 
 fornia: For maintenance of channel 
 through Pinole Shoal, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Humboldt Harbor and 
 Bay, California: For completion and 
 repair of the jetties at the entrance, 
 $525,000. 
 
 Improving San Rafael Creek, Cali- 
 fornia: Completing improvement^ in 
 accordance with, the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Eight 
 hundred and one, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, and subject to 
 the conditions set forth in said docu- 
 ment, $27,300. 
 
 Improving Napa River, California, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Numbered 
 Seven liundred and ninety-five, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $20,000: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United States 
 for acquiring any land required for 
 the purpose of this improvement. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 in all, $100,000. 
 
 Improving Los Angeles Harbor, 
 California: For maintenance of im- 
 provement by dredging in the inner 
 harbor, East and West Basins, and 
 entrance channel, $75,000. 
 
 Improving Los Angeles Harbor, 
 California, in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Eight hundred and nine- 
 ty-six, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the conditions 
 set forth in said document, $200,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at San Fran- 
 cisco, California: For maintenance, 
 $9,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Oakland, 
 California : Continuing improve- 
 ment and for maintenance, $98,000: 
 Provided, That if in the judgment of 
 the Secretary of War the prices ro- 
 ' ceived in response to advertisement 
 for bids for dredging are not reason- 
 able, so much of the amount herein 
 appropriated as shall be necessary 
 may be expended for the purchase 
 or construction of a suitable dredg- 
 ing plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Richmond, 
 California, in accordance with the 
 report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Five hundred and 
 fifteen, Sixty-third Congress, second 
 session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $50,000. 
 
 Improving San Pablo Bay, Cali- 
 fornia : For maintenance of channel 
 through Pinole Shoal, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Humboldt Harbor and 
 Bay, California: For completion and 
 repair of the jetties at the entrance, 
 $525,000. 
 
 Improving San Rafael Creek, Cali- 
 fornia: Completing improvement in 
 accordance with the report submitted 
 in House Document Numbered Eiglit 
 hundred and one, Sixty-third Con- 
 gress, second session, and subject to 
 the conditions setjbrth in said docu- 
 ment, $27,300. 
 
 'improving Napa River, California, 
 in accordance with the report sub- 
 mitted in House Document Numbered 
 Seven liundred and ninety-five, Sixty- 
 third Congress, second session, 
 $20,000: Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United States 
 for acquiring any land required for 
 the purpose of this improvement. 
 
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. 
 
 41 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Petaluma Creek, Cali- 
 fornia, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and eight- 
 een, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $7,500. 
 
 Improving Sacramento and 
 Feather Rivers, Calif ornia : Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance, 
 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving Sacramento and 
 Feather Rivers, California, in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Five, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth in 
 said document, $200,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Coos Bay, 
 Oregon: For maintenance of the 
 completed channels in Coos Bay and 
 operating the bar dredge, $50,000. 
 
 Improving Nehalem Bay, Oregon: 
 Completing improvement, $116,175. 
 
 Improving Coquille River, Ore- 
 gon: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance and connecting 
 north jetty with the shore, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Coos River, Oregon: 
 For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon : 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Snake River, Oregon, 
 Washington, and Idaho: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance up to Pittsburg Landing, 
 Oregon, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River and 
 tributaries above Celilo Falls to the 
 mouth of Snake River, Oregon and 
 Washington: Continuing improve- 
 ment, $20,000. 
 
 BEPOETED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Petaluma Creek, Cali- 
 fornia, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and eight- 
 een, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $7,500. 
 
 Improving Sacramento and 
 Feather Rivers, California : Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance, 
 
 including improvement above 
 Sacramento to Red Bluff, in accord- 
 ance with the report submitted in 
 House Document Numbered Seventy- 
 jsix, Sixty-second Congress, first ses- 
 'sion, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Sacramento and 
 Feather Rivers, California, in ac- 
 cordance with the report submitted 
 in Rivers and Harbors Committee 
 Document Numbered Five, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, and 
 subject to the conditions set forth in 
 said document, $200,000. 
 
 Improving harbor, at Coos Bay, 
 Oregon: For maintenance of the 
 completed channels in Coos Bay and 
 operating the bar dredge, $50,000. 
 
 Improving Nehalem Bay, Oregon : 
 Completing improvement, $116,175. 
 
 Improving Coquille River, Ore- 
 gon: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance and connecting 
 north jetty with the shore, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Coos River, Oregon: 
 For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon : 
 For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon: 
 Continuing improvement, $112,500: 
 Provided, That an equal amount be 
 provided for the purpose by the port 
 of Siuslaw or other agency, to be ex- 
 pended by the Secretary of War upon 
 the same terms and conditions as 
 those prescribed in connection with 
 the work authorized by the river and 
 harbor Act approved February twen- 
 ty-seventh, nineteen hundred and 
 eleven. 
 
 Improving Snake River, Oregon, 
 Washington, and Idaho: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance up to Pittsburg Landing, 
 Oregon, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River and 
 tributaries above Celilo Falls to the 
 mouth of Snake River, Oregon and 
 Washington: Continuing improvc- 
 ment4$20,000. 
 
 BUETON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Petaluma Creek, Cali- 
 fornia, iu accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document 
 Numbered One hundred and eight- 
 een, Sixty-third Congress, first ses- 
 sion, $7,500. 
 
 Improving Sacramento and 
 Feather Rivers, California: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance, 
 
 $25,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Coos Bay, 
 Oregon: For maintenance of the 
 completed channels in Coos Bay and 
 operating the bar dredge, $50,000. 
 
 Improving Nehalem Bay, Oregon: 
 Completing improvement, $116,175. 
 
 Improving Coquille River, Ore- 
 gon: Continuing improvement and 
 for maintenance and connecting 
 north jetty with the shore, $90,000. 
 
 Improving Coos River, Oregon; 
 For maintenance, $3,000. 
 
 Improving Siuslaw River, Ore- 
 gon: For maintenance, $5,000. 
 
 Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon: 
 Continuing improvement, $112,500: 
 Provided, Ihat an equal amount be 
 provided for the purpose by the port 
 of Siuslaw or other agency, to be ex- 
 pended by the Secretary of War upon 
 the same terms and conditions as 
 those prescribed in connection with 
 the work authorized by the river and 
 harbor Act approved February twen- 
 ty-seventh, nineteen hundred and 
 eleven. 
 
 Improving Snake River, Oregon, 
 Washington, and Idaho: Continu- 
 ing improvement and for mainte- 
 nance up to Pittsburg Landing, 
 Oregon, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River and 
 tributaties above Celilo Falls to the 
 mouth of Snake River, Oregon and 
 Washington : Continuing improve- 
 ment, $20,000. 
 
BTVEB AND HAEBOR BILL. 
 
 42 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Columbia River be- 
 tween the foot of The Dalles Rapids 
 and the head of C'elilo Falls, Oregon 
 and Washington: Completing im- 
 provement, $525,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River at 
 Cascades, Oregon: Continuing im- 
 provement, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette and Yam- 
 hill Rivers, Oregon: 
 
 Continuing im- 
 provement and for maintenance of 
 Willamette River above Portland 
 and of Yamhill River, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette River, 
 Oregon: For the purchase of the ex- 
 isting canal and locks around the 
 Willamette Falls at Oregon City, 
 Oregon, and completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Ten hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $80,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia and Lower 
 Willamette Rivers below Portland, 
 Oregon: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $300,000: 
 Provided, That of the funds herein 
 appropriated $6,000, or so much 
 thereof as 7nay be necessary, may 
 be expended in completing im- 
 provement at Cathlamet, Washing- 
 ton, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and twenty, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session. 
 
 Improving mouth of Columbia 
 River, Oregon and Washington: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, including repairs and 
 operation of dredge, $1,000,000. 
 
 Improving Clatskanie River, Ore- 
 gon: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Grays Harbor and 
 Chehalis River, Washington: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 inner portion of Grays Harbor and 
 of Chehalis River up to Montesano, 
 $30,000. 
 
 S. Doc. 582, 63-2 11 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Columbia River be- 
 two >n the foot of The Dalbs Rapids 
 and the h; ad of Cclilo Falls, Oregon 
 and Washington: Completing im- 
 provement, $525,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River at 
 Cascades, Orrgon: Continuing im- 
 provement, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette and Yam- 
 hill Rivers, Oregon, 
 
 in accordance 
 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Thirteen, Sixty- 
 second Congress, first session, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette River, 
 Oregon: For ths purchase of the ex- 
 isting canal and locks around the 
 Willamette Falls at Oregon City, 
 Oregon, and completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with th ' r. port 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered Ten hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 s?cond Congress, third session, 
 $80,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia and Lower 
 Willamette Rivers below Portland, 
 Oregon : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $300,000: 
 Provided, That of the funds herein 
 appropriated $6,000, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary, may 
 be expended in completing im- 
 provement at Cathlamet, Washing- 
 ton, in accordance 1 with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundr-'d and twenty, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session. 
 
 Improving mouth of Columbia 
 River, Oregon and Washington: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, including repairs and 
 operation of dredge, $1,000,000 
 
 : Provided, That the Secretary of War 
 may enter into a contract or contracts 
 for such materials and work as may 
 be necessary to prosecute said project, 
 to be paid for as appropriations may 
 from time to time be made by Iffw, not 
 to exceed in the aggregate $1,500,000, 
 exclusive of the amount herein and 
 heretofore appropriated. 
 
 Improving Clatskanie River, Ore- 
 gon: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Grays Harbor and 
 Chehalis River, Washington: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 inner portion of Grays Harbor and 
 of Chehalis River up to Montesano, 
 $30,000. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Columbia River be- 
 tween the foot of The Dalles Rapids 
 and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon 
 and Washington: Completing im- 
 provement, $525,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River at 
 Cascades, Oregon: Continuing im- 
 provement, $10,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette and Yam- 
 hill Rivers, Oregon, 
 
 in accordance 
 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Thirteen, Sixty 
 second Congress, first session, $40,000. 
 
 Improving Willamette River, 
 Oregon : For the purchase of the ex- 
 isting canal and locks around the 
 Willamette Falls at Oregon City, 
 Oregon, and completing improve- 
 ment, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document N um- 
 bered Ten hundred and sixty, Sixty- 
 second Congress, third session, 
 $80,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia and Lower 
 Willamette Rivers below Portland, 
 Oregon: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $300,000: 
 Provided, That of the funds herein 
 appropriated $6,000, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary, may 
 be expended in completing im- 
 provement at Cathlamet, Washing- 
 ton, in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document N um- 
 bered One hundred and twenty, 
 Sixty-third Congress, first session. 
 
 Improving mouth of Columbia 
 River, Oregon and Washington: 
 Continuing improvement and for 
 maintenance, including repairs and 
 operation of dredge, $1,000,000 
 
 : Provided, That the Secretary of War 
 may enter into a contract or contracts . 
 for such materials and work as may 
 be necessary to prosecute said project, 
 to be paid for as appropriations may 
 from time to time be made by law, not 
 to exceed in the aggregate $1,500,000, 
 exclusive of the amount herein and 
 heretofore appropriated. 
 
 Improving Clatskanie River, Ore- 
 gon: For maintenance, $1,000. 
 
 Improving Grays Harbor and 
 Chehalis River, Washington: For 
 maintenance of improvement of 
 inner portion of Grays Harbor and 
 of Chehalis River up to Montesano, 
 $30,000. 
 
EIVEE AND HABBOB BILL. 
 
 43 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving Cowlitz and Lewis 
 Rivers, Washington : Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including North and East Forks of 
 Lewis River, $16,000. 
 
 Improving Grays River, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance, S500. 
 
 Improving Willapa Harbor and 
 River, Washington, in accordance 
 with the report submitted in House 
 Document Numbered Seven hun- 
 dred and six, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, and subject to the 
 conditions set forth in said docu- 
 ment, $100,000. 
 
 Improving Skamokawa Creek, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and eleven, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $1,800. 
 
 Improving Puget Sound, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Puget Sound and its 
 tributary waters, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Swinomish Slough, 
 Washington: That for the purpose 
 of aiding in the improvement and 
 maintenance of the channel across 
 Padilla Bay, and securing the co- 
 operation of local interests therein, 
 the Secretary of War may author- 
 ize said local interests to construct 
 a system of dikes and dredge along 
 the said channel, and in connection 
 therewith to close the adjacent 
 streams known as Indian Slough 
 and Telegraph Slough, all in accord- 
 ance with such plans as may be 
 approved by him on the recom- 
 mendation of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers. 
 
 Improving Skagit River, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Grays Harbor and bar Improving Grays Harbor and bar 
 entrance, Washington: For mainte- entrance, Washington: For mainte- 
 nance, $110,000. nance, $110,000. 
 
 Improving Cowlitz and Lewis 
 Rivers, Washington: Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including North and East Forks of 
 Lewis River, $16,000. 
 
 Improving Grays River, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving Cowlitz and Lewis 
 Rivers, Washington : Continuing 
 improvement and for maintenance, 
 including North and East Forks of 
 Lewis River, $16,000. 
 
 Improving Grays River, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance, $500. 
 
 Improving Columbia River be- 
 tween Bridgeport and Kettle Falls, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Skamokawa Creek, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submit ted in House. Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and eleven, Sixty 
 third Congress, first session, $1,800. 
 
 Improving Puget Sound, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Puget Sound and its 
 tributary waters, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Swinomish Slough, 
 Washington: That for the purpose 
 of aiding in the improvement and 
 maintenance of the channel across 
 Padilla Bay, and securing the co- 
 operation of local interests therein, 
 the Secretary of War may author- 
 ize said local interests to construct 
 a system of dikes and dredge along 
 the said channel, and in connection 
 therewith to close the adjacent 
 streams known as Indian Slough 
 and Telegraph Slough, all in accord- 
 ance with such plans as may be 
 approved by him on tho recom- 
 mendation of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers 
 
 : Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United States 
 on account of said improvement. 
 
 Improving Skagit River, Wash- 
 ngton: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving STcagit River, Washing- 
 ton: Completing improvement at 
 SJcagit City bar, in accordance with the 
 recommendation of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, contained %n House Document 
 Numbered Nine hundred and thirty- 
 five, Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $80,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia River be- 
 tween Bridgeport and Kettle Falls, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Skamokawa Creek, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment in accordance with the report 
 submitted in House Document Num- 
 bered One hundred and eleven, Sixty- 
 third Congress, first session, $1,800. 
 
 Improving Puget Sound, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance of im- 
 provement of Puget Sound and its 
 tributary waters, $25,000. 
 
 Improving Swinomish Slough, 
 Washington: That for the purpose 
 of aiding in the improvement and 
 maintenance of the channel across 
 Padilla Bay, and securing the co- 
 operation of local interests therein, 
 the Secretary of War may author- 
 ize said local interests to construct 
 a syste n of dikes and dredge along 
 ' the said channel, and in connection 
 theiewith to close the adjacent 
 stiea'i s known as Indian Slough 
 and Telegraph Slough, all in accord- 
 ance' with such plans as n ay be 
 uppioved by him on the recu:i.- 
 n endation of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers 
 
 : Provided, That no expense 
 shall be incurred by the United States 
 on account of said improvement. 
 
 Improving Skagit River, Wash- 
 ington: For maintenance, $10,000. 
 
 Improving SJcagit River, Washing- 
 ton: Completing improvement at 
 Skagit City bar, in accordance with the 
 recommendation of the Chief of Engi- 
 neers, contained in House Document 
 Numbered Nine hundred and thirty- 
 five, Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $30,000. 
 
 Improving Columbia luver be- 
 tween Bridgeport and Kettle Falls, 
 Washington: Completing improve- 
 ment, $25,000. 
 
BTVEB AND HAEBOB BILL. 
 
 HOUSE BILL. 
 
 Improving harbor at Honolulu, 
 Hawaii : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $125,000: 
 Provided, That if in the judgment 
 of the Secretary of War the prices 
 received in response to advertise- 
 ment for bids for dredging are not 
 reasonable, so much of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated 
 as shall be necessary may be ex- 
 pended for the purchase or con- 
 struction of a suitable dredging 
 plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Hilo, 
 Hawaii: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Appropriations made for the re- 
 spective works herein named, or so 
 much thereof as shall be necessary, 
 may, in the discretion of the Secre- 
 tary of War, be used for mainte- 
 nance and for the repair and restora- 
 tion of said works whenever from 
 any cause they have become se- 
 riously impaired, as well as for the 
 further improvement of said works. 
 
 Surveys and examinations pro- 
 vided for in this section shall, un- 
 less otherwise expressed, be paid 
 for from the appropriations made 
 for the respective improvements 
 or projects to which they pertain 
 or in connection with which they are 
 mentioned. 
 
 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Apoon mouth of Yu- 
 kon River, Alaska: Completing im- 
 provement in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Nine hundred and ninety- 
 one, Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $45,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at Honolulu, 
 Hawaii: Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $125,000: 
 Provided, That if in the judgment 
 of the Secretary of War the, prices 
 received in response to advertise- 
 ment for bids for dredging are not 
 reasonable, so much of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated 
 as shall be necessary may be ex- 
 pended for the purchase or con- 
 struction of a suitable dredging 
 plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Hilo, 
 Hawaii: Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at San Juan, 
 Porto Rico, in cooperation with the 
 local government, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Doc- 
 ument Numbered Eight hundred 
 and sixty -five, Sixty-third Congress, 
 second session, and subject to the 
 conditions set forth in said document, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Appropriations made for the re- 
 spective works herein named, or so 
 much thereof as shall be necessary, 
 may, in the discretion of the Secre- 
 tary of War, be used for mainte- 
 nance and for the repair and restora- 
 tion of said works whenever from 
 any cause they have become se- 
 riously impaired, as well as for the 
 further improvement of said works. 
 
 Surveys and examinations pro- 
 vided for in this section shall, un- 
 less otherwise expressed, be paid 
 for from the appropriations mad? 
 for the respective improvements 
 or projects to which* they pertain 
 or in connection with which they are 
 mentioned. 
 
 BURTON SUBSTITUTE. 
 
 Improving Apoon mouth of Yu- 
 kon River, Alaska: Completing im- 
 provement in accordance with the re- 
 port submitted in House Document 
 Numbered Nine hundred and ninety- 
 one, Sixty-third Congress, second ses- 
 sion, $45,000. 
 
 Improving Harbor at Honolulu, 
 Hawaii : Continuing improvement 
 and for maintenance, $125,000: 
 Provided, That if in the judgment 
 of the Secretary of War the prices 
 received in response to advertise- 
 ment for bids for dredging are not 
 reasonable, so much of the amounts 
 herein and heretofore appropriated 
 as shall be necessary may be ex- 
 pended for the purchase or con- 
 struction of a suitable dredging 
 plant. 
 
 Improving harbor at Hilo, 
 Hawaii : Continuing improvement, 
 $100,000. 
 
 Improving harbor at San Juan, 
 Porto Rico, in cooperation with the 
 local government, in accordance with 
 the report submitted in House Docu- 
 ment Numbered Eight hundred and 
 sixty-jive. Sixty-third Congress, sec- 
 ond session, and subject to the condi- 
 tions set forth in said document, 
 $200,000. 
 
 Appropriations made for the re- 
 spective works herein named, or so 
 much thereof as shall be necessary, 
 may, in the discretion of the Secre- 
 tary of War, be used for mainte- 
 nance and for the repair and restora- 
 tion of said works whenever from 
 any cause they have become se- 
 riously impaired, as well as for the 
 further improvement of said works. 
 
 Surveys and examinations pro- 
 vided for in this section shall, un- 
 less otherwise expressed, be paid 
 for from the appropriations made 
 for the respective improvements 
 or projects to which they pertain 
 or in connection with which they are 
 mentioned. 
 
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