Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Ludington, Mich. Harbors of Ludington, Mich., Manito woc, etc., Wis. wave action on. Investigation of The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to appoint a board of engineers to inquire into the effect of wave action as injuriously affecting the harbors at Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Racine, Kenosha, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and to report at the earliest practical date what plan of improvement it is desirable to adopt to overcome such wave action. Such board shall further investigate Repairs, etc. and report as to whether, in the interests of economy, future repairs and construction of piers in such harbors and in those similarly situated should be made of cement or other permanent substance. Improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Manistee, Mich. Improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan: Continuing improve- Frankfort, Mich. ment and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlevoix and entrance to Pine Lake, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars. Charlevoix, etc., Mich. Improving harbor at Petoskey, Michigan: Continuing improvement Petoskey, Mich. and for maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Arcadia, Michigan, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-four, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, six thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to Lake Michigan the dredge heretofore constructed for the harbors on the easterly shore of said lake for use in such harbors. Improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan: For maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause an examination of such harbor to be made, with a view to ascertaining the desirability, in the interest of commerce, of extending the works of improvement up to the lock and dam in the Cheboygan River, and whether, if such extension is made, any portion of the expense of such extension should be borne by the city of Cheboygan or by persons whose property may be benefited thereby. Improving harbor of refuge, Harbor Beach, Michigan: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause an examination to be made with a view to ascertaining what other or further works of improvement are necessary, if any, in order to make such harbor of refuge suitable for the present demands of commerce. Arcadia, Mich. Dredge. Cheboygan, Mich. Harbor Beach. Mich. Water route across Improving waterway across Keweenaw Point, from Keweenaw Bay Keweenaw to Lake Superior, Michigan: Continuing improvement, forty-five Mich. thousand dollars. Improving Grand River, Michigan, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixteen, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no portion of the money herein appropriated shall be used in providing a turning basin in the city of Grand Rapids. Point Grand River, Mich. Proviso. Saginaw River, Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: Continuing improvement and Mich. for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars; and any sums heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the Flint, Shiawassee, and Bad rivers, and now unexpended, are hereby diverted and made available for the improvement of the Saginaw River, in addition to the sum herein appropriated. Improving Sebewaing River, Michigan: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Diversion of appropriation. Sebewaing River, Mich. Monroe Harbor, Mich. Improving Rouge River and Monroe Harbor, Michigan: Continuing Rouge River and improvement and for maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. VOL XXXIII, PT 1-72 Hay Lake and Neebish channels. Proviso. Contracts. Detroit River, Mich. Menominee Harbor and River, Wis. Kenosha, Wis. Racine, Wis. Milwaukee, Wis. Provisos. Restriction. Sheboygan, Wis. Manitowoc, Wis. Two Rivers, Wis. Improving Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, three thousand dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, at the falls, Michigan: Continuing improvement, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the prosecution of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate six hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Hay Lake and Neebish channels, Saint Marys River, Michigan: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the prosecution of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: The Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said improvement, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Forty, Fifty-eighth Congress, third session, to be paid for as appropriation may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated. Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to make such modifications of the existing project as may seem best to save expense and subserve the interests of commerce. Improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including harbor of refuge: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the repair and rebuilding of the breakwater belonging to the harbor of refuge, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the so-called "Fair Weather" opening in said breakwater shall not be closed except by direction of Congress. Improving said harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: Provided further, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be expended for the purpose named unless the Secretary of War shall have satisfactory assurance that the city of Milwaukee will comply with the conditions imposed upon said municipality as set forth and contained in paragraph twenty-eight of House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session. Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: For maintenance, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, six thousand six hundred dollars, and the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to cause a survey to be Improving Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wisconsin, and harbor of refuge connected therewith: The Secretary of War is hereby directed to ascertain and determine whether for the purpose of completing the project submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventeen, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, it is necessary to remove, relocate, or change the bridge across Sturgeon Bay at the city of Sturgeon Bay, and if so, whether and to what extent the owners thereof have acquired vested or other rights in its present location, so as to entitle them to damages by such removal, relocation, or change, and in case the said Secretary of War shall determine that such removal, relocation, or change is necessary to complete said project, and that the said owners have acquired vested or other rights in the present location of said bridge, he is hereby authorized and directed to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, such property as may be necessary, and the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for that purpose. Improving harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ashland, Wisconsin: For maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Port Wing, Wisconsin: Completing improvement and for maintenance, nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninetytwo dollars. Improving Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, thirtyfive thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Agate Bay, Minnesota: For maintenance, two thousand dollars. Kewaunee, Wis. Sturgeon Bay and Canal, Wis. Lake Michigan Ship Green Bay, Wis. Ashland, Wis. Port Wing, Wis. Fox River, Wis. Grand Marais, Minn. Agate Bay, Minn. Minn. Improving Warroad Harbor, Warroad River, Minnesota, by dredg-Warroad Harbor and ing a channel one hundred feet wide and seven feet deep from the inner end of the channel dredged in nineteen hundred and four to the boat landing at Warroad, with a turning channel for boats at the inner barbor, and continuing present improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Superior, Wis. Proviso. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: Duluth, Minn., and Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Minnesota River, Minnesota, at the mouth: For maintenance and dredging channel, three thousand dollars. Minnesota River, Red River the Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota: North, Minn. and N. Continuing improvement and for maintenance, nine thousand dollars. Dak. Improving Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin: For maintenance, four thousand dollars. Saint Croix River, Minn. and Wis. Proviso. Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improve- Michigan City, Ind. ment and for maintenance, forty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, use any part of this appropriation or of any appropriation hereafter made for the maintenance or improvement of said harbor, for the construction of a turning Chicago, Ill. Waukegan, Ill. Illinois and Mississippi Canal, Ill. Proviso. Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. Proviso. Rock River, Ill. Proviso. Fixed dam, etc Mississippi Minn. Reservoirs. River, Locks and Dams Nos. 1 and 2. Contracts. Between Missouri River and Saint Paul, Minn. Contracts. basin in the inner harbor, not exceeding, however, the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars in the aggregate. Improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Illinois and Mississippi Canal, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For improving said river in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-two, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, and for maintenance, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the prosecution of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept, in his discretion, deeds from the proper parties conveying to the United States, free of expense, such lands as may be necessary for the construction of any of the turning basins proposed in said House document. Improving Rock River, Illinois: A fixed dam with movable crest at or near Sterling, Illinois, in lieu of the lock and dam already provided for may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be constructed: Provided, That said fixed dam with movable crest may be constructed from the funds already appropriated, or authorized to be appropriated, for the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, and shall constitute a part of the project for said canal. Mississippi River in Minnesota: Improving reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi River by the renewal of the Pine River dam according to existing project, the completion of Pokegama Dam, the purchase of lands or easements for Winnibigoshish, Leech Lake, Pokegama, and Pine River dams, and the improvement of the channel from Brainerd to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be expended, together with the amounts now on hand to the credit of "Reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi," for the completion of the improvements herein mentioned. Improving Mississippi River, Minnesota: Locks and dams numbered one and two, between Saint Paul and Minneapolis: A contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said locks and dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated. Improving Mississippi River between Missouri River and Saint Paul, Minnesota: A contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts heretofore appropriated, which amount may be expended during the year beginning July first, Lake Pepin, Minn. nineteen hundred and six, and the sum of eleven thousand five hundred dollars may be expended from amounts now or hereafter available for this improvement for the purpose of completing the harbor of refuge on the east shore of Lake Pepin, Minnesota, and the Secretary of War may cause an estimate to be made of the cost of securing a channel six feet deep in that portion of the river above described. Proviso. Improving Mississippi River at Moline, Illinois: In accordance with Moline, Ill. the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-seven, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein appropriated. Improving the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River: The Secretary of War may prosecute the improvement of the said section of the Mississippi River by dredging, as set forth in the report of the Board of Engineers for rivers and harbors, submitted November twelfth, nineteen hundred and three; and the said Secretary of War may purchase or cause to be constructed two dredges, to be employed with those now in use in said section for the purpose of dredging; and the said Secretary. may, in his discretion, expend a portion of the balance now remaining on hand to the credit of said improvement for the completion of works already under way or for the construction of other works which will be useful in promoting the navigation of said section of the river; and such balance as remains on hand, together with the amount authorized to be expended in pursuance of contracts to be made, is hereby made available for the purposes set forth in this item. Improving the Mississippi River from the Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, official, traveling and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: Continuing improvement, one million dollars, which 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 general improvement of the river, for the building of levees, and for surveys, including the survey from the Head of the Passes to the headwaters of the river, in such manner as in their opinion shall best improve navigation and promote the interests of commerce at all stages of the river: Provided, That on and after the passage of this Act a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry on continuously the plans of the Mississippi River Commission as aforesaid, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two million dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated, which latter amount may be expended during the year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and six: Provided further, That the money hereby appropriated and authorized to be expended, in pursuance of contracts or otherwise, or so much thereof 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 operation of the same, with the view of ultimately obtaining and maintaining a navigable channel from Cairo down not less than two hundred and fifty feet in width and nine feet in depth at all periods of the year, except when navigation is closed by ice: And provided further, That the water courses 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 to mouth of Missouri. Dredges. From mouth of Ohio Mississippi River Commission. to mouth of Ohio. Provisos Dredge boats. Channel below Cairo. Allotments for improvement. |