of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and Contracts.
work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid
for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to
exceed in the aggregate one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five
hundred and sixty dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appro-
priated.

Improving channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Channel, ApalachiFlorida, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Andrews Bay, Fla. Numbered Six hundred and seventy, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, thirty thousand dollars.

Sarasota Bay, Fla.

Improving the narrows in Santa Rosa Sound, Florida: Completing Fanta Rosa Sound, improvement, in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-five, Sixty-first Congress, second session, twenty-four thousand dollars.

Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For maintenance, nine thousand dollars.

Improving Anclote River, Florida: Completing improvement, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Tampa Bay, Fla.

Anclote River, Fla.

Apalachicola River,

Improving Apalachicola River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the cut-off Lee Slough, lower Chipola Fla. River, and upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Fla.

Improving Blackwater River, Florida: Continuing improvement Blackwater River, and for maintanance, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Caloosahatchee River, Florida, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Crystal River, Florida: For maintenance, two thousand dollars.

Improving Hillsboro River, Florida: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Holmes River, Florida: For maintenance of improvement from Vernon to the mouth, two thousand dollars. Improving Indian River, Florida: Continuing improvement between Goat Creek and Jupiter Inlet and for maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars.

Caloosahatchee River, Fla.

Crystal River, Fla.

Hillsboro River,

Fla.

Holmes River, Fla.

Indian River, Fla.

Kissimmee River,

Fla.

Fla.

Proviso.
Levels in lakes.

Improving Kissimmee River, Florida: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving Oklawaha River, Florida: Continuing improvement Oklawaha River, and for maintenance from the mouth to Leesburg, including Silver Springs Run, twenty thousand seven hundred and ten dollars: Provided, That so much of said sum, together with any funds heretofore appropriated and now remaining to the credit of said project as may be necessary for that purpose, may be used for the maintenance of levels in the lakes at the head of said stream, especially Lake Griffin. Improving Orange River, Florida: For maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Orange River, Fla.

Fla.

Improving Saint Johns River, Florida, from Jacksonville to the Saint Johns River, ocean, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eleven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dollars; continuing improvement Distribution. opposite the city of Jacksonville, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; and improving said river from Jacksonville to Palatka, continuing improvement, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars, and from Palatka to Lake Harney, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and

Withlacoochee River, Fla.

Water hyacinth, Fla.

Removing.

Choctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala.

Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Fla, and Ala.

Mobile, Ala.
Bar.

Harbor.

Proviso.

Restriction.

Alabama River.

Proviso.
Extension.

Black Warrior, War

rivers, Ala.

Proviso.

Contracts for locks and dams.

eleven, Sixtieth Congress, second session, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.

Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: For maintenance from the anchorage in the Gulf of Mexico to Pembertons Ferry, six thousand dollars.

Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters of the State of Florida, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, five thousand dollars.

Improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance of improvement, including Cypress Top outlet, five thousand dollars.

Improving Escambia and Conecuh rivers, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance, five thousand dollars.

Improving Mobile bar, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, nine thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, with a view to securing a depth of twenty-seven feet, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and with a view to completing said improvement within a period of four years, four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, of which amount five thousand dollars may be used in the removal of sunken logs, deadheads, and other obstructions: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War the work of straightening the channel suggested in the report shall not be undertaken until the present channel shall have been dredged to a depth of twenty-seven feet.

Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War the scope of this improvement may be extended to include the Alabama and Coosa rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One thousand and eightynine, Sixtieth Congress, second session.

Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alarior, and Tombigbee bama: Continuing improvement from Mobile to the Mulberry and Locust forks by the construction of locks and dams, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.

From mouth to Walkers Bridge, Miss. Distribution.

Biloxi, Miss.

Gulfport, Miss.

Proviso.

Depth of channel.

Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance, from the mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, thirteen thousand dollars; from Demopolis, Alabama, to Columbus, Mississippi, eleven thousand dollars; from Columbus to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement 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, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the balance of funds heretofore appropriated and now on hand for maintenance of existing project, together with so much of the amount herein appropriated as may be allotted by the Secretary of War for work on the Gulfport channel and anchorage basin, is hereby made available for securing in said channel and anchorage basin such additional depth as may be practicable, not to exceed twenty-three feet.

Improving Horn Island Pass, Mississippi: For maintenance, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving East Pearl River, Mississippi, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, twenty thousand dollars.

Pascagoula River,

Proviso.
Extending channel.

Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement Miss. and for maintenance, ninety-three thousand dollars: Provided, That of this amount so much as may be necessary, not to exceed eight thousand dollars, shall be expended in extending the channel up Dog River as recommended in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, Sixty-first Congress, second session.

Pascagoula, etc.,

Improving Pascagoula, Chickasahay, and Leaf rivers, Mississippi: rivers, Miss. For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Pearl River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Rockport, twenty-five thousand dollars; for maintenance of improvement between Edinburg and Jackson, five thousand dollars.

Pearl River, Miss.

Wolf and Jordan

Yazoo River, Miss.

Mouth.

Improving Wolf and Jordan rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, four thousand dollars. Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: Continuing Tributaries, etc. improvement and for maintenance, including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Big Sunflower, and Coldwater rivers and Tchula Lake under the existing project, and Steele and Washington bayous and Lake Washington, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and four, Sixtieth Congress, first session, and Bear Creek, Mississippi, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eight, Sixtieth Congress, first session, thirty-nine thousand dollars.

Bayou

Bartholo

Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Maçon, D'Arbonne, and Corney, mew, etc., La. and Boeuf and Tensas rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, sixteen thousand dollars.

Improving Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvement of mouth and passes of Calcasieu River, five thousand dollars.

Improving Bogue Falia, Bayou Manchac, Amite, Chefuncte, and Tickfaw rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: For maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvement, including Grand River and Pigeon bayous, ten thousand dollars.

Calcasieu River and Pass, La.

La.

Bogue Falia, etc.,

B Bayou Lafourche,

Bayou Plaquemine,

etc., La.

Lake Pontchartrain and Pass Man

Improving Lake Pontchartrain and Pass Manchac, Louisiana, in accordance with the reports submitted in House Documents Num- chac, La. bered Eight hundred and eighty-one and Eight hundred and eightytwo, respectively, of the Sixtieth Congress, first session, nine thousand dollars.

Maintenance of South Pass Channel, Mississippi River: For maintenance, forty thousand dollars.

Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, in accordance with the La limited project submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twentyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this amount shall

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Mississippi River.
South Pass Channel.

Southwest Pass.

Bayou Teche, La.

Bayou Terrebonne,

Proviso.

Title, etc.

Bayou Vermilion, etc., La.

Distribution.

Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La.

Inland waterway, Mermentau River to

Tex

be expended until title to any land required for the purposes of this improvement shall have been deeded to the United States free of cost.

Improving Bayou Vermilion and Mermentau River, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvement of channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion and of Mermentau River and tributaries, including Bayou Plaquemine Brulé, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-nine, Sixtieth Congress, first session, ten thousand dollars.

Improving waterway from Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana: For maintenance, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving inland waterway from Mermentau River, Louisiana, to Sabine River, La. and Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas, in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Three, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That this amount may be applied to any modified plan for this section of the waterway that may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and approved by the Secretary of War.

Proviso.

Modified plan adopted.

Water hyacinth, La. and Tex. Removing.

La.

Atchafalaya River,

Removing the water hyacinth, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States of Louisiana and Texas, so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, from Morgan City to the Gulf of Mexico: Completing improvement and for maintenance in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, five Contract for main hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is

tenance of channel.

authorized to enter into contract with the Atchafalaya Bay Ship Channel Company for the construction and maintenance for three years of a channel twenty feet deep and two hundred feet wide, in accordance with the terms of proposals numbered one and two of said company, as printed in the report above mentioned: Provided, That for payment of expenses of inspection and superintendence of work under this contract the additional sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.

Improving Red River, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Fulton, Arkansas, seventy-five thousand dollars; continuing improvement and for maintenance between Fulton, Arkansas, and Denison, Texas, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That of this latter amount so much as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for removing snags and other obstructions in the lower twenty-five miles of the Kiamichi River, a tributary of Red River in the State of Oklahoma.

Improving Aransas Pass, Texas: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-nine, Sixty-first Congress, second session, two hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement under the existing project, which contemplates 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 street, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: 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 submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and Twentyeight, Sixty-first Congress, second session.

Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For maintenance, by Galveston, Tex. dredging and repair of the jetties, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, divert such portion of this appropriation as may not be required for this work to the work of improving Galveston Channel.

Proviso.
Diversion.

City.

Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: Channel to Texas For maintenance and for dredging within the limits recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars.

Houston Ship Channel, Tex. Contracts.

Houston Ship Channel (formerly Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou), Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War may enter into contract for such material and work as may be necessary to complete the present project to an amount not exceeding two million two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: Provided, That the sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, being one-half of the amounts herein State navigation disappropriated and authorized to be appropriated, shall be furnished trict. for the work by the "Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District," a local organization created and existing under and by

Provisos.
Contribution by

tion.

virtue of the laws of the State of Texas; and no part of the appropria- Condition of contion herein made shall be available for expenditure, and no contract tract. shall be entered into under the foregoing authorization, until the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the said navigation district has made provision for furnishing the whole of said sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and has placed to his credit, Deposit of contribu and subject to his order in a United States depository to be designated by him, three hundred thousand dollars thereof, and has satisfied him that the remainder of said sum will be deposited, in like manner, from time to time, as appropriations for the work may be made by Congress, and in amounts equal to those so appropriated: Provided further, That Completion of projany contract entered into by the Secretary of War under the foregoing authorization shall specifically provide for the completion of the project, and that not more than one-half of the consideration agreed upon shall be furnished and paid by the United States.

ect.

Channel Pass Ca

Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: Com- vallo to Port Lavaca, pleting improvement, with a view to providing a depth of seven feet, Tex. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and eighty-two, Sixtieth Congress, second session, ten thousand dollars.

Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: Completing improve- Port Bolivar, Tex. ment in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-first Congress, second session, ninety-one thousand and eighty dollars.

Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for Sabine Pass, Tex. maintenance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Sabine-Neches Canal, etc., Tex.

Board of engineers to consider projects

submitted.

The Secretary of War shall appoint a board of engineers to reconsider the project submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-six, Sixty-first Congress, second session, for the improvement of the Sabine-Neches Canal from the Port Arthur Ship Canal to the mouth of the Sabine River, the Neches River up to the town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of Orange, to a navigable depth of twenty-five feet, including a guard lock, and report to Congress on or before December first, nineteen hundred and ten, upon the dimensions and cost of the minimum improvement of the locality which will adequately serve the interests of commerce and the amounts which the United States and the local interests respectively should contribute toward the cost of such adequate improvement, and toward its maintenance after completion. In view cal interests.

Conference with lo