Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continuing construction, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars. S. C. Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing Winyaw Bay, improvement of harbor at Winyaw Bay, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Tex. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improve. Sabine Pass, ment of harbor at Sabine Pass, two hundred and sixtyfour thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing Cleveland, improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Ohio. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Duluth, Minn., Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, three hundred Superior, Wis. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continu- Oakland, Cal. ing improvement under existing project, one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater at San Pedro, California, in accordance with the plans and specifications of the board appointed by the President, as provided in the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred thousand dollars. San Pedro, Cal. Vol. 29, p. 213. Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing Grays Harbor, improvement of harbor and bar entrance, two hundred and Wash. eighty-five thousand dollars. River, Narragan Improving Providence River, and Narragansett Bay, Providence Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, ten thousand sett Bay, R. I. dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: For completing improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing construction of dams numbered two, three, four, and five, between Davis Island Dam and dam numbered six, four hundred thousand dollars. Bayou Plaque mine, La. Falls of Ohio at Louisville. Illinois and Mississippi Ca nal. River. Proviso. ryville, Mo. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, seven hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio Mississippi River to Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improve-Mouth of the ment from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Ohio to St. Paul. Missouri River, six hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents: Provided, That of this amount ten thousand dollars shall be expended in the completion of work which has been commenced for the protection of the bank on the Missouri side and to deepen and straighten the channel at Claryville, in Perry County, in the State of Missouri; ten thousand dollars shall be expended for the protection of Wittenberg, the bank on the Missouri side and to deepen and straighten the channel at Wittenberg, in Perry County, in the State of Missouri; and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended to improve the channel of the river and to protect the east bank of the Mississippi River from caving in and being washed away Mo. Month of Missouri to St. Paul. Ill. Proviso. Rock at or near a point opposite the mouth of the Missouri River and extending south along said east bank. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents: Provided, That of this amount ten thousand dollars shall be expended for removing the sand bar in front of the steamboat landing at Quincy, in the State of Illinois; ten thousand dollars shall be expended for dredging the channel at Quincy Bay, at Quincy, in the State of Illinois; five thousand dollars shall be expended for the repair and maintenance of the natural and artificial banks of the Mississippi River from Warsaw to Quincy, in the State of IlliIsland, nois; five thousand dollars shall be expended for maintainwesting the harbor at Rock Island, Illinois; fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the completion of a levee on the west bank of the Mississippi River from the mouth of Flint Creek, in Des Moines County, Iowa, to the mouth of the Iowa River, in Louisa County, Davenport, Iowa; ten thousand dollars shall be expended to deepen the harbor at Davenport, Iowa, from the Government bridge to the island owned by the city of Davenport, in Clinton, Iowa. the Mississippi River; and twenty-five thousand dollars shall be expended for improving and straightening the channel at and near Clinton, Iowa. Levee, side, etc. Iowa. River sion. to Ohio. Commis Proviso. Miss. Mississippi Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the Head of Passes mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, Expenses, etc. traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million five hundred and eightythree thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars: ProGreenville vided, That of said sum fifty thousand dollars shall be used in the work of rectifying the bank at and near Greenville Harbor, in Mississippi; thirty-five thousand dollars shall Caruthersville, be used in rectifying the banks at and near the city of New Madrid, Caruthersville, Missouri; forty thousand dollars shall be used for completing revetment work at New Madrid, Missouri; and thirty thousand dollars shall be used in improving the harbor and rectifying the banks at and near Helena, Arkansas. Mo. Mo. Missouri River Commission. Proviso. Improving Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City, Expenses, etc. Iowa: For continuing improvement of Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That of this amount the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in works of improvement at the St. Joseph, Mo. following places, namely, Saint Joseph, Missouri, thirty Omaha, Nebr.; thousand dollars; Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, fifty thousand dollars; opposite Leavenworth, KanLeavenworth, sas, five thousand dollars; Jefferson City, Missouri, twenty Jefferson City, thousand dollars to improve the harbor at Jefferson City by compelling the current and channel of the river to the Nigger Bend, south side thereof; Nigger Bend, Missouri, ten thousand Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mo. Mo. dollars; Randolph Bend, Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars; Randolph Lexington, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, WAR DEPARTMENT. Bend, Mo. Miscellaneous. For publication of maps for use of the War Department, Maps. inclusive of war maps, ten thousand dollars. SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: Survey of northern, etc., For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, and lakes. electrotyping plates for chart printing, three thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. maps. TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN Transporting COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. bris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507. CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION: For defraying the California Déexpenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That officers of the commission traveling Proviso. on duty in connection with the commission's work may be paid their actual traveling expenses in lieu of mileage allowed by law, and shall hereafter receive no mileage. Traveling ex. penses, officers. HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstruc- New York Har tive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent bor. waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, Inspectors, etc. and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of four steam tugs Vessels. and three launches, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; For new boiler and installing same in steam tug Nimrod, six thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available; For purchase or construction of one steam tug, fortyfive thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. Deep Water sion. DEEP WATERWAYS COMMISSION: For completing surveys, examinations, and investigations (including estimate ways Commis of cost) of deep waterways, and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide waters, as recommended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission transmitted by the President to Congress January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; such surveys, examinations, and investigations to be made by the Laws, 1st sess. board of three engineers designated and appointed by the 55th Cong., p. 50. President for this purpose July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in compliance with the provisions of the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and Construction thorized. ninety-seven, to be immediately available, ninety thousand dollars. Government GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE BUILDING: That there Printing Office. be constructed, upon the land acquired by the United of building au States in square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, under the Laws, 2d sess. provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making appropria 55th Cong., p.648. tions for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and for other purposes," approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a fireproof building for the use of the Government Printing Office, at a total cost, including approaches, elevators, lighting, and heating apparatus, not exceeding two million dollars. Chief of Engi supervise, etc. Contracts. That the building herein provided for shall be erected neers, Army, to under the direction and supervision of the Chief of Engi neers of the Army, by contract or hired labor, or both, as may be to the best interests of the United States, and upon plans and specifications to be prepared by him and approved by the Public Printer. And the said Chief of Engineers is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of the whole or of any part of said building and for the removal of the old dwellings and other buildings now standing upon said land, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress, and he shall also have the employment of all persons connected with the work: Provided, however, That the selection and appointment of a competent architect to prepare the plans and specifications for the elevations of said building shall be made by the said Chief of Engineers and the Public Printer jointly. Proviso. Appropriation. Appropriation for salaries to be in full, etc. Repeal. Toward the construction of said building and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the cost of all professional and other personal services that the Chief of Engineers of the Army may deem necessary, and for the rent of office rooms in a locality convenient to the work, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. This appropriation and all appropriations which may hereafter be made for this purpose shall be expended under the direction and supervision of the said Chief of Engineers. SEC. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3, 1899. CHAP. 425.—An Act Making appropriations for the construction, March 3, 1899. repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and har bors, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives for rivers and of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Appropriations the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropri- harbors. ated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, 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 Moosabec Bar, Maine: Completing improve-Moosabec Bar, ment, eleven thousand dollars. For construction of breakwater from Mount Desert to Breakwater, Mount Desert, Porcupine Island, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty Me. thousand dollars. Sullivan Falls, Improving harbor at Sullivan Falls, Maine, in accordance Harbors. with the approved project, five thousand dollars. Me. Vinalhaven, Me. Me. Proviso. Improving Carvers Harbor, at Vinalhaven, Maine: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, in accordance Cape Porpoise, with the report printed in House Document Number One hundred and sixty, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, 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 the project recommended in said report, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate fifty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. N. H. Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hamp-Little Harbor, shire: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing Burlington, Vt. improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Boston, Mass. etc. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the preservation and improvement of said harbor, including the protection of Great Head and other headlands and islands in and about said harbor, to prevent further washing away by the sea: Provided further, That five Chelsea Creek. thousand dollars of this sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in improving Chelsea Creek: Provided further, That the Secretary of War may use five. Contracts. thousand dollars thereof and enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of the improvement in accordance with the project recommended in the report printed on pages eight hundred and eighty-seven et sequentes of the Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninetyeight; such improvement to provide for a channel one Channel from thousand two hundred feet wide and thirty feet deep from ship channel, the main ship channel in President Roads through Broad etc. Sound Channel, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggre ENG 99-247 President Roads, |