Survey of northern and northwestern lakes. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvement from Jacksonville to the ocean, in completion of contract authorization, $150,000. Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For continuing improvement of channel through Pinole Shoal, in completion of contract authorization, $238,000. Improving Snohomish River, Washington: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $105,000. Improving South Haven Harbor, Michigan: For continuing improvement, $43,000. Improving Willapa River and Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement, $23,132. SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, $125,000: Provided, That the survey of said New York canal northern and northwestern lakes be extended so as to Proviso. system included. California Débris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507. New York Har bor. include the lakes and other natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the "New York canals," including Lake Champlain. CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive Preventing in and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: jurious deposits. International Waterways Commission. Continuing investigation, etc. Vol. 32, p. 373. Post. p. 214. Department of State. Canadian Boundary Waters Commission. Salaries and expenses. For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs, and one launch, $75,000; In all, $85,260. International Waterways Commission: For continuing the work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the rivers and harbors Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, $15,000, to be immediately available. * * * * * UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners, salaries of clerks, and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, purchase of books, periodicals, and papers, and all necessary Vol. 36, p. 2448. traveling and other expenses, and for the one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada and other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $100,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State. * Approved June 23, 1913. CHAP. 4.-An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. June 30, 1913. [H. R. 1917.] [Public, No. 4.] Vol. 38, p. 77. Indian Department appropria Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise tions. appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely: * San Carlos Reservation. Survey for dam, system. For continuing the investigation by the Secretary of War for the purpose of determining the feasibility and practicability of constructing a dam and reservoir at or in etc., for irrigation the vicinity of the Box Canyon on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, and for other purposes, as authorized by the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, pages five hundred and eighteen to five hundred and twenty-two), $10,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. * * Approved, June 30, 1913. * CHAP. 32.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes. Vol. 37, p. 522. October 22, 1913. [H. R. 7898.] [Public, No. 32.] Vol. 38, p. 208. Urgent deficiencies appropri Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated, out ations. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes, namely: War Department. International Waterways Com mission. Incurred obli WAR DEPARTMENT INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS COMMISSION: Not exceeding $5,100 of the sum appropriated in the sundry civil be appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen for the work of the International Waterways Commission shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. New York Harbor. posits, etc. PREVENTION OF DEPOSITS, HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For Preventing de prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For purchase and installation of a boiler on the patrol boat Nimrod, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000. Rivers and har bors. Tennessee River. Vol. 37, p. 814. The sum of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be Use of balances. necessary, of the unexpended balance of the appropriation heretofore made for the improvement of the Tennessee River between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Browns Island, Alabama, be made available for expenditure in the section of the Tennessee River between Florence and Riverton, Alabama, for the purpose of allowing immediate and continuous work of improvement in said latter section of the river. Credits to river and harbor appropriations. Mississippi River. Ohio River. Yazoo, etc., rivers, Miss. * * * * * The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to credit certain appropriations under control of the Engineer Department of the Army with expenditures for the relief of sufferers from floods in the Mississippi Valley in nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Improving Mississippi River (from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River), $10,125.98; Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis, Minnesota (for between mouths of Ohio and Missouri Rivers), $14,172.15; Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $186.82; Improving Ohio River, general general $4,482.02; improvement, Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $1,834.54; Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Locks and dams, $379.34; Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $1,340; Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi, allotment Yazoo River, general improvements, $1,671.50; in all, $34,192.35. CHAP. 33. An Act Granting permission to the city of Marshfield, October 23, 1913. Oregon, to close Mill Slough, in said city. [S. 767. [Public No. 33.] Vol. 38, p. 233. Mill Slough, Declared navigable. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Oreg. That Mill Slough, a tidal tributary of Coos Bay, lying within the limits of the city of Marshfield, State of Oregon, is hereby declared to be not a navigable waterway of the United States, within the meaning of the laws enacted by Congress for the preservation and protection of such waterways, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to the filling in of said slough by the said city of Marshfield. Approved, October 23, 1913. no CHAP. 52. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes. April 6, 1914. [H. R. 13612.] [Public, No. 82.] Vol. 38, p. 312. Urgent priations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, ciencies That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely: defi appro To pay claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-one, at the present session, $251.65. For improving Upper White River, Arkansas, $5.83. CHAP. 98. An Act To provide for warning signals on vessels working on wrecks or engaged in dredging or other submarine work, and to amend section two of the Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States." May 25, 1914; (S. 5289.] [Public, No. 107.] Vol. 38, p. 381. Collisions on in- land waters. amended. Rules for carrying lights, etc. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of the Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States," be amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That the supervising inspectors of steam vessels and the Supervising Inspector General shall establish such rules to be observed by steam vessels in passing each other and as to the lights to be carried by ferryboats and by barges and canal boats when in tow of steam vessels, and as to the lights and day signals to be carried by to vessels, dredges of all types, and vessels working on wrecking vessels, wrecks by other obstruction to navigation or moored Extended etc., cial rules, etc. Vol. 26, p. 328. for submarine operations, or made fast to a sunken object which may drift with the tide or be towed, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as they from time to time may deem necessary for safety, which rules when Declared spe- approved by the Secretary of Commerce are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority, as provided for in article thirty of chapter eight hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety. Two printed copies of such rules shall be furnished to such ferryboats, barges, dredges, canal boats, vessels working on wrecks, and steam vessels, which rules shall be kept. Posting on ves posted up in conspicuous places in such vessels, barges, dredges, and boats." sels required. Approved, May 25, 1914. June 30, 1914. [H. R. 15762.] [Public, No. 123.] Vol. 38, p. 442. Diplomatic and priations. CHAP. 132. An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives consular appro- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: * Canadian ters Commission. WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: For salaries and expenses, including salaries of comBoundary Wa missioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling and |