Conditions.

Virginia, an easement or right of way for use for a pumping station and for other necessary buildings, railroad tracks, mains, water pipes, and wells on lands appertaining to the Indian School, Bismarck, North Dakota, and now occupied by said Bismarck Water Supply Company, for the purpose of pumping water from the Missouri River to its reservoir and to supply its patrons with water, such grant to be made upon such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, and such easement to continue so long as used for the aforesaid purposes.

August, 1, 1914. [H. R. 17041.]

Public, No. 161.]

Vol. 38, p. 609.

Sundry civil

expenses priations.

CHAP. 223.—An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives appro- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, namely:

Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely:

For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and seven, as follows:

Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, in completion of contract authorization, $92,000. For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and ten, as follows:

Puget Sound-Lake Washington Waterway: For continuing improvement by the construction of a double lock, with the necessary accessory works, in completion of contract authorization, $375,000.

For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and eleven, as follows:

Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement, $40,000.

Harbor of refuge, Duck Island Harbor, Connecticut: For completing improvement, $7,000.

Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: For continuing improvement, $211,000.

Ohio River.
Locks and

For improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction dams. of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, $1,976,000.

Improving Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas: For continuing improvement of sections "a" and "c" from Port Arthur Canal to mouth of Neches River and from mouth of Neches River to Beaumont, in completion of contract authorization, $93,000.

For continuing improvement of section "b" from the mouth of Neches River to the mouth of Sabine River and up Sabine River to the town of Orange, in completion of contract authorization, $43,500.

For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and twelve, as follows:

Sabine-Neches Canal, Tex.

Vol. 37, p. 201.

Ohio River.
Locks and

Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks dams. and dams, $2,200,000.

For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows:

Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: For completing improvement, $900,000.

Vol. 37, p. 801.

Galveston to Texas City, Tex.

Houston Ship Channel, Tex. Dredging

Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For the purchase or construction of two suitable dredging plants, in completion of contract authorization and subject to the plants. conditions specified in the river and harbor Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200,000.

Improving Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, $150,000.

Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvement of the Hudson (North) River Channel, $150,000.

Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement of thirty-foot channel, $500,000.

Hudson River, N. Y.

New York Harbor, N. Y.

River and Harbor, R. I.

Providence

Saint Johns River to Cumberand Ga.

Improving channel between Saint Johns River and Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For complet- land Sound, Fla. ing improvement, $51,000.

The Secretary of War is authorized, upon finding that the flood conditions which prevailed in the Ohio Valley in March, nineteen hundred and thirteen, destroyed the property of any lessee from the United States of land or water power, or both, on the Muskingum River, or so damaged the same as to prevent the beneficial use of the premises so leased, upon application of the lessee, to terminate the lease as of the date of the destruction or damage of such property of the lessee, or to abate the rental for such time and in such amount as may represent the loss of the beneficial use of the premises so leased because of such flood conditions. Any lessee who shall have paid to the United States any such rental in respect of which relief is hereby authorized shall have the amount so paid refunded by the accounting officers of the Treasury upon a finding by the Secretary of War that he is en

Muskingum River, Ohio. Relief of lessees

on.

Refund.

Survey of northern and

lakes.

Extension of.

titled to the same. The amount necessary to make all such reimbursements, not exceeding $500, is appropriated.

Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey northwestern of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, 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.

California Dé

bris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507.

New York Harbor.

Preventing injurious deposits in.

Boiler for "Scout."

Annual reports of departments, etc.

Time for fur

etc.

R. S., sec. 196,

p. 31, amended.

California Débris 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 and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:

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;

For purchase and installation of a boiler on the patrol boat Scout, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War and to be immediately available, $9,000;

In all, $94,260.

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SEC. 9. Appropriations herein for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanynishing copy to ing documents unless the head of each executive departPublic Printer, ment, or other branch of the public service, or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia making such a report shall furnish copy to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year; and complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November of each year, respectively. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution.

Smithsonian reports excepted.

SEC. 11. That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the period of the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen

and nineteen hundred and fourteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service.

Subsistence al

of District of Columbia limited.

SEC. 13. That the heads of executive departments and lowances outside other Government establishments are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty when not otherwise fixed by law. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and annually thereafter estimates of appropriations from which per diem allowances are to be paid shall specifically state the rates of such allowances.

CHAP. 229.-An Act Restoring to the public domain certain lands heretofore reserved for reservoir purposes at the headwaters of the Mississippi River and tributaries.

Estimates for allowances.

August 6, 1914. (S. 1784.]

[Public, No. 165.] Vol. 38, p. 683.

Public lands.
Reservoir lands

in Minnesota
stead entry.

opened to home

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby restored to the public domain for entry under the homestead laws, pursuant to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, subject to the easement provided for in section two hereof, any and all lands in the counties of Aitkin, St. Louis, Crow Wing, Cass, Itasca, and Beltrami, approximately six thousand acres, and outside of the boundaries of the Minnesota National Forest Reserve hitherto reserved by Executive order in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries the restoration of which the Secretary of War has recommended or may hereafter recommend to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, however, That this Act shall not apply to lot two, in section four in township fifty-four ed. north, range twenty-six west, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-three in township fifty-five north, range twenty-six west, said tracts described in this proviso being hereby reserved and excluded from the lands subject to homestead entry.

Proviso.
Lands

exclud

Right to over

SEC. 2. That the lands hereby restored shall forever be and remain subject to the right of the United States to flow reserved. overflow the same or any part thereof by such reservoirs as now exist or may hereafter be constructed upon the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and all patents issued for the lands hereby restored shall expressly reserve to the United States such right of overflow.

October 2, 1914. [H. R. 13811.] Public, No. 205.] Vol. 38, p. 725.

ments.

for preservation,

Provisos. Allotments.

SEC. 3. That the time when such restoration shall take effect as to any of such lands shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; and in all cases where actual settlement has been made on any of said lands prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and improvements made the said settlers shall have a preferred and prior right to enter and file on said lands under the homestead law for the period of ninety days following the time fixed hereunder for the restoration of the lands.

SEC. 4. That no rights of any kind, except as specified in the foregoing section, shall attach by reason of settlement or squatting upon any of the lands hereby restored to entry before the hour on which such lands shall be subject to homestead entry at the several lands offices, and until said lands are opened for settlement no person shall enter upon and occupy the same except in the cases mentioned in the foregoing section, and any person violating this provision shall never be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any title thereto.

Approved, August 6, 1914.

CHAP. 313.—An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Rivers and har the sum of $20,000,000 be, and the same hereby is, approbors improve priated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise Appropriation appropriated, to be immediately available and to be exetc., of existing pended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, and most economical and advantageous in the execution of the work: Provided, That allotments from the amount hereby appropriated shall be made by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers: Provided further, That allotments for the Mississippi River from the Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River 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: And provided further, That at the beginning of the next session of Congress a special report shall be made to Congress by the Secretary of War showing the amount allotted under this appropriation to each work of improvement.

Mississippi
River.

Special report of allotments.

Approved, October 2, 1914.