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for flood protection and determining the extent to which the United States should cooperate with the States and other communities and interests in carrying out such plans, its share being based on the value of protection to navigation.

Sulphur River, Texas and Arkansas.

Sulphur River and Days Creek, Texas and Arkansas.
San Antonio River.

Saint Francis River, Arkansas and Missouri, commencing at the head of what is known as the "sunk lands," at or near the town of Saint Francis, Clay County, Arkansas, and extending to the foot of said "sunk lands" at or near the town of Marked Tree, Poinsett County, Arkansas, and in making such examination and survey, which shall be thorough and complete, the engineer or engineers having the same in charge shall also prepare plans, specifications, and make estimates of the cost of said improvement, and define the channel or course of said canal, and shall take into account and make report upon any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project in connection with the reclamation of contiguous lands or other lands subject to overflow by said stream.

Arkansas River, from Little Rock to its mouth, an instrumental survey with a view to determining if a minimum depth at all seasons of four and one-half feet can be maintained, and if so, a detailed estimate of the cost thereof.

White River, Arkansas, above Batesville, with a view to providing year-round navigation by the construction of additional locks and dams.

Obed River, Tennessee, from its mouth to its fork at Eastport, or Spurrier, Tennessee.

Forked Deer River, Tennessee, from Dyersburg to its mouth.

Ohio River at Uniontown, Kentucky, with a view to removing the sand bar in front of the wharf or landing, and to determine whether a levee should be constructed in front of said town in the interest of navigation.

Rouge River, Michigan.

Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view to improving the mouth.

Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, with a view to securing increased width.

Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view of clearing the channel and providing suitable breakwater to protect

the same.

Harbor at Mackinac Island, Michigan, with a view of extending the east breakwater a distance of four hundred feet.

Black Lake Harbor, on Macatawa Bay, Michigan, from piers to point two hundred feet east of Graham and Mor

Arkansas.

Tennessee.

Kentucky.

Michigan.

Minnesota.

Obstructions to

traffic, Mississip

Paul, Minn.

ton dock, sixteen feet, with a view to establishing carservice ferry.

The Les Cheneaux Channels, Michigan, with a view of deepening and widening the same on the northeast side of La Salle Island from a point opposite Reibers Point to Cedarville, thence south on the southwest side of La Salle Island to Rocky Reef; also the channel on the northeasterly side of Marquette Island between said island and the mainland; also the channel leading into Hessel between Grover and Wheeler Island and Haven Island.

Red Lake, Minnesota, and Red Lake River from its outlet at Red Lake to its junction with the Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota, with a view to devising plans for regulating works whereby the level of said lake and the flow of said stream may be controlled in the interest of navigation, and in making such examination and survey any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project shall be taken into consideration.

Saint Paul (Minnesota) Harbor, with a view of depi River, Saint termining whether the channel of the Mississippi River can be changed to or near the bluffs on the west side thereof. As a part of the examination which the Secretary of War is hereby required to make, he is directed to report whether access to the river at St. Paul harbor, by persons and shippers desiring to use the same for the purposes of transportation or travel thereon, is so completely dominated by private control as to materially impede or burden traffic originating or terminating there; and if he shall so find, he is further directed to report what steps are necessary to free said landing place from such improper control or obstruction, and also if, in his opinion, it is advisable for the United States to acquire the fee simple to the said landing place and the approach thereto, by condemnation or otherwise.

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Traverse and Big Stone Lakes, on the boundary between Minnesota and South Dakota, with a view to flood control and to connecting and extending navigation on and between said lakes.

Mississippi River, near Deer River, Minnesota, with view to the construction of a new channel the termini and course of said channel to be determined with greater particularity by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, the purpose of said new channel being to improve navigation, to enable a more perfect control of waters by Pokegama Dam.

Harbor of refuge at Evanston, Illinois.

Missouri River from the city of Florence, Nebraska, to the northern limits of Decatur, Nebraska.

State of Kansas, floods in: Investigate the flood periods of the Kansas River and its tributaries, the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers in the State of Kansas by an examination of the territory and from data already

gathered by governmental, State, private efforts, and
by the Board of Engineers of the War Department, and
to devise some general plan which will best guard against
the recurrence of floods and diminish their damaging
effects upon the lower valleys of the Kansas, Arkansas,
Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers.

San Joaquin River and Stockton Channel, California.
Black John Slough, California.

Playa del Rey Inlet and Basin, Venice, California.
Eel River, California.

Channel from the town of Saint Helens, Oregon, to deep water in Columbia River.

Umpqua River bar and entrance, Oregon.

Siuslaw River, Oregon, from Acme to the entrance. Harbor at and channel from the town of Rainier, Oregon, to deep water in the Columbia River.

Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation of local interests. Hoquarton Slough, Oregon, from Tillamook City to head of navigation on Tillamook Bay, to provide for a straight channel.

Columbia River from The Dalles, Oregon, to Vancouver, Washington.

Willamette River from Corvallis to Eugene, Oregon.
Washougal Slough, Washington.

Everett Harbor, Washington.

Lake River, Washington.

Channel of Bakers Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to the docks at Ilwaco, Washington. Channel of Youngs Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to a point one mile above County Road Bridge.

Saint Marys and Saint Joe Rivers, Idaho.

Columbia River from the mouth of the Snake to Priest Rapids with a view to improving open-river navigation. Columbia River from Celilo Falls, Oregon, to the mouth of the Snake River; Snake River to Pittsburg Landing, Idaho, with a view to the construction of locks and dams for navigation; Clearwater River from its mouth to Orofino; and in making such examination and survey the engineer or engineers having same in charge shall take into account any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project in connection with the development of hydroelectric power.

Tolovano River, Alaska.

Virgin River, Nevada, between its intersection with the east line of the State of Nevada and the Colorado River, with a view to confining such river within its channel and the protecting of the banks against erosion.

Harbors and connecting waters of the Great Lakes, with a view to determining what additional improvements would be necessary in order to permit those waterways to accommodate vessels able to pass through the Welland Canal when enlarged by the Dominion of Can

California.

Oregon.

Washington.

Idaho.

Alaska.

Nevada.

Great Lakes harbors, etc.

Newport, Cal.

etc.

ada, including report as to the character and drafts of vessels which may be expected to use the canal when so enlarged.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorHarbor lines, ized and directed to fix and establish pierhead and bulkhead lines, either or both, at Newport Harbor, California, in accordance with plan dated United States Engineer Office, Los Angeles, California, March, twentyfifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and entitled Newport Bay, California, showing harbor lines, beyond which no piers, wharfs, bulkheads, or other works shall be extended or deposit made, except under such regulations as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of War.

Index to Engineer reports, 1866 to 1917.

ordered.

SEC. 4. That there shall be printed one thousand five hundred copies of the index to the annual reports of the Printing, etc., Chief of Engineers, United States Army, from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, to include the reprinting of House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty, Sixty-third Congress, second session, covering the period from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, authorized by section six of the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, the additional information covering the period from nineteen hundred and twelve to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, to be furnished by the Secretary of War.

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SEC. 5. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept for and on behalf of the United States, with thanks to the donors, funds raised or to be raised by the New York World by popular subscription for the construction of an electric lighting plant adequate for the illumination of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island, New York Harbor, with the understanding that the funds will be applied to the purpose for which donated, and that the lighting plant, after construction, will be maintained at the expense of the United States. SEC. 6. That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to pay for any work done by private contract if the contract price is more than twenty-five percentum in excess of the estimated cost of doing the work by Government plant.

Approved July 27, 1916.

August 9, 1916 [H. R. 10931.).

[Private, No. 90.]

CHAP. 311.-An Act For the relief of Doctors Blair and Blake, Doctor W. J. Maxwell, Doctor R. C. Evans, and J. B. Blalock.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tennessee That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, for services to em. authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the ployees injured on Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums of $375 to Doctors Blair and Blake, $25 to Doctor W. J. Max

River. Payment

well, $25 to Doctor R. C. Evans, and $4.15 to J. B. Blalock, all of Sheffield, Alabama, in full payment of all claims and demands for surgical service rendered and material supplied by them to employees of the United States Government who were injured by a premature dynamite explosion while in the performance of duties, assigned to them by the Government engineers, and while engaged in channel work in the Tennessee River at Cogers Island near Smithsonia, Alabama, on the twenty-fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

Approved, August 9, 1916.

CHAP. 313.-An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

August 11, 1916.

[H. R. 12717.]

[Public, No. 190.] Vol. 39, p. 446.

Agricultural

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 of the United Department ap States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation propriations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous.

COOPERATIVE FIRE PROTECTION OF FORESTED WATERSHEDS OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS: For cooperation with any State or group of States in the protection from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams under the provisions of section two of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers," $100,000.

That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such areas on any lands which have been, or which may hereafter be, purchased by the United States under the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and sixty-one), entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose

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