enrollment of, di rected. Correction in the Clerk be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to number the sections following section four of the bill in Public Laws, P. consecutive numerical order, any thing in the conference report to the contrary notwithstanding. 266. Passed, August 4, 1917. CHAP. 49. 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 the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, 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: Portland Harbor, Maine: For completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventy-one, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000. Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and thirtyone, Sixty-third Congress, second session. Gloucester, Beverly, Salem, Lynn, Plymouth, and Provincetown Harbors, Mystic, Malden, Weymouth Fore, and Weymouth Back Rivers, and Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $24,000. Providence River and Harbor, Pawtucket River, Newport Harbor, harbors of refuge at Point Judith and Block Island, entrance to Point Judith Pond, and Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for improvement of Providence River and Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, are hereby made available for improvement of said river and harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session. Stonington and New London Harbors, Connecticut, Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Mystic and Thames Rivers, Connecticut: For maintenance, $10,000; for completing improvement of New London Harbor, $160,000; in all, $170,000. Duck Island, Branford, New Haven, Milford, Bridgeport, Southport, Norwalk, Five Mile River, Stamford, and Greenwich Harbors, Westport Harbor and Saugatuck River, breakwaters at New Haven, and Housatonic River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $71,000. Connecticut River above and below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement and for maintenance below Hartford, $70,100. Burlington Harbor, Vermont; Plattsburg and Port Henry Harbors, New York; and Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont: For maintenance, $5,000; for improvement of Narrows of Lake Champlain in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and eighty-seven, Sixtysecond Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000; for completing improvement of Port Henry Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $71,500; in all, $376,500. Olcott, Charlotte, Pultneyville, Great Sodus Bay, Little Sodus Bay, Oswego, Cape Vincent, and Ogdensburg Harbors, New York: For maintenance, $33,500. Port Chester, Mamaroneck, and Echo Bay Harbors, East Chester and Westchester Creeks, and Bronx River, New York: Completing improvement of East Chester Creek, $11,000. Saugerties, Rondout, Peekskill, and Tarrytown Harbors, and Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, $3,500. New York Har Channels, and upper bay. Use of balances. New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance of entrance channels and for improvement of the upper bay opposite anchorage grounds in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and at Craven Shoal in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $40,000, and the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement and maintenance of the entrance channels are hereby made available for continuing improvement in accordance with the reports submitted in said documents; for improvement of channel between Staten Island and Hoffman and Channel. Swinburne Islands, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $50,000; in all, $90,000. Hudson River Channel, New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, $210,500; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven, Staten Island Hudson River Channel. Black Rock, etc., N. Y. Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $600,000; in all, $810,500. Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New Use of balances. York: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Channel and Erie Basin and for widening the channel at the bend. East River, N. Y. nel, etc. Provisos. Use East River, New York: For improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, first session, and for a forty-foot channel through Hell Gate Chan- East River and Hell Gate, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $1,250,000: Proof balances. Provided, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of East River and Hell Gate are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the reports submitted in said document: Provided further, That a depth of forty feet is authorized across Diamond Reef: Removal of And provided further, That so much as may be necessary of this and any other appropriations made herein or hereafter for specific portions of New York Harbor and its immediate tributaries may be allotted by the Secretary of War for the maintenance of these waterways by the collection and removal of drift. Depth at Dia mond Reef. drift, etc. Keyport and Shoal Harbors, Woodbridge, Cheesequake, Matawan, and Compton Creeks, Elizabeth, Raritan, South, and Shrewsbury Rivers, and Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $58,000. Cold Spring and Absecon Inlets, Absecon and Tuckerton Creeks, and Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $35,000. Cooper, Salem, Cohansey, and Maurice Rivers, Woodbury, Mantua, Raccoon, Oldmans, and Alloway Creeks, New Jersey: For maintenance, $23,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance of Maurice River, $25,000; in all, $48,000. Pittsburgh Harbor, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $5,000. Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: For improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and seventy, Sixtyfourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000. Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $1,870,000; for maintenance of improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to Lalor Street, Trenton, $40,000; in all, $1,910,000. Wilmington Harbor, Delaware: For maintenance $50,000. Appoquinietc., Riv Appoquinimink, Smyrna, Leipsic, Little, Saint Jones, mint Murderkill, Mispillion, and Broadkill Rivers, Delaware: ers, Del. For maintenance, $30,000. Government iron pier in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance and repair in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $68,000. Lewes, Del. Waterway Rehoboth and Waterway between Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay, Delaware: Continuing improvement and for mainte- Delaware Bays. nance, $50,000. Chincoteague Bay, Va., to Waterway from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay at or near Lewes, Delaware: For mainte- Lewes, Del. nance, $1,000. Waterway, Delaware River Purchase of authorized. Condemnation Improving inland waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, in accord- to ance with the project recommended by the Chief of Md. Engineers in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and in paragraph three of his report, dated August ninth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as published in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninetysix, Sixty-third Congress, first session: The Secretary of Chesapeake and War is hereby authorized to enter into negotiations for Delaware Canal the purchase of the existing Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and all the property, rights of property, franchises, and appurtenances used or acquired for use in connection therewith or appertaining thereto; and he is further authorized, if in his judgment the price is reasonable and satisfactory, to make a contract for the purchase of the same, subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. In the event of the inability proceeding if no of the Secretary of War to make a satisfactory contract contract agreed to. for the voluntary purchase of said canal and its appurtenances, he is hereby authorized and directed through the Attorney General to institute and to carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation of the said canal and its appurtenances, the acceptance of the award in said proceedings to be subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. Such condemnation proceedings shall be instituted and conducted in, and jurisdiction of said proceedings is hereby given to, the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware substantially as provided in "An Act to authorize condemnation of land for sites for public buildings, and for other purposes," approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to pay the necessary costs thereof and expenses in connection therewith. Baltimore Harbor and Channels, Maryland: For maintenance of Patapsco River and Channel to Baltimore, etc. including channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, $104,000; for improvement in accordance 159602-40—vol. 3- -9 Procedure. Vol. 25, p. 357. Baltimore, Md. Maryland harbors, etc. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $250,000; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prosecute maintenance work in the inner harbor in accordance with the recommendation submitted in said document; in all, $354,000. Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, Tilghman Island, eastern shore Cambridge, and Crisfield Harbors, Elk and Little Elk, Chester, Corisca, Choptank, Tuckahoe, Warwick, La Trappe, Tred Avon, Wicomico, Manokin, and Pocomoke Rivers, Slaughter, Tyaskin, and Broad Creeks, Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River, and Lower Thoroughfare, Deal Island, Maryland; Nanticoke River (including Northwest Fork), Delaware and Maryland; and Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance, $15,800. Potomac River, etc., D. C., Md., and Va. etc. Norfolk, Va. Channel to Potomac River, at Washington, District of Columbia, at Alexandria, Virginia, and at Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, Anacostia River, District of Columbia, Occoquan, Aquia, Upper Machodoc, and Nomini Creeks, Virginia: For maintenance, $30,000. Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia: For improveNewport News, ment, including channel to Newport News, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and five, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, item "B," page five, Use of balances. $900,000. The unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for improvement of channel to Norfolk, Virginia, is hereby made available for continuing improvement of said channel in accordance with the report submitted in said document. Rappahannock, tc., Rivers, Va. James River, etc., Va. Blackwater River, Va., etc. Waterway, Beaufort Rappahannock, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey Rivers, Urbana Creek, and Milford Haven Harbor, Virginia: For maintenance, $15,000. James, Nansemond, Pagan, and Appomattox Rivers, Virginia: For maintenance, $26,000; continuing improvement of James River, $46,000; in all, $72,000. Blackwater River, Virginia: Meherrin and Roanoke Rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,500. Waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort InNorfolk, Va. to let, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, $100,000: Provided, That the route of the waterway may, in the Discretionary discretion of the Secretary of War, be modified in ac N. C. Provisos. route. cordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-eight, Sixtythird Congress, third session: And provided further, That not more than $75,000 shall be expended in acquirRights of way. ing the necessary rights of way between Albemarle Sound and Pungo River. Manteo Bay, Manteo Bay, Scuppernong, Pamlico, Tar, South, Bay, Tar River, etc., Neuse, and Trent Rivers, Fishing, Contentnea, Swift, N. C. |