July 1, 1922. Vol. 42, p. 767. [H. R. 12090.]

CHAP. 258. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year [Public, No. 263.] ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes.

Third Defi

year 1922.

Deficiency appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ciency Act, fiscal of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes, namely:

AUDITED CLAIMS

WAR DEPARTMENT

July 1, 1922. Vol. 42, p. 816. [H. R. 11362.] [Public, No. 271.]

Miss.

non

For harbor at Buffalo, New York, $153,686.94.

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Approved, July 1, 1922.

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CHAP. 266.-An Act Declaring Tchula Lake, Holmes County, Mississippi, to be a nonnavigable stream.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Tehula Lake, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Tchula Lake, in Holmes County, in the State of Mississippi, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Declared navigable.

Amendment.

July 1, 1922. Vol. 42, p. 821.

[H. J. Res. 297.] Pub. Res., No.

65.]

navigable waters.

Preamble.

SEC. 2. That is right of Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 1, 1922.

CHAP. 276.-Joint Resolution Requesting the President of the United States to call a conference of maritime nations with a view to the.adoption of effective means for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters by oil-burning and oil-carrying steamers by the dumping into such waters of oil waste, fuel oil, oil sluge, oil slop, tar residue, and water ballast.

Pollution of Whereas the careless casting of oil refuse into the sea from oil-burning and oil-carrying steamers has become a serious menace to the maritime and the fishing industries of the United States and other countries; and Whereas the fire hazard created by the accumulation of floating oil on the piles of piers and bulkheads into harbor waters is a growing source of alarm; and Whereas most serious is the destruction of ocean fisheries resulting from the constant discharge into territorial

waters of the waste products of the oil used for fuel on many steamers in place of coal, which threatens to exterminate the food fish, oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters which are a vital part of our various national food supplies; and

Whereas the dumping of this oil refuse is not only ruining the bathing beaches situated on the territorial waters of the various countries, which during the summer attract hundreds of thousands of people to the seashore resorts, but the depreciation in value of millions of dollars of seashore property is most alarming; and Whereas this pollution takes place on the high seas as well as within territorial waters: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is requested to call a conference of maritime nations with a view to the adoption of effective means for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters.

Approved, July 1, 1922.

CHAP. 284.-An Act To authorize the California Débris Commission to reimburse the city of Sacramento, California, for money expended by said city in the construction of the Sacramento weir. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from funds appropriated and contributed for the control of floods on the Sacramento River in pursuance of the Flood Control Act, approved March 1, 1917, the California Débris Commission is hereby authorized to pay to the city of Sacramento, California, the sum of $161,557.08, as equitable reimbursement of money expended by the said city in the construction of the weir at the head of the Sacramento by-pass leading into the Yolo by-pass, such structure being an essential part of the project adopted by the aforesaid Act as set forth in House Document Numbered 81, Sixty-second Congress, first session, as modified by the report of said commission submitted February 8, 1913, approved by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, and printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered 5, Sixtythird Congress, first session, in so far as said plan provides for the rectification and enlargement of river channels and the construction of weirs.

Approved, August 24, 1922.

CHAP. 419. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Warren, in the State of Ohio, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

Mahoning

River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the city of Warren, Ohio, and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, a dam across the Mahoning Warren, Ohio, River, in the city of Warren, in the county of Trumbull, in the State of Ohio: Provided, That the work shall not be commenced until the plans therefor have been filed with and approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That this Act shall not be construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water power or generate electricity.

may dam. Provisos. Approval of

plans.

Use restricted.

Time of struction.

Proviso.

Terminated

con

water-power de

fered with.

SEC. 2. That this Act shall be null and void unless the actual construction of the dam hereby authorized is commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date hereof: Provided, That the consent if hereby given shall terminate and be at an end from and velopment inter after thirty days' notice from the Federal Power Commission, or other authorized agency of the United States, to said company or its successors, that desirable waterpower development will be interfered with by the existgrantee of power ence of said dam; and any grantee or licensee of the United States proposing to develop a power project at or near said dam shall have authority to remove, submerge, or utilize said dam under such conditions as said commission or other agency may determine, but such conditions shall not include compensation for the removal, submergence, or utilization of said dam if the water level to be maintained in said power project is higher than the level of the crest of said dam.

Authority

project.

Conditions.

Amendment.

of

September 22, 1922.

Vol. 42, p. 1038.

(H. R. 10766.] [Public, No. 362.]

River and har

ments.

Works author

ized.

SEC. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, September 22, 1922.

CHAP. 427.---An Act authorizing 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 bor improve of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following works of improvement are hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans recommended in the reports hereinafter designated:

Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 996, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document

Pawtucket River, Rhode Island, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 654, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session.

Mamaroneck Harbor, New York, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 651, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

New Rochelle and Echo Bay,

Harbor of New Rochelle and Echo Bay, New York, in accordance with the report submitted in House Docu- N. Y. ment Numbered 110, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Westchester Creek, New York, in accordance with report submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered 8, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Westchester Creek, N. Y.

New York and New Jersey

New York and New Jersey Channels, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Num- Channels. bered 653, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session.

Newark Bay, and Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, New Jersey, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 206, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Absecon Inlet, New Jersey, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 375, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session.

Wilmington Harbor, Delaware, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 114, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Locklies Creek, Virginia, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 612, Sixtythird Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Newark etc., N. J.

Bay,

Absecon Inlet, N. J.

Wilmington,

Del.

Locklies Creek,

Va.

Waterway, Core Sound and

Waterway connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, in accordance with the report sub- Beaufort, N. C. mitted in House Document Numbered 88, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session.

Cape Fear River below Wilmington, North Carolina, in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered 94, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session.

La Grange Bayou, Florida, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 111, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions recommended by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors as set forth in said document.

Cape Fear River, N. C.

La Grange Ba you, Fla.

Calcasieu River, La.

Calcasieu River, Louisiana, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 974, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document: Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for ac- lands. quiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement.

Proviso.
No expense for

Galveston Channel, Tex.

Sabine. Neches Waterway, Tex.

Provisos.

No expense for lands.

Galveston Channel, Texas, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 693, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session.

Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas, in accordance with the reports submitted in House Document Numbered 975, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, and Senate Document Numbered 152, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said reports: Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement: Provided further, That Guarantee from before entering upon the prosecution of the improvements herein authorized, local interests shall guarantee, in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War, that the United States will be held free from any claim for damages resulting from the execution of the work hereby authorized.

local interest required.

Aransas Pass Channel to Cor

Channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas, pus Christi, Tex. in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 321, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said. document.

Tensas River, La.

Red Lake and River, Minn.

Monongahela River, Pa.

Green Wis.

Bay,

Milwaukee,

Wis.

Black Rock Channel and

Tensas River, Louisiana, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 95, Sixtyseventh Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Red Lake and Red Lake River, Minnesota, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 61, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 288, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session.

Green Bay Harbor, Wisconsin, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 626, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.

Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 804, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document.

Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New Tonawanda, York, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 981, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session.

N. Y.

Calif.

San Deigo. San Diego Harbor, California, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in the report submitted in House Document Numbered 1000, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session.

Los Angeles, Harbor, Calif.

San Francisco, Calif.

Los Angeles Harbor, California, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 1013, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session.

San Francisco Harbor, California: The entrance channel, in accordance with the report submitted in House