Operating, etc., works at Dam No. 2. Proviso. Available for prior expenses. March 22, 1926. [S. 122.] [Public, No. 72.] Vol. 44, p. 221. River. Des Moines Light Company may dam, at Des Moines, Iowa. Provisos. For operating, maintaining, and keeping in repair the works at Dam Numbered 2, Tennessee River, including the hydroelectrical development, $300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That this appropriation shall also be available for the payment of any such expenses incurred during the fiscal year 1926 prior to the date of this appropriation. CHAP. 83.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Iowa Power and Light Company to construct, maintain, and operate a dam in the Des Moines 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 Iowa Power and Light Company to construct, maintain. and operate a dam in the Des Moines River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Des Moines, Iowa: Provided, That the work shall not be commenced until the plans therefor shall be submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and by the Secretary of War: Provided further, Use restricted. That this Act shall not be construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water power or generate hydroelectric energy. Approval of plans required. Time of struction. Proviso. con if velopment interfered with. SEC. 2. That the authority granted by this Act shall cease and be null and void, unless actual construction of the dam hereby authorized is commenced within one (1) year and completed within three (3) years from the date. of approval of this Act: Provided, That from and after water power de- thirty (30) days notice from the Federal Power Commission, or other authorized agency of the United States, to said Iowa Power and Light Company, its successors or assigns, that desirable water power development will be interfered with by the existence of said dam, the authority hereby granted to construct, maintain and operate said dam shall terminate and be at an end; 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. Authority of grantee of power project. Conditions. Amendment. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 22, 1926. CHAP. 97. An Act To legalize a wharf and marine railway owned by George Peppler in Finneys Creek, at Wachapreague, Accomac County, Virginia. April 1, 1926. [H. R. 2830.] [Public, No. 84.] Vol. 44, p. 228. Finneys Creek, Va. Wharf and ma by George Pep Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the wharf and marine railway owned by George rine railway in, Peppler in Finneys Creek, at Wacha preague, in the pier, legalized. county of Accomac, Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, legalized to the same extent and with like effect as to all existing or future laws and regulations of the United States as if the permits required by the existing laws of the United States in such cases made and provided had been regularly obtained prior to the erection of said wharf and marine railway: Provided, That any changes in said wharf and marine railway, which the Secretary necessary. of War may deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation, shall be promptly made by the owner thereof. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 1, 1926. CHAP. 129.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington in allocation of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for other purposes, and authorizing an appropriation therefor. Proviso. Amendment. April 13, 1926. [H. R. 8129.] [Public, No. 112.] Vol. 44, p. 247. Columbia River Compact. Time extended by participating States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1925, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana or completion of, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for other purposes," be continued and extended, and the said States are hereby authorized to negotiate or enter into a compact or agreement and report to Congress in accordance with the provisions of the said Act not later. than December 1, 1927. SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of not more than $25,000, for completing investigations of the feasibility of irrigation by gravity or pumping, water sources, water storage, and related problems on the Columbia River and its tributaries, including the Columbia Basin project. Approved, April 13, 1926. Vol. 43, p. 1268, amended. thorized for inves tigating irrigating Columbia Basin. Amount au by gravity, etc., Vol. 42, p. 1540 159602-40—vol. 3- 22 April 15, 1926. [H. R. 8917.] [Public, No. 123.] Vol. 44, pp. 254, 274, 287, 290, 291, 292. ment appropriations. CHAP. 146.-An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, War Depart. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes, namely: Department military activi ties. TITLE I-MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER Office of Chief of Engineers. Civilian person .nel. Draftsmen, etc.. payable from tions. OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $118,000. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and other appropria- such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1927 shall not exceed $150,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid Proviso. to each. Nonmilitary TITLE II.-NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT activities. CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, $15,000. RIVERS AND HARBORS Rivers and harbors. Appropriations To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision available. of the Chief of Engineers: Preserving, constructing, etc., au Boundary wa ters survey, etc. For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects thorized projects. heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between the 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; and for the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits bor deposits. within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, for pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, crews, and office force, and for maintenance of patrol fleet and expenses of office, $50,000,000. For examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, $200,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. New York Har. Examinations, etc. Proviso. Limited to authorizations. Tennessee Riv ries. survey. Vol. 42, p. 1040. The limit of cost fixed for the completion of the survey er and tributaof the Tennessee River and its tributaries as recommended in House Document Numbered 319, Sixtyseventh Congress, second session, is hereby increased to $790,800 and the survey extended to include tributaries with a drainage area of about one hundred square miles, and the funds for the prosecution of this work within the limit above set out may be allotted from appropriations heretofore, herein, or hereafter made by Congress for the improvement, preservation, and maintenance of rivers and harbors: Provided, That reports of such survey or surveys may be made to the Congress from time to time, veys. but the Engineer Department shall not give out information as to said surveys to other persons until after a report, partial or final, shall be made to the Congress. FLOOD CONTROL Flood control, Mississippi River: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordarce with the provisions of the Flood Congrol Acts approved March 1, 1917, and March 4, 1923, $10,000,000. Flood control, Sacramento River, Calif.: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, $400,000. Proviso. Flood control. Mississippi River. Vol. 39, p. 948; Vol. 42, p. 1505. River, Calif. Sacramento Vol. 39, p. 948. * April 17, 1926. [H. R. 9957.] [Public, No. 134.] Vol. 44, p. 300. River. rected to control below ters of, CHAP. 157.-An Act Authorizing a survey for the control of excess flood waters of the Mississippi River below Point Breeze in Louisiana and on the Atchafalaya Outlet by the construction and maintenance of controlled and regulated spillway or spillways, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Mississippi That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorSurvey, etc., di- ized and directed to cause a survey to be made, and excess flood wa- estimates of the costs of such controlled and regulated spillway or spillways as may be necessary for the diversion and control of a sufficient volume of the excess flood waters of the Mississippi River between Point Breeze and Fort Jackson in Louisiana, in order to prevent the waters of said river exceeding stages of approximately sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty feet on the Carrollton gauge at New Orleans, and of approximately forty-six, forty-seven, and forty-eight feet on the gauge at Simmesport on the Atchafalaya Outlet, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause the Mississippi River Commission to transmit to him all engineering records, data, field notes, and such other information in its possession as he may deem desirable and useful in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Mississippi River Comis sion to furnish data, etc., relating t o. Funds used. to SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized to use be $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from funds heretofore appropriated for flood control, Mississippi River, to carry out the objects and purposes of this Act: Provided, That no spillway shall be constructed ters to Mississippi as a result of the survey authorized by this Act whereby Sound forbidden. the waters of the Mississippi River would be diverted into Mississippi Sound. Proviso. Diverting wa Report to Congress. SEC. 3. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to report to the Congress as soon as practicable the results of the survey authorized by this Act. Approved, April 17, 1926. CHAP. 169. An Act To legalize the submarine cable laid in the Saint Louis River at the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway drawbridge, between New Duluth, Minnesota, and Oliver, Wisconsin, and used for the lighting of the village of Oliver, Wisconsin. 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 Coyne Electric Shoppe, of Hibbing, Minnesota, to maintain the submarine cable heretofore laid by it without permit in the Saint Louis River, at the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway drawbridge between New Duluth, Minnesota, and Oliver, Wisconsin: Provided, That any changes in said. cable which the Secretary of War may deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation shall be promptly made by the owner thereof. |