FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 314. 1896. 225 to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, _ not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, exclu— Li““°‘ sive of the amount herein appropriated. Improving Ohio River, by the construction of Dams Numbered Two, Dams 2.3.4.:md 5. Three, Four, and Five, between Davis Island Dam and Dam Numbered Six, in accordance with the project submitted February third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, thirty thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the purchase of the sites for Dams Numbered Three, Four, and Five; and if said sum shall not be sufficient, then the Secretary of War may use so much of the moneys heretofore appropriated for Dam Numbered Six as shall be requisite: Provided, That contracts may be Promo. entered into by the Secretary of War for the whole or any part of the C°""‘“’*“· material and work as maybe necessary to complete said movable dams, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law., _ _ not exceeding in the aggregate one million ninehundred and ninety L"""` thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. _ _ _ · Improving Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia: Continuing improve- W‘?*{};’_R"’°’· 0‘“° °“" ment, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of whichtwenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend in a survey of the said S“"°Y- Ohio River from Marietta, Ohio, to the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and report the number of movable dams necessary to improve said river between said points to provide six feet of water therein at low water, and the proper location of necessary dams, as well as probable cost thereof: Provided, That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, §’;g*>i·*Pljor so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for snagging gg g` purposes: And provided further, That the sum of twentytwo thousand Ice pierstwo hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the construction of three ice piers, substantially similar to those now along the Ohio River, one additional at Middleport, one at Syracuse, and one at or near the mouth of Big Hocking; the precise points for the construction of said piers at said localities shall be fixed by the Secre- I·<><=¤ti¤¤- tary of Wavr so as to best accommodate the commerce of those sections of said river: Provided further, That out of said sum there shall be Evans-1u¤,1¤a. expended in the improvement of the harbor of Evansville, Indiana, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars: And provided G"*°°“““· m- jvrther, That out of said sum there shall be expended for the improvement of the harbor at Golconda, on the Ohio River, in Pope County, Illinois, the sum of three thousand dollars: And provided jvrther, That B¤¤>k1y¤,111~ there shall also be expended out of said sum ten thousand dollars for the improvement and continuance of the work on the harbor at Brook· _ lyn, Illinois: And provided further, That there shall also be expended M°“"d C'°"m‘ out of said sum five thousand dollars for continuation of work on the improvements of the ()hio River near Mound City, Illinois. _ improving Saginaw River, Michigan: Continuingimprovement, forty Mif? “’ "“' *“"°’· thousand dollars, of which sixteen thousand dollars shall be expended _ ` on the river above Bay City. The Secretary of War is hereby directed *“"°y"""" to cause surveys to be made and estimates of the cost of improvement of the Saginaw River from its head to a point in Saginaw Bay, with a View of securing a channel two hundred feet wide and an increase in depth to fourteen feet from the head of the river to the Third Street Bridge, so called, in Bay City, thence of the same width to Saginaw Bay with a view to securing an increase of the depth of the channel to sixteen feet: also to submit plans and estimates for improving the west channel of the Saginaw River between the Middle Ground and West Bay City, with a view to securing a depth of said channel to fourteen feet; also to improve the Shiawassee River from the Saginaw River to the Bad River; Bad River to the village of Saint Charles, and the Flint River from the Shiawassee as far as practicable, to such an extent as will afford a reliable navigation for light—draft boats between Saginaw srnr L-—VOL 29-—-15
