Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 21.djvu/511

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FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 136. 1881. 481 Improving Salem River, New Jersey, three thousand dollars. Salem Rive:. Improving Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, above R.ichards’ Island Sus quohann a fifteen thousand dollars. ’ River. Improving Susquehanna River above and below Havre de Grace Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars. ’ Improving Archer’s Hope River, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Archer-’s Hope . . ‘ River. Improving Wateree River, South Carolina, eight thousand dollars. Wateree River. Improving Santee River, South Carolina, by deepening and straight- Santee River. enin g its outlet to Winyah Bay through Mosquito Creek, twenty-two thousand dollars. Improving Pensacola Harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. b Pensacola Har- O1`. d Ifnproving Tchefuncte River, Louisiana, one thousand five hundred Tchefunctc Rivo ars. 01*- Improving Tickfaw River, Louisiana, two thousand dollars. Tickfaw River. Improving Bayou Teche by connecting same with Grand Lake at Bayou Teche. Charenton, Louisiana twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving bar and harbor at Brazos Santiago, Texas, seventy-five Brazos Harbor. thousand dollars. d Enproving Yallabusha River, Mississippi, three thousand ilve hundred Yallabusho Riv- 0 ars. °1`- Improving Tchula Lake, Mississippi, three thousand dollars. Teliula Lake. For the expenses of operating and maintaining the Louisville and Louisville and Portland Canal for the iiscal year ending J unc thirtieth, eighteen hun- P°*"’l“”‘1 0*****1- dred and eighty-one, forty-two thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available. lmproving entrance to Yaquina Bay, Oregon, ten thousand dollars. Yaquina Bay. 1 Improving Cowlitz River, Washington Territory, one thousand dol- Cowlitz River. ars. Of the amount now available for tho improvement of Bayou La s0§;‘?{10“t g?;':}} Fourche, Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof of 1 ’ {L as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of brick pier at Donaldsonville. Improving Richmond Harbor, Kennebec River, Maine, ten thousand B·i<=!¤¤<>¤d IW- dollars; of which sum six thousand dohars shall be expended for wing- gQ§0rK°““°l’°° dams and dredging at the head of Swan’s Island and at Hatch’s Bock, ‘ and four thousand dollars in dredging and deepening tho channel at the * foot of Swan’s Island according to the plan recommended by Lieutenant Russell. FOP reservoirs upon the headwaters of the Mississippi River and its Reservoirs upon tributaries, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and this sum, to- {"4‘;;;L;§“*'“i°1‘§VcQf gethor with the sum of seventy Eve thousand dollars heretofore appro- PP ' priated for the construction of a dam at Lake Winnibigoshish, shall bc expended at such places on said headwaters of the Mississippi River _ and its tributaries as the Secretary of War shall determine: And tt as P*‘°””°· _ Mwidcd, That compensation for any private property taken or appro- m]€:¤;_f_Sij_t2j>c§;;: priated for any of said improvements, and all damages to prlvate prop- P0us£mffor·uHd0r Ufliy Caused by the construction of any of said dams, by iiowage 0I' other- 34;,,456 ]8.ws_ wise, shall be ascertained and determined under and in accordance with ` the laws of the State in which such private property is sltuated. _ _ _ And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed m§*SIl;;rggdI;%E to ascertain what, if any, injury is occasioned to the rights of any pI0h2cm_ friendly Indians, occupying any Indian reservation, by the construction of any of said dams, or the cutting or the removing of trees or other materials from any such reservation for the construction or erection of any of said dams, and to determine the amount of damages payable to · such Indians thereior; and all such damages to private property and to triendly Indians, when ascertained and determinedm the manner _ herein directed and provided, shall be paid by the United States: PM- P""'""- vided, however, That such damages shall not exceed ten per centum of the sums hereby and heretofore appropriated for the construction of said reservoirs. _ xxl-31 `