348 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1079. 1902. upon the relative advantages of all proposed routes. Nothing herein shall be construed as the adoption of any project for the construction of a waterway connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington. Said bpjard shall make its reports as above provided for to the next session of ongress. mbeec1m¤¤e1,Me. Improving Lubec Channel, Maine: Completing improvement, hfty- three thousand dollars. nsgaeneenivseue. thImpr<:1vilngl Bagaduce River, Maine: Continuing improvement, three ousan dollars. Georges rum-, Me. Improving Georges River, Maine: Completing improvement, six thousand do lars. xenuesec River, Improving Kennebec River, Maine, between Gardiner and Augusta, “°· in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-two, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, forty rmvae, thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter °°“"“”`°”· into a contract or contracts for such material and work as may be necessary to complete said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to excee in the aggrlegate forty-one thousaéid dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein an ereto ore appropriate . C0cheooRiver,N.H. Improving Colishecg River, New Hampshire: Continuing improve- L,,mp,,,y mv,,,_ ment, thirty thousand dollars, of which amount ten thousand ollars ~ _ may be expended on the Lampgey River. mem River, u. H. Improving hllxeterél lgiyler, ew Hampshire: Completing improvement seven thousand dollars. me Champlain Improving the Narrows of.L•ke Champlain, Vermont: Completing N“"°""* VL im rovement, seventeen thormnd five hundred dollars. nm-imc mvei, Improving Merrimac River,..Massachusetts: Continuing improve- Mm ment, forty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War shall cause an examination to be made with a view to obtaining a depth of nine feet to Haverhill. Mysac mi Maiden Im roving Mystic and Malden rivers and Mystic River below the '“"*’°‘· M““· mouth of Island End} lgiypr, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousan dollars. weypourh and Improving Weymouth and Town rivers, Massachusetts: Continuing T"`"` Yw°”‘ MM" im rovement, fifteen thousand dollars. “:—;¤¤¤·»¤ Rive:. d igmprovizg Tguntondgixirpr, Massachusetts: For maintenance and · ‘ ‘ re ging, ve thousand dollars. cimnemcuz River. Improving Connecticut River between Hartford, Connecticut, and °‘§L’};,Z§?§l Holyoke, Massachusetts: For the purpose of further surveys and re rt upon the project for iuliproving the Connecticut River between I·ia0rt— imni rp examine, ford. Connecticut, and olyoke, Massachusetts a board of three officers °"“* ““"""“m°"”‘ of the Engineer Corps, to be designated by the Secretary of War, shall personally make examination of the improvement proposed by the engineer in charge, and report thereon, with reference to the probable cost of said proposed improvement, the commercial advantages, if any, to be derived from such improvement, and such other information as rmmees. the board may deem essential. In estimating the probable cost of said improvement said board shall take into account both direct and consequential damages and the annual cost of maintaining said improvement, and shall hear all parties interested in said improvement or who mav Expenses. be affected thereby, and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much theredf as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of said board, and for any surveys ordered by it in addition to those already made. Providence arm- Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island, in accord- “”`lH’"h°"B‘I‘ ance with the re rt submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eiglht, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, one hundred thousand dollars. to be expended upon the lesser project recommended
