218 SIXTY·SECOND CONGRESS. Sms. II. Ch. 253. 1912. ¥*@PP* M"' Im l‘0V1Hg· iRiver from Head of Passes to the mouth of
River. the Oxhio River, incluidihg salaries, clerical, office, traveling,0and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission: ntmurng
Hg'_*gg ,$; improvement with a view to securing a permanent channel dgpth 0 oma nine feet, six million dollars, which sum shall be e?ended un er the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance wrt _ the glanskspecriications, and recommendations of the Mississippi R1ver_ ommission, as a proved by the Chief of Engineers, for the general improvement kim of tlge river, for the building of evees, which shall be considered extraordinary emergency wor , between_the of Passes and Cape ¤“"*¥'· Girardeau, Missouri and for surveys, mcludmg_ the survey from e Head of Passes to the headwaters of the river, m such manner as in their opinion shall best improve navigation and promote the mterests P~•¢•¤•— ofcommerceatallstagesof themver:P , Thatmvrewof the
exist' emergency four million dollars of the money hereby appro- is set rlapart for the redpair and construction of levees:_ romiled further, at of the resi ue of the money hereby appropriated
so much as may be necessary shall be expended ui the construction °‘°"'°'·°'“· of suitable and necessary dredge boats and other devices and ap liances and in the maintenance and operation of the same: Promsed ,,§°‘T,;'.‘L°°°"' "“°'_£•:r·¢{:·, That the water courses connected with said river and the ummm; rs upon it, now under the control of the Mississippi River Commission and under improvement, may, in the discretion of said commision, upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, receive allotments A k for improvements now under way or hereafter to be imdertaken, to m ° °°°°° be paid for from the amount herein appropriated: Provided further, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted, from the appropriation made in this aragraph to the Auburn and Linwood levee districts on the Arkansas iliver, in the counties of Lincoln and Desha, in the State of Arkansas for the purpose of repairin§ or rebuilding the levees under the control of said istricts, respectiv y, damaged or destroyed during the over- . flow of the waters of the Mississippi River during the present ear of nineteen hundred and twelve or bg protecting the bank in gout ‘“°“"°"‘· of said levees; the proportion in whic said sum shall be allotted to said districts, and the specific work for which the same shall be expenéled therein, shall be made as the Mississippi River Commission shall irect.
,‘§,§,'2L§§ The traveling expenses of the civilian members of the Mississippi
•, ¤¤,¤¤¤*¤·¤¤ 0* River Commission, and of the Assistant Engineer of the Board of En eers for Rivers and Harbors, when on duty, shall be computed ancflégid in the same way as the traveling expenses of the Army Sun em 0, an mem rs of said commission and of said board. wu, a’£¤¤3wr¤x. The Mississippi River Commission is hereby authorized and @ to m e an examination and survey of all the lands, sub- ¤¤¤v¤¤· 'i‘¤¤¤· ject to oyerflow from the Mississip i River, situate on the east bank of the rrver between Brunswick, %Varren Count , Mississippi, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and between Bessie, llake County, Tennessee, and Memphis, Tennessee, for the p cse of ascertaining the location, quantity, character, and value Ldxfpsuch lands, and for the putripose of ascertaining what portions of such lands, if any, rt woul be advisable to protect from overflow by levee construction, and_ the cost of such construction, and for the urpose of ascertaining the_ cost of acquiring such portions of saidxlands as it would D not be advisable to protect from overflow by levee protection. The "‘·°“* comnnssron rs further directed to pre are topographic maps of the 1ands_so examined and surveyed, and to make its report on such examination and survey, with its recommendation thereon, to the Chief of Engineers before the first of November, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the Chief of Engineers shall transmit the said ·report
