FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 158. 1892. 109 as to conline the waters to the channel of said rivers, ten thousand dollars. Improving Sacremento and Feather rivers, California, according to Sacramento and plan of the Board of Engineers, appointed pursuant to the provision of Hmm "v°”’C”" the act of September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, sub- V<>1-26.p.456- mitted February third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and printed as House Executive Document, Number Two hundred and forty-six, Fifty-first Congress, second session, including treatment of the Yuba River near and above Marysville, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving San Joaquin River, California, including making the out- C5=*¤ J<>=¤<1¤i¤ Ri*’<>*· off at Twenty-one Mile Slough and the double cut-oif between Stock- ‘ ton Channel and Devil’s Elbow, as proposed by Major W. H. Heuer: Continuing improvement, sixty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That P”°"-*°· no money shall be expended for making the cut-offs until the right of Right of War way on the line of the cut-off’s shall have been conveyed to the United States free of expense. · Improving Petaluma Creek, California: Continuing improvement C,f,’f"”1"“‘“ C'°°k· ten thousand dollars. , Improving Mokelumne River, California: Continuing improvement, (Q/i°k“1“m"° R“'"’ two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of said P~¤i*¤· sum shall be used until the drainage canal cut by private parties near Dr¤i¤==¤g·> <>¤¤a¤- New Hope Landing shall have been closed. Improving canal at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon: bigjgfjéjjs °f C°*¤¤· Continuing improvement, three hundred and twenty-six thousand two ' hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered gmiigts into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be i ' necessary to complete the present project of improvement of the Columbia River at that point, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one Dmitmillion four hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. The President is hereby authorized to appoint a board of engineers to t B¤¤¤iI_t<>f ¤¤ei¤¤·{¤-3 consist of seven members, of whom three shall be from civil life whose J} .,r§Kuc{{§n;$K’§§$Q duty it shall be to thoroughly examine the obstructions to navigation iggfjga €‘<·*¤¤¤'>** in the Columbia River, in that portion dom the navigable waters ' thereof below Three Mile Rapids to the navigable waters above the Celilo Falls, and report as soon as they conveniently can to the Secretary of War such plan for overcoming or removing said obstructions as in their opinion is most feasible and best adapted to the necessities of commerce, together with a statement as to the usefulness of such improvement to navigation, its relation and value to commerce and the most desirable location therefor the cost of construction and of the right of way, including the necessary land therefor being considered. They shall also report the details of such plans, with estimates of its cost. The sum of twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of such examination and survey and the expenses of said board. Improving Upper Columbia River, including Snake River, as far up Rgjgm OQ;}***¤q‘>1jg as Asotin, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement, fifteen wm; °' ` thousand dollars. C I b. PMT Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon: Continuing improve- Ow;. um N’ ment, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _1 _ Improving \Villamette River at and above Portland, Oregon: Con- O,`;Qj‘”“‘°“° R"'"' tinuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars, of which three thousand dollars shall be used in removing obstructions in Yamhill River up to DICMinn\vi1l€° Lower Wihamette Improving Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers, in front of and and caiumma mm, below Portland, Oregon: Continuing improvement, one hundred and P°‘°l““"‘°'“*" nifty thpusand dollars, to be applied to obtaining a twenty-five foot ' c anne . Improving Coquille River, Oregon: Continuing improvement, twenty °°"“‘“° R"°"°'°g‘ five thousand dollars.
