FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 425. 1899. 1 12] CHAP._425.—An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and M=¤‘¢l¤ 3- 1899- preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. `_°j‘_— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of _Ai>r>¤>vri¤¤¤¤¤ f<·¤ money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money r"" ””d h"b°"‘ in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: · Improving Moosabec Bar, Maine: Completing improvement, eleven Moosebec nai, thousand dollars. M°· For construction of breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine B¤¤¤kw¤¤=r· ¤¤¤¤¤ Island, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. D°""‘M°` Improving harbor at Sullivan Falls, Maine, in accordance with the g_*,{1!*;:F_,,s Mm approved project, five thousand dollars. ' Improving Carvers Harbor, at Vinalhaven, Maine: Continuing vnnnnsvsnme. improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, in accordance with the 0¤1>•> 1’<>rr¤>i¤¤·M•>- report printed in House Document Number One hundred and sixty, Fiity-fifth Congress, third session, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, ggmm That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary ot ` War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the project recommended in said report, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate fifty-Eve thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hampshire: Con- ·!·i*¤·H¤‘l¤¤·N—F- tinuin g improvement, twelve thousand dollars: Improving harbor,at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing improve- Burlington, vr ment, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improve- nosemurss. ment, seventy-ilve thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum may, in emem. the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the preservation and ‘G""““ "°“"·°‘°· improvement of said harbor, including the protection of Great Head and other headlands and islands in and about said harbor, to prevent further washing away by the sea: Provided further, That five thousand cram ci-ser. dollars of this sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in improving Chelsea Creek: Provided further, That the Secretary Contracts. of War may use five thousand dollars thereof and enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of the improvement in accordance with the project recommended in the report printed on pages eight hundred and eighty-seven et sequentes of the Report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; such improvement to provide for a channel one c,§:;Q{'}l,"_[';'}',, f;}!; thousand two hundred feet wide and thirty feet deep from the main m»¤n.éw. ship channel in President Roads through Broad Sound Channel, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not tp exceed in the aggregate four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving harbor of refuge at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Con- Nantucket. Hsu. tinuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. · Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing N¤w\>·¤·y1»¤r¢.¤¤¤¤- improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That of this www- __N__ t h appropriation a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars may, in the §§§{%"""‘ ' discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in removing from Newburyport Harbor, a rock, called “North Rock." Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: For maintenance, P¤r¤·¤¤¤··¤•·· ten thousand dollars; for repairs made necessary by the great storm of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, according to plans and estimate submitted January twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor Bt Provincetown, Massachusetts: For mainte· P'°"i¤°°*°"¤·¥“*· nance, ten thou and dollars. vox. xxx--71
