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 420 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. S60. 1888. R*‘¤“‘°**°¤s· Secretary of War to prescribe such rules and regulations in respect to the use and administration of said reservoirs as in his judgment the public interest and necessity may require ; which rules andregulations shall be posted in some conspicuous place or places for theinformation of the public. And any person knowingly and willfully violating such rules and regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment, not exceeding six months, the same to be enforced by prosecution in any district court of the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such ofense may have been committed. And the Secretary of War shall cause such gaugings to be made at or near Saint Paul during the annual operation of said reservoirs as shall determine accurately the discharge at that point, the cost of same to be paid out of the annual appropriation for gauging the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. R,§5P°¤' M*¤**”*PPi For operating snag-boats and dredge-boats on Upper Mississippi s¤sg,m.,b0m. River, twenty-five thousand dollars. giggsjgvgggggg ,S Irnprovinglthe Mississippi River above Saint Anthony’s Falls, ten rms.Y thousand dollars. *0 M Improving the Mississippi River from the landing on the west bank pbelow the Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, to the Des Moines Rapids, including work for the protection of the bank of the Mississip i River at Winona, Minnesota, on account of the erosion caused by dams erected above the city to improve the navigation of the river, and the examination and survey at the Rock Island Rapids ~ in said river hereinafter mentioned: Continuing improvement, six hundred thousand dollars. RWE kl¤¤¤£'f*¤P*dS· And inasmuch as the present channel of the Mississippi River at ° ‘ the Rock Island Rapids is said to be of insufficient width and de th, and dangerous to the navigation of said river, the Secretary of War is hereby -authorized and directed to cause an examination and survey to be made at said rapids, with the view of determining the best and most economical mode of securing a safer channel of greater width and depth, sufficient to meet the necessities of the commerce and navigation of the river, either by the construction of a canal around said rapids on the Illinois side of said river. from the head of the rapids near Rapids City, Illinois, on the most direct and feasible route to the main river, at the foot of said rapids, or by widening and deepening the present channel of the river at said rapids. And R¤r><>¤¤- the Secretary of I ar shall cause a report of said examination and survey to be made to Congress at its next session, together with plans and estimates of the probable cost for the construction of such canal, or for the widening and deepening of the present navi able channel of the river, and with such plans and estimates, shall submit his opinion as to the best and most economical plan of improving the river at said rapids in the interest of the commerce and navigation of the river, and for the purpose of such examination and survey, so much of the above appropriation of six hundred thousand dollars as may be necessary is ereby authorized to be expended, not to ex- _ ceed fifteen thousand dollars. C,f;‘:,_M°'°°“ R°¥’“*’ Im roving the Mississippi River at Des Moines Rapids Canal, under the modified project, t irty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is ereby authorized and directed to use so much of V<>1-wr 146- the money appropriated in the acts of July fifth, eighteen hundred V¤L24,v-3% and eighty-four, and August fifth, eighteen hundred and eight six, for the construction of a pier at the outer wall of the Des Mlbines Rapids Canal as may be necessary in the establishment of a floating boom, connecting said wall with the upper draw rest of the bridge at Keokuk, if in his opinion such work would adequately and advantageously serve the interests of navigation; and the balance left over of said appropriations of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hun red and eighty-six, if any, to be used in continuing the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids under present project.