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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 907. 1890. 435 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose. Imnroving entrance to harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing com 1;ay,omg_ improvement, one hundred and twenty-ive thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Yaquina Bay, Ore on: Continuing improve- Yaquina 1;¤y,omg. ment, one hundred and sixty-nve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Tillamook Bay, Oregon: Completing im- cru1mcckBsy,omg. provement, five hundred dollars. Improving entrance to harbor at Nehalem Bay, Oregon, ten thou- Ncn¤1cmB¤y,orcg. sand dollars for commencement of jetty construction. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to a point a Bam-u to report cu board of three officers of the Corps of En ineers, United States §§S“h°?,}1b*Q'}’f,‘}°§:,$f,$ég Army, whose duty it shall be to re-examine gre harbor at Port Or- ¤¤ Pm 0¤‘f<¤¤·0¤¤8· ford, in the State of Oregon, with a view of minimizing the proj- - ect and estimates of the proposed improvement for a harbor of refuge at that point to such proportions as will largely reduce the original estimate of the cost of such imtprovement heretofore made under the direction of the Secretary o War in pursuance of the previous action of Congress, and to report to the Secretary of War, on or before the nrst Monday in December next, the result of such re-examination, together with the reduced estimate of the cost of such improvement, in the event that such board shall determine that the same can be made on a less expensive scale than originally recommended, and the cost of such re-examination and re-estimate shall be paid by the Secretary of War out of the one hundred and _ fifty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the commencement of a breakwater at such point: Provided, however, That such nemo. ex use shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. Limit cr cost. Ebr the urchase of the two canals known as the Portage Lake mmuasccrrcmgc and River Improvement Company Canal, from Keweenaw Bay to L,§‘$_,m§Q,‘}t1,§‘g,§j' I"; Porta e Lake, and the Lake S11peI'10I‘ Ship·Ca11al, Railway, and Ennalgpd Lagéiilp- Iron Company Canal, from Portage Lake to Lake Su rior, being $g;.,S,,{§C°k'},n’COm[ the water communication across Keweenaw Point, Lak; Su eric-;-, v¤¤y<>¤¤¤¤·<>¤=-Mice from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, in the State of Michigan, by wa of the Portage River and ake and the artificial cut made by said companies to renderthem available to commerce and navigation, together with the works of improvement on Portage Lake; the harbor works upon Lake Superior and Keweenaw Bay, with all lands and franchises connecte therewith, free from all incumbrances, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That mmm. for the purpose of preserving and continuing the use and navigation Operating, cw., cxof said canals, the sum of ten thousand ollars for each of the P°¤¤°°· present and the next fiscal year be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the actua expenses of operating and keegping said canals in repair; and that an itemized statement of said expenses shall accom any the annual report of the Chief of Engineers: ncpcn. And provided furrt}i)er, That no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to al o said premises shall be rms. vested in the United States, nor until the State o Michigan shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, Jm-sscicucn during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process on the lands and right of way so conveyed. The balance of the appropriation, to wit, Availablebahmca five thousand one hundred and twenty-eight ollars and seventy cents, for examination of Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canals, contained in the river an harbor act of August fifth, eight- vcLzs,p.a2s. een hundred and eighty-six, is hereby made available for each and every purpose connected with the establishment of new harbor lines in Portage Lake under the pl‘0ViS10HS of the act of June twentieth, Ante, p.163.