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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 314. 1896. 217 Improving Mattawan Creek, New Jersey: For dredging, three thou- N§·**¤*¤¤ °*¤¤k· sand dollars.` Improving Rancocas River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, R¤¤·>¤¤¤¤ River. two thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended in the improve- N‘J‘ ment of the Lumberton branch of said river. Improving Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey: Continu- C$*·°;_} gf°l>;*N¤3>·i ing improvement, five thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended mp ° ’' for extending the improved channel farther toward the tive-foot contour of Raritan Bay. Improving Goshen Creek, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, claim cmk.N..r. three thousand dollars. Improving Cooper Creek, New Jersey: Completing improvement in Cooper Gr¤¤k.N.J. accordance with the plan submitted January fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty-seven thousand dollars, of which amount two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, shall be expended in rebuilding the dike on Government reservation in the Delaware River at Woodbury Creek. Improving Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improve- A11¤g1¤•>¤yRiv¤r.P¤- ment, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing construction of lock and dam at Herr Island, Alle- Wfim I¤'•¤•l d¤¤· gheny River, under existing project, and commencing construction of ` two additional locks and dams on said river, one above the head of Six Mile Island and the other at Springdale, according to report submitted January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary Prwiwof War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the Cm""' projects of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate eight hundred Limitand ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. 1mprovingSch uylkill River, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, scuuyiuiinivsnra. twenty thousand dollars. Improvin g Delaware River, from Trenton to its mouth, Pennsylvania g¤1{?¤3¤r¤Riv¤r·P¤· and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dol- °°D;,i;-p3,m.,,._ lars, of which five thousand dollars shall be expended in the improve— ment of the channel over Perriwig Bar, and three thousand dollars shall be expended in rebuilding and enlarging the dike, on Government reservation, at the junction of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, at Fort Miihin: Provided, That so much of said sum of five hundred Provimthousand dollars as shall be necessary may, in the discretion of the Sec- k.,{"§{§f}‘ D"' B°` retary of War, be expended in dredging achannel through Dan Baker Shoal to the depth of twenty-six feet at low water: And p·rm·ided fur- nom or omcm to ther, That no part of said appropriation or of any appropriations hereto- §c*§,'°‘}‘;#:,‘,§’?,‘f,El"If‘§ff {Eire made shall be expended upon the building of a dike between Reedy w¤‘¤{’¤i¤¢- Island and Liston’s Point, until a board of three engineer omcers, to be appointed by the Secretary of WVar, shall consider and report to the Secretary of War on the first Monday in December of the current year; as to the project of said dike with reference to preserving and improving the navigation of the Appoquinimink River and Blackbird Creek, and the riparian rights and facilities of the Delaware shore as well as to deepening the main channel of said river. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to carry out the recommendations of said icmqimsnmiuonseo board; and to modify the present contract, if necessary, and adjust "°"“""°" °“‘· any loss with the contractor occasioned by the provisions of this Act, and to pay the same out of the appropriation under which the said contract was made; also to expend the additional sum of twenty-ti ve thou- D'°'*¤*”S °h““”°1°· sand dollars in his discretion for such dredging as may be necessary for the maintenance of channels from the mouths of the Appoquinimink River and Blackbird Creek to the channel of the Delaware River through the dike now being constmcted from Reedy Island to Liston’s Point for the improvement of the Delaware. _ Improving the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; The Secretary of I,j*f°“°°¤*"°‘°R"°§