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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 314. 1896. 223 Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement, five thou- Tmiw Rivet Tusand dollars. Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas: Continuing improvement, ive ¤y1¤·r¤¤¤B¤y<>¤»T<>>¤· thousand dollars. 1 Improving Sabine River, Texas: For completion, two thousand dol- S¤bi¤° R“’°*·T°*· ars. Improving Brazos River, Texas, from Richmond southerly, by removal B""“’ m'°’· T°‘· of snags and overhan gin g trees, as recommended by report of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand dollars. Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas and Indian Territory: Continu- A${'l::_{';uj,•TB*'¤· ing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the pmmq.I Secretary of War may, in his discretion, cause examinations and sur- P“"°°"“¥ ""“"’· veys to be made at or near Pine Bluff, Little Bock, Dardanelle, Van Buren, and Fort Smith, to determine whether or not, by reason of dikes or other Government works, any part of the harbors or river banks in their vicinity have been so injured or endangered that the Government should guard against or remedy the same; and for the purpose of making such surveys and works as may be iound necessary to remedy and guard against such injury, the Secretary of War is authorized to set apart and use, in his discretion, a sufficient amount of this appropriation: And provided further, That, in the discretion of the Secretary of 65:;: bona, umi- War, the sum of nfteen thousand dollars of the amount hereby appro- 2,;;., printed for said river may be used in removing obstructions and operating snag boats, in addition to the amount hereinafter appropriated for that purpose. _ _ Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: Continuin g improvement, A,?]Qf“‘F’“°‘“R’*°’· eight thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Wair is hereby directed Survcyscw. to cause surveys to be made, and submit with his next report on Saint Francis River, plans and estimates for the improvement of said river by locks and dams to give slack-water navigation from its mouth to Wittsburg and to Marianna on L’Auguille River, its tributary, if in his judgment said improvement is practicable; the cost of the same to be paid out of this appropriation. Improving Arkansas River: Removing snags and operating snag ,gtl:)¤;;;¤ Tigerboats, twenty thousand dollars. g n' Improving Black River, Arkansas and Missouri: Continuing improve- m?;'; Ri'"- *"*· ment, eight thousand dollars. Of this appropriation two thousand ` dollars may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in reconstructing the old dam at or near Big Island. ImprovingWhite River, Arkansas: Continuiu g improvement, twenty- “'l***° R*'°'· ·**'*· two thousand dollars; of which sum two thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of W ar, be expended in removing obstructions in Cache River, its tributary. Improving Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana: Con- ,0¤¤•¤§¤; ¤¤•}i*;;·¤k tinuing improvement, seventy thousand dollars; of which sum fifty ng::;.,,-T sk`.? ' thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used by the Secretary of War for the completion of the survey of said Ouachita River heretofore authorized; and he is directed to submit as soon as practicable a plan of construction and estimates of the cost of the locks and dams necessary to give slack-water navigation. Improving Red River above Fulton, Arkansas: Continuing improve- B°'U“'°*·***- ment, three thousand dollars. _ Improving Current River, Arkansas and Missouri: Continuing im- n§‘“]’{§f" R“'°"·A“‘· provement, two thousand dollars. bn d _ Improving Cumberland River, Kentucky and Tennessee: Continuing K§f‘§‘§‘,d §§§,,_ R"’°" improvement, between the State of Tennessee and the town of Burnside, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended in purchasing sites for Locks and Dams Twenty-one and Tweuty-two, and in laying masonry for Locks Twenty-one and Twenty-two. _ Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee: Continu- T_ff_‘{,‘f"’°"°”‘ R“'°‘· ing improvement, eighty thousand dollars, of which sum shall be expended as much as may be necessary for continuing work on the lock and dam near the mouth of Harpeth Biver.