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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 790. 1900. 579 allotted; and in expending any such allotment advertisement for bids may be dispensed with on the recommendation of the local engineer. (2) For the necessary cost of the surveys herein directed to be made: S“‘”"°"S· Provided, That the necessary expenses for such examinations and su1·.- ;Q},‘g§§*;;‘;g‘{,‘}€ **°" veys on rivers, or at harbors where work is being carried on by the ' United States, ms? be paid from available funds where the unexpended balances o former appropriations for such works are sufficient or such purpose. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause iugggrigiggyssxempreliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the localities directed. umys named in t is section, as hereinafter provided. In all cases a prelimi- -¤¤<>i>¢ <>f»¤¢¢- nary examination shall first be made, which shall embrace information concerning the commercial importance, present and prospective, of the river or harbor mentioned, and a report as to the advisability of its improvement. If upon such preliminary examination the proposed improvement is not deemed adv1sable no further action shall be taken thereon without the further direction of Congress; but in case the report shall be to the effect that such river or harbor is worthy of improvement, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, at his dis—— cretion, to authorize surveys to be made and the cost of improving such river or harbor to be estimated and to be reported to Congress, to wit: _ ARKANSAS. Arkansas. Red River,"in the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, and in the Indian Territory, from the city of Shreveport, in the State' of Louisiana, to the city of Denison, in the State of Texas: With a view to ascertaining whet er the navigation of said river can be permanently improved· by a system of cut-oifs, levees, locks, and dams, or by any other plan; the cost of said examination and survey, if made, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for continuing the improvement of said river by the Act of March Val- 30. v- 1140- third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. · The river and harbor front of the city of Camden, Arkansas, on the Ouachita River: With a view to improving said harbor and` grading and protecting the river bank in front of said city, the expenses of said examination and survey to be paid out of any fund now available for the improvement of the Ouachita River. . ALABAMA Alabama. ' M0bile°Harbor: With a view to obtaining channels of a width of three hundred feet at the bottom across the bar below Fort Morgan, with appropriate side slopes, and with mean depths of twenty-five and thirty feet respectively. Warrior an Tombigbee rivers: With a view to the construction of locks and dams numbered one, two, and three, between the mouth of said rivers and Tuscaloosa; and an amount sufficient for such survey or surveys may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be diverted from any appropriation heretofore madefor said rivers. ‘ cALu·oaN1A. ¤¤1¤¤r¤i¤~ San J oa uin River, above the mouth of the Stanislaus River: With a view of determining the advisability of closing the mouths of the more important blin sloughs leading from sai_ San Joaquin River and tributaries, especially those known as Finegan, Amphlet, and Walden sloughs, that the water in the main channel of the said San Joaquin River may be retained therein and more eifectually promote navigation thereof.