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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 790. 1900. 587 the completion of said work: P7·0m§ded, That the total amount con- mst tracted for shall not exceed the sum heretofore authorized: Providecl, ` That the cost of any portion of such work shall not exceed by more than one-tenth the estimate of cost as heretofore ma le in the Report of Chief of Engineers. _ . Upper White River, Arkansas, Lock and Dam Numbered Two: That A}{§p°' “°“° R“'°’· the provision in the river and harbor Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, making appropriation for improving Upper White River, Arkansas, is hereby amended to rea.d as follows: _ “‘Improving Up er `White River, Arkansas: For the construction ,,,QQ‘},{ge§°· P· *“2· of Lock and Dam glumbered One, on Upper White Rive1·, at or near Batesville, according to the roject, plans, and specifications submitted in report printed in glouse Document Numbered Seventy- eight, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, to complete said lock and dam, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War may also expend toward the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, according to the same plan, by contract or in any manner that in his judgment may be most economical and advantageous to the Government, a sum not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law." . _ Ocmulgee River, Georzgia: The provision ir! the river and harbor °°m“’g°°R"°’·€“· Act approved March thir_, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, author- ,,,QQ‘§,l:,,f°· p· lm izing contracts to be made for improving[`Ocmulgee River, is hereby amended to read as follows: "P»r·02:vJded, hat a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War to complete the present project of improvement, or the required materials may be purchased and the work of improvement be carried on otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and thirty-six thousalngl dollars, exclusive of amounts herein and heretofore approriate . ‘ P Yaquina Bay, Oregon: The balance remaining of twenty-five thou- Y¤*1¤i¤°· B¤Y·°*°¤· sand dollars appropriated by the river and harbor Act of eighteen V°l· 29· P- 214- hundred and ninety-six for said Yaquina Bay, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in removing the cluster of rocks on one side of the channel, located about two thousand feet beyond the end of the south jetty, in accordance with the recommendation of a board of engineers made November fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in House Document Numbered One hundred andten, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session. Ashland Harbor, Wisconsin: That in lieu of completin the shore Wgéhlaud H*“‘°°"· end of the breakwater at Ashland, Wisconsin, as providef for in the V<>1-3¤.1>-1132- river and harbor Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, there shall be substituted a breakwater, starting at a point on the shore about two thousand six hundred feet east of the point at which the existing shore arm of breakwater would meet shore if prolonged, and runnin in a direction parallel to existing breakwater for a distance of four thousand seven hundred feet, or of such a length as ma be necessary to fully protect the harbor of Ashland. Warroad River, Minnesota: The followin paragraph in an Act M}K,*}_"°“° m"°"• entitled "An Act making appropriations for line construction, repair auYe%fied30· 1>· 1145- and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and ` for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninet *-nine, to wit: “}3lor removing a sand bar at the mouth of Warroad River, Minnesota, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "For improving the mouth of Warroad River, Minnesota, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mav be necessary." » ~