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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1079. 1902. 339 the wharves and warehouses thereon now owned or controlled, or hereafter built on Biscayne Bay by The Florida East Coast Railway Company, its successors or assigns, for reasonable rates of compensation, and that proper facilities shall be given to all persons or corporations for the s ipment of freight to or from said wharves, on the railway tracks of the said company in Miami for like reasonable rates and upon just and reasonable conditions, and in case of disagreement such com- _ pensation and conditions shall be determined by the Secretary of War. Improving northwest entrance to harbor at Ke West, Florida: Kev West. FM- gkmtinuing improvement, including dredging, one hundred thousand o ars. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement, one Hi¤¤b<>¤> B¤Y·F1•¤- hundred an fifty thousand dollars. · Improving Sarasota Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement and for $¤¤¤<>¤ B¤>’· Fl¤· maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improvingharbor atApalachicolaBay, Florida: Continuing improve- F,·;P¤'¤¢*¤*°°l¤ B¤Y· ment and for maintenance, forty thousand dollars. ' Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement P¤¤¤·<=<>l¤·l"¤- and for maintenance, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; the . same to be used toward securing a channel de th of thirty feet and width of five hundred feet from the Gulf of Mexico to the dock line at the east end of the city of Pensacola: Provided, That of said amount {,"?N£g· one hundred and ififty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be ` necessary, may be used for the construction or purchase of a seagoing suction redge. The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may g,§'°§‘g*{,,"*“‘ “‘“¤‘ be necessary, is hereby appropriated in addition to the sum of thirty- vi>1.30,;3.1139- five thousand dollars appropriated in the river and harbor Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the purpose of constructing or purchasing a suitable dredge with snag 'ng outfit, to be used in connection with the several works of river and1{arbor improvement in the State of Florida. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, M<>¤il¤··“¤- three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a contract or contracts gggqfsgis may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and ` work as may be necessary, with the view of ultimately securing a channel twenty-three feet deep and one hundred feet wide at the bottom, with appropriate side slopes, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made bylaw, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore alppropriated, of which amount herein appropriated ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. be used in the removal of mff;”‘°'*“¥ °”“"'“°‘ deadhcads, sunken logs, and other obstructions arising from the winter ` and spring freshets on the rivers enterin into Mobi e Bay: Provided farther, hat of this appropriation the &crctary of War may, in his $]*¤¤¤¤¤¤· F•>¤ ¤<>r· discretion, expend a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars in deep- °° ` eping and widening the channel through the outer bar near Fort a organ. In1 roving harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, B¤·>¤¤.¤¤=¤· ten tlibusan dollars. Improving the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, with a view giJ¤sp=ip1;ilg<aTrto obtaining a navigable depth of thirty-five feet in accordance with “ "° the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred · and twenty-nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, iirst session, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Provided, That a contract or contracts may be §_§g'mw entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be required to prosecute the project recommended in said re rt, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be macleo by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two million seven hundred and