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 FIF1`Y—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1079. 1902. 34I Secretary of War· for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as a propriations may from time to time be made by law not to exceedp in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars exclusive of the amounts herein appro riated: Provided further, That the amounts herein approprratedp or D°P*h· authorized shall be expended in obtaining a channel from the outer end of the inner bar to Fifty-first street, thirty feet in depth, and of such width in the respective portions thereof as shall best subserve the interests of commerce. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint p,flj’g'*}m_ °°m;*gg*g a board of en rneers to make an examination and prepare plans and or pon. P estimates for ilie protection of the port of Galveston and the property of the United States located on Galveston Island from excessive storms, by a breakwater or other means, and submit the same, with a report upon the feasibility, advisability, and cost thereof, and the probable effect of such. improvement upon the general condition of that port and its commerce, and the expenses of said board shall be E¤r>¤¤¤¢¤- paid rom the foregoing afppropriation. Deepening the c annel rom Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: C.§5¤1{_·=·;¤>¤ w '1‘¤¤¤>¤ The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, with the con- I )’ ° ` sent of the contractors now engaged in said_ work, or any contractors who may hereafter undertake the same, to modify the contract hereto- "5;;*}g$t2gggg,m¤· fore entered into for the performance of said work so that yments ` of five per centum of the whole contract price shall be made rgbm time to time to said contractors for each one thousand linear feet along the length of said channel, whenever it shall satisfactorily appear to the Secretary of War that a depth of twenty-five feet and a widt of one hundred feet at the bottom are obtained, until the sum of two hundred thousand dollars has been paid, after which no payments shall be made until the whole channel has been completed to the required width and de th, at which time the balance of the contract price shall be aid. And before B°“d- such modification shall take effect the contractors fhr said work shall give bond to the United States, with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of War, conditioned upon the complete and faithful performance of said work as originally contracted for within two years from the date of said modification, in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized to draw 1’*Ym°¤'·¤- his warrant or re uisition from time to time upon the Secretary of the Treasury to pay fhe amounts which shall be found due the contractors as provided herein, which warrants or requisitions shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. .4 Section two of "‘An Act to romote the construction of a safe deep- ,*;,¤£;¢¥:l{¤?*;_¤{M;; water harbor on the coast of 'l3exas." approved February ninth, eight- tion extended? S ij] een hundred and ninety-one, and as amended March third, eighteen 2.,lgl·_,"2§,*§.;fQ‘;}j hundred and ninety-niue, is hereby amended so that the said (Jorpus 1128- . Christi and Padre Island Harbor Company is hereby authorized and em >were· for maintenance, two hundred thousand dollars: Prove? ed, That a con- C°¤*¤¤¤°¤- tract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as ma be necessary for the prosecution of the approved project, to be paid, for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.