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 1102 FIFITY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2509. 1907. - Entry, the plan of which the Secretary of War may modify and enlarge 111 accordance with the report submitted in House Document Num- R€°’°mi”°“°”»°*°· bered E1ghty-two, F1fty-n1nth Con ress, second session, and the Secretary of War may appoint a boardg to make a reexamination and survey of the Duluth Harbor and entrance thereto with a view to ascertaining the best method for improving the same, either by the extension of the existing piers, the widening of the channel, the construction of one or more brea waters, andthe enlargement of the inner basin in the interests of commerce, and in order to afford a safer entrance to said harbor inhtimes pif hstotfom, arid bettpir protection to shipping arlild ro rt wit in said ar r; a so wit a view to ascertainin the . gcgviscabmty of conitrgcting a newdentrance to the Duluth Harbordiasin 0 a. wi t suitab e or the nee s of commerce, not exceedin one thousand feet, and the protection of the same by either an oufir or inner breakwater, or both, such new entrance to be located southward from the present Duluth entrance and so as to cause the least practicable interference with the waters of the Saint Louis River, together with the probable effect of such entrance upon the property within _ said harbor. _ _ M§,§f““°**’ R""- thimprcévilngr Minnesota River, Minnesota: For maintenance, two ousan dollars. ·   §,f¤,“,}{ Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota: mk. For maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. Michigan Cimlud. Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, sixty thousand dollars. W¤¤keg¤m,1i1. Improvingtharbor aifi:fWat:1kegan,iIllif{ois: Continuing improvement an or main enance, ty thousand dollars. °m°"¤°·m- Improving Chicago Harbor, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. °°‘“'°°’»m· thimprolvilngl harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For maintenance, twenty ousan dollars. °h*°¤¤° m*‘¢=·m· Improving Chicago River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars. unQ,¤};¤f1¤* BML md- Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, one hundred and ninety-one thousand tive €’0¢:g*é“_ hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of 'War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials an work as may be necessary to comple_te said project, to be paid for as apglropriations may from t1me to time be made bylaw, not to exceed in the aggregate one hmidred gud seventy thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein or ereto ore a propriate . mi¤<>*¤ Rim. H1- Improving Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for . mannttetpance, fifty thouseand dolla1;s,(pf which amount auch portion as may _ necessar * may e expen e for sna 'n an maintenance: ts Prrrvzdezl, That the annual appropriation forgngpexgating snag boats on v(,,_%_,,_;2,_ the upper Mississippi River, made by section seven of the Act of August eleventh, eig teen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act making appro riations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” is hereby made available for similar purposes on the Illinois River, (_ M C k t from 1hS mouth to Copperas Creek. ,_,,§,P}}§_ "°° ° Improving Illinois iver, Illinois, from Copperas Creek to La Salle, by dredging and other improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Eggkivpghlglhzcd 1 Fox ivan, Innmois: ermission is hereby given to the Fox River assets; in xcuemy havigable li ater- Way Association to construct a dam across said river “*i· at or about fourteen thousand six hundred feet below the highway PA;1<j;»g»;mm' bridge at McHenry,1n McHenry County, Illinois: Providing, lmwever, That the right is hereby reserved to alter, chan e, amend, or re l this provision at the leasure of Congress: Angprovidin furtgzl °“““€°°· That nothing contained) in this paragraph shall be construedg as relievz