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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 358-360. 1910. 593 of the “Convention between the United States, Germany, and Great Britain relating to the settlement of Samoan claims,” concluded November seventh, eiglpteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the decision thereunder by His ajesty, Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, given at Stockholm, October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and R°p°"‘ ‘ report the same to Congress. Approved, June 23, 1910. CHAP. 3§9.—An Act To prevent the dumping of refuse material in Lake Michigan %';I“§231g§35g‘ at or near Chicago. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 Representatives 0 the United . u States of America in Congress assemlnledgl-`hat it shall not ge lawful to i°¤i.°f£1§g°hf§Zr¤e rn, throw, discharge, dump, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure, to be iifviim. 'm"m thrown, discharged, dumped, or deposited, any refuse matter of any kind or descri tion whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state into Lake Michian, at any point oplposite or in front of the county of Cook, in the State of Illinois, or the county of Lake in the State of Indiana, within eight miles from the shore of said lake, unless said material shall be placed inside of a breakwater so arranged as not to permit the escape of such refuse material into the body of the lake and cause contamination thereof; and no officer of the Government shall dump or cause or authorize to be dumped a.n material contrary to the rovisions of _ this Act: Provided, however, 'llhat the provisions of this Xct shall not $'$'i§°;,,,,,,,,t,,,;_ apply to work in connection with the construction, repair, and pro- · tecézion of breakwategs and other structureslbuiltgln aid of navigiztron, Penalty or or the urpose o o tainin water supp. y person vio ating · any provision of this Act shag be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense not exceeding one thousand dollars. A Approved, June 23, 1910. ` CHAP. 380.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the con- {§I“%”z;g?g°;· struction of dams across navigable waters/’ approved June twenty-lirst, nineteen hundred and six. [P¤¥>ll¢» N0· 246-] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble, That the Act entitled "An g¤¤{¤-3, 386 Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters," meiiata. ’ p' ' approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "Sr:c·rroN 1. That when authority has been or may hereafter be ,,,§‘;€,‘§,‘g’,§,§’,§§i,§§Y§§§; granted by Con ess, either directly or indirectly or y any official ggyéggble w¤¤¤¤,¤¤- or officials of tig United States, to any persons, to construct and ' maintain a dam for water power or other purpose across or in any of the navigable waters of the United States, such dam shall not be built or commenced until the plans and specifications for such dam and all accessory works, together with such drawings of the proppsed construction and such map of the proposed location as may _ reguired for a full understan ing of the subject, have been sub- m*}yP§{°,§;};’,{dS§f,{§ rmtte to the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers for their ofE¤zinee¤· approval, nor until they shall have approved such plans and speci- Hcatrons and the location of such dam and accessory works ; and c'”“'$°“· when the plans and s cifications for any darn to be constructed under the provisions oimthis Act have been approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War it shall not be lawful to deviate from such plans or s iiications either before or after completion of the structure unlggg the modification of such plans or