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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 417. 1916. 567 aforesaid shall include the power and authority to purchase, condemn, or compensate for any wharves, bulkheads, structures, .or other improvements upon any land, as well as any outstanding privately owned interests m the same, in the vicinity of the said navy yard deemed expedient for said additions within the area designated by the Secretary of the Navy that, though owned or claimed by the United States, is in the occupancy of private individuals, and the sums herein aplpropriated for are hereby made available for such pur- C of oses: Provide further, That upon the acquisition of the additional saaiodiiiiiu aiiiyrigi limds hereby authorized to be acquired all portions of public streets q“*’°d· on which any squares ac uired so abut and lying between the same, and all public alleys wiiliin said squares, together with such portions of streets and public alleys as lie between the present navy yard and the lands, or any part thereof, so acquired, are hereby abandoned ntwvta mi- naval and closed, and said portions of said streets and public alleys, together P“‘T’°“°“· with the Government-owned land l ing south of the north line of. Potomac Avenue between the west boundary of the navy yard and the east line of Second Street east prolonged in a southerly direction, and such other Government—owned land along the water front of the Anacostia River lying between the east line of the said navy yard and the west line of Eleventh Street east prolonged ina southerly direction, shall be re arded- as set apart and reserved for naval pur- Us, ,u,,,\,,m,,s_ poses: Provikfeddfurtger, That any balance not expended in said purchase or con enmation may be used toward improvinlgufhe lands so added to the said navy yard and toward the exten gpof the ' railroad-track system thereof and connections thereto: ramkled Lygpf ,8,,, (mt further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are ”°I·°"’ E·S‘“°°*· authorized to lease, for periods not exceeding ten years, such portions of Potomac Avenue and P Street between One-half Street and First Street, southeast, together with public reservation numbered two hundred and forty-seven, and such portion of First‘ Street, southeast, as may in their jument be not needed for public use, together with a water frontage of Potomac Avenue and said portion of First Street, east,as abuts the Anacostia River and all the land of the United States in the area lying between said streets and avenue and the Anacostia River, to Lewis L. Smoot, of Washington, District of Columbia, at a rental to be fixed by said commissioners: Provided ,,,§S‘{_",§§‘{f:Q"’ mm °‘ further, That the said Lewis E. Smoot shall surrender to the Govemment of the United States his resent leasehold on wharf property now held by him which is includ)ed in the land proposed to be added _ to the navy yard under the revisions of this Act. NAvY YARD, Nonronx, gruoinmz Ventilating system, $15,000· N°"°“‘·V°· toilet and locker facilities, $12,000; to complete one hundred and fifty ton crane, $265,000; dry dock (limit of cost, not exceedi $3,500,000), $500,000; one structural shop (cost not to exceiid $1,000,000), $400,000; salvage and tools, $50,000; in all, $1,242,000. ,M___,m_ The Secretary of the Nav is authorized to lease for a period not to E ` exceed three years storage iyacilities in the vicinity of the navy yard, liorfolk, at an annual lgental of qpt exceeding $16,000, to be paid out o the appropriation" a, misce aneous. ’ BU1Lgi)Noii AND erzonighs, NAVAL ACADEMYZ Sea wall, $70,000. ;,_:;,d°§1z MARINE Rmcnmrmo Srryrroiv, Poizr RoYAL, Soirrn CA1zo1.1xA; ’ ' For a new building for the naval hospital and for necessary changes in' existing buildings and equipment, $15,000. C,m,m0,,'S C NAVY YARD, CHAru.us·roN, Sorrrn CA1zo1.n~:A: Dredging, to con- ` tinne, $12,000; toilet and locker facilities, $8,000; in all, $20,000. Dredging Cooper River, approach to navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $175,000. NAvY Amzoxavrio S·rA·rroN, PnNsAcoLA, Fnomznaz To repair and §€,';',°,;"‘j`,_‘§{,,_,,,,c reconstruct, where necessary, public works damaged by storm of station. ' July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $420,000.