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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 130-MAY 23, 1941 RIVERS AND HARBORS Maintenance, etc. For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor os . 829. works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and naviga- tion; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes and other boundary and connecting waters as heretofore authorized, including the preparation, correction, printing, and issuing of charts and bul- letins and the investigation of lake levels; for prevention of obstruc- tive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters California Debris of New York City; for expenses of the California Debris Commission commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 27Stat.507. 1893, as amended (33 U. S. C . 661, 678, and 683); for removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation as authorized by law; for operating and maintaining, keeping in repair, and continuing in use without interruption any lock, canal (except the Panama Canal), canalized river, or other public works for the use and benefit of navigation belonging to the United States, includ- Student officrs at ing maintenance of the Hennepin Canal in Illinois; for payment tutions. annually of tuition fees of not to exceed fifty student officers of the Corps of Engineers at civil technical institutions under the provisions of section 127a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S . C . 41Stat. 785. 535); for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and 369. t1 P '89' harbors; for printing and binding, newspapers, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and office supplies and equipment required in the Office of the Chief of Engineers to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, including such printing as may be authorized by the Committee on Printing of the House of Representatives, either during a recess or session of Congress, of surveys authorized by law, and such surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress, and for the purchase (not to exceed $167,870) of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for Pri. official use: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shail be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or esti- Designated Im- mate not authorized by law, $68,268,640, of which $1,500,000 shall provements. he available for improvement of Boston Harbor as recommended in House Document Numbered 362, Seventy-sixth Congress, $1-5,000 for improvement of the channel from Manteo to Oregon Inlet, North Carolina, as recommended in House Document Numbered 313, Seventy-sixth Congress, and $60,000 for improvement of Silver Lake Harbor. North Carolina, as recommended in House Document Num- 54 Stat. 1198. bered 325, Seventy-sixth Congress, all as authorized by the National Mantenance ofhar- Defense River and Harbor Act approved October 17,1940: Provided, bor channels. That from this appropriation the Secretary of War may, in his dis- cretion and on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers based on the recommendation by the Board of Rivers and Harbors in the review of a report or reports authorized by law, expend such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels pro- vided by a State, municipality, or other public agency, outside of harbor lines and serving essential needs of general commerce and navigation, such work to be subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his report or reports thereon: Provided Powerdrlvenboats. further, That no appropriation under the Corps of Engineers for the fiscal year 1942 shall be available for any expenses incident to operat- ing any power-driven boat or vessel on other than Government busi- ness: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 of the amount toPmanent Intemna herein appropriated shall be available for the support and main- the Congrss of tenance of the Permanent International Commission of the Con- Nvgati. gresses of Navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses 192 [55 STAT.

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