HOUSE BILL. Improving Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $9,000. Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, D'Arbonne, and Corney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $16,000. Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement by construction of sea wall extension in accordance with the report subImitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $1,185,000: Provided, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended, and no contract shall be entered into under this appropriation until the county or city of Galveston and other local interests shall have donated the necessary lands to the United States, and shall have quieted all claims to the present San Jacinto Reservation, nor until the said county or city of Galveston shall have obtained a right of way and made provision in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War for paying the cost of constructing at least three thousand three hundred feet of sea wall extension in addition to that herein appropriated for: Provided further, That the entire work of construction shall be done under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the funds appropriated by Congress and those furnished by the county or city of Galveston shall be expended by him: And provided also, That the structure shall in all respects conform to that heretofore REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. Improving Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $9,000. Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, D'Arbonne, and Corney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $16,000. Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement by construction of sea wall extension in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, which is hereby adopted under the conditions therein named $100,000: Provided, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended, except for BURTON SUBSTITUTE. Improving Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana: Completing improvement and for maintenance, $9,000. Improving Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, D'Arbonne, and Corney, and Boeuf and Tensas Rivers, Louisiana: For maintenance, $16,000. Improving Galveston Channel, Texas: Continuing improvement by construction of sea wall extension in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety, Sixty-second Congress, third session, which is hereby adopted under the conditions therein named $100,000: Provided, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended, except for surveys and other preliminary work, surveys and other preliminary work, and no contract shall be entered into under this appropriation until the county or city of Galveston and other local interests shall have donated the necessary lands to the United States, and shall have quieted all claims to the present San Jacinto Reservation, nor until the said county or city of Galveston shall have obtained a right of way and made provision in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War for paying the cost of constructing at least three thousand three hundred feet of sea wall extension in addition to that herein appropriated for: Provided further, That the entire work of construction shall be done under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the funds appropriated by Congress and those furnished by the county or city of Galveston shall be expended by him: And provided also, That the pavement of the roadway and sidewalk along the new sea wall shall conform in width to that heretofore and no contract shall be entered into under this appropriation until the county or city of Galveston and other local interests shall have donated the necessary lands to the United States, and shall have quieted all claims to the present San Jacinto Reservation, nor until the said county or city of Galveston shall have obtained a right of way and made provision in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War for paying the cost of constructing at least three thousand three hundred feet of sea wall extension in addition to that herein appropriated for: Provided further, That the entire work of construction shall be done under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the funds appropriated by Congress and those furnished by the county or city of Galveston shall be expended by him: And provided also, That the pavement of the roadway and sidewalk along the new sea wall shall conform in width to that heretofore constructed by the county of Gal- constructed by the county of Gal- constructed by the county of Gal HOUSE BILL. the excavation of a channel thirty feet deep and one thousand two hundred feet wide from the inner bar to Fifty-first Street and seven hundred feet wide from Fifty-first to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: Provided, That at such time as in the discretion of the Secretary of War the same may be required in the interests of navigation and commerce the western terminus of said channel may be extended to Fifty-seventh Street with a width of one thousand feet between Fiftyfirst and Fifty-seventh Streets, as recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twentyeight, Sixty-first Congress, second session. Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Port Aransas, Texas: Continuing improvement, $800,000. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. Improving the Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas, from the Port Arthur Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine River, the Neches River up to the town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of Orange, as provided for in the river and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven: That the channels which the Beaumont Navigation District, or other local interests, and the Orange Navigation District, or other local interests, are required, by the aforesaid Act to maintain for a term of three years, free of cost to the United States, are hereby defined as, respectively, the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Beaumont, Texas, and the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Orange, Texas. Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $200,000. Improving Anahuac Channel, Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, S D-63-2-vol 25——21 REPORTED SUBSTITUTE. the excavation of a channel thirty feet deep and one thousand two hundred feet wide from the inner bar to Fifty-first Street and seven bar to Fifty-first Street and seven hundred feet wide from Fifty-first to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: Provided, That at such time as in the discretion of the Secretary of War the same may be required in the interests of navigation and commerce the western terminus of said channel may be extended to Fifty-seventh Street with a width of one thousand feet between Fiftyfirst and Fifty-seventh Streets, as recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twentyeight, Sixty-first Congress, second session. Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Port Aransas, Texas: Continuing improvement, $800,000. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. Improving the Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas, from the Port Arthur Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine River, the Neches River up to the town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of Orange, as provided for in the river and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven: That the channels which theBeaumont Navigation District, or other local interests, and the Orange Navigation District, or other local interests, are required, by the aforesaid Act to maintain for a term of three years, free of cost to the United States, are hereby defined as, respectively, the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Beaumont, Texas, and the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Orange, Texas : Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as relieving said Beaumont Navigation District of its obligation to provide for the operation and maintenance of the guard lock without cost to the United States as required by said river and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven. Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $200,000. Improving Anahuac Channel, Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, BURTON SUBSTITUTE. the excavation of a channel thirty feet deep and one thousand two hundred feet wide from the inner bar to Fifty-first Street and seven hundred feet wide from Fifty-first to Fifty-sixth Streets, $100,000: Provided, That at such time as in the discretion of the Secretary of War the same may be required in the interests of navigation and commerce the western terminus of said channel may be extended to Fifty-seventh Street with a width of one thousand feet between Fiftyfirst and Fifty-seventh Streets, as recommended in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twentyeight, Sixty-first Congress, second session. Improving channel to Port Bolivar, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Port Aransas, Texas: Continuing improvement, $800,000. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, $550,000. Improving the Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas, from the Port Arthur Ship Canal to the mouth of Sabine River, the Neches River up to the . town of Beaumont, and the Sabine River up to the town of Orange, as provided for in the river and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven: That the channels which the Beaumont Navigation District, or other local interests, and the Orange Navigation District, or other local interests, are required, by the aforesaid Act to maintain for a term of three years, free of cost to the United States, are hereby defined as, respectively, the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Beaumont, Texas, and the channel from the mouth of the Neches River up to Orange, Texas : Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as relieving said Beaumont Navigation District of its obligation to provide for the operation and maintenance of the guard lock without cost to the United States as required by said river and harbor Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven. Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $200,000. Improving Anahuac Channel, Trinity River, Oyster Creek, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, for improvement of that section between Corpus Christi Bay and Baffins Bay in accordance with the report subImitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ten, Sixtythird Congress, second session, $80,000; in all, $315,000: Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement. Improving mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement from Old Washington to Waco by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $200,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, $25,000; in all, $225,000. Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For maintenance, $15,000. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement with a improvement with a view to obtaining a depth of six West Galveston Bay-Brazos River section, $15,000; for maintenance of the Brazos River-Matagorda Bay section, $25,000; for maintenance of the Aransas PassPass Cavallo section, $30,000; for completing improvement and for maintenance of Guadalupe River up to Victoria, $15,000; for im provement of the Galveston-Sabine River section in accordance with the report printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Seven, Sixty-third Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $25,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, make such changes in the location of said channel as may be considered desirable, and can be made without increased cost; for improvement of that section between Aransas Pass and Brazos Santi ago in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ten, Sixtythird Congress, second session, $80, 000: Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement; in all $190,000. Improving mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement from Old Washington to Waco by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $200,000; contofore authorized, $200,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, $25,000; in all, $225,000. Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For maintenance, $15,000. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement with a view to obtaining a depth of six Improving mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For maintenance, $25,000. Improving Brazos River, Texas: Continuing improvement from Old Washington to Waco by the construction of locks and dams heretofore authorized, $200,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance by open-channel work from Velasco to Old Washington, $25,000; in all, $225,000. Improving channel from Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: For maintenance, $5,000. Improving channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For maintenance, $15,000. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement with view to obtaining a depth of six a |