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during any war in which the United States may be engaged, then his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, his minor orphan children, or his or their legal representatives, may proceed forthwith to make final proof upon such entry or application thereafter allowed, and shall be entitled to receive Government patent for such land; and that the death of such soldier while so engaged in the service of the United States shall, in the administration of the homestead laws, be construed to be equivalent to a performance of all requirements as to residence and cultivation upon such homestead. Approved, July 28, 1917.

CHAP. 45.-An Act To authorize the county of Cass, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River.

July 28, 1917. (S. 2106.] [Public, No. 33.]

Wabash River.

Cass County, Ind., may bridge, ňear Lo

gansport.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county of Cass, State of Indiana, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Wabash River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at a place east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River, in the State of Indiana, in accordance with the pro- Vol. 34, p. 84. visions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

Construction.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved.

Approved, July 28, 1917.

CHAP. 46.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, to construct a bridge across Bayou Macon, in Louisiana, at a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana.

July 28, 1917. [S. 2667.] [Public, No. 34.]

Bayou Macon. Lumber Company may

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress, Pritchard-Wheele is hereby granted to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of bridge, Wisner, La. Wisner, Louisiana, and to its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Bayou Macon at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana, in the parish of Franklin, in the State of Louisiana, in accordance with the pro- Vol. 34, p. 84. visions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

Construction.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved.

Approved, July 28, 1917

CHAP. 47.-An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county of Mississippi, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and ap

August 3, 1917. [S. 2695.] [Public, No. 35.)

Little River.

Mississipp County, Ark., may bridge.

Location.

Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.

Amendment.

proaches across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and

SIX.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, August 3, 1917.

August 7, 1917. [H. R. 3331.] [Public, No. 36.]

Public lands.

Desert-land entries.
Vol. 19, p. 377; Vol.
Time extended for

26, p. 1096.

expenditures, while

serving in present war.

CHAP. 48.-An Act For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no desert-land entry made or held under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as amended by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by an officer or enlisted man in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the United States shall be subject to contest or cancellation for failure to make or expend the sum of $1 per acre per year in improvements upon such claim, or to effect the reclamation thereof, during the period said entryman or his successor in interest is engaged in the military service of the United States during the present war with Germany, and until six months thereafter, and the time within which such entryman or claimant is required to make such expenditures and effect reclamation of the land shall be, exclusive of the time of his actual service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the United States: Provided, That said desert-land entry shall have been made by the said officer or enlisted man prior to his enlistment: Notice of muster to Provided further, That each such entryman or claimant shall, within six months after the passage of this Act, or within six months after he is mustered into the service, file in the local land office of the district wherein his claim is situate a notice of his muster into the service of the United States and of his desire to hold said desert claim under this Act: Provided further, That the term "enlisted man," as used in this section shall include any person selected to serve in the military forces of the United States as provided by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

Provisos.

For prior entries.

be filed.

Service specified.

Ante, p. 76.

August 8, 1917. [H. R. 4285.]

[Public, No. 37.]

propriations.

Approved, August 7, 1917.

CHAP. 49.-An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United River and harbor ap- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named:

Portland, Me.

Portland Harbor, Maine: For completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered

Seventy-one, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000.

Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-one, Sixty-third Congress, second session.

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Gloucester, Beverly, Salem, Lynn, Plymouth, and Provincetown Gloucester, etc., Mass. Harbors, Mystic, Malden, Weymouth Fore, and Weymouth Back Rivers, and Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $24,000.

Providence, etc., R. I.

Providence River and Harbor, Pawtucket River, Newport Harbor, Use of balances. harbors of refuge at Point Judith and Block Island, entrance to Point Judith Pond, and Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for improvement of Providence River and Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, are hereby made available for improvement of said river and harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session.

New London, etc.,

Stonington and New London Harbors, Connecticut, Pawcatuck conn
River, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Mystic and Thames Rivers,
Connecticut: For maintenance, $10,000; for completing improvement
of New London Harbor, $160,000; in all, $170,000.

New Haven, etc.,

Duck Island, Branford, New Haven, Milford, Bridgeport, South- conn. port, Norwalk, Five Mile River, Stamford, and Greenwich Harbors, Westport Harbor and Saugatuck River, breakwaters at New Haven, and Housatonic River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $71,000.

Connecticut

River,

Burlington, Platts

Lake Champlain Nar

Connecticut River above and below Hartford, Connecticut: Con- conn tinuing improvement and for maintenance below Hartford, $70,100. Burlington Harbor, Vermont; Plattsburg and Port Henry Harbors, burg, etc., Vt. and N. Y. New York; and Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont: For maintenance, $5,000; for improvement of Narrows of rows. Lake Champlain in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and eighty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000; for completing improvement of Port Henry Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $71,500; in all, $376,500.

Port Henry, N. Y.

Lake Ontario harbors,

Olcott, Charlotte, Pultneyville, Great Sodus Bay, Little Sodus etc., N. Y.
Bay, Oswego, Cape Vincent, and Ogdensburg Harbors, New York:
For maintenance, $33,500.

East Chester Creek,

Port Chester, Mamaroneck, and Echo Bay Harbors, East Chester etc., N. Y. and Westchester Creeks, and Bronx River, New York: Completing improvement of East Chester Creek, $11,000.

Saugerties, Rondout, Peekskill, and Tarrytown Harbors, and Wap- Saugerties, etc., N. Y. pinger Creek, New York: For maintenance $3,500.

New York Harbor,

bay.

New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance of entrance channels and for improvement of the upper bay opposite anchorage Channels, and upper grounds in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and at Craven Shoal in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fiftyseven, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $40,000, and the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement and maintenance of the entrance channels are hereby made available for continuing improvement in accordance

Use of balances.

nel.

Staten Island chan- with the reports submitted in said documents; for improvement of channel between Staten Island and Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $50,000; in all, $90,000.

Hudson River Channel.

Black

N. Y.

Rock, etc.,

Use of balances.

East River, N. Y.

Hudson River Channel, New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, $210,500; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $600,000; in all, $810,500.

Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New York: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Channel and Erie Basin and for widening the channel at the bend.

East River, New York: For improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, first session, and for a forty-foot Hell Gate channel, channel through East River and Hell Gate, in accordance with the

etc.

Provisos.

Use of balances.

Depth at Diamond

report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $1,250,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of East River and Hell Gate are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the reports submitted in said document: Provided further, That a depth of forty feet is authorized across Diamond Reef: And provided Removal of drift, etc. further, That so much as may be necessary of this and any other appropriations made herein or hereafter for specific portions of New York Harbor and its immediate tributaries may be allotted by the Secretary of War for the maintenance of these waterways by the collection and removal of drift.

Reef.

New Jersey.
Maintenance of har-

bors, etc.

Cold Spring Inlet, etc., N. J.

Maurice, etc., Rivers,

N. J.

Pittsburgh, Pa.
Schuylkill River, Pa.

Delaware River, Pa., N. J., and Del.

sea.

Keyport and Shoal Harbors, Woodbridge, Cheesequake, Matawan, and Compton Creeks, Elizabeth, Raritan, South, and Shrewsbury Rivers, and Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $58,000. Cold Spring and Absecon Inlets, Absecon and Tuckerton Creeks, and Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $35,000.

Cooper, Salem, Cohansey, and Maurice Rivers, Woodbury, Mantua, Raccoon, Oldmans, and Alloway Creeks, New Jersey: For maintenance, $23,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance of Maurice River, $25,000; in all, $48,000.

Pittsburgh Harbor, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $5,000. Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: For improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and seventy, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000.

Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware: ConPhiladelphia to the tinuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $1,870,000; for maintenance of improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to Lalor Street, Trenton, $40,000; in all, $1,910,000.

To Trenton.

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Wilmington Harbor, Delaware: For maintenance, $50,000. Appoquinimink, Smyrna, Leipsic, Little, Saint Jones, Murderkill, Mispillion, and Broadkill Rivers, Delaware: For maintenance, $30,000. Government iron pier in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance and repair in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and fifty-nine, Sixtyfourth Congress, first session, $68,000.

Waterway between Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay, Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $50,000.

Waterway from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay at or near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance, $1,000.

River to Chesapeake

Purchase of Chesa

Improving inland waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake Waterway, Delaware Bay, Delaware and Maryland, in accordance with the project recom- Bay, Del. and Md. mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and in paragraph three of his report, dated August ninth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as published in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-six, Sixty-third Congress, first session: The peake and Delaware Secretary of War is hereby authorized to enter into negotiations for Canal authorized. the purchase of the existing Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and all the property, rights of property, franchises, and appurtenances used or acquired for use in connection therewith or appertaining thereto; and he is further authorized, if in his judgment the price is reasonable and satisfactory, to make a contract for the purchase of the same, subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. In the event of the inability of the Secretary of War ceeding if no contract to make a satisfactory contract for the voluntary purchase of said agreed to. canal and its appurtenances, he is hereby authorized and directed. through the Attorney General to institute and to carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation of the said canal and its appurtenances, the acceptance of the award in said proceedings to be subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. Such condemnation proceedings shall be instituted and conducted in, and jurisdiction of said proceedings is hereby given to, the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware substantially as provided in "An Act to authorize condemnation of land Vol. 25, p. 357. for sites for public buildings, and for other purposes," approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to pay the necessary costs thereof and expenses in connection therewith.

Condemnation

Procedure.

Baltimore, Md.

pro

Baltimore Harbor and Channels, Maryland: For maintenance of Patapsco River, etc. Patapsco River and Channel to Baltimore, including channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, $104,000; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $250,000; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prosecute maintenance work in the inner harbor in accordance with the recommendation submitted in said document; in all, $354,000. Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, Tilghman Island, Cambridge, shore harbors, etc. and Crisfield Harbors, Elk and Little Elk, Chester, Corisca, Choptank, Tuckahoe, Warwick, La Trappe, Tred Avon, Wicomico, Manokin, and Pocomoke Rivers, Slaughter, Tyaskin, and Broad Creeks, Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River, and Lower Thoroughfare, Deal Island, Maryland; Nanticoke River (including Northwest Fork), Delaware and Maryland; and Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance, $15,800.

Maryland eastern

Potomac River, etc.,

Potomac River, at Washington, District of Columbia, at Alexan- D. C., Md., and Va. dria, Virginia, and at Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, Anacostia River, District of Columbia, Occoquan, Aquia, Upper Machodoc, and Nomini Creeks, Virginia: For maintenance, $30,000.

Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia: For improvement, including channel to Newport News, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and five, Sixtythird Congress, second session, and in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, item "B," page five, $900,000. The unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for improvement of channel to Norfolk, Virginia, is hereby made available for continuing improvement of said channel in accordance with the report submitted in said document.

Norfolk, Va.
News, etc.

Channel to Newport

Use of balances.

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