Improving La Grange Bayou, Florida: To complete, three thousand dollars, including Holmes River to the town of Vernon.

Improving Manatee River, Florida: Continuing improvement, ave thousand dollars.

Improving Saint John's River, Florida, from Jacksonville to the ocean including the channel over the bar at the mouth, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

Improving Suwanee River, Florida: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars; of which ten thousand dollars is to be expended in the purchase or construction of a suitable steam snag-boat with dredging and pile-driving machinery to be used on the rivers of the west coast of Florida.

Improving Volusia Bar, Florida: To maintain, five hundred dol

lars.

Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving Black Warrior River, Alabama, from Tuscaloosa to Daniel's Creek: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Tallapoosa River, Alabama: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Warrior River, below Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Continuing improvement, eighteen thousand dollars.

Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, from Walker's Bridge to Fulton, four thousand dollars.

Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, from Fulton to Vienna: Continuing improvement, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Tombigbee River, Alabama, below Vienna: To complete improvement, six thousand dollars.

Improving Big Sunflower River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; of which two thousand dollars to be expended between Woodburn and Lehrton.

Improving Noxubee River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, twenty-seven thousand dollars, including bar at the mouth and from there to the mills at Moss Point.

Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Edinburgh and Carthage: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, between Carthage and Jackson: Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Pearl River, Mississippi, below Jackson, fifteen thousand dollars; of which five thousand shall be used for dredging at the mouth.

Improving Steele's Bayou, Mississippi, including Washington Bayou: Continuing improvement, two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Tallahatchie River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Tchula Lake, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, three thousand dollars.

Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, thirty-two thousand dollars; of which ten thousand shall be used in repairing snag-boat Meigs, and eight thousand for constructing a pumping dredge-boat.

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Improving Amite River, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; of which two thousand five hundred may be used in improving Bayou Manchae.

Improving Boeuf River, Louisiana: Continuing improvement and closure of outlets, six thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Bartholomew, Louisiana and Arkansas: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Courtableau, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou D'Arbonne, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Terre Bonne, Louisiana: To complete, three thousand dollars.

Improving Red River, Louisiana: For completion of survey from Fulton, Arkansas, to the Atchafalaya River, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Tensas River and Bayou Macon, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Red River, Louisiana and Arkansas: Continuing improvement from Fulton, Arkansas, to Atchafalaya River, including completing the work at Alexandria, sixty-five thousand dollars; of which five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used upon Cypress Bayou and the lakes between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Jefferson, Texas; and five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, upon Bayou Dorcheat.

Improving Ouachita and Black River, Arkansas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars; of which four thousand five hundred dollars is authorized to be expended for the construction or purchase of a crane-boat with steam power.

Improving Tickfaw River and its navigable tributaries, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, one thousand dollars.

Improving Little River, Louisiana, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Bayous Rondeway and Vidal, Louisiana, by removing obstructions, one thousand dollars.

Improving Calcasieu River and Passes, Louisiana: Continuing improvement at the entrance to said river and pass, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For securing a navigable channel sixty feet wide and six feet in depth, from deep water up to the Plaquemine Dike, and for securing the mouth of the bayou from further caving, one hundred thousand dollars, pursuant to plan recommended by the engineers.

Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, pursuant to the project of Lieutenant O. T. Crosby, Corps of Engineers, dated June eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, fifty thousand dollars, including immediate dredging to secure low water navigation.

Improving Buffalo Bayou, Texas: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the Secretary of War to enter upon the project of improvement of said river as set forth in the report of the Board of Engineers on improvement of the Arkansas River from

Wichita, Kansas, to its mouth, dated New York City, March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and contained in House Executive Document Number Two hundred and thirty-four, first session, Fiftieth Congress: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall expend the appropriation under this head with reference to the final improvement of this river as contemplated in the report of the Chief of Engineers for the year ending July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and as authorized in the act for the improvement of rivers and harbors approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eightysix, and in House Executive Document number ninety, Forty-ninth Congress, first session; said methods to be applied, as the Secretary of War may direct, at such points between Wichita, Kansas, and the navigable mouth of the Arkansas River, at its junction with the Mississippi River, as he may deem for the best interest of commerce. And all moneys now to the credit of different sections of the Arkansas River, other than appropriations for the operating of snag boats, shall be available for use under this head; and in future the engineer in charge of this work and the Secretary of War shall make report upon the progress and needs of this work under this head, instead of reporting upon disconnected projects, as heretofore. Nothing herein contained shall be understood to prevent the Secretary of War from applying any part or all of the funds previously appropriated for use at Fort Smith, Dardanelle, in Pine Bluff Reach, or from expending not exceeding four thousand dollars to remove the bar in front of Van Buren, or from allotting not exceeding eight thousand dollars as a contingent fund for the expenditure in Pine Bluff Reach.

Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, four thousand dollars.

Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas: For removing obstructions, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars is authorized to be used in constructing a new hull for the snag boat Wichita, including capstans and the transfer of the upper works, and three hundred and seventy-five dollars in completing survey and

maps.

Improving Red River, Arkansas: To complete improvement above Fulton, three thousand dollars.

Improving Black River, Arkansas and Missouri: Continuing improvements, five thousand dollars.

Improving Little Red River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, five thousand four hundred dollars; a portion of which is authorized to be expended in the purchase or construction of a dredge-boat suitable for the work of the river.

Improving Petit Jean River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, below the iron bridge at the Rocky Crossing, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving White River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas, above Camden: To complete, nine thousand dollars.

Improving Cache River, Arkansas, seven thousand dollars; three thousand dollars of which shall be expended for the building and equipping of a small hand-propelled snag-boat, and four thousand dollars for running expenses of the same, in accordance with the recommendation of the engineer in charge.

Improving Big Hatchee River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Caney Fork River, Tennessee: Continuing improve ment, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Clinch River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky: Continuing improvement above Nashville, two hundred thousand dollars; with a view to secure a uniform depth in the channel of four feet, commencing with a lock at or near the lower island at Nashville. Improving Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky, below Nashville: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving French Broad River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving Hiawassee River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, one thousand dollars.

Improving Forked Deer River, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, four thousand five hundred dollars for the North Fork, below Dyersburgh; two thousand five hundred for South Fork; and two thousand five hundred for main river below.

Improving Tennessee River, above Chattanooga, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Tennessee River, below Chattanooga, Tennessee: Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which as much as may be necessary is authorized to be expended in acquiring by purchase or condemnation the land needed for the sites of the permanent buildings necessary in the management of the canals at the improved shoals.

Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: Continuing improvement, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Improving Licking River, Kentucky, from Farmer's to West Liberty, three thousand dollars.

Improving Tradewater River, Kentucky: To complete improve-ment, six thousand dollars.

For the purchase of the improvements known as the Green and Barren River improvements, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a full and absolute conveyance of said improvements, together with rights of way, easements, piers, docks, and appurtenances of every nature belonging to or connected with said improvements, by the owner or owners thereof, and the Attorney-General of the United States shall have certified to the Secretary of War that the title is perfect.

Improving the Ohio River: Continuing improvement, three hundred and eighty thousand; dollars, of which sum, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in removing the rock obstruction at the mouth of Licking River, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended for the construction of a drift-gap at Davis Island Dam, with the necessary bear-trap gates and masonry walls, and seven thousand five hundred dollars in constructing an ice pier pursuant to the present or prospective plan of the Chief of Engineers, at or near Portsmouth, Ohio: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to obtain, if he can do so without cost to the United States, a perpetual lease or conveyance of the riparian rights of the property owners at said locality, in the event said ice-pier shall be located where there is no landing place: And provided further, That at said locality, if it be an improved landing, he shall first ob

tain a relinquishment of wharfage rights and dues in favor of water craft seeking protection from damage by ice; and no part of this appropriation shall be used for such purpose until the foregoing conditions are complied with; and two thousand five hundred dollars of said Ohio River appropriation may be used for improving the channel in the mouth of the Big Hocking River below the first dam therein; and twenty thousand dollars of said Ohio River appropriation may be used for harbor improvement at Madison, Indiana, according to the plans heretofore submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Merrill, Corps of Engineers; also out of said Ohio River appropriation the sum of fifteen thousand dollars may be expended in completing the construction of the embankment on the south side of the Great Miami River near its junction with the Ohio, to confine the waters of the Great Miami in great floods to the general course of its channel at or near the Ohio, to the end that the formation of the bar in the Ohio now obstructing navigation may be arrested; also out of said Ohio River appropriation the sum of fifteen thousand dollars may be expended in the construction, or aiding in the construction, of such an embankment at Shawneetown, Illinois, as will confine the waters of the river in great floods to the general course of its channel, and protect the harbor; and thirty thousand dollars of said sum of three hundred and eighty thousand dollars may be expended in protecting the harbor at Cairo, Illinois, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, if in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of commerce require it. Improving the falls of the Ohio River: Continuing improvement, according to the last plan of the engineer in charge, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which sum twenty-five thousand shall be used in enlarging the canal basin near the locks at Louisville, Kentucky, as recommended in the Engineer's Report of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, page one thousand eight hundred and four.

Improving Indiana Chute Fall, Ohio River: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Muskingum River, Ohio: For the construction of a lock at Taylorsville and the reconstruction of the lock at Zanesville, pursuant to the report of the engineers, one hundred and two thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered to grant leases or licenses for the use of the water powers on the Muskingum River at such rate and on such conditions and for such periods of time as may seem to him just, equitable, and expedient: Provided, That the leases or licenses shall be limited to the use of the surplus water not required for navigation. Ad he is also empowered to grant leases or licenses for the occupation of such lands belonging to the United States on said Muskingum River as may be required for mill-sites or for other purposes not inconsistent with the requirements of navigation; and all moneys received under such leases or licenses shall be turned into the Treasury of the United States, and the itemized statement thereof shall accompany the annual report of the Chief of Engineers.

But nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any vested right, if such there be, of any lessee of water power on said river.

Improving Detroit River, Michigan: To complete, one hundred and thirty thousand and five hundred dollars.

Improving Hay Lake Channel, Michigan: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That any portion, or all of this sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be