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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 299. 1894. 353 ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in removing obstructions from Grand River and Pigeon bayous, forming part of the Bayou Plaquemine route. Improving Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: Continuing improvement Bayou Lnfvurchs. and removing obstructions, forty thousand dollars, and a dredge boat L“‘ for use in said bayou is hereby authorized to be constructed, the expense of same to be paid out of this appropriation. Improving Chefuncte River and Bogue Falia, Louisiana: For main- Bf‘{§*f“;.‘3;R£;°‘“d tenance, one thousand dollars. E ’ ` Improving Bogue Chitto, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, live Bogus Chim, La. thousand dollars. Improving Mermentau River and tributaries, Louisiana: Continuing M¤¤¤¤¤¢¤¤ Rimimprovement, five thousand dollars. . °t°" L"" Improving channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion, Louisiana: Lf·°¥°“ V¤¤¤”*°¤· Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. ` Improving Bayou Courtableau, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, LB¤v¤¤ ¤<·¤¤===·*>l¤¤¤» tive thousand dollars. °` Improving Bayou Teche, Louisiana: Continuing improvement, six Bayou rashers. thousand dollars. · Improving Bulfalo Bayou, Texas: Continuing improvement, fifteen nunsiensymrrex. thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement including T¤i¤i¤s‘ River. Tusurvey from Magnolia to the city of Dallas, ilve thousand dollars. . Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas: For dredging and removing CYP’°¤¤B¤Y°¤·T°¤· obstructions and straightening channel between J ederson, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. Improving Sabine River, Texas: For completion, five thousand Sabine River. To:. do lars. · Improving Arkansas River, Arkansas and Indian Territory: Con- A;*kfl:g·;;d*¥*’¤*· tinuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, two-°° nfths of which amount shall be expended from the mouth of the river to Little Bock, and a portion of which, may in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used to prevent the further caving of the bank near Red Fork, two-fifths irom Little Rock to Fort Smith, and one-fifth above Fort Smith: Provided, That, in the discretion of the Secretary rmuo. oi War, ten thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated for said SM2 l>·>¤·¤¤. •=¤<= river may be used in removing obstructions and operating snag boats. Improving Saint Francis River, Arkansas: Continuingimprovement, A§g*"*"”“°**R*'°'· eighty-three thousand dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars of which ` to be expended by the Mississippi River Commission for the proven- M{’¤;—‘·*;·ji·2¤ gfx wg tion of a formation of a cut through to the Saint Francis River by the cuiidiriitt. " ° action of the overiiow water from the Mississippi River, as recommended in the report of Colonel Charles R. Suter, dated May twenty- ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety~four. Improving Arkansas River: Removing obstructions and operating §,§Q‘é"{,*;‘;}¤R{,§$,f· snag boats, twenty thousand dollars. y Improving Black River, Arkansas and Missouri: Continuing improve- ugly; **“’°’· A'k· ment, nine thousand five hundred dollars.' ` Improving White River, Arkansas: Continuing improvement, fifty- whim Rim- Ark two thousand dollars, of which two thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in removing obstructions in Cache River, and eight thousand dollars in the rectification of the channel of the White River at Batesville. Improving Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana: dQ_j;:f*_fg_“:u‘d§[;fk Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is directed to submit, with his next report on the Ouachita River, plans and estimates for the improvement of said Ouachita River by locks and dams, to give slackwater navigation as far above its mouth as in his judgment such improvement is practicable, the cost of the same to be paid out of this appropriation. _ _ Improving Red River above Fulton, Arkansas: Continuing improve- Bel ¥¤V¢¤· Arkment three thousand five hundred dollars. s·rA·r-vor. xxvm-23