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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 425. 1899. 1123 work necessary to complete so much of said project as includes a chan- LCb¤{q°{,*’§;°¤q,¤ nel twenty feet deep through Long Island Sound from Tomlinson’s etgilg ° °“° uu ' Bridge, including three interior basins affording separate anchorage with depths of twenty, sixteen, and twelve feet, respectively, and connected by adequate channels, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving harbor at Five Mile River, Connecticut: Continuing im- rm une rms provement, two thousand nve hundred dollars. °°““· Improving harbor at Stamford, Connecticut: Continuing improve- smmro¤1,c0¤m. ment, six thousand dollars. · Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: For maintenance, two ummm, com. thousand dollars. ' Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For maintenance, seventy- B¤¤`=1¤.N-Y- five thousand dollars. _ For improvement of the Buffalo entrance to Erie Basin and Black ,;,s*;:*{;{_*°° *0 Em Rock Harbor, New York, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That a con- rmsiol tract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of WVar for such °°"""‘°“· materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of War, House Document Number Seventy-two, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred and ninety-eight_ thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty cents, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. · Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: For maintenance, seven C1¤¤r1¤tte.N.Y. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Great Sodns Bay, New York: For maintenance, NG;<==*· $¤d··¤ Bvfourteen thousand dollars.`· Improving harbor at Little Sodns Bay, New York: For maintenance, Little som Bay, five thousand five hundred dollars. N·Y· Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improve- 0s<l¤¤¤¤\>¤rg.N-Y. ment, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement, °“'=¤°-N-Y- sixty thousand dollars, of which amount ten thousand dollars may be used for repair of the breakwater. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance, one hun- pig York Hum:. dred thousand dollars. For improving said harbor by a deep channel, C,,,,‘,§f,'i'{“}‘Qff,;, Na, two thousand feet wide and forty feet deep from the Narrows, by the r<>w¤ w ¢¤¤¤•>··- so called East Channel across Sandy Hook Bar to the open sea, in accord ance with the recommendations contained in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-fifth Congress, third "session, one million dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may forthwith gmvkv-m enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may ""“"“ be necessary for the completion of said project, to be paid for as appro priations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three million dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. If, however, the Secretary of War shall be unable to make a contract 5::2; {_·;·ys:;$gg; or contracts for the completion of said project for a sum within the tr wu. amounts above specified, then the said one million dollars herein appropriatcd, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied by him in the construction or purchase of such dredges, steamboats and other plant, machinery and appliances as maybe necessary to prosecute said project, and shall cause the work on said project to be entered upon and prosecuted under the charge of the Secretary of War by employment of labor and materials necessary therefor, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate the said sum of three million dollars exclusive of the one million dollars herein appropriated. _ Improving Bay Ridge Channel and Red Hook Channel in the harbor Hgfgjggzanfld R°‘ of New York: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars: