Channel of suitable dimensions from southern terminus of the Florida East Coast Canal at Miami into Florida Bay. Saint Andrews Bay, Florida, with a view to increasing the dimensions of the channel between the Gulf of Mexico and Saint Andrews Bay. East Pass channel from the Gulf of Mexico into Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. For examinations and surveys of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, with a view to flood control, under the provisions of section 3, Act approved March 1, 1917. Tombigbee River, Mississippi. Soldier Creek, Alabama. Three Mile Creek from Mobile River to the Industrial Canal, Alabama. Fowl River, Alabama, with a view to securing a navigable channel of 8 feet depth and suitable width from Mobile Bay to a point about one mile above the highway bridge on the Cedar Point Road. Bayou Castaigne, Louisiana. Bayou St. John, Louisiana. Amite River, Louisiana, above the mouth of Bayou Houston Ship Channel, Texas. Baffins Bay, Texas. Brazos River, Texas, up to Rosenberg. Port Aransas, Texas. Intracoastal waterway in Texas from Corpus Christi to Point Isabel, including Arroyo Colorado to Missouri Pacific Bridge near Harlingen. Cache River, Arkansas. Arkansas River and its tributaries, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Illinois and Mississippi Canal, in the vicinity of Mud Creek, Illinois. Galena River, Illinois, with a view to straightening the channel in the vicinity of Galena. Mississippi River, between Missouri River and Minneapolis, with a view to securing a channel depth of nine feet at low water with suitable widths. Headwaters of the Mississippi River, with a view to maintaining a minimum fixed head of water in all of the channels of this system at all times. Missouri River, from the upper end of Quindaro Bend to its mouth, with a view to securing a channel depth of nine feet at low water with suitable widths. Ohio River, at and in the vicinity of Shawneetown, Illinois. Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania, from Fifteenth Kiskiminitas and Conemaugh Rivers, Pennsylvania. Kanawha River, West Virginia, from Lock Numbered 5 to its mouth. Guyandotte River with a view of preventing the said River from farther encroaching upon the public streets of and private property in the village of Barboursville, West Virginia. Minnesota and Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with a view to extending the deep-water channel up the Wisconsin. Saint Louis River to Fond du Lac, Minnesota. Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wis consin. South Haven Harbor, Michigan, with a view to extending the breakwater. Black River at Port Huron, Michigan. Michigan and Wisconsin. Michigan. Great Lakes, for Great Lakes: With a view to providing ship channels with sufficient depth and width to accommodate the ship channels. present and prospective commerce at low water datum for the Great Lakes and their connecting waters, and their principal harbors and river channels, either by means of compensation or regulatory works or by dredging and rock removal in the separate localities, or by both methods. Saginaw River, Michigan, and entrance thereto. Channel on the northeasterly side of Marquette Island, Michigan, between Mackinac Bay and Muscallonge Bay. Black River, Michigan. Port Crescent Harbor, Michigan. Michigan. Toledo Harbor, Toledo Harbor, Ohio, with a view to the construction of a breakwater and to securing a depth of twenty-three Ohio. feet in the harbor and channel. Harlem River, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause a preliminary examination and survey to be made of N. Y. Harlem River, New York, with a view to determining and reporting to Congress whether fixed bridges should be permitted across said river and, if such bridges are deemed permissible, what clearances should be required in the interest of navigation. Niagara River, Niagara River, New York: The east channel, from the end of the present twenty-three-foot channel to the N. Y. westerly boundary of Sugar Street, Niagara Falls. Hueneme Harbor, California. Alameda Harbor, California. San Francisco Harbor, California: The south entrance channel, with a view to removing obstructions. Middle River and Empire Cut, in the vicinity of the Henning tract and Mildred Island, San Joaquin County, California. Coquille River, Oregon, from the entrance to Bullards. Yaquina River, Oregon, from Toledo to Yaquina Bay. Clatskanie River, Oregon, from Clatskanie to the channel in Columbia River. California. Oregon. Washington. Colorado River. ization for front to Yuma irriga and Calif. Ante, p. 961. Willamette River, Oregon, between Portland and Tillamook Bay and Entrance, Oregon. Bellingham Harbor, Washington, with a view to improving the Squalicum Creek waterway. Columbia River, Washington, with a view to securing an adequate channel to the town of Illwaco. Columbia River, Washington, between Illwaco and the town of Chinook with a view to bank protection from floods and erosion. Skamokawa Slough, Washington. Stillaguamish River, Washington. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States work on, adjacent not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending tion project, Ariz. June 30, 1928, and annually thereafter, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be spent by the Reclamation Bureau under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California. Former provi sions repealed. Vol. 43, p. 1198. Experts, etc. terms in excess Section 16 (c), Act approved March 3, 1925 (Fortythird Statutes at Large, page 1198), is hereby repealed. Ocean frontage of Afognak, Alaska, with a view to providing a harbor. Nome Harbor, Alaska. Anchorage Harbor, Alaska. Dry Pass, Alaska. Portage Bay, Alaska, and adjacent bays, with a view to providing a practicable harbor, accessible to the Cold Bay oil fields. Gastineau Channel, Alaska. Port Frederick, Alaska. William Henry Bay, Alaska. SEC. 5. (a) That all agreements heretofore made by employing, on District Engineers for the employment of experts and specialists in the several arts and sciences, upon terms and rates of compensation for services and incidental exVol. 42, p. 1488. penses in excess of the maximum of the salaries authorized by the Classification Act of March 4, 1923, and all payments made thereunder, are hereby validated. Funds available for essential perof employees. (b) Funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated for sonal equipment rivers and harbors to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of War shall be available for expenditure in the purchase of such personal equipment for employees as in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers are essential for the efficient prosecution of the works. subsistence ex daytime official Accounting (c) All payments heretofore made by disbursing officers Payments of of the Corps of Engineers, as reimbursement of subsist- penses incurred for ence expenses incurred on journeys on official business journeys to be alunder proper orders, commencing after eight o'clock ante- lowed by General meridian and completed not later than six o'clock Office. postmeridian of any day, when said expenses are not in excess of those authorized by existing Army Regulations, shall be allowed and credited by the General Accounting Office. (d) Actual expenses heretofore and hereafter incurred by civilian employees on river and harbor works for packing, crating, hauling, and transporting household effects, within the weight limits as prescribed in Army Regulations, when making permanent change of station under competent orders, may, on approval of the Chief of Engineers, be paid or reimbursed from funds pertaining to river and harbor works. Approved, January 21, 1927. CHAP. 58. An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes. TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT Household effects of employ ees. Payment directed for trans porting, etc. January 26, 1927. [H. R. 14557.] [Public, No. 571.] Vol. 44, pp. 1027, 1030. Treasury De partment appro Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for priations. the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely: * * * * * Typewriting machines. Prices of stand 1928. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1928 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except ard machines for bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches. (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchases to be from surplus of stock mittee. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1928 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to for exchange. any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange Com Unserviceable machines allowed part payment. prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the in service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. February 9, 1927. [H. J. Res. 100.] [Pub. Res., No. 52.] Vol. 44, p. 1066. Lowell Creek, Alaska. Amount author of, protecting ad ized for regulation jacent Federal property, etc. CHAP. 92.-Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to expend not to exceed $125,000 for the protection of Government property adjacent to Lowell Creek, Alaska. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is authorized to expend not to exceed $125,000 out of any moneys hereafter appropriated for such purpose for the regulation of Lowell Creek, Alaska, for the protection of the buildings, terminal grounds, and so forth, of the Alaska Engineering Commission and the Alaska Road Commission, the Department of Justice, the United States Signal Corps, and other Federal property within or adjacent to the town of Seward, Alaska, from damage due to floods and overflows of said Lowell Creek: Provided, That $25,000 by local interests. Of the above amount shall be contributed and paid in by the town of Seward or other local interests to be benefited by the proposed improvement, before said work is commenced. Proviso. Contribution Approved, February 9, 1927. February 12, 1927. [H. R. 11325.] [Public, No. 603.] Vol. 44, p. 1086. Injuries to Gov. ernment employ ees. pensation for. CHAP. 110.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes," approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Increased com- That section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes," approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof, is amended to read as follows: Compensation for total disability increased. amended. Partial. "SEC. 6. That the monthly compensation for total Vol. 39, p. 743, disability shall not be more than $116.66, nor less than $58.33, unless the employee's monthly pay is less than $58.33, in which case his monthly compensation shall be the full amount of his monthly pay. The monthly compensation for partial disability shall not be more than $116.66. In the case of persons who at the time minors and To learners. |