Searchlights. Preservation, etc. Fort Mo u ltrie, S. C. Protecting wall. Forts Pickens and McRee, Fla. control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, nine hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most important harbors, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred thousand dollars. Toward the construction of about four thousand eight hundred linear feet of wall necessary for the protection of Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, South Carolina, from the effects of storms (to cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars), one hundred thousand dollars. Toward the building sea walls for the protection of the sites of the fortifications and of the necessary post Sea walls, buildings at Forts Pickens and McRee, Pensacola Harbor, Florida (to cost not to exceed nine hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars), four hundred thousand dollars. etc. Pensacola, Fla. Toward the repair and restoration of batteries and Repair of other structures appurtenant to the defenses of Pensacola batteries, etc. and for retaining walls to protect the batteries from floods (to cost not to exceed one hundred and nine thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars), fifty thousand dollars. Mobile, Ala. Repair of defenses. Philip, La. Toward the repair and restoration of batteries and other structures appurtenant to the defenses of Mobile, Alabama, and for rebuilding sea walls and groins for protection of the sites of the fortifications and of the garrison posts (to cost not to exceed one million eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars), five hundred thousand dollars. Fort St. For rebuilding and strengthening the levees for proRebuilding tection of the site of the defenses and the garrison post at Fort Saint Philip, New Orleans, Louisiana, one hundred thousand dollars. levees. Plans. Electric plants. Sea walls. Torpedo structures. Submarine mines. For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars. For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty thousand dollars. For construction of sea walls and embankments, twentyfive thousand dollars. PRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF TORPEDO STRUCTURES: For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedo defense of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian Islands, two hundred thousand dollars. Insular possessions. Seacoast bat teries. Hawaiian Is lands. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Philippine IsIslands, five hundred thousand dollars. lands. Fire control For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, and for stations, etc. the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars. Range find ers, etc. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the Searchlights. defenses of most important harbors, thirty thousand dollars. mines. Construction, For the construction of mining casemates, cable gal- Submarine leries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care etc. of submarine mines and their accessories, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION. Board of Ordnance and Fortification. etc. To enable the Board to make all needful and proper Purchases, purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian Civilian memmember of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling Vol. 25, p. 489. ber. Vol. 26, p. 769. Per diem. expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars Tests, etc. and fifty cents a day, and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, twenty-five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: Provided, That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. Proviso. Right to use inventions. Material to be of American manufacture. That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Approved, March 2, 1907. March 2, 1907. CHAP. 2509.-An Act Making appropriations for the construc[H. R. 24991.] tion, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers [Public, No. and harbors, and for other purposes. 168.] Vol. 34, p. 1073. Rivers harbors appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemand bled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid 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: Cape Porpoise, Me. Sasanoa River, Me. Improving harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninetyone, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, forty-six thousand dollars. Improving Sasanoa River, Maine: Completing improvement in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers, dated February seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, forty-four thousand dollars." Improving Penobscot River, at Bangor, Maine: Completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-nine, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Penobscot River, Me. River, Me. Contracts. Improving Kennebec River, Maine, from the mouth to Kennebec Gardiner, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twentyone, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War Proviso. may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. Me., break Improving breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcu- Bar Harbor, pine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine: Continuing improve- water. ment, thirty thousand dollars. Cape Ann, Proviso. Improving the channel in the Narrows of Lake Cham- Lake Champlain, Vt. and plain, Vermont and New York: For maintenance, two N. Y. thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Sandy Bay, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred Mass. thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. Improving harbor at Beverly, Massachusetts: Complet- Beverly, Mass. ing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Boston, Mass. Thirty five foot channel. Proviso. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For main tenance and general improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Improving thirty-five-foot channel in Boston Harbor, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary for completing said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate three million eight hundred and ninetyfour thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated or heretofore authorized. Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: ProvinceContinuing improvement and for maintenance, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Hingham, Massachusetts, by redredging the channel, ten thousand dollars. town, Mass. Hingham, Mass. Bay and Ne Improving Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Mas- Dorchester sachusetts: Completing improvement to the Neponset ponset River, Highway Bridge, as recommended in House Document Mass. Proviso. New Bedford and Fairhaven, Mass. Proviso. Contracts. Nantucket, Mass. Essex River, Mass. Proviso. Mystic and Malden rivers, Mass. Weymouth Back River. tion, etc. Numbered Eighty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall have received satisfactory assurance that the improvement of that portion of the Neponset River described in said House document, which lies above the project herein adopted, shall be made and hereafter maintained by the State of Massachusetts or other agency without expense to the Government of the United States. Improving harbors at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts: For improving said harbors in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Essex River, Massachusetts: For improving said river by the restoration of the channel, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended unless a further amount of five thousand dollars shall be provided by the State of Massachusetts or other agency, and made subject to the order of the Secretary of War in such manner as he may direct, to be expended upon said project under his direction. Improving Mystic and Malden rivers, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including Mystic River below the mouth of Island End River, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Weymouth Back River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Connecticut Improving Connecticut River between Hartford, Connecticut, and Holyoke, Massachusetts: For investigation Investiga- and further examination, as recommended by the Board of Engineers in report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-three, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, five thousand dollars. Newport, R. I. Proviso. Contracts. Improving Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, in accordance with the project reported in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be required for the completion of the project recommended in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirtyeight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, to be paid for |