Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors; From August 11, 1790 to March 3, 1887, with a Tabulated Statement of Appr
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...said sum is hereby appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to said Eads or his legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum for which said warrant is drawn. When a channel shall have been obtaiued by the action of the jetties and auxiliary works authorized by said act twenty-five feet iu depth, and not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, through the said jetties, there shall be paid five hundred thousand dollars. When a channel shall have been obtained through the jetties twenty-six feet iu depth, and not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, there shall be paid five hundred thousand dollars. When a channel thirty feet iu depth, without regard to width, shall have been obtained through the jetties, there shall be paid live hundred thousaud dollars; and the one million dollars provided by the Itereiubefore-recited act to be paid by the United States in ten and twenty years shall be earned by said Eads aud his associates, and the same, with interest shall be paid to said Eads or his legal representatives, at the times aud in the manner provided by said act. The one hundred thousand dollars per annum provided by said recited act to be paid to said Eads and his associates during a period of twenty years shall be paid at the times and in the manner therein provided; upon the maintenance by said Eads and his associates of a channel through the jetties twenty six feet in depth, not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of thirty feet without regard to width. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to re-i878,ch. 313. peal or in any wise affect the provisions of the amendatory act ap...