January 18, 1871 (Louisville and Portland Canal and Des Moines Rapids, Mississippi River)‒‒‒‒ February 2, 1871 (St. Marys River and St. Marys Falls Canal). February 21, 1871 (lower Mississippi River and tributaries) March 2, 1871 (Keweenaw Point waterway, Mich). February 13, 1891 (mouth of Columbia River). February 21, 1891 (commercial statistics). March 3, 1891 (Lynnhaven Bay, Va.)_ March 3, 1891 (Mississippi River Commission) March 3, 1891 (rivers and harbors) --- March 3, 1891 (Columbia River at the Cascades) March 3, 1891 (Mississippi River Commission). February 25, 1892 (mining débris in California) June 6, 1892 (Kansas River, Kans.) August 23, 1894 (Chicago Harbor, Ill.) – August 23, 1894 (Rappahannock River, Va.) December 24, 1894 (Lake Erie to Ohio River) January 25, 1895 (Galveston Harbor, Tex.) February 1, 1895 (Everett Harbor, Wash.) February 13, 1895 (Kalamazoo River (Saugatuck Harbor), Mich.). January 21, 1896 (Aransas Pass, Tex.) . February 26, 1896 (New York and Galveston harbors and Jupiter LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. TANFORD BRARY WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, From: The Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army. Subject: Compilation of river and harbor laws. 1. Section 6 of the river and harbor act approved March 4, 1913, provides: SEC. 6. That the first paragraph of section six of the river and harbor act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 6. That there shall be printed three thousand copies of a revised edition of the laws of the United States relating to the improvement of rivers and harbors passed between and including August eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and the close of the third session of the Sixty-second Congress, of which six hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand four hundred copies for the use of the House, and one thousand copies for the use of the War Department. Said compilation shall be printed under the direction of the Secretary of War." 2. The compilation called for includes laws from August 11, 1790, to March 4, 1907, comprising 1,295 pages, heretofore published in two volumes, and in order to avoid much unnecessary labor in making minor changes in page numbers and other marginal references it is desired that the matter heretofore published be retained as nearly as practicable in its present form, with same page numbers. 3. Copy for such laws has not therefore been prepared. Part of the new matter necessary for the compilation is herewith, and I recommend that, in pursuance of the above-quoted provisions of law, it be printed and bound at the Government Printing Office, together with the prior laws, with such additions, corrections, etc., as may be found desirable upon examination of the proof, and with suitable index. The balance of the new matter, which will form another volume, will be forwarded as soon as it can be prepared. The part herewith is forwarded at this time in order to enable the Public Printer to take up the work now, when the pressure on his department is less than it will be later in the year. WM. T. ROSSELL, [First indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, By order of the Secretary of War: J. B. RANDOLPH, Acting Assistant and Chief Clerk. 11 |