construed to extend the limit of cost of improvement of the harbor at San Pedro, California, as authorized by said Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

That the provisions of the river and harbor Acts of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and June three, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, making appropriations for improving harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon, by deepening harbor and removing obstructions therefrom, are hereby so amended as to authorize the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to expend any or all of the funds so appropriated in carrying on the required dredging and other work by contract, or in any manner that in his judgment may be most economical and advantageous to the Government.

Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, three hundred thousand dollars.

Improving upper Monongahela River, West Virginia: For continuing improvement by the construction of six locks and dams, four hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing improvement by construction of locks numbered five, six, and seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: For completing improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be used for restoring the levee and banks of the Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Illinois, recently swept away by the high waters in said river, such sum to be immediately available.

For continuing construction of dams numbered two, three, four, and five, between Davis Island Dam and dam numbered six, five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement from its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch,

and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, four hundred thousand dollars.

Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, one million four hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be used under the direction of the Secretary of War for the purpose of constructing a high bridge across Rock River on the line of said canal, in lieu of the one known as the Moline bridge in the county of Rock Island.

Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing im provement, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That six thousand dollars of said sum may be used for the repair and extension of the levee of the Muskingum River at Zanesville, Ohio, in the discretion of the Secretary of War.

Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan: For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, of which sum forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended to complete the construction of the levee from Flint Creek to the Iowa River, according to the existing project of improvement.

Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, one million nine hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, of which the sum of

twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in protecting the bank at and near the town of Caruthersville, Missouri; the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the rectification of the banks at Greenville, Mississippi; the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the completion of the revetment work at or near the town of Helena, Arkansas; the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the completion of the revetment work along the bluff at the harbor of Memphis, Tennessee; the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for repairing the damage which was done by the flood of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to the revetment work which was built by the United States Government in eighteen hundred and ninety-five along the bluff at said harbor of Memphis, Tennessee; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for continuing improvement of the Mississippi River at New Madrid, Missouri, revetment of the banks, and preventing destruction of the same.

Improving Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City, Iowa: For continuing improvement of Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges, three hundred thousand dollars, of which the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the bank in Pelican Bend, Missouri River, and improvement of river in that vicinity, to be immediately available, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in improving the river and protecting the north bank thereof from erosion at and near Huntsdale, in

Boone County, Missouri, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the channel and the shore line above Glasgow from the foot of Bowling Green Bend to the head of Harrison Island, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the banks and existing Government works at and near the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri, and the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in protecting the right bank of said river at and near the mouth of the Little Blue, in Jackson County, Missouri, and in the discretion of the Secretary of War the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in widening and cleaning out the mouth of the Kaw river where it empties into the Missouri river at Kansas City.

For maintenance of the channel in Mobile Harbor, by dredging, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

FOR NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.

FOR SUPERINTENDENTS OF NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixtyone thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

HEADSTONES FOR GRAVES OF SOLDIERS: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventythree, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventynine, twenty-five thousand dollars.

REPAIRING ROADWAYS TO NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, eight thousand dollars.

For completing repair of damages caused by the recent floods to the roadway leading from the Mound City National Cemetery to Mound City and Mounds, Illinois, and to widen the road and elevate the grade, two thousand five hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of three thousand five hundred dollars made for this object in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

ROAD TO NATIONAL CEMETERY, NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI: For the improvement and completion of the road and sidewalks from the city of Natchez, Mississippi, to the National Cemetery near that city, four thousand dollars.

That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for shelling or otherwise improving to completion the roadway from Pensacola, Florida, to the national cemetery near that city, is hereby reappropriated and made available for such improvements on said roadway as may be found most advantageous.

BURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars.

ROAD TO NATIONAL CEMETERY, PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, between Lombard street and First avenue, five thousand dollars.