Volume 21 · 9
Public Law 46–15
to amend an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved June 10, 1879
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That such parts of the monies heretofore appropriated by the act of which this is amendatory for the
Great Kanawha Ri ver.
Kentucky River.
improvement of the Great Kanawha River in West Virginia and the Kentucky River in the State of Kentucky as may be necessary in the prosecution of said improvements as undertaken may be expended in
Purchase of land.
the purchase, voluntary or by condemnation as the case may be, of such
Proviso.
sites as are necessary in the prosecution of said improvements; Provided, That such expend!! urc shall be under the direction of the Secretary of FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. On. 15, 16, 17. 1879. War: And provided further, That if the owners of such lands or sites
Condemnation.
shall refuse to sell the same at reasonable prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined and the title and jurisdiction procured in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State in which such lands or sites are situated.
Approved, June 10, 1879.