§ 629. Contract for hire of dredging plant

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1907

   Pub. L. 59–2509 § 5 · 34 Stat. 1073

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 629

   Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2509, § 5, 34 Stat. 1119

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2509, § 5, 34 Stat. 1119

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. That section four of the Act of Congress approved April Dredges on Great Lakes, etc. Restriction repealed. Vol. 33, p.452. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act providing for the restoration or maintenance of channels or of river and harbor improvements, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Whenever it shall become, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, Dredging plants authorized. necessary or desirable to hire a dredging plant or plants for the performance of any of the public work carried on under his direction the said Secretary may, in his discretion, agree for the same, either in the manner now customary or on the basis of an equitable reimbursement for deterioration of plant when in use by the Government, and a reasonable percentage of the total cost of the work.

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