DOCUMENT NO. 1 (U. S. 44 STAT. L. 1010), JANUARY 21,1927
RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT OF 1927 (69TH CONG.), U. S. 44 STAT.
 L. 1010, APPROVED JANUARY 21, 1927
 Section 4 of this act authorizes the Secretary of War to cause a
preliminary examination and survey, to be. Iade at the following-
named rcality: 'Waterway from Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla.,
to the issiippi River."
 The temused in thi act is in conformity with the older
name under which the proposal to connect the Gulf and Atlantic
waterway systems had been known in previous legislation. The cum-
bersome and somewhat misleading tile, "Waterway from Cumber-
land Sound, Ga. and Fla., to the Mississippi River', still persists in
official descriptions of the Florida Canal.


DOCUMENT NO. 2 (FILES OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS), FEBRUARY
 5, 1927

SPECIAL ORDER No. 5, ISSUED BY THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS UNDER
 DATE OF FEBRUARY 5, 1927
 This order appointed a special board of Army engineer officers to
make the preliminary examination and survey called for by the
Rivers and Harbors Act approved January 21, 1927. (See Doc-
ument No. 1.)
 The personnel of this board was changed from time to time under
Special Orders, No. 48, dated August 3, 1929; No. 51, July 18, 1930;
no. 59, August 11, 1930; No. 77, September 29, 1931; No. 49, July 14,
1932; and No. 70, dated September 8, 1932.
 Before this special board completed its report, Congress passed the
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1930.


 DOCUMENT NO. 3 (U. S. 46 STAT. L. 918), JULY 3, 1930

RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT OF 1930 (71ST CONG.), U. S. 46 Stat. L.
 918), APPROVED JULY 3, 1930
 Section 2 of this act authorized and directed the Secretary of War
to cause to be made a preliminary examination and survey of-
 Waterway across northern Florida to connect the Atlantic intracoastal water-
way with the proposed Gulf intracoastal waterway by the most practicable route.
 Waterway for barge traffic across southern Georgia and northern Florida to
connect the Atlantic intracoatal waterway with the proposed Gulf intracoastal
waterway by the mostrpracticable.route.
 From the mouth of the St. Marys River on the Atlantic Ocean, waterway for
barge traffic to connect with the proposed Gulf intracoastal waterway by the
most practicable route.