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ninth line of said page, the following language: The officer Per diem to of the Navy detailed to serve on this Board shall receive from said appropriation, in addition to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes, and notwithstanding its provisions, such a per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper.

R. S., sec. 1566, p. 269.

Approved, February 17, 1897.

February 17, 1897.

CHAP. 238.—An Act Authorizing the Cleveland Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River between Pawnee County, Oklahoma, and the Osage Indian Reservation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Cleveland the Cleveland Bridge Company, a corporation duly organBridge Company ized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Oklakansas River, homa, and its successors or assigns, be, and is hereby,

may bridge Ar

Okla.

Location.

authorized to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between a point in Pawnee County and the Osage Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Oklahoma, on section nine, township twenty-one east, of range eight east. Said bridge Wagon and shall be constructed to provide for the passage of wagons foot bridge. and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, foot passengers, and all kinds of commerce, travel, and communications, and said corporation may charge and receive such reasonable tolls therefor as may be permitted by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma.

route.

Provisos.

SEC. 2. That the bridge constructed under this Act shall Lawful struc be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized as a post ture and post route, upon which no charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies, and the United States shall have the right of Postal tele Way across said bridge and approaches for postal telegraph graph. purposes: Provided, That before the construction of any bridge herein authorized is commenced the said company Secretary of shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination War to approve plans, etc. and approval, a design and drawing of such bridge and a map of the location, giving sufficient information to enable the Secretary of War to fully and satisfactorily understand the subject; and unless the plan and location of such bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the structure shall not be built: Provided further, That any bridge constructed under authority of this Act shall at all times be so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the Afds to navi passage of vessels and other water craft through or under said structure, and for the safety of vessels passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridge, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as may be prescribed by the Light-House Board.

gation.

Lights, etc.

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ment and pletion.

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SEC. 3. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced

within one year and completed within three years from the approval of this Act.

etc.

SEC. 4. That Congress shall have power at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this Act, or any part thereof, if in Amendment, its judgment the public interests so require. Approved, February 17, 1897.

CHAP. 239.-An Act To authorize a survey for construction of a February 17,1897. bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River in line with Massachusetts avenue extended eastward.

setts avenue.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be made, as soon as practicable, a survey, plan, and estimate of the cost of constructing a substantial wooden, iron, steel, or masonry bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, in the District of Eastern Branch. PotoColumbia, and the necessary approaches thereto, such mac River, D. C. bridge to begin for its westward end at a suitable point on Survey directed for bridge the Government reservation in line with Massachusetts across, in line avenue extended eastward, and extending thence across with Massachuthe said river to a suitable point in the line of Massachusetts avenue extended, for its eastern end, such bridge when constructed to be maintained as a free bridge for travel, and to be of such strength and dimensions as to accommodate the ordinary traffic which passes over an ordinary highway, and also the tracks and traffic of any street railway or railways employing horses or electric or mechanical motors (not steam-operated motors) for the propulsion of its cars, which may hereafter be granted the right to cross such bridge by the authorities vested with such power, and to report thereon to the Congress of the United States on the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven; and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for such survey, plan, and estimate, and such contingencies as are necessarily incident thereto, such sum of money to be immediately available upon the passage of this Act. Approved, February 17, 1897.

Report.

Appropriation.

CHAP. 240.-An Act To authorize the construction by the Duluth February 17, 1897. and North Dakota Railroad Company of two bridges across the Red River of the North between the States of Minnesota and North Dakota.

North Dakota

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Duluth and North Dakota Railroad Company, a cor- Duluth and poration duly created and existing under the law of the Railroad CompaState of North Dakota, its successors or assigns, be, and it ny may bridge is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge North, North Daand approaches thereto across the Red River of the North kota. at two points on said river, as follows:

Red River of the

Location.

One of said bridges shall be located at or near Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks and State of North Dakota, and the other of said bridges shall be located at or near Acton, in Walsh County, or at or near Drayton, in Pembina County, both in North Dakota, or at some conRailway, etc., venient point between said towns. Said bridges shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railway trains, and, at the option of said corporation, may be so constructed as to provide for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, animals, and foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be approved by the Secretary of War.

bridge.

Secretary

of

War to approve plans, etc.

Changes.

Aids to navigation.

Draws.

Lights, etc.

Lawful structure and post route.

SEC. 2. That the bridges herein authorized shall be built and located under and in accordance with such regulations for the security of navigation as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, drawings showing the plan and location of said bridges; said drawings to give for the space of one-half mile above and one-half mile below the proposed location the topography of the banks of the river, the shore lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current at all stages, soundings accurately showing the bed of the stream, and such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the plan and location of the bridges are approved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall not be commenced or built; and any change in the plans of said bridges, either before or after construction, shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and any change in said bridges during or after construction which the Secretary of War may require in the interest of navigation shall be made by the said company at its own expense.

SEC. 3. That the said bridges shall at all times be so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels and other crafts through or under said structures; and if said bridges be built as drawbridges the draws shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats or other crafts; and whatever kind of bridge is constructed the said company shall maintain at its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridges as the Light-House Board shall prescribe.

SEC. 4. That any bridge built under this Act and subject to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops and munitions of war of the United States, or passengers or freight over said bridge than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post roads of the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridges shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone

Postal tele

companies.

companies, and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridges and their approaches for said postal telegraph purposes. graph. SEC. 5. That all railroad companies desiring the use of Use by railroad said bridges and their approaches shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of trains over the same upon payment of a reasonable com- Compensation. pensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridges and the several railroad companies, or any of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, or upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridges and approaches, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties.

Proviso.

SEC. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if actual Commencement and completion. construction of the bridges herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date hereof: Provided, That the commencement and completion of either of said bridges in accordance with ity of eachbridge. this Act shall be deemed a compliance with this section, as to such bridge, and the rights of said company with respect

to such bridge, shall not be affected by failure to commence or complete the other of said bridges.

Separate liabil

SEC. 7. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act Amendment,

is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, February 17, 1897.

etc.

CHAP. 242.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to author- February 17,1897. ize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga," giving the said company more time in which to begin and complete said bridge.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Bridge across section five of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a Tenn. bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga," Vol. 28, p. 30. approved January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved; and any alterations or changes that may be required by Congress in the bridge constructed under this Act, or its entire removal, shall be made by the corporation owning or controlling the same at its own expense. Furthermore, if the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced before January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and completed before January first, nineteen hundred and one, all privileges conferred hereby and this Act shall become null and void."

Approved, February 17, 1897.

ENG 97-262

Time extended for construction.

February 17, 1897.

County, Pa.

CHAP. 243.-An Act To amend an act authorizing the West Braddock Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River from the borough of Rankin to Mifflin Township.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Bridge across the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Monongahela section eight of an Act to authorize the West Braddock River, Allegheny Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the MonongaVol. 28, p. 58. hela River from the borough of Rankin to Mifflin Township, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninetyfour, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

Time extended for construction.

February 17,1897.

Eastchester

Creek,
York.

improving.

Vol. 28, p. 347.

Vol. 29, p. 216.

"SEC. 8. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge authorized to be built be not commenced and completed within one year from the date of the approval of the plans of said bridge by the Secretary of War, and the authority to construct said bridge in accordance with said plans is hereby extended and confirmed in accordance with the provisions of said original Act as hereby amended."

Approved, February 17, 1897.

CHAP. 244.—An Act Relating to the improvement of Eastchester Creek, State of New York.

Be it inacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Now the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Expenditure of the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in appropriation for his discretion, to expend the whole or any portion of any appropriation heretofore made for the improvement of Eastchester Creek, in the State of New York, in accordance with the surveys and report for, such improvement, upon that portion of the improvement included in recent surveys extending the improvement to the head of tide water. Approved, February 17, 1897.

February 19, 1897.

ecutive, and judi

propriations.

CHAP. 265.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Legislative,ex the United States of America in Congress assembled, That cial expenses ap- the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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WAR DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks

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