Compensation. - Mechanics. Library. Furniture, etc. Repairs, etc. Proviso. Technical supplies. Musical instruments. Public works. Repairing roads, etc. Water-works. Fire-proof building to be erected. For water pipes, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars. Chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitationrooms, three hundred dollars; Compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; Pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the actdemic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars; Pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; For pay of five firemen, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, binding new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars. For additional tables and chairs, furniture, and contingent repairs to library-rooms, two hundred dollars. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars. For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars. For renewing furniture in section-rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars. For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, five hundred dollars. For contingent funds to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board; for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars: Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For purchase and repair of instruments for band, three hundred dollars. PUBLIC WORKS. For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars. For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars. For water-works: Renewal of material in filter-beds; improving ventilation of filter house and water-house; hose for use in cleaning filter-beds, and water-house and for use in fire-service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphon-house, filter-house, and of four and one half miles of supply-pipes; for shed for tools, and storage of fuel, for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool-house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred and twenty dollars. For repair of cooking utensils, and the replacement of worn-out cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety six cents. For the erection of a fire-proof building on such site of the public grounds at West Point, New York, as may be designated by the Secretary of War, to accommodate all the departments of instruction of the Military Academy, to be constructed according to the plans recommended by the Academic Board and approved by the Secre Proviso. tary of War, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars: Provided, Gymnasium build For the erection of a fire-proof building on such site of the public to be erected. grounds at West Point, New York, as may be designated by the Secretary of War, to be used as a gymnasium and fencing academy for the cadets of the United States Military Academy, to be constructed according to the plans recommended by the Academic Board and approved by the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That plans and specifications for said building shall Proviso. be prepared under the direction of the Academic Board and approved by the Secretary of War, which plans and specifications shall be such that when said building shall be fully completed the cost thereof shall not exceed the sum herein appropriated: Provided further, That the sums herein appropriated for erection of one building to be used by all departments of instruction, and one gymnasium and Buildings.. fencing academy, shall be immediately available. For placing in cadet barracks fifteen alcove partitions, three hundred and fifteen dollars. For one retiring house, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. For repairing and improving the soldier's chapel upon the West Point Military Reservation, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For one store-house at north wharf for storage of supplies, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. "Plans, etc. Immediately availa ble. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the Post Ceme- Improving grounds. tery, including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. For new settees, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. For one hundred and twenty-two new tent floors, one hundred and twenty-two lockers, and eight sentry boxes, to be immediately available, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For resetting four horizontal tubular boilers, including all material and labor, used for heating with steam the Academic building, cadet barracks, commandants' office, mess-hall, hospital, and cadet sinks, to be immediately available. two thousand two hundred dollars. For repairing gas holder, to be immediately available, two thousand dollars. Approved, February 12, 1889. Heating apparatus, etc. CHAP. 149.--An act to extend to the port of Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, the February 13, 1889. privileges of inland transportation in bond. Mich. Immediate trans portation privileges Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges Sault Ste. Marie, of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise conferred by the act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes "be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Sault Ste Marie, in the State of Michigan. Approved, February 13, 1889. extended to. Vol. 21, p. 173. February 13, 1889. Flagstaff, Ariz. town site. CHAP. 150.-An act for the relief of the occupants of the town of Flagstaff, county of Yavapai, Territory of Arizona. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the probate may be entered for judge of Yavapai County, Territory of Arizona, be, and is hereby, authorized to enter, in trust for the occupants of the town of Flagstaff, for town-site purposes, the south half of section sixteen, township twenty-one north, range seven east, Gila and Salt River meridian R. S., secs. 2387-2389, in the Territory of Arizona, subject to the provisions of sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight, and twenty-three hundred and eighty-nine of chapter eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to townsites. p. 437. Selections of land in lieu. SEC. 2. That upon the passage of this act the Territory of Arizona, through its proper officer, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to select as indemnity for said land, and in full satisfaction thereof, and for the purpose stated in section nineteen hundred and forty-six of the R.S.,sec. 1946, p. 341. Revised Statutes, one-half section, of public lands, at any office in said Territory, said selections to be made in a body according to legal subdivisions. Approved, February 13, 1889. February 13, 1889. "Nautilus." To be granted American register. Inspection. CHAP. 151.-An act to provide for an American register for the steam-yacht Nautilus, of New York, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized to license as a vessel of the United States the Canadian steam-yacht Nautilus, owned by Isaac J. Maccabe, of New York, an American citizen. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steamvessel, steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, and cause to be granted the proper and usual certificate issued to steam-vessels of the Merchant Marine, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests to be applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances will be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United 'tates for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steam. ipes, and appurtenances not being constructed pursuant to the requirements of the laws of the United states, and are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the granting of the usual certificate, if said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety. Approved, February 13, 1889. February 13, 1889. Right of way. CHAP. 152.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of Railway Company in the act entitled "An act to authorize the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved February eighteenth, Indian Territory. Ante, p. 35. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows: "That the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, a corporation. created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby, invested and empowered with the right of locating, c nstructing, owning, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory, beginning at a point on Red River (the southern boundary-line), at the bluff known as Rocky Cliff, in the Indian Territory, and running thence by the most feasible and practicable route through the said Indian Territory to a point on the east boundaryline, immediately contiguous to the west boundary-line of the State of Arkansas; also, a branch line of railway to be constructed from the most suitable point on said main line for obtaining a feasible and practicable route in a westerly or northwesterly direction to the leased coal veins of said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, in Tobucksey County, Choctaw Nation, and thence by the most feasible and practicable route to an intersection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railway at the most convenient point between Halifax Station and Ear Creek, otherwise known as the north fork of the Canadian River; with the right to construct, use, and maintain such tracks, turn-outs, branches, and sidings and extensions as said company may deem it in their interest to construct along and upon the right of way and depot grounds herein provided for." Approved, February 13, 1889. Change in location. CHAP. 153.—An act to secure the maintenance of public order during the inauguration ceremonies of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes. February 13, 1889. Inauguration cere monies. Appropriation secure public order. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That eight thousand five hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, payable from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and from the revenues of the District of Columbia in equal parts, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain public order and to protect life and property from the twenty-eighth of February to the ninth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, both inclusive. Said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to make all reasonable regulations Regulations. necessary to secure the preservation of public order and protection of life and property, and fixing fares by public conveyances during said period. Any person violating any of such regulations shall be liable for each such offense to a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars in the police court of said District. Approved, February 13, 1889. CHAP. 154.-An act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Sedalia, in the State of Missouri. February 13, 1889. Public building. Site. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Sedalia, Mo of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a site and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fire-proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices located thereon, or which may be located hereafter at said city of Sedalia. The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved Plans, etc. to Limit of cost. Proviso. by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of fifty thousand dollars, nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein. limited, after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of fifty thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Missouri shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. Approved, February 13, 1889. February 14, 1889. Mount Carmel De may construct canal from Wabash River, velopment Company Illinois. CHAP. 165.-An act to authorize and empower the Mount Carmel Development Company to draw water from the Wabash River, or its tributaries, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Mount Carmel Development Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to construct and operate, during its corporate existence, a hydraulic canal from any point on the Wabash River above the lock and dam now in process of construction at the Grand Rapids of said Wabash River, or from any tributary of said river within the county of Wabash and State of Illinois, to any point on said river within the corporate limits of the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois; and to draw from said Wabash River or tributary thereof such supply of water as may be required for the purposes of such corporation: Provided, That such withdrawal be not detrimental to the To be controlled by interests of navigation and be subject to the direction and control of the Secretary of War. Proviso. Secretary of War. Approved, February 14, 1889. February 14, 1889. William F. Smith. May be appointed list. CHAP. 166.-An act for the relief of General William F. Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President major on Army retired be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint William F. Smith, late major-general United States volunteers, to the position of major of engineers in the Army of the United States, and to place him on the retired list of the Army as of that grade, (the retired list being thereby increased in number to that extent); and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are suspended for this purpose only: Provided, That from and after the passage of this act no pension shall be paid to the said William F. Smith. Proviso. Pension to cease. Approved, February 14, 1889. |