St. Marys Riv Mich. Point Judith, R. I. Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, seven hundred and fiftyeight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; continuing improvement from the mouth of Missouri River to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Saint Marys River at the Falls, Michigan: er at the Falls Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, including Sullivan Island and Mount Pleasant Shore: Continuing improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Charleston, S. C. Savannah, Ga. Mobile, Ala. Mississippi River sion. For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvement, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, travelMississippiing, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. River. Missouri River Commission. er. Under Missouri River Commission: For improving MisMissouri Riv. Souri River from its mouth to the south line of Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be used for removal of snags and other like obstructions in the Missouri River above Sioux City, Iowa, from the south line thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dol lars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. * HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City. For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, Inspectors, etc. and expenses of office, fifteen thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousand dollars; Steamers, etc. For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, eight thousand dollars. For purchase or construction of one steam tug, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, In all, seventy-six thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Library of Congress. Continuing construction. Proviso. Contracts authorized. For continuing the construction of the building for the Library of Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, seven hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into for any work or materials required for the construction of said building, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law; and the officer in charge of said building is hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session plans and esti- Report on tunmates of cost for a tunnel, with suitable conveying apparatus for the rapid transmission of books, papers, and messages at all times between the said building and the Senate and House wings of the Capitol. and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business; GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. nel. Public printing and binding. Government Printing Office. escapes, etc. To enable the Chief of Engineers of the Army, under Repairs, fire the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, to repair the Government Printing Office, provide fire escapes, and put said building in a safe and secure condition, and to enable the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, to rent, if necessary, any buildings for use of the printing office, seventy-five thousand dollars. Approved, August 18, 1894. August 23, 1894. Vancouver, Wash. CHAP. 309.-An Act Extending the time for the completion of a railroad bridge over the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Bridge across of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Columbia River, the time for the completion of the bridge across the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington, Time of com under the Act of Congress approved August twenty-ninth, pletion extended eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to authorize Vol. 26, p. 369. the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River by the Oregon Railway Extensions Company," be, and the same is hereby, extended until the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Approved, August 23, 1894. August 23, 1894. and Weldon Rail may bridge Con tentnea Creek, Grifton N. C. CHAP. 312.-An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Wilmington of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That road Company it shall be lawful for the Kinston Branch of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina, or its successors or assigns, to construct a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at or near the town of Grifton, in the county of Lenoir and State of North Carolina; that said bridge Railway and may be constructed for railway, wagon, and postal service, wagon bridge. with single or double track, for railway traffic, and shall be constructed under the conditions and limitations hereinafter specified. Free navigation. Litigation. Draw. Lawful structand ure route. post SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not interfere with the free navigation of said river beyond what may be necessary to carry into effect the rights and privileges herein granted, and in case of any litigation arising under the provisions of this act such litigation may be tried and determined by the circuit court of the United States within whose jurisdiction said bridge is located. SEC. 3. That the bridge hereby authorized to be constructed must be constructed with a draw of such dimensions and character as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. SEC. 4. That any bridge constructed under this Act shall be a lawful structure, and shall be known as a post road, over which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission of mails, troops, and munitions of war of the Government of the United States or for passenger or freight passing over the same than the rate per mile charged for their transportation over the railroad or public highways leading to the said bridge, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies. The United States shall also have the Postal telegraph. right of way over said bridge for postal telegraph purposes. companies. SEC. 5. That all railway companies desiring to use said Use by other bridge shall be entitled to equal rights and privileges in using the same, including the machinery and fixtures thereto belonging, and also the approaches thereto, upon such terms Terms. and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties in interest, in case they shall not be able to agree upon such terms and conditions. War to approve plans, etc. SEC. 6. That the said railway company, before entering Secretary of upon the construction of said bridge, shall submit to the Secretary of War plans and drawings of said structure, together with a map of the location thereof, giving the topography of the banks of the river, the shore lines at high and low water, showing the bed of the river and the channel, with such other and further information as the Secre tary of War may require; which said drawings and information aforesaid shall be examined by him, and if he shall approve the same he shall so notify the said railway company of such approval, and thereupon said company may proceed to the erection of said bridge. The Secretary of Alterations. War may direct such alterations in such plans as he may deem necessary to the better protection of navigation, and such alterations shall be adopted by the said railway company. The said railway company may at any time make any alterations deemed advisable to be made in said bridge, but must first submit such proposed alterations to the Secretary of War, and his approval shall be first had before they shall be authorized or made. Aids to navi SEC. 7. That the said bridge herein authorized to be constructed shall be so kept and managed at all times as to gation. afford proper ways and means for the passage of vessels, barges, or rafts under it both by day and night. There shall be displayed on said bridge from sunset to sunrise such lights and signals as may be directed by the Light Lights, etc. House Board, and such changes may be made from time to time in the structure of said bridge as the Secretary of War may direct, at the expense of said railway, in order the more effectually to preserve the free navigation of said river, or the said structure shall be altogether removed, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, the public good may require such removal, and without expense or charge to the United States. SEC. 8. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within thirty days and completed within ninety days from the date of the approval of this Act. SEC. 9. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby specially reserved. Approved, August 23, 1894. Commencement and completion. Amendment, ete August 23,1894. CHAP. 315.-An Act To repeal House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War a permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Chicago, Ill of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Licenses of pier revoked. House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session of the Fifty-first Congress, approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "Joint Resolution to permit the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to use a pier as petitioned by vessel owners of Chicago, Illinois," be, and the same is hereby. repealed, and the property mentioned in the said joint resolution, to wit, the south pier of the Chicago River. shall be excepted Vol. 27, p. 321. from the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act authoriz ing the Secretary of War to lease public property in certain cases," approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and said pier shall not be subject to be leased by the Secretary of War: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate the permit already granted by the Secretary of War to the Western Seamen's Friend Society for the use of a part of the said pier. Proviso. Approved, August 23, 1894. August 23, 1894. and Great Falls CHAP. 317.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Washington the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Electric Railway the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to incorporate the Charter amend Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway Company," approved July twenty-ninth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended Company, D. C. ed. Vol. 27, p. 326. Expenses of changes, water mains, etc. Amendment, etc. SEC. 4. That the street-railway companies mentioned in this act, and hereafter all street railway companies in the District of Columbia, respectively, shall bear all the expenses that may be incurred by the United States in making and inspecting such changes to the water mains, fixtures, or apparatus of the Washington Aqueduct as may be rendered necessary by the construction or extension of such several roads; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to make all regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this section. Sec. 6. That Congress reserves the right at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, August 23, 1894. |