Grand Army of the Republic Post at Morenci, Michigan; also, to donate to McDowell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Enid, Oklahoma, one condemned cannon and fifteen cannon balls; also to donate one condemned cannon to the Allen M. Harmon Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Northville, Michigan: Provided, That in the judg ment of the Secretary of the Navy such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interests: And provided further, That the United States shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation. Approved, May 21, 1896. CHAP. 226.—An Act Donating one condemned cannon and cannon balls to Grand Army of the Republic, L. W. Cooper Post, Department of Missouri, Numbered Eighty-one, of Lathrop, Missouri. Provisos. Expense. May 21, 1896. Condemned cannon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to L. W. Cooper my post, Lathrop, Mo. Post, Department of Missouri, Numbered Eighty-one, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Lathrop, Missouri, one condemned cannon and five cannon balls: Provided, That the same can be spared without detriment to the service, and that no expense is hereby incurred by the Government. Approved, May 21, 1896. CHAP. 227.-An Act Granting to Budlong Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Westerly, Rhode Island, two condemned mounted brass cannon. Proviso. May 21, 1896. ('ondemned cannon. Donated Grand Ar Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy my post, Westerly, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to Budlong R. I. Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Westerly, Rhode Island, two condemned mounted brass cannon for the purpose of decorating the grounds around the memorial building of said post: Provided, That the same can be spared without detriment to the service and that no expense is thereby incurred by the Government. Approved, May 21, 1896. CHAP. 230.-An Act Donating two condemned cannon to Custer Post, Numbered Thirty-eight, Grand Army of the Republic, of Etna, Pennsylvania, and two condemned cannon to James G. Clark Post, Numbered One hundred and sixty-two, Grand Army of the Republic, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Proviso. May 22, 1896. Condemned cannor. Donated Grand Army posts, Etna and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to Custer Post, Grand Allegheny, Pa. Army of the Republic, of Etna, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, two condemned cannon, and two condemned cannon to James G. Clark Post, Numbered One hundred and sixty-two, Grand Army of the Republic, Proviso. of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for monumental purposes: Provided, That said cannon can be spared from the public service. Approved, May 22, 1896. CHAP. 231.-An Act To authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to make certain disposition of condemned ordnance, guns, and cannon balls in their respective Departments. Condition. May 22, 1896. Condemned canyon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War and Secretaries of War the Secretary of the Navy are each hereby authorized, in their discre- and of Navy may dotion, to loan or give to soldiers' monument associations, posts of the ument associations, Grand Army of the Republic, and municipal corporations, condemned etc. nate, to soldiers' mon Regulations, etc. May 22, 1896. Denver collection district. and Leadville made ports of delivery. ordnance, guns, and cannon balls which may not be needed in the service of either of said Departments. Such loan or gift shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in each Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with any such loan or gift. Approved, May 22, 1896. CHAP. 232.-An Act To establish customs ports of delivery at Pueblo, Durango, and Leadville, Colorado, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Pueblo, Durango, and Pueblo, Durango, Leadville, all in the State of Colorado, be, and are hereby, made customs ports of delivery, and attached to the port of Denver, in said State, with all the rights and privileges now accorded by law to said port of Denver, the surveyor of customs of which port shall supervise the customs business at said Pueblo, Durango, and Leadville in the same manner and to the same extent as at Denver. Designation of other ports. May 22, 1896. SEC. 2. That such other places in the State of Colorado as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate from time to time shall be ports of delivery, with all the privileges now accorded by law to the port of Denver, Colorado, the surveyor of customs of which port shall supervise the customs business transacted at such places in the same manner and to the same extent as at Denver. Approved, May 22, 1896. CHAP. 233.-An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River, in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara, State of New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Lewiston Connect States of America in Congress assembled, That the Lewiston Connecting may bridge Niagara Bridge Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of New River, Lewiston, N. Y. York, being chapter three hundred and forty of the laws of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and the necessary approaches thereto, across the Niagara River at or from some point in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara, State of New York, south of the village of Lewiston, to some point in Canada on the west bank of said river, which Railroad, etc., said bridge may be used for railroad and other purposes, as provided in the laws of the State of New York pertaining thereto. bridge. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. Proviso. Unobstructed navi gation. Draw. Lights, etc. SEC. 2. That any bridge which may be erected under the authority of this Act shall be so located and constructed that the channels of said Niagara River shall not be unreasonably obstructed and that before commencing work on any bridge contemplated or authorized by this Act it shall be the duty of the company or corporation about to construct the same to submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination, a design and drawing, including plans and specifications of the bridge and piers and a map of the location, giving 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 of the current, and such other and further information as the Secretary of War may require for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject. And the construction of such bridge shall not be commenced until the approval of such plans and of the location of such bridge by the Secretary of War: Provided, That any bridge constructed under the authority of this Act shall be so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels and other crafts; and if said bridge be constructed as a drawbridge, the draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats; and whatever kind of bridge is built the owners thereof shall maintain thereon, at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights and other signals as the Light-House Board shall prescribe. and post route. SEC. 3. That any bridge constructed under this Act and according Lawful structure to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, over which the mails, troops, and munitions of war of the United States may be transported at no higher charge than is made for transportation of such mails, troops, and munitions of war over railroads and public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal-telegraph lines and appliances across said bridge. Postal telegraph. SEC. 4. That in case of any litigation from any obstruction or alleged Litigation. obstruction to navigation created by the construction of any bridge under this Act, the cause or question arising may be heard by the district or circuit court of the United States in and for the northern district of New York: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of the law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operations of the same. Proviso. Existing law. SEC. 5. That the right to alter and amend this Act and to require Amendment, etc. the removal of material obstructions to navigation by the construction of any bridge under its provisions is hereby expressly reserved, without any liability of the Government on account of said alterations or amendments, or on account of the prevention or the requiring of the removal of any such obstruction; and if any change be made in the Changes. plan of any bridge constructed under this Act during the progress of the work thereon, or before the completion thereof, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and any change in the construction or any alteration of any bridge, and the removal of any obstruction that may be directed at any time by Congress or the Secretary of War, shall be made at the cost and expense of the owners of said bridge. panies. SEC. 6. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge se by railroad comshall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains or cars over the same and over the approaches thereto upon payment of reasonable compensation for such use; and in Compensation. case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, 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: Provided, That each and every railway company using the said bridge that shall carry or transport regulations. any goods, merchandise, or other personal property over the same from any part of the United States, to be delivered in any other part of the United States, shall, in the carriage, transportation, and delivery of such goods, merchandise, or other property, be subject to and comply with the laws known as the interstate commerce laws of the United States and to all such regulations as may be prescribed under or by the authority of such laws. SEC. 7. That this Act shall become and be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced before the first day of July, in the year nineteen hundred, and completed within five years thereafter. Approved, May 22, 1896. Promiso. Interstate commerce Commencement and completion. CHAP. 238.-An Act Changing the time of holding terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States in the northern district of California. May 25, 1896. California northern Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of the Act judicial district. of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter nine hundred and twenty-eight, relating to the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the northern district of California, to Terms of court, San Vol. 24, p. 309. pp. 98, 120. be held at San Francisco, be amended so as to provide that the holding of terms of said circuit and district courts shall be as follows: Beginning on the first Monday in March, the second Monday in July, and the first Monday in November in each year; and so much of such section three as is inconsistent with this provision is hereby repealed. Approved, May 25, 1896. May 25, 1896. Naval supplies. Certified check may be accepted as secu rity for proposals, etc. R. S. sec. 3719, p. 735, amended. CHAP. 239.-An Act To amend section thirty-seven hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes relative to guarantees on proposals for naval supplies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-seven hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: "Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, accept, in lieu of the written guaranty required to accompany a proposal for naval supplies, and in lieu of the bond required for the faithful performance of a contract for furnishing such supplies, a certified check, payable to the order of the Secretary of the Navy, for the full amount of such proposal or contract, the check to be held by the Secretary of the Navy until the requirements of the proposal or contract shall be complied with and as a guaranty for compliance with the same." Approved, May 25, 1896. May 25, 1896. Condemned cannon. Donated Elmwood, Ill., and Soldiers' Home, Tilton, N. H. Provisos. CHAP. 240.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Navy to deliver one condemned cannon to the city of Elmwood, Peoria County, Illinois, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to the city of Elmwood, Peoria County, Illinois, one piece of condemned cast-iron cannon and twenty cannon balls, for use of said city; and also two condemned cannon and a pyramid of cannon balls to the State Soldiers' Home, at Tilton, New Hampshire: Provided, That said delivery shall be made without expense to the United States Government: And provided, That said delivery of said cannon can be made without detriment to the said naval service. Approved, May 25, 1896. May 25, 1896. Territories. required in divorce proceedings. CHAP. 241.-An Act Making one year's residence in a Territory a prerequisite to obtaining a divorce there. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no divorce shall be granted One year's residence in any Territory for any cause unless the party applying for the divorce shall have resided continuously in the Territory for one year next preceding the application: Provided, That this Act shall not affect any action duly commenced and pending at the date of the passage thereof. Approved, May 25, 1896. Proviso. May 25, 1896 Indian Territory. CHAP. 242.-An Act Making it unlawful to shoot at or into any railway locomotive or car, or at any person thereon, or to throw any rock or other missile at or into any locomotive or car in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who, in the Punishment for Indian Territory, shall willfully and maliciously shoot at or into any locomotive, caboose, postal car, passenger coach, express, or baggage car of any railway train, or at any person thereon, or shall throw any shooting at railway trains. dangerous missile at or into any locomotive, caboose, postal car, pas- Proviso. Punishment for SEC. 2. That any person who, in the Indian Territory, shall willfully shooting at freight shoot at or into any freight, stock, postal, baggage, or other car of any cars, etc. railway train, whether such car is attached to a locomotive or not, or shall throw any dangerous missile at or into such car, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding ninety days or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved, May 25, 1896. CHAP. 243.—An Act To provide for settlement of titles and disposition of public lands in the Arredondo grant, in Columbia County, Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands embraced in the Arredondo grant of twenty thousand acres, in Columbia County, State of Florida, are and shall be disposed of as follows: The lands in the incorporated limits of Lake City shall be subject to entry only by the mayor of said city, in trust for the use and benefit of the several owners or occupants under claim of title of said lands, in accordance with the Acts of Congress in such case made and provided. Confirmation of pur chases. Purchases from rail Purchases from Florida. All other lots or parcels of land in said grant entered or purchased of the United States prior to April tenth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, are confirmed to the several persons, their heirs and assigns, by whom they were so entered or purchased respectively, according to the terms of such several entries or purchases, and upon performance of the conditions thereof, if there are any such conditions to be performed. In all cases where any lands in said grant have been purchased prior road companies. to April tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, from any railroad company or trustees for the bonds or indebtedness of any railroad company, claiming under or through any Act of Congress or any land grant from the United States in aid of any such railroad, and in all cases where any such lands have been purchased prior to said April tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, from the State of Florida, or from the trustees of the internal improvement fund of the State of Florida, or from any board or officials of said State, claiming the same under or through any Act of Congress or land grant from the United States, as swamp and overflowed land, internal improvement land, school land, or otherwise, the titles to such lands are hereby confirmed to the several persons who have so purchased any such lands, their heirs, and assigns: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to give or confirm any right or title, or right of entry or purchase in or to any land in said grant to any railroad company, or any trustees for the bonds or indebtedness of any railroad company, or to the State of Florida, or any board or official thereof. SEC. 2. That all other lands in said grant shall be disposed of accord. ing to the laws of the United States. Approved, May 25, 1896. Proviso. No title to railroad company or the State. Sale of remaining lands. |