of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War no work upon the bridge shall be commenced; and should any change be made in the plan of said Change of plan bridge during the progress of construction, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. while building. Obstructed naviga etc. SEC. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Amendment. this act at any time; and that if at any time navigation of the said tion. river shall in any manner be obstructed or impaired by the said bridge, the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be his duty, to require the said bridge company to alter and change the said Subsequent changes, bridge at its own expense, in such manner as may be proper to secure free and complete navigation without impediment; and if upon reasonable notice to said bridge company to make such change or improvements the said company fails to do so, the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same at the expense of said company, and all the rights conferred by this act shall be forfeited; and Congress shall have power to do any and all things necessary to secure the free navigation of the river. Forfeiture of rights. Free navigation. SEC. 4. That said company shall be permitted to charge and take Tolls. such rates of toll for crossing said bridge as may be reasonable, sub ject to the approval of the Secretary of War. SEC. 5. That the draw provided for the bridge herein authorized Opening of draw. to be constructed shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passing of boats; and said company or corporation shall maintain, at its own expense, from sunset till sunrise, such lights Lights, etc. telegraph companies. SEC. 6. That all telephone and telegraph companies shall be Use by telephone and granted equal rights and privileges in the construction and operation of their lines across said bridge; and if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized shall not be commenced within one year from the passage of this act, and be completed within three completion. years from the same date, the rights and privileges hereby granted shall cease and be determined. Approved, April 22, 1890. Commencement and CHAP. 149.-An act to amend an act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Trail Creek, in the city of Michigan City, Indiana. April 22, 1890. Bridge across Trail Creek, at Michigan 25, p. 212, amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Trail Creek, in the city city Ind. of Michigan City, Indiana, approved June twenty-ninth, eighteen Vol. 25, P. hundred and eighty-eight, be hereby amended by substituting for section two of the aforesaid act the following: "SEC. 2. That if the construction of the bridge hereby authorized completion extended. shall not be commenced within two years from the time this act takes effect and be completed within four years after its commencement, then this act shall Le void, and all rights hereby conferred shall cease and determine." SEC. 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, April 22, 1890. Commencement and Repealing clause. April 22, 1890. Pawnee Indian Res etc. Purchasers in de fault. Vol. 19, p. 28. CHAP. 150.-An act requiring purchasers of lands in the Pawnee Reservation, in the State of Nebraska, to make payment, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ervation lands, Nebr. United States of America in Congress assembled, That all purchasers Forfeiture and resale of lands of the Pawnee Indian Reservation in Nebraska who may ments, default in pay be in default of payment of either principal or interest under the provisions of the act approved April tenth, eighteen hundred seventysix, and the terms of sale thereunder, are hereby required to make full and complete payment therefor to the Secretary of the Interior within two years from the passage of this act; and any person in default thereof for a period of sixty days thereafter shall forfeit his right to the lands purchased and any and all payments made thereon. Secretary of In- SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized terior to declare same, and directed to declare forfeited all lands sold under said act of Time limit to com- plete purchase. ure. etc. Re-sale. Terms, time, etc. eighteen hundred and seventy-six full payment for which shall not be made in accordance with the provisions of this act; and he shall thereupon cause all lands so declared forfeited to be resold at public auction in Nebraska in such manner and upon such terms as he may deem advisable, except that the time for full and complete payment shall not exceed one year, with clause of absolute forfeiture in case of default: And provided, That the same shall be sold to the highest Limitations of sale. bidder, but for not less than the appraised value, nor less than two dollars and fifty cents an acre. Proviso. Approved, April 22, 1890. April 23, 1890. Allegheny, Pa. Site. Building. Cost. Proposals for site invited. Responses. sites by agent. Report. CHAP. 152.-An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, a site, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fire-proof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices in the city of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Proposals for the sale of lands suitable for said site shall be invited by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites and such others as he may think proper to Examination, etc., of designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals, and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites. If upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary he may apExamining commis point a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, Commission report. Within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of sion. Hearings. the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, ac Final determination. Commissioners' compensation. companied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents, taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as herein before provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the member of said commission appointed Proviso. Limitation as to from the Treasury Department shall be paid only his actual travel- Treasury member. ing expenses. No part of the sum authorized by this act shall be expended until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested No expenditure until in the United States, nor until the State of Pennsylvania shall have dictio title and jurisceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same dur ing 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. pass. The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open Open space. CHAP. 153.—An act to establish three new land districts in the Territory of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the public lands in the Territory of Wyoming bounded and described as follows, beginning at a point on the eastern boundary of the said Territory where the tenth standard parallel north intersects the same; thence running west along said tenth standard parallel north to the southeast corner of township forty-one north, range seventy-five west; thence north on the line between ranges seventy-four and seventy-five west to the northern boundary-line of the said Territory; thence east along said northern boundary-line to the northeast corner of the said Territory; thence south along the said eastern boundaryline of the said Territory to the place of beginning, shall constitute April 23, 1890. Three new land districts established in Public lands. Wyoming Territory. Boundaries of one district. a new land district, and the land office of the said district shall be once. located at such place in said district as the President may direct. Boundaries of a sec SEC. 2 That all the public lands of the Territory of Wyoming bounded and described as follows, beginning at a point on the north- ond district. ern boundary of the said Territory where the twelfth guide meridian will, when extended, intersect with the same; thence south along said guide meridian to the eleventh standard parallel north; thence east along said parallel to the eleventh auxiliary meridian; thence south along said meridian, when extended, to the seventh standard parallel north; thence west along said seventh standard parallel to the southwest corner of township twenty-nine north, range ohe hundred and four west, of the sixth principal meridian; thence north along said line between ranges one hundred and four and one hundred and five west to the ninth standard parallel north, when extended; thence along said parallel, when extended, to the western boundary of the said Territory; thence north along said western boundary to the northern boundary of the said Territory; thence east along said northern boundary to the place of beginning, shall constitute a new land district, and the land office of the said district shall be located at such place in the said district as the President may direct. SEC. 3. That all the public lands in the Territory of Wyoming Boundaries of a third bounded and described as follows, beginning at a point on the eastern boundary of the said Territory where the tenth standard parallel north intersects the same; thence running west along the said tenth standard parallel north to the eleventh auxiliary meridian; thence south along said meridian when extended, to the seventh standard parallel Office. district. Registers and repointed. Residence. north; thence east along the said seventh standard parallel to the southeast corner of township twenty-nine north, range seventy-one west; thence north on the line between ranges seventy and seventyone west to the southeast corner of township thirty-one north, range seventy-one west; thence east along the line between townships thirty and thirty-one north to the eastern boundary-line of the said Territory to the place of beginning, shall constitute a new land district, and the land office of the said district shall be located at such place in said district as the President may direct.. SEC. 4. That the Presidente, and is hereby, authorized to appoint, ceivers to be ap- by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or dur.ng the recess thereof, and until the next session after such appointment, a register and receiver for each of said districts, who shall be required to reside in the town in their respective districts as may be designated for the location of the land office, and they shall be subject to the same laws and be entitled to the same compensation as is or may be provided by law in relation to the existing land offices and officers in said Territory. Approved, April 23, 1890. April 25, 1890. Preamble. CHAP. 156.—An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the product of the soil, mine, and sea in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois. Whereas, It is fit and appropriate that the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America be commemorated by an exhibition of the resources of the United States of America, their development, and of the progress of civilization in the New World; and Whereas, Such an exhibition should be of a national and international character, so that not only the people of our Union and this continent, but those of all nations as well, can participate, and should therefore have the sanction of the Congress of the United States: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the World's Columbian United States of America, in Congress assembled, That an exhibition Exposition. of arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea shall be inaugurated in the year eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, as hereinafter provided. Chicago, Ill. To be inaugurated in 1892. The World's Colum stituted, etc. SEC. 2. That a commission, to consist of two commissioners from bian Commission con- each State and Territory of the United States and from the District of Columbia and eight commissioners at large, is hereby constituted to be designated as the World's Columbian Commission. Appointment of commissioners, etc. sioners, etc. SEC. 3. That said commissioners, two from each State and Territory, shall be appointed within thirty days from the passage of this act by the President of the United States, on the nomination of the governors of the States and Territories, respectively, and by the President eight commissioners at large and two from the District of Columbia; and in the same manner and within the same time Alternate commis- there shall be appointed two alternate commissioners from each State and Territory of the United States and the District of Columbia and eight alternate commissioners at large, who shall assume and perform the duties of such commissioner or commissioners as may be unable to attend the meetings of the said commission; and Political representa in such nominations and appointments each of the two leading political parties shall be equally represented. Vacancies in the commission nominated by the governors of the several States and Territories, respectively, and also vacancies in the commission at large and from the District of Columbia may be filled in the same manner tion. Vacancies filled. and under the same conditions as provided herein for their original appointment. Notification to gov ernors to nominate. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of State of the United States shall, immediately after the passage of this act, notify the governors of the several States and Territories, respectively, thereof and request such nominations to be made. The commissioners so appointed First meeting of the shall be called together by the Secretary of State of the United States commissioners. in the city of Chicago, by notice to the commissioners, as soon as convenient after the appointment of said commissioners, and within thirty days thereafter. The said commissioners, at said first meeting, shall organize by the election of such officers and the appointment of such committees as they may deem expedient, and for this purpose the commissioners present at said meeting shall constitute a quorum. Organization. Quorum. Discretionary power plans, etc. Provisos. quate. SEC. 5. That said commission be empowered in its discretion to accept for the purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition such as to accepting site, site as may be selected and offered and such plans and specifications of buildings to be erected for such purpose at the expense of and tendered by the corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, known as "The Worlds Exposition of Eighteen hundred and ninety-two:" Provided, That said site so tendered and the buildings proposed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commis-Site, etc., to be adesion adequate to the purposes of said exposition: And provided, That said commission shall be satisfied that the said corporation has an actual bona fide and valid subscription to its capital stock which will secure the payment of at least five millions of dollars, of which not less than five hundred thousand dollars shall have been paid in, and that the further sum of five million dollars, making in all ten million dollars, will be provided by said corporation in ample time for its needful use during the prosecution of the work for the complete preparation for said exposition. Subscription to cap ital stock. Capital paid in. Balance of capital. Powers and duties of the commission. SEC. 6. That the said commission shall allot space for exhibitors, prepare a classification of exhibits, determine the plan and scope of the exposition, and shall appoint all judges and examiners for the exposition, award all premiums, if any, and generally have charge of all intercourse with the exhibitors and the representatives of foreign nations. And said commission is authorized and required to appoint a board of lady managers of such number and to perform Board of lady mansuch duties as may be prescribed by said commission. Said board agers to be appointed. may appoint one or more members of all committees authorized to award prizes for exhibits, which may be produced in whole or in part by female labor. Its duties. Rules and regulations of commission. Entrance and admis SEC. 7. That after the plans for said exposition shall be prepared Plans. by said corporation and approved by said commission, the rules and regulations of said corporation governing rates for entrance and admission fees, or otherwise affecting the rights, privileges, or interests sion fees, etc. of the exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said corporation, subject, however, to such modification, if any, as may be imposed by a majority of said commissioners Naval review. Invitation to foreign nations. Rendezvous. sition, etc. SEC. 8. That the President is hereby empowered and directed to hold a naval review in New York Harbor, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send ships of war to join the United States Navy in rendezvous at Hamptom Roads and proceed thence to said review. SEC. 9. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of Dedication of Expothe buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition in said city of Chicago on the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, with appropriate ceremonies, and said exposition shall be open to visitors not later than the first day of May eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and shall be closed at such time as the commission may determine, but not later than the thirtieth day of October thereafter. Time of opening tovisitors. Final closing. |