be submitted to War. Proviso. a compliance with these conditions the corporation, previous to commencing the construction of the bridge, or of the accessory works designed to secure the best practical channel-way for navigation and confine the flow of the water to a permanent channel at said point, shall Plans, etc., to submit to the Secretary of War a plan of the bridge and accessory the Secretary of works provided for in this act, together with a detailed map of the river at the proposed site of the bridge and for a distance of a mile above and below the site, together with all other information touching said bridge and river and accessory works as may be deemed requisite by the Secretary of War to determine whether the said bridge, when built, will conform to the prescribed conditions of this act. That said bridge shall be constructed and built without material interference with the security and convenience of navigation of said river beyond what is necessary to carry into effect the rights and privileges hereby granted: Provided, That as to any bridge built under this act, if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, it shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than one hundred and fifty feet in length, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river, and the main span shall be over the main channel of the river and not less than one hundred and fifty feet in length: And provided also, That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a draw-bridge the same shall constructed as a pivot draw-bridge, with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and the best navigable point, and with spans of not less than one hundred and ten feet in length in the clear on each side of the central or pivot pier of the draw: Provided also, That said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passing of boats, vessels, and other water-craft: Provided, however, That no bridge shall be built under the provisions of this act except there also be built, at the time of the erection of the piers, proper sheerbooms or other proper protections to safely guide boats, vessels, rafts, and other water-craft through said draw-spans, and at the expense of the company or corporation erecting said bridge, and said company or corporation shall maintain, at its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Secretary of War shall prescribe. Proviso. Proviso. Lights. construction commenced. Approval of SEC. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, Secretary of War necessary before upon receiving any such plan and map and other information, and upon is being satisfied that a bridge built on such plan and with such accessory works and at such locality, will conform to the prescribed conditions of this act, to notify the company that he approves the same; and upon receiving such notification the said company may proceed to an erection of said bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location; but until the Secretary of War approves the plan and location of said bridge and accessory works, and notify the company of the same, the bridge shall not be built; and should any change be made in the plan of the bridge and accessory works, during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Secretary of War, not, however, to be in any wise inconsistent with the provisions or conditions of this act. Declared a law United States limited. SEC. 4. That any bridge and accessory works when built and conful structure and structed under this act and according to the terms and limitations post-route. thereof shall be a lawful structure; and said bridge shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be Rates as to made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and said bridge shall enjoy the rights and privileges of the other post-routes in the United States; and Congress reserves the right at any time to regnlate by appropriate legislation the charges for Right of way for postal-tele. freight and passengers over said bridge, and the United States shall graph and tele. have the right of way for postal telegraph and telephone lines, free of phone. charge, across said bridge. Right to amend, repeal, or change reserved. SEC. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved; and the right to require any changes in said structure at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interests require it, is also expressly reserved. as aids to passage of SEC. 6. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to require Special structthe company or persons owning said bridge to cause such aids to the ures passage of said bridge authorized by the provisions of this act to be bridge, etc. constructed, placed, and maintained, at their own cost and expense, in the form of booms, dikes, piers, or other suitable and proper structures for confining the flow of water to a permanent channel, and for the guiding of rafts, steamboats, and other water-craft safely through the draw and raft-spans, as shall be specified, in his order in that behalf; and on the failure of the company or persons aforesaid to make and establish such additional structures within a reasonable time, the said Secretary shall proceed to cause the same to be built or made at the Penalty. expense of the United States, and shall refer the matter without delay to the Attorney General of the United States, whose duty it shall be to institute, in the name of the United States, proceedings in any circuit court of the United States in which such bridge or any part thereof, is located, for the recovery of the cost thereof, and all moneys accruing from such proceedings shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. SEC. 7. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Same as sec. 5. expressly reserved; and the right to require any changes in said structure, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interests require it, is also expressly reserved. Approved, February 25, 1885. CHAP. 145. An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Gov. February 25, 1885. ernment of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposee. District of Co lumbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in Appropriations. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, being the estimated expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightysix, namely: * For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dol- Commissioners. lars each; one Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars). bridges. For ordinary care of Benning's, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, includ- Benning's, Anaing fuel, oil, lamps, and matches, two thousand dollars; for draw-keep- costia, and Chain er at Anacostia Bridge, seven hundred and twenty dollars: for one bridge-keeper at Chain Bridge, six hundred and sixty dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Washington aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand General repairs. dollars. Approved, February 25, 1885. CHAP. 163.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to increase the water-supply February 26,1885. of the city of Washington, 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 time fixed by the act Act to increase entitled "An act to increase the water supply of the city of Wash- water supply of ington, and for other purposes," approved July fifteenth, eighteen hun- the city of Wash ington, etc. dred and eighty-two, within which owners of or parties interested in 1882, vol. 22, lands condemned or taken under the provisions of said act, may accept ch. 294, p. 168, the appraised value made or to be hereafter made under said act, or amended. Time for ac- owners or persons interested in such lands who have declined or may cepting apprais- hereafter decline to accept the appraised value of such lands, and have ed value of lands or suing in Court elected or may elect to file a petition in the Court of Claims under the of Claims extend- provisions of said act, be, and the same is hereby, extended for one ed one year. year from the passage of this act, notwithstanding the limitation provided by said act. Approved, February 26, 1885. February 26,1885. CHAP. 165.—An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Bridge across States of America in Congress assembled, That the Tennessee and ArkanMississippi Riv er at Memphis, sas Bridge Company, a corporation organized and created under and by Tenn., may be virtue of the laws of the State of Arkansas, and the Tennessee Conconstructed by struction and Contracting Company, a corporation organized and the Tennessee created under and by virtue of the laws of Tennessee, be, and the same a n'd Arkansas Bridge Company, are hereby, jointly authorized and empowered to erect, construct, and and the Tennes. maintain a bridge over the Mississippi River from or near Memphis, in see Construction the State of Tennessee, to or near the town of Hopefield, in the State and Contracting of Arkansas. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the pas Company. Passage of rail. sage of railway trains, and, at the option of the corporations by which way trains, etc. it may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be approved from time to time by the Secretary of War. Toll. Spans. Declared a SEC. 2. That any bridge built under this act and subject to its limitpost-route and ations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known lawful structure. 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 the munitions of war of the United States, or for passengers or freight passing over said bridge, than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroad or public highways leading to the said bridge; and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post roads in the United States. SEC. 3. That said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans; two spans thereof shall not be less than five hundred and fifty feet in length in the clear, and no span shall be less than three hundred feet in the clear. The lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge shall be at least sixty-five feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, and the bridge shall be at right angles to and its piers parallel with the current of the river. No bridge shall be erected or maintained under the authority of this act Free naviga. which shall at any time substantially or materially obstruct the free tion to be pre- navigation of said river; and if any bridge erected under such authority shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, obstruct such navigation, he is hereby authorized to cause such change or alteration of said bridge to be made as will effectually obviate such obstruction; and all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the owner or owners of said bridge. And in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, caused or alleged to be caused by said bridge, the case may be brought in the circuit court of the United States in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge may be located: Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same. served. Proviso. compensation; Railroad com. SEC. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge panies to have shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the equal rights, for passage of railway trains or cars over the same, and over the approaches Secretary of War thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and to decide in case in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad of failure of com- companies, or any one of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree panies 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 Proviso, as to allegations and proofs of the parties: Provided, That the provisions of section two in regard to charges for passengers and freight across said Bec. 2. bridge shall not govern the Secretary of War in determining any question arising as to the sum or sums to be paid to the owners of said bridge by said railroad companies for the use of said bridge. of to the Secretary of War SEC. 5. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act Secretary shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the War to prescribe security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall pre- regulations for scribe; and to secure that object the said companies or corporations security of navi gation. shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, Maps, plans, a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, etc., to be subfor the space of two miles above and two miles below the proposed loca- mitted tion, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at extreme for approval. high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, 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 the bridge shall not be built; and should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of construction, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. States reserved. SEC. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Specified rights expressly reserved; and the right to require any changes in said struct- of the United Lre, or its entire removal, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interests require it, is also expressly reserved. assage of SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, on satisfac- Special structtory proof that a necessity exists therefor, to require the companies or ures as aids to persons owning said bridge to cause such aids to the passage of said Bridge, etc. bridge to be constructed, placed, and maintained at their own cost and expense, in the form of booms, dikes, piers, or other suitable and proper structures for the guiding of rafts, steamboats, and other water-craft safely through the passage-way, as shall be specified in his order in that lehalf; and on failure of the company or persons aforesaid to make and Penalty. establish such additional structures within a reasonable time, the said Secretary shall proceed to cause the same to be built or made at the expense of the United States, and shall refer the matter without delay to the Attorney-General of the United States, whose duty it shall be to institute, in the name of the United States, proceedings in any circuit court of the United States in which such bridge or any part thereof, is cated for the recovery of the cost thereof; and all moneys accruing from such proceedings shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, February 26, 1885. CHAP. 315.-An act providing for the erection of a building to contain the records, March 2, 1885. library, and museum of the Medical Department, United States Army. Washington, um of the Medi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a brick and metal fireproof building, to be used for the safe-keeping of the records, library, D. C. and museum of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army, Erection of hereby authorized to be constructed upon the Government reserva- building to conon in the city of Washington, in the vicinity of the National Museum tain records, liand the Smithsonian Institution, on a site to be selected by a commis-brary, and museon composed of the Secretary of War, the Architect of the Capitol, cal Department, nd the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and in accordance United States Army. with plans and specifications submitted by the Surgeon-General of the Site. Army and approved by said commission, the cost of the building, when pleted, not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; the balding to be erected and the money expended under the direction and perintendence of the Secretary of War. Plans; cost. SEC. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appro- Appropriation pisted, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the commencement and completion of said building. Approved, March 2, 1885. March 3, 1885. CHAP. 322.-An act to provide for the printing of the report and proceedings of the Commission to provide suitable ceremonies for the dedication of the Washington Monument. vide suitable be attached. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Printing of re- States of America in Congress assembled, That the report and proceedport and proceedings of the commission to provide suitable ceremonies for the dedication ings of the "Com- of the Washington Monument, together with the engraved card attached mission to pro- thereto, be printed, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printceremonies foring, and that twenty-six thousand five hundred additional copies be the dedication printed, eight thousand copies of the same for the use of the Senate, of the Washing; sixteen thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, ton Monument." Engraved card to five hundred copies for distribution by Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, U. S. A., to the civil and military organizations which participated in the Distribution. procession, five hundred copies for the Washington National Monument Association for distribution among its members, five hundred copies for distribution by Col. Thomas L. Casey, Engineer, among the mechanics and workmen employed in the erection of the monument, five hundred copies for the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and five hundred copies to the Hon. John W. Daniel; and for the purpose of defraying the expense Appropriation. of printing the said attached card, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1885. March 3, 1885. CHAP. 339.-An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes. Army appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1886. Engineer depot Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as follows: ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.-For engineer depot at Willets Point, New at Willets Point. York, namely: For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the Engineer Battalion in their special duties of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, one thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, professional books for library, extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed as artisans, and ordinary repairs and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars. For repairing surveying and other instruments, accumulated in depot for want of means to repair, two thousand dollars. March 3, 1885. CHAP. 343.-An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes. Legislative, ex- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ecutive, and judi- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and cial appropria- the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury tions for year not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the ending June 30, 1886. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Office of Chief of Engineers. clerks, etc. IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS,-One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class Chief clerk, three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars, Additional em- And the services of skilled draughtsmen, civil engineers, and such ployés author other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be ized, etc. employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the |