Fuel, lights, etc. Contingent expenses. General expenses. Inspector, forecast - officials, etc. Maps, bulletins, etc. graphing, etc. Rents, etc. Coast telegraphs, storm signals, etc. and hundred and forty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for temporary employment of messengers and laborers as may be necessary in the office of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, eight hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and forty dollars. FUEL, LIGHTS, AND REPAIRS, WEATHER BUREAU: For fuel, lights, repairs, labor, and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and grounds on the corner of Twenty-fourth and M streets Northwest, in the city of Washington, eight thousand dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: For stationery, blank books, furniture, and repairs to same, freight, express charges, subsistence, care, and purchase of horses, repairs to harness, advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington, eight thousand dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES, WEATHER BUREAU: General expenses of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of Secretary of Agriculture, for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, navigation, and other interests, as provided by law, namely: Salaries of one inspector, at a salary not to exceed two thousand dollars, thirty local forecast officials, observers, operators, repair men, messengers, laborers, and other necessary employees, outside of the city of Washington, three hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars. All other expenses, itemized as follows: Maps, bulletins, and stationery for stations, and the maintenance of a printing office in the District of Columbia for printing the necessary circulars, weather maps, bulletins, and monthly weather reviews (including the hire of printTransportation, etc. ers, lithographers, and other necessary working force); for traveling Instruments, tele expenses; for freight and express charges; for instruments and shelters therefor; for telegraphing or telephoning reports and messages, the rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the services; for rents and other incidental expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation; for maintenance and repair of seacoast telegraph lines, for river observations and reports, for storm and other signals, for cotton-region observations and reports, for corn and wheat observations and reports, for aerial observations and reports, for special observations and pay of observers of West India, Mexican, and Central American stations during the hurricane season, for supplies for climate and crop services, and for investigations on climatology, including assistance and all necessary expenses, three hundred and sixty-five thousand and thirty-seven dollars. Any person who shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit weather forecasts or warnings of weather conditions, falsely representing such forecasts or warnings to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, for each offense, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed ninety days, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court. Cotton, corn, wheat reports. Aerial reports. Hurricane reports. -Supplies, etc. Punishment for counterfeiting forecasts, etc. Signals on mail trains. That the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Postmaster-General, may arrange a plan by which there shall be displayed on all cars and other conveyances used for transporting United States mail, suitable flags or other signals to indicate weather forecasts, coldwave warnings, frost warnings, and so forth, to be furnished by the Chief of the Weather Bureau. Received by the President, April 14, 1896. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 141.—An Act To grant to railroad companies in Indian Territory additional powers to secure depot grounds. April 25, 1896. Indian Territory. stations, etc. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any railroad company operating a railroad in the Indian Territory may acquire the right to may acquire lands for use such additional ground as may be necessary for railway purposes at stations now existing, or for the establishment of new stations or depots, by making it appear to the Secretary of the Interior that such additional ground is necessary for railway purposes, and that the convenience of the people and the public interests will be promoted thereby: Provided, That the lands so acquired shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations as to use as are the lands for right of way and station purposes, as contained in the original Acts, respectively, granting the companies rights of way through the Indian Territory. Proviso. Lands held in com mon. Payment to tribes. Provisos. Appeal. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior may, when convinced that such application is proper, and after allowing opportunity for all parties in interest to be heard before him, grant the use of such additional lands held by the Indians in common as may be necessary for depot purposes; but before taking possession of and using such lands the railroad company shall deposit with the treasury of the tribe to which the lands belong compensation in cash at the rate of twenty-five dollars per acre: Provided, That if such tribe shall not be satisfied with the compensation herein provided, and the same can not be amicably determined, the amount to be paid by such railroad company to such tribe and the necessity for such taking shall be ascertained in the same manner as is prescribed by section three of this Act with respect to compensation to be paid individual occupants on any land so taken: Provided further, That before taking possession of and using such additional Approval of loca lands the railroad company in interest shall file a map of definite location of the same with the Secretary of the Interior, which map shall be subject to the approval of such Secretary. tion. Payment to individual occupants. Referees. Award. SEC. 3. That when lands desired by a railroad company under the provisions of this Act are held by individual occupants according to the laws, customs, and usages of any of the nations or tribes through whose lands the road is constructed, full compensation, in addition to the compensation to be paid the nation or tribe herein provided for, shall be paid to such occupant for all property taken and damage done by reason of the occupancy of the lands by the company for station purposes; and where the compensation can not be agreed upon between the company and the occupant, the company may apply to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall thereupon appoint three disinterested referees, who, before entering upon the duties of their appointment, shall take and subscribe, before competent authority, an oath that they will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of their appointment, which oath, duly certified, shall be returned with their award. In case the referees can not agree, then any two of them are authorized to make the award. Either party dissatisfied with the finding of the referees Appeal. shall have the right, within ninety days after the making of the award and notice of the same, to appeal by original petition to the United States court for the Indian Territory in and for the district wherein the land sought to be so taken may be situate, where the case, both as to the necessity for the taking as well as the amount of damages, shall be tried de novo. When proceedings have been commenced in court and the court has determined the necessity for such taking, the railroad the award. company shall pay double the amount of the award into court to abide the judgment thereof, and then to have the right to enter upon the property sought to be condemned and proceed with the construction of such depot with the necessary tracks. Each of said referees shall Pay of referees, etc. receive for his services the sum of four dollars per day for each day they are engaged in the trial of any case submitted to them under this Act, with mileage of five cents per mile for each mile actually traveled. Witnesses shall receive the usual fees allowed by the court, and all Building may begin on depositing double Limitations. costs, including compensation of the referees, shall be made a part of the award and be paid by such railroad company. SEC. 4. That all lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be used for railroad purposes strictly, and not more than twenty acres of land at any one station shall be acquired hereunder by any one railroad company; nor shall any additional land be so acquired which is not contiguous to land already occupied for railroad purposes. Received by the President, April 14, 1896. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.--The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] May 1, 1896. CHAP. 147.-An Act To provide for reimbursement of the expense of constructing a sewer upon the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Hot Springs, Ark. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte Payment for sewer. rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Albert B. Gaines, S. H. Stitt, and A. S. Garnett, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, S. W. Fordyce, of Saint Louis, Missouri, and Charles B. Platt, of the city of New York, out of any money under his control derived from leases of bath-house sites and from the sale of lots on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, and available for the protection and improvement of said reservation, the sum of nine hundred and thirty dollars, in reimbursement of the amount actually expended by said persons in the construction of a sewer upon the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Approved, May 1, 1896. May 4, 1896. Oregon and Washington Bridge Company. bridging Columbia River. Vol. 26, p. 25. CHAP. 150.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road." 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 Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a Time extended for bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road," approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and the same is hereby, extended, revived, and declared to be in full force and effect from and after March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Section twelve of said Act, which provides that said Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge therein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of the approval thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the time within which said bridge is required to be commenced shall be within two years from June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the time within which it is required that said bridge be completed shall be within four years from the twenty. fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Approved, May 4, 1896. CHAP. 151.-An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the building of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Arkansas," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. May 4, 1896. Little Rock Bridge and Terminal Railway Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, granting the Little Rock Company. Bridge and Terminal Railway Company authority to construct and Time extended for bridging Arkansas maintain a bridge and approaches thereto over the Arkansas River at River, Little Rock, a point on said river at or near the city of Little Rock, in the State of Ark Arkansas, which Act has expired by limitation, be, and is hereby, revived and reenacted. SEC. 2. That section seven of the said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Vol. 26, p. 797. Commencement and completion. Vol. 26, p. 799. "SEC. 7. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and all the benefits of this Act shall inure and belong to the Little Rock Bridge and Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of Arkansas, its successors or assigns: Provided, That the navigation of the Arkansas River shall not be obstructed obstructed. by false work during the construction of said bridge." Approved, May 4, 1896. CHAP. 152.-An Act Authorizing the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Corpus Christi Channel, known as the Morris and Cummings Ship Channel, in Aransas County, Texas. Proviso. May 4, 1896. Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of the Company may bridge State of Texas, is hereby authorized and empowered to erect, construct, Morris and Cummings Ship Channel, Texas. maintain, and operate a bridge over and across the Corpus Christi Channel, known as the Morris and Cummings Ship Channel, in Aransas County, Texas. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railway trains on and over a double or single track, as said Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company may elect. Railway bridge. Drawbridge. Prorisos. Opening draw. SEC. 2. That said bridge shall be constructed as a drawbridge, with the drawspan over the main navigable channel, of such clear width of opening or openings as the Secretary of War may decide to be neces sary to afford free passage to such vessels and boats as navigate said channel: Provided, That said bridge shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats and other water craft, except when trains are passing over the draw or turn; but in no case shall unnecessary delay occur in opening the draw or turn after the passage of trains, or at any other time; and the said Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company shall maintain at its own expense from sunset to sunrise such lights or other signals on said bridge as shall be prescribed Lights, etc. by the United States Light-House Board; and no bridge shall be erected and maintained under the authority of this Act which shall at any time substantially or materially obstruct the free navigation of said channel; 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 such 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 growing out of said obstruction, or alleged obstruction, to the navigation of said channel, caused, or alleged to be caused, by said bridge, the suit 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 Unobstructed navi gation. Litigation. Existing laws not affected. to the protection of navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from Use by other com- the operation of the same. That all railroad companies desiring the panies. Compensation. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. Amendment, etc. Commencement and completion. use of any bridge constructed under this Act shall 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 a reasonable compensation for such use; and in 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. SEC. 3. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this Act shall be located and built under and subject to such regulations for the security of said channel as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said corporation shall, at least thirty days previous to the commencement of the construction of said bridge, submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridge and a map of the location, giving such information as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of War to judge of the proper location of said bridge, and shall furnish such information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until such 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, or after completion, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. SEC. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved; and the right to require any changes in said structure or its entire removal at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress or the Secretary of War shall decide that the public interest requires it, is also expressly reserved. SEC. 5. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the passage of this Act. Approved, May 4, 1896. bia. May 4, 1896. CHAP. 153.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Union Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Union Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the commencement of the bridge in said Act named to one year and the time for its completion to three years from and after February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Approved, May 4, 1896. CHAP. 154.-An Act To provide for the incorporation and regulation of medical and dental colleges in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Colum- States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for Medical and dental any medical or dental college claiming the authority to confer, or actually colleges not specially conferring, the degree of doctor of medicine, or doctor of dental surincorporated required to register. gery, not incorporated by a special Act of Congress, to conduct its business in the District of Columbia, unless such college shall be registered |