CHAP. 244.-An Act To authorize the establishment of a life-saving station at Port Huron, on the coast of Lake Huron, Michigan.

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 is hereby, authorized to establish a life-saving station at or near Port Huron, on the coast of Lake Huron, in the State of Michigan, at such point as the General Superintendent of the LifeSaving Service may recommend.

Approved, May 25, 1896.

CHAP. 245.-An Act Relating to the testimony of physicians in the courts of the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the courts of the District of Columbia no physician or surgeon shall be permitted, without the consent of the person afflicted, or of his legal representative, to disclose any information, confidential in its nature, which he shall have acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, whether such information shall have been obtained from the patient or from his family or from the person or persons in charge of him: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to evidence in criminal cases where the accused is charged with causing the death of, or inflicting injuries upon, a human being, and the disclosure shall be required in the interests of public justice.

Received by the President, May 13, 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 25, 1896.

Boonville and How

ard County Bridge

Company may bridge

Missouri River, Boonville, Mo.

CHAP. 246.-An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the city of Boonville, Missouri.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Boonville and Howard County Bridge Company and its successors, assigns, grantees, mortgagees, and successors in interest be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at or near the city of Boonville, Missouri, between the counties of Cooper and Howard, at a point at least one-third of a mile from any other bridge, to be selected consistent with the interests of Wagon, etc., bridge. river navigation. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the

Toll

Secretary of War to approve plans, etc.

Changes.

passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, street railway cars, motor cars, animals, foot passengers, and for all road travel, for such reasonable rates of toll and under such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the said parties or their successors and assigns, and to be approved from time to time by the Secretary of War.

SEC. 2. That the said bridge shall not be commenced or built until the plans and specifications for its construction have been submitted to the Secretary of War for his approval, nor until he shall approve the plan and location of said bridge; and if any change be made in the plan or construction of said bridge at any time, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and any change in the construction or any alteration of said bridge 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 thereof; that the said bridge shall be constructed without interference with the security and convenience of

navigation of said river beyond what is necessary to carry out effectually the rights and privileges hereby granted, and in order to secure that object, the said parties shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design of and drawings for said bridge and accessory works and a map of the proposed location, giving for the space of one mile above and one mile below such proposed location the topography of the banks of the river, with shore lines and soundings and direction of currents at medium high water, and such other information as may be required for a full understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War, the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced.

Provisos.

Opening draw.

Aids to navigation.

SEC. 3. That said bridge may be built either as a high bridge, with Construction. unbroken and continuous spans, or as a low bridge containing a sufficient pivot drawspan. If built as a high bridge, the spans thereof shall High bridge. not be less than four hundred feet in the clear over the main channel of the river, and the lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge shall be at least fifty-five feet in the clear above the established highwater grade line, and the bridge shall be at right angles to and its piers parallel with the current of the river; and if built as a low bridge Drawbridge. with pivot drawspan, it shall have one drawspan, affording two clear openings of not less than two hundred feet each, which drawspan shall be maintained over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with a fixed span or spans not less than three hundred feet in length in the clear, and the headroom under each span shall not be less than ten feet above the standard high-water grade line, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with and the bridge itself at right angles to the current of the river: Provided also, That said drawspan shall be opened promptly by said parties or their successors and assigns, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats and rafts: And provided further, That the said parties or their successors and assigns shall, at their own expense, build and maintain, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, when so required, such wing dams, booms, and other necessary work to maintain the channel within the drawspan of said bridge, and shall, at their own expense, maintain a depth of water through said drawspan not less than now existing, as shown by the records of the War Department. at the point where said bridge may be located: And provided further, That said parties or their successors and assigns shall maintain at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on such bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, Notification of apupon receiving such plan and other information, and upon being satisfied that a bridge so built will conform to the requirements of this Act, to notify the said parties authorized to build the same that he approves of the same; and upon receiving such notification the said parties may proceed to erect said bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location, and should any change be made in the plan of the bridge or accessory works, during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Secretary of War.

Lights, etc.

proval.

Lawful structure and post route.

SEC. 5. That any bridge built under this Act and subject to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known 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, than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the public highways leading to the said bridge, and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post roads in the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies, and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal Postal telegraph. telegraph purposes.

SEC. 6. That all street railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges

Use by street railroad companies.

Compensation.

Proviso.

Charges.

Amendment, etc.

Commencement and completion.

relative to the passage of street railroad trains or cars over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railway companies, or any one of them, desiring such use fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon the 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 nothing in this Act in regard to charges for passengers and freight across said bridge shall 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 companies for the use of said bridge. SEC. 7. That Congress shall have the power at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this Act, and the Secretary of War, whenever he shallĺ deem it necessary, may cause the owners of said bridge to remove all material and substantial obstructious to the navigation of said river by the construction of said bridge and its accessory works, or to prevent such obstruction; and the expense of altering said bridge or removing such obstruction shall be at the expense of the owners of the bridge. SEC. 8. That this Act shall be null and void if construction of said bridge shall not be commenced within two years and finished within five years from its passage.

Received by the President, May 13, 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 28, 1896.

tive, and judicial ex

CHAP. 252.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Legislative, execu States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, penses appropria- and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas ury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

tions.

Legislative.

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

Senate.

Pay of Senators.

Mileage. Compensation, officers, etc.

Vice-President's of

fice.

Chaplain.

Secretary of the Senate, clerks, etc.

For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely:

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT: For Secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.

CHAPLAIN: For Chaplain of the Senate, nine hundred dollars. OFFICE OF SECRETARY: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary's office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, and financial clerk, at three thousand dollars each, and five

hundred dollars additional to the financial clerk, while the office is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; assistant financial clerk, and reading clerk, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional, while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; keeper of stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars, and two hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; two messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; page, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; in all, sixty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety cents.

gers to committees.

CLERKS AND MESSENGERS TO COMMITTEES: For clerk of printing Clerks and messen records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quaran tine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, and clerk to Conference Minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

For clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage, Mines and Mining, and Construction of the Nicaragua Canal, at two thousand one hundred dollars each, six thousand three hundred dollars.

For twenty-five clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.

Clerks to committees at $2,100 a year.

At $1,800 a year.

Sergeant at Arms and assistants.

Messengers.

Laborers.

Pages.

Postmaster, etc.

Document room.
Superintendent, etc.

Folding room.
Superintendent, etc.

Chief engineer, etc.

Clerks to Senators.

Contingentexpenses. Stationery and newspapers.

Postage stamps.

Horses and wagons.

OFFICE OF SERGEANT-AT-ARMS AND DOORKEEPER: For Sergeantat-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninetytwo dollars, acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant messenger on the floor of the Senate, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger to official reporter's room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies' retiring room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; telephone page, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars.

POST-OFFICE: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eightyeight dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

DOCUMENT ROOM: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Smith), three thousand dollars; three assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

FOLDING ROOM: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; and nine folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

UNDER ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL: For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; three conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; machinist and assistant conductor of elevators, one thousand dollars; two firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; four laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For thirty-eight annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-seven thousand dollars.

FOR CONTINGENT EXPENSES, NAMELY: For stationery and newspapers, including five thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, two hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred dollars.

For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.