anized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, its successors or assigns, is hereby horized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River, at hear the city of Plattsmouth, in the county of Cass and State of Nebraska, and at h point as may be hereafter selected by said corporation, its successors or assigns, 1 at least one-third of a mile from any other bridge, as shall best promote the public venience and welfare, and the necessities of business and commerce, and also to struct and maintain the accessory works necessary to secure the best practicable annel-way for navigation and to contine the flow of water to a permanent channel such point; and said corporation, its successors or assigns, shall construct and mainn ways on said bridge for carriages, wagons, and foot-passengers, and may charge 1 receive such reasonable toll therefor as may be approved from time to time by the cretary of War: Provided, That said bridge may be constructed, maintained, and ed also for the safe and convenient passage of cable and street cars. SEC. 2. That the plan and location of said bridge, with a detailed map of the river the proposed site of the bridge and near thereto, exhibiting the depths and curats, shall be submitted to the Secretary of War, for his approval, and until he apove the plan and location of said bridge the construction shall not be commenced; t upon the approval of said plan by the Secretary of War, the said company or corpotion may proceed to the construction of said bridge in conformity with said approved an; and should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Sectary of War.

SEC. 3. That the said bridge and accessory works, when built and constructed under is act and according to the terms and limitations thereof, shall be lawful structures; ad said bridge shall be recognized and known as a post-route upon which also no gher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the oops, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for he transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and id bridge shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-routes of the United tates; and Congress reserves the right at any time to regulate by appropriate legistion the charges for freight and passengers over said bridge. The United States hall have the right of way for postal telegraph across said bridge, and equal priviges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies: Provided lso, That the said bridge may be used by all railroad companies for the passage of heir cars over the same, upon such terms as may be fixed by said company or companies and the corporation owning or controlling said bridge, and if they cannot agree, hen the charges for the use of said bridge by such other company or companies shall be established by the Secretary of War, after hearing the parties.

SEC. 4. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act at any ime; and if at any time navigation of the said river shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be in any manner obstructed or impaired by the said bridge, the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be his duty, to require the said corporation, its successors or assigns, to alter and change the said bridge, at its or their own expense, in such manner as may be proper to secure free and complete navigation without impediments; and if upon reasonable notice to said incorporation, to make such changes or improvements the said corporation fails to do so, the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same at the expense of said corporation, or to remove said bridge, the amount thereof to be recovered by the United States, by suit in the United States circuit court within whose jurisdiction the bridge or any part of it may lie, 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 said river.

SEC. 5. That unless the construction of said bridge be commenced within one year and completed within three years after the passage of this act, all privileges conferred hereby shall become null and void.

Approved, August 9, 1888.

AN ACT to provide for the enlargement of the dimensions of the wharf of Fortress Monroe. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the plans and specifications under which contract has been entered into by the United States for the construction of an iron wharf at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, to be amended and changed so as to require all bearing piles and floor beams of said wharf to be of iron or steel instead of wood, and to enlarge the dimensions of the said wharf as designed, and make such other modifications in the plans and specifications as may be required to meet the necessities of commerce, for which purpose the sum

of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be inmediately available, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money a the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, August 10, 1888.

AN ACT making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certam podz works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are bereby, sp priated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretar a War, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public we hereinafter named:

Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirty thousa dollars. Improving breakwater at the mouth of Saco River, Maine: Continuing impr.. ments and repairs, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at York, Maine: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dolla For commencing the construction of a breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcup | Island, Maine, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Continuing improvement, forty thousa

dollars.

Improving harbor at Camden, Maine, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Back Cove, Portland Harbor, Maine: Continuing impers ment, twenty-five thousand thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Rockport, Maine, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement fiftee thousand dollars.

Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hampshire: Continuing impre ment on the enlarged plan, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars.

Improving the channel between the islands of North Hero and South Hero, Lai Champlain, Vermont, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Gordon's Landing, Lake Champlain, Vermont : Continua improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvements, one be dred and twenty-five thousand dollars; one-half of which shall be used in wide: is the main ship channel at the "upper and lower middle;" and so much thereaf may be necessary may be expended in extending the sea-wall at Gallup's Island. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousa dollars; a part of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used: the Point of Pines and in the western channel leading thereto, and a portion in t basin enclosed by the wharves of said city of Lynn.

Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing improveme twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, s thousand dollars; a part of which may, in the discre tion of the Secretary of War. applied to the improvement in said harbor of Goose Point Channel to the port Kingston and North Plymouth.

Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts: To complete, seven thousan dollars.

Improving harbor at Scituate, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five the sand dollars.

Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: Dredging Harbor Cove and r moving ledge and boulders obstructing the approach to the wharves between Hari Cove and Pew Wharf, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Wareham, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, fa thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at New Bedford, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars, Improving harborat Hingham, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thea sand dollars, a part of which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be a plied to straighten the channel from the wharf to the end of Ragged Island.

Improving harbor at Winthrop, Massachusetts: For dredging, one thousand d£

lars.

Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For protection of Chops at the mouth of the harbor, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, seven thousand dollars.

Improving national harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manchester, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dol

lars.

Improving harbor at Block Island, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars; of which sum six thousand dollars are for the inner harbor, four thousand dollars for breakwater, and five thousand dollars for removing sand bar at entrance of harbor.

Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut; Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized to expend such portion of said sum as he may deem advisable above the bridges across the stream emptying into said harbor.

Improving harbor at Black Rock, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Chief of Engineers may, if deemed necessary, relocate the western breakwater; and the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to expend any portion of said sum in commencing its construction.

Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, twentyeight thousand dollars; twenty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended in dredging and deepening the channel in the lower harbor up to Wilson's Point. Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut: Eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Stamford, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousaud dollars.

Improving harbor at Five Mile River, Connecticut: Five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Milford, Connecticut: To complete improvement, five thonsand dollars.

Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Buttermilk Chanuel, New York: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Sheepshead Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving breakwater at Rouse's Point, New York: Continuing improvement, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Canarsie Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs, forty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving channel at Gowanus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, by deepening to twenty-one feet mean low water and widening the channel to four hundred feet on the northerly side from the foot of Percival street, along the wharves to the twenty-three feet curve, opposite the entrance to the Erie Basin, sixty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty-four thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, sixteen thousand dollars. And the engineer in charge, with the approval of the Secretary of War, may use such part of this appropriation for dredging and deepening the channel and harbor, as he may deem proper.

Improving harbor at Greenport, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Oak Orchard, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs, six thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ogdensburgh, New York, including the clearing out of the Oswegatchie River: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Olcott, New York: Continuing provement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement and repairs. one hundred thousand dollars; of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be used removing the east breakwater at the month of the river.

Improving harbor at Plattsburgh, New York: To complete improvement, seve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: To complete improvement, five theesand dollars.

Improving harbor at Sackett's, New York: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars.

Improving Tonawanda Harbor and Niagara River, New York, as per report of e gineer in charge, dated December twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-seve one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, three hundr and eighty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York: Continuing improvement, twelve the sand dollars.

Improving harbor at Wilson, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousal dollars.

Improving harbor at Port Chester, New York: Continuing improvement, five thes sand dollars.

Improving harbor at Glen Cove, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Rochelle, New York: Continuing improvement, the ba ance remaining on hand from former appropriations to be expended in pursuance of the project adopted in eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

Improving channel between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, by dredging fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, New York and New Jersey: Dredging and straightening channel near Staten Island bridge, and removing the point of land westerly of same, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Raritan Bay, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, twentyfive thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, twenty-three thousand dollars.

For the preservation and protection of the peninsula of Presque Isle, Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers, January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and in accordance with such plans as the Secretary of Wa may prescribe, sixty thousand dollars.

Improving the harbor of Philadelphia: For the removal of Smith's Island, and Windmill Island, in the State of Pennsylvania, and Petty's Island, in the State of New Jersey, or such parts of them and the shoals adjacent thereto as may be required, and for the improvement of the harbor between the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsy vania, and Camden, New Jersey, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That part of this sum shall be expended until the title to the lands forming said islands shall be acquired and vested in the United States without charge to the latter beyond three hundred thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated.

Improving ice-harbor at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving ice-harbor at New Castle, Delaware: Continuing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: Continuing improvement, thirty thou

sand dollars.

Improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing improvement, and widening channel to six hundred feet, three hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Breton Bay, Maryland: Continuing improvement, three thonsand dollars.

Improving harbor at Cambridge, Maryland, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Norfolk and its approaches, Virginia: Continuing improve ment, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving approach to Norfolk Harbor, and the United States navy-yard at Norfolk. Virginia: Continuing improvement between Lambert's Point and Fort Norfolk, ten thousand dollars; and the balance of one hundred and nine thousand dollars of former appropriations made under this head and available July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby authorized to be expended according to the modified plan of the engineer in charge.

Improving harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, thirtyfive thousand dollars.

Improving the inland water-way between Beaufort and New River, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

mproving the inland water-way between New Berne and Beaufort, North Carolina : ntinuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

improving harbor at Charleston, including Sullivan's Island, South Carolina: Conuing improvements, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which five thouid dollars may be expended on Mount Pleasant shore of inner harbor of Charles1, South Carolina.

Improving harbor at Georgetown, South Carolina: Continuing improvement, seven ousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement, one hundred ousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a ard of three engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to amine the plan submitted by Captain William H. Bixby, United States Army Enneers, under date of January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the provement of said bay. The said board shall report to the Secretary of War, who all lay its report before Congress at its next session, with the views of himself and e Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon: Provided, That nothing rein contained shall be construed to prevent the expenditure of this appropriation. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: Continuing improvement, thirty-five ousand dollars.

Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: Continuing improvement, one undred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: To complete existing project, one hunred and eighty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at San Augustine, Florida, thirty-five thousand dollars. The ecretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineer officers f the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to examine into the expediency of urther improving the harbor of San Augustine, Florida, upon the plan submitted by ieutenant William M. Black, United States Army Engineers, under date of Decemer twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The said board shall report to the Secretary of War, who shall lay its report before Congress at its next session, with the iews of himself and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon. Improving harbor at Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Continuing improvement, twenty honsand dollars.

Improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida: Continuing improvement, seven thonsand five hundred dollars.

Improving harbor at Pensacola, Florida: Continuing improvement, thirty-five housand dollars.

Improving harbor at Tampa Bay, Florida, from outer bar to Mangrove or Bushy Point, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving entrance to harbor at Key West, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to examine into the expediency of further improving the entrance to the harbor at Key West, Florida, pon the plan submitted by Lieutenant William M. Black, United States Army Engineers, under date of May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; the said Board shall report to the Secretary of War, who shall lay its report before Congress at its next session, together with the views of himself and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army thereon.

Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, on enlarged projeet for securing a channel twenty-three feet deep and two hundred and eighty feet wide, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Biloxi Bay, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Improving Aransas Pass and Bay up to Rockport and Corpus Christi, Texas: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Brazos, Santiago Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improvement of entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas: Continuing improvement, five hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Sabine Pass, and Blue Buck Bar, Texas: Continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving ship-channel in Galveston Bay, Texas, from Morgan's Cut to Bolivar Channel: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at mouth of Black River, Ohio: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: Continuing improvement on the last plan projected, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dol