Piers, etc. Provisos. Lights, etc. not be less than ten feet above the standard high-water grade line established by the Missouri River Commission in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and now in force; 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 draw shall be opened promptly by said company, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats and rafts, and said company or corporation shall maintain at its own expense, from sunset till sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe: Provided further, That the said Interstate Bridge and Street Railway Company shall, at its own expense, build and maintain, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, such wing dams and booms or other works necessary to maintain the channel within the draw span of said bridge, and shall, at their own expense, maintain a depth of Depth of water at water through said draw span not less than that now existing, as shown by the report of the War Department, at the point where said bridge may be located; and if said Interstate Bridge and Street Railway Company shall fail to maintain such channel as aforesaid, cher then the Secretary of War may cause said channel to be opened and maintained at proper depth for navigation through said span at the expense of the owners of said bridge. Wing dams, etc. draw. Failure to maintain channel. Notification of ap SEC. 4. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, upon receiving such plan and other information, and upon proval of plans, etc. being satisfied that a bridge so built will conform to the requirements of this act, to notify the company or corporation authorized to build the same that he approves of the same; and upon receiving such notification, the said company or corporation 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. post route. Use by telegraph, Postal telegraph. SEC. 5. That any bridge built under this act and subject to its Lawful structure and 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 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; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone etc., companies." companies; and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal-telegraph purposes. SEC. 6. That all railroad and street railway companies desiring the use of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and way, etc., companies. privileges relative to the passage of railroad 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 or street railway 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. Use by other rail Terms. Disagreement. Determination by Secretary of War. Amendment, etc. Obstructions to nav 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 shall deem it necessary, may cause the owners of said bridge to remove all material and substantial obstructions to the navigation of igation. 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 obstructions shall be paid by the owners of such bridge. Commencement and completion. SEC. 8. That this act shall be null and void if construction of said bridge shall not be commenced on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and be completed on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Approved, February 13, 1891. February 13, 1891. The county of Humphreys, Tenn., ma Humphreys County, bridge Duck River in Tenn. CHAP. 168.—An act to give consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge over the Duck River in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby given to the county of Humphreys, in the State of Tennessee, to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto over the Duck River, at or near the present crossing of any public road leading from Waverly to Bakerville, in the said county of Humphreys, Tennessee. Said bridge shall be conFree wagon and foot structed to provide for the free passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot-passengers. Location. bridge. Lawful structure and post-route. Proviso. Postal telegraph. Security of navigation. SEC. 2. 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, and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-roads in the United States: Provided, That the United States may construct a postal telegraph over said bridge without charge therefor. SEC. 3. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said county shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a Maps, designs, etc. design and drawings of the bridge and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at 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 Secretary of War to 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. And the said bridge shall be at all times so managed and kept as to offer reasonPassage of vessels. able and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under said bridge; and to secure the safe passage of vessels at night there shall be displayed on said bridge, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as may be prescribed by the Light-House Board. SEC. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Structural changes, 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 shall decide that the public interest requires it, is also expressly reserved. approve location, etc. Change of plan. Lights, etc. Amendment, etc. etc. Commencement and completion. 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 date hereof. Approved, February 13, 1891. February 16, 1891. Public building, etc. Site. Estimates, etc. Limit of cost. tions. CHAP. 237.-An act for the erection of a public building at Saint Paul, Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Saint Paul, Minn. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept, as a donation from the city of Saint Paul, in the State of Minnesota, a suitable lot of land in said city, and cause to be erected thereon a commodious and substantial building, with fire-proof vaults Building. therein, for the accommodation of the United States post-office, district and circuit courts, custom-house, internal revenue, and other Government civil offices in that city. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be, upon the acceptance of said site, made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the said building complete the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been so accepted, to cause plans and specifications for said building to be prepared, which plans and speci-Plans and specificafications shall have reference to the probable increase of the population of the said city and the consequent needs of the Government for the next twenty years, but not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building exceeding the sum hereby appropriated: Provided, That the site so accepted by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be of such dimensions as to leave the building to be erected thereon unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available Noexpenditure until until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the valid title, etc., pass. United States, nor until the State of Minnesota shall have ceded (if it has not heretofore ceded) to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during 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: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, after the completion and occupancy of said building, whenever in his judgment the public interest will admit, in his discretion, to sell and convey the present property of the United States in said city now occupied as a post-office and court building, with the site thereof, the proceeds of the sale of said property to be covered into the Treasury. Approved, February 16, 1891. Provisos. Open space. Secretary of Treas public building. ury may sell present Proceeds of sale. CHAP. 238.-An act to transfer officers on the retired list of the Army from the limited list to the unlimited. February 16, 1891. Retired list of the Army. Transfer of aged officers from limited vol. 20, p. 150, amend to unlimited list. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when officers who have been placed on the limited retired list as established by section seven, chapter two hundred and sixty-three, page one hundred and fifty, volume twenty, United States Statutes at Large, shall have attained the age of sixty-four years they shall be transferred ed. from said limited retired list to the unlimited list of officers retired by operation of law because of having attained said age of sixty-four years. And the limited retired list shall hereafter consist of three hundred and fifty instead of four hundred, as now fixed by law: Provided, That officers who have been placed on the retired list by special authority of Congress shall not form part of the limited retired list established by this act. Approved, February 16, 1891. Limited retired list decreased. Proviso. Special retirements. of. February 16, 1891. Worcester, Mass. CHAP. 239.—An act for continuing the erection of the public building at Worcester, Massachusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the additional sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby Continuing erection authorized to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury for continuing the erection of the public building at Worcester, in the State of Massachusetts. Vol. 25, pp. 508, 940. February 16, 1891. Establishment of Indian schools in Wis; consin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Cost for each school. Proviso. Secretary of Interior may select, etc., land for schools. Limit. entry, etc. Approved, February 16, 1891. CHAP. 240.-An act for the construction and completion of suitable school buildings for Indian industrial schools in Wisconsin and other States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to cause one Indian industrial or training school to be established in each of the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, at a cost not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for each school, said schools to be as near as practicable moulded on the plan of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Provided, however, That no such school shall be established on any Indian reservation whereon Indians are located under an agent. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior may select any part or portion of the non-mineral public domain of the United States in either of said States, which he may deem necessary and suitable, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, and may, by appropriate order in that behalf made and recorded in the General Land Office, Withdrawal from perpetually withdraw such land from sale and entry and dedicate the same to use as a site for such industrial or training school; and if such portion of the public domain is not found available or suitably located, then the Secretary of the Interior may secure title by Condemnation, etc., purchase, condemnation, or otherwise of a tract of land not less than two hundred acres for each of said schools, and upon the site thus selected, acquired, or purchased the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be erected such buildings and improvements as may in his judgment be best adapted to the purpose in view: Provided, That the site for said buildings in the various States shall be as follows: In Minnesota, on the Pipestone Reservation; if necessary. Buildings, etc. In Minnesota. Appropriation. Purposes, etc. February 18, 1891. In Michigan, in the county of Isabella; In Wisconsin, near some railroad from which all the reservations may be conveniently reached. SEC. 3. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior for the purchase of necessary ground and the erection thereon of buildings, and for such other purposes as he may deem proper in the execution of the provisions of this act, to establish in each of such States a school for the industrial and general education of Indian youth, and at the places in said States herein designated or which may hereafter be designated by the Secretary of the Interior in conformity with the provisions of this act. Approved, February 16, 1891. CHAP. 244.-An act to amend an act entitled an act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Forfeited unearned United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "An act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose railroad lands. Extension of time Lawe, 1st Sess. of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes," limit for homestead approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, entries, etc. and the same is hereby, amended so that the period within which 51st Cong. p. 496, 497, settlers, purchasers, and others under the provisions of said act may amended. make application to purchase lands forfeited thereby or to make or move to perfect any homestead entries which are preserved or authorized under said act when such period begins to run from the Time limit. passage of the act shall begin to run from the date of the promulgation by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the instructions to the officers of the local land offices, for their direction in the disposition of said lands: Provided, That nothing herein shall extend any time or enlarge any rights given by said act to any railroad company. Approved, February 18, 1891. Proviso. Railroad rights. CHAP. 248.-An act to provide for the selection of a site for a military post at San Diego, California, and for other purposes. February 21, 1891. San Diego, Cal. harbor defenses. Military post and Site. 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 and directed to cause an examination to be made for a suitable site for a military post and harbor defenses at or near the city of San Diego, in the State of California, and to report to Congress a particular description of the land required for such purposes and the amount of money for which report. the owners of such land will convey the same to the United States for the purposes aforesaid. He shall further report what in his opin- Appraisement. ion is the value of such land, and if the price asked for the same is reasonable. Approved, February 21, 1891. Examination and CHAP. 249.—An act to amend act authorizing Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct road through Indian Territory. February 21, 1891. Right of way. Railway Company through Indian Terri Choctaw Coal and tory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of an act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, authorizing the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes, shall be extended for a period of two years, from February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so that said company shall have until February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to build its railway, under the provisions of said act and the act amendatory thereof, approved February thirteenth, Vol. 25, p. 668. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Approved, February 21, 1891. of railway. CHAP. 250.-An act to amend section forty-one hundred and seventy-eight, Revised Statutes, in relation to the marking of vessels' names at bow and stern; and also to provide for marking the draft. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section fortyone hundred and seventy-eight, of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read entire as follows: "SEC. 4178. The name of every documented vessel of the United States shall be marked upon each bow and upon the stern, and the |