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For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Chapel repairs, etc.

Contingent funds.

For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board; for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars: Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be pur- Technical supplies. chased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem

best.

For purchase and repair of instruments for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, and to be immediately available, one hundred dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS.

For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars. For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars.

For water works: Renewal of material in filter beds; improving ventilation of filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in fire service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers, and for repairs of siphon house, filter house, and of four and one-half miles of supply pipes; for shed for tools and storage of fuel for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred dollars.

For broken stone and gravel for roads, two thousand dollars. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the Post Cemetery, including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars.

Proviso.

Musical instru

ments.

Public works.

Repairing roads, etc.

Wall.

Water works, etc.

Stone for roads.
Cemetery.

For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn out Cooking utensils. cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, three hundred and twenty-six dollars, to be expended without advertising.

For repairs of chairs, tables, and other furniture, and for contin- Contingent repairs. gent repairs, fifty dollars.

For placing an additional story on the brick building in rear of Mess employees dorcadet mess-hall, used as a dormitory for employees of the mess, one mitory. thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.

For reflooring, repairing, and painting that portion of the annex

to the mess building over the kitchen of the mess, used as a dormi

tory for employees of the mess, four hundred and eighty-one dollars.

For repairs of present quarters married enlisted men, five thousand Quarters. dollars.

For two or more sets of officers' quarters to be immediately availa

ble, twenty thousand dollars.

For twenty sets of quarters for enlisted men and their families, to

be built in sets of twos, of brick, each set to contain four rooms,

twenty-four thousand dollars.

For enlarging the storehouse and workshop of the cadet quarter- Storehouse and master's department, ten thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars workshop.

and seventy cents.

For painting and repairing the exterior and interior of the present building occupied by the cadet quartermaster's department, painting roof, replacing leaders to same, and for incidental repairs, six hundred and thirty-seven dollars,

For galleries and repairs, riding hall, two thousand dollars.

"Riding hall.

For necessary repairs of, and for improving the plumbing and Sanitary improve sewerage systems at West Point, New York, and putting the same in ments at West Point. a sanitary condition, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under

Direction.

West Point Hotel.

Water supply.

Laundry.

the joint direction of the Superintendent, the surgeon, and the quartermaster of the Academy.

For general overhauling and repair of the plumbing and sewerage of the West Point Hotel, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For extending the water supply from the corner of academic building to the cavalry stables and riding hall, five hundred dollars. For general repairs, painting, pointing, and shingling of the cadet laundry building, and for repairing the smoke stack (chimney) of same, three hundred dollars.

Approved, March 2, 1891.

March 2, 1891.

Direct taxes.

Credit to States,etc.,

CHAP. 496.-An act to credit and pay to the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia all moneys collected under the direct tax levied by the act. of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be thefor amount collected.' duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to credit to each State and Territory of the United States and the District of Columbia a sum equal to all collections by set-off or otherwise made from said States and Territories and the District of Columbia or from any of the citizens or inhabitants thereof or other persons under the act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the amendatory acts thereto.

Vol. 12, p. 294.

Unpaid quota remitted.

Appropriation for reimbursement.

of all claims.

Provisos.

etc.

SEC. 2. That all moneys still due to the United States on the quota of direct tax apportioned by section eight of the act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, are hereby remitted and relinquished.

SEC. 3. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to re-imburse each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia for all money found due to them under the provisions of Payments to States. this act; and the Treasurer of the United States is hereby directed to pay the same to the governors of the States and Territories and to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, but no money shall be paid to any State or Territory until the Legislature thereof shall have accepted, by resolution, the sum herein appropriated, and the trusts imposed, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United To be received in full States on account of the levy and collection of said tax, and shall have authorized the Governor to receive said money for the use and purposes aforesaid: Provided, That where the sums, or any part. Sums due citizens, thereof, credited to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, have been collected by the United States from the citizens or inhabitants thereof, or any other person, either directly or by sale of property, such sums shall be held in trust by such State, Territory, or the District of Columbia for the benefit of those persons or inhabitants from whom they were collected, or their legal representatives: Not to be used as set. And provided further, That no part of the money collected from individuals and to be held in trust as aforesaid shall be retained by the United States as a set-off against any indebtedness alleged to exist against the State, Territory, or District of Columbia in which No payment for le- such tax was collected: And provided further, That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be paid out by the governor of any State or Territory or any other person to any attorney or agent under any contract for services now existing or heretofore made between the representative of any State or Territory and any attorney or Settlement of agent. All claims under the trust hereby created shall be filed with the governor of such State or Territory and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, respectively, within six years next after the passage of this act; and all claims not so filed shall be forever

off.

gal services.

claims.

barred, and the money attributable thereto shall belong to such State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, respectively, as the case may be.

Beaufort lots.

Farm lands.

Other lands.
Provisos.

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury Payment for lands. to pay to such persons as shall in each case apply therefor, and fur- sold in South Carolina. nish satisfactory evidence that such applicant was at the time of the sales hereinafter mentioned the legal owner, or is the heir at law or devisee of the legal owner of such lands as were sold in the parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke's in the State of South Carolina, under the said acts of Congress, the value of said lands in the manner following, to wit: To the owners of the lots in the town of Beaufort, one-half of the value assessed thereon for taxation by the United States direct-tax commissioners for South Carolina; to the owners of lands which were rated for taxation by the State of South Carolina as being usually cultivated, five dollars per acre for each acre thereof returned on the proper tax-book; to the owners of all other lands, one dollar per acre for each acre thereof returned on said tax-book: Provided, That in all cases where such owners, or persons claiming under them, have redeemed or purchased said Lands redeemed. lands, or any part thereof, from the United States, they shall not receive compensation for such part so redeemed or purchased; and any sum or sums held or to be held by the said State of South Carolina in trust for any such owner under section three of this act shall be deducted from the sum due to such owner under the provisions Deduction of surof this section: And provided further, That in all cases where said plus proceeds. owners have heretofore received from the United States the surplus proceeds arising from the sale of their lands, such sums shall be deducted from the sum which they are entitled to receive under this act. That in all cases where persons, while serving in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps of the United States, or who had been honor- diers, etc., for purably discharged from said service, purchased any of said lands under section eleven of the act of Congress approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and such lands afterwards reverted to the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to such persons as shall in each case apply therefor, or to their heirs at law, devisees, or grantees, in good faith and for valuable consideration, whatever sum was so paid to the United States in such case. That before paying any money to such persons the Release. Secretary of the Treasury shall require the person or persons entitled to receive the same to execute a release of all claims and demands of every kind and description whatever against the United States arising out of the execution of said acts, and also a release of

Repayment to sol

chases.

all right, title, and interest in and to the said lands. That there is Appropriation. hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for said lots and lands, which sum shall include all moneys in the Treasury derived in any manner from the enforcement of said acts in said parishes, and not otherwise appropriated. That section one thousand and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes is hereby made applicable to claims arising under this act without limitation as to the amount involved in such

claim: And provided further, That any sum or sums of money Repayment of proreceived into the Treasury of the United States from the sale of ceeds of tax sales. lands bid in for taxes in any State under the laws described in the

first section of this act in excess of the tax assessed thereon shall be

paid to the owners of the land so bid in and resold, or to their legal heirs or representatives.

Approved, March 2, 1891.

March 2, 1891.

pool selling, etc., D. C.

ton or Georgetown.

CHAP. 497.-An act to prevent bookmaking and pool-selling in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Bookmaking and United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be Prohibited within unlawful for any person or association of persons in the cities of one mile of Washing. Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, or within said District within one mile of the boundaries of said cities, to bet, gamble, or make books or pools on the result of any trotting race or running race of horses, or boat race, or race of any kind, or on any election or any contest of any kind, or game of baseball.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. That any person or association of persons violating the provisions of this act shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Approved March 2, 1891.

March 2, 1891.

CHAP. 498.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain Volunteer and regular soldiers of the late war and the war with Mexico," approved March two, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Removal of charge United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision three of section two of the above entitled act be, and the same is amended so as to read as follows:

of desertion.
Vol. 25, p. 869,
amended.

Minors discharged by order of court.

"Third. That such soldier was a minor, and was enlisted without the consent of his parent or guardian, and was released or discharged from such service by the order or decree of any State or United States court on habeas corpus or other judicial proceedings, Not to receive pay, and in such case such soldier shall not be entitled to any bounty or allowance, or pay for any time such soldier was not in the performance of military duty."

etc.

March 2, 1891.

Square 812, D. C.

from lots 14 and 15.

Approved, March 2, 1891.

CHAP. 499.-An act dedicating part of lots fourteen and fifteen, in square eight hundred and twelve, as a public alley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such parts Alley in, dedicated of lots fourteen and fifteen, in square eight hundred and twelve, at the points where said lots join and abut on original lots six, seven, and twenty-eight, as shown in book seventeen, page fifty-eight, of the office of surveys for the District of Columbia, be, and the same are hereby, dedicated as a public alley: Provided, however, That the from contiguous property and lot owners dedicate an approximate amount to make an alley of fifteen feet in width between the properties herein described."

Proviso.

Dedication

contiguous property.

March 2, 1891.

Veteran Volunteer

Firemen's Association, D. C.

Granted use of old

engine house, 19th and H streets.

Approved March 2, 1891.

CHAP. 500.-An act authorizing the Commissioners to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association use of certain property in the city of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association of the District of Columbia the use of all that part of lot eleven, in square one hundred and forty-one, in the city of Washington, and building thereon now occupied by a house used formerly as an engine-house, and described as follows: Beginning at the northwest

corner of said lot and running east thirty feet on H street; thence fifty feet south on a line parallel to Nineteenth street; thence west thirty feet to Nineteenth street, and thence north fifty feet to the beginning; the same to be used by said association as a place of meeting and for the storage of their apparatus, the same to continue during the pleasure of the Commissioners.

Approved, March 2, 1891.

March 2, 1891.

Rapides Bridge Comany may bridge Red

River, at Alexandria,

CHAP. 501.—An act to authorize the Rapides Bridge Company, limited, to construct and maintain a bridge across Red River at or near Alexandria, Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Rapides Bridge Company, limited, a corporation created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Louisiana, be, and is hereby, La. authorized to construct and maintain a highway and railway bridge. across the Red River at or near the town of Alexandria, the said bridge to be so constructed as not to interfere with the navigation of said river, and to be provided with a suitable draw: Provided, That any bridge constructed under this act and according to its limitations Lawful structure and shall be a lawful structure, and shall be known and recognized as a post route, and the same is hereby declared to be a post route, and the United States shall have the right of way for a postal telegraph. across said bridge.

Proviso.

post route.

Secretary of War to

SEC. 2. That the bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be located and built under and subject to such regulations approve plans, etc.. for the security of the navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the proposed bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of two miles above and two miles below the proposed location, the high and low water lines upon the banks of the river, the direction and strength of the currents, at all stages of the water, with the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, and the location of any other bridge or bridges, such maps to be sufficiently in detail to enable the Secretary of War to judge of the proper location of said bridge, 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 no work upon the bridge shall be commenced; 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.

Changes.

SEC. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Amendment, etc. this act at any time; and that if at any time navigation of the said river shall in any manner be obstructed or impaired by the said bridge, the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be

his duty, to require the said bridge company to alter and change the Alterations, etc. said bridge at its own expense, in such manner as may be proper to secure free and complete navigation without impediment; and if upon reasonable notice to said bridge company to make such change or improvements the said company fails to do so, the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same at the expense of said company, 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 the river.

SEC. 4. That said company shall be permitted to charge and take such rates of toll for crossing said bridge as may be reasonable, sub- Toll. ject to the approval of the Secretary of War.

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