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For the purchase of needful material to be used in the art of teaching cookery to the enlisted men in the two companies of the Hospital Corps, five hundred dollars.

Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General's Office, eight thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Engineer depot at Willets Point, New York: Incidental expenses of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware; extraduty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, four thousand dollars.

For the purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties as sappers and miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, five hundred dollars.

For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, one hundred thousand dollars.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen's medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, ten thousand dollars.

For the purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, and for issue to the militia under the Act of February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

Overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars.

For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.

For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, six thousand dollars.

Manufacture of

arms, etc.
Provisos.

Manufacture of arms at the National armories, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be applicable to the manufacture of the magazine arm recommended for trial by the Magazine gun. Board, recently in session, and approved by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

Civilian clerks.

Signal Service.

Expenses.

For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments, and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including salaries of civilian employees, Military telegraph. supplies and general repairs. and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, eighteen thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General, in his discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

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Headquarters, mili tary departments.

For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders. For contingent expense of the military information division, Adjutant- Military informa General's Office, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legatious abroad, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Approved, February 12, 1895.

tion.

Naval Academy..
Appointment of ca-

CHAP. 84.-An Act To authorize the appointment of cadets to the Naval Academy. February 12, 1895. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every Representative or Delegate in Congress, whose district or Territory is now not repre- dets from districts not sented at the Naval Academy by a cadet who was an actual resident represented. of such district or Territory at the time of his appointment, shall be Post, p. 838. permitted and authorized to recommend a candidate for appointment as cadet at the Naval Academy of the United States, said recommendation to be inade on or before the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Secretary of the Navy shall nominate such cadet so recommended for appointment to said Academy, subject to the qualifications now prescribed by law. Such cadets, when so appointed, shall be in addition to the cadets now allowed by law, and the sum of money appropriated by the Act entitled "An Act making appropria- Ante, p. 137. tions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes," approved

July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby made Appropriation avail available, and shall be applied to carry into effect this law.

Approved, February 12, 1895.

able.

February 13, 1895.

in claims.

Vol. 21, p. 284.

CHAP. 87.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes, approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Columbia. States of America in Congress assembled, That in the adjudication of Rates to be allowed claims brought under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes," approved the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty (Twenty-first Statutes at Large, page two hundred and eighty-four), the Court of Claims shall allow the rates established and paid by the board of public works; and whenever said rates have not been allowed the claimant or his personal representative shall be entitled, on motion made within sixty days after the passage of this Act, to a new trial of such cause. Approved, February 13, 1895.

New trial.

February 13, 1895.

Chicago, Ill. thorized on old site.

Post, p. 911.

CHAP. 88.—An Act To provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Public building au Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected upon the present post-office site in the city of Chicago and State of Illinois, which site is bounded by Adams, Jackson, Clark, and Dearborn streets, a commodious and sufficiently fireproof building for the use of the postoffice, United States courts, United States subtreasury, United States collectors, and other necessary officers of the Government; the building to be so erected as to occupy all the available area of the present site to the street lines on all sides, and the Secretary of the Treasury is Correction, post, p. authorized to contract with the lowest and best bidder, after reasonable notice by advertisement in two or more newspapers published in Sale, etc., of pres- the city of Chicago, for the sale of the present building as herein before

701.

ent building.

Contracts for construction authorized.

Proviso.
Limit of cost.

described and the removal of the same from the site where it is now located, and the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized and directed to have prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department full and complete plans, specifications, and detailed drawings of the building to be erected, the said plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Postmaster-General, and the Secretary of the Interior:

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized in the specifications for the erection of said building to enter into contract for the construction of any portion thereof, and the several contracts for the different portions of said building shall be awarded, after public advertisement according to law for not less than one month, to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders. Said contracts shall be made at such times that the actual work of construction shall progress continuously and no delay be caused in the erection of the building: Provided, That the entire cost of said building when completed shall not exceed the sum of four million dollars.

Approved, February 13, 1895.

February 15, 1895.

Military reserva. tions.

CHAP. 92. An Act To amend and extend the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes," approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the Settlement of aban- Act approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,

doned.

entitled "An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes," are hereby extended to all abandoned military reservations which were placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior under any law in force prior to the Act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

Ante, p. 491.

Vol. 23, p. 103.

tended.

SEC. 2. That the preference right of entry given to actual settlers by Preferences to the terms of the Act to which this is an amendment shall, so far as the homestead settlers exlands to which the provisions of said Act are extended, take effect and continue for six months from the date of this amendatory Act. Approved, February 15, 1895. .

CHAP. 94.—An Act Providing an additional circuit judge in the ninth judicial_February 18, 1895. circuit.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be in the ninth United States courts. judicial circuit an additional circuit judge, who shall be appointed by Additional judge, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall possess the same qualifications and have the same power and jurisdiction now prescribed by law in respect to the present circuit judges therein.

Approved, February 18, 1895.

CHAP. 95.-An Act Granting to the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway February 18, 1895. Company a right of way through the San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona.

los Indian Reserva

Location.

Width, etc.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway to the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway Company, a corpora- Company granted tion organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, right of way, San Carand to its assigns, the right of way for the extension of its railroad and tion, Ariz. for a telegraph and telephone line through the San Carlos Indian Reservation in said Territory, entering the reservation on the south side of the Gila River about seven miles below Fort Thomas, continuing down said Gila River in a generally northwesterly direction, crossing the same at or near the San Carlos Indian Agency; thence running up or near the San Carlos River in a generally northerly direction to or near Aliso Creek; thence along or near Aliso Creek in a generally westerly or northwesterly direction to the town of Globe, in Gila County, Arizona, by such route as shall be deemed advisable by the company. Such right of way shall be fifty feet in width on each side of the central line of said railroad, and said company shall also have the right to take from the lands adjacent to the line of said road material, stone, and earth necessary for the construction of said railroad; also grounds adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed in amount two hundred feet in width and three thousand feet in length for each station, and to an extent not exceeding one station for each ten miles of road within the limits of said reservation: Provided, That no part of such lands herein granted shall be used except in such manner aud for such purposes only as are necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railroad line, and when any portion thereof shall cease to be used such portion shall revert to the nation or tribe of Indians from which the same shall be taken: Provided further, That no right of any kind shall vest in said railway company in Consent of Indians. or to any part of the right of way herein provided for until the consent of such Indians as are entitled to such compensation shall be obtained thereto in such manner as the President of the United States shall

Stations, etc.

Provisos.
Reversion, etc.

etc.

Approval of plats, direct, and until plats thereof, made upon actual survey, for the definite location of said railway, and including the points for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, shall be filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and until the compensation provided for has been fixed and paid: And provided further, That when any public road or highway is interfered with by said railway said company shall repair the same or construct a new road where such interference may occur in such manner as not to obstruct the public use of such road or highway.

Highways.

Compensation.

Proviso.

Construction to begin on filing bond.

Maps.

Surveying.

Proviso.
Regulations.

Completion.

Amendment, etc.

SEC. 2. That before said railroad shall be constructed through any land, claim, or improvement held by individual occupants according to any treaties or laws of the United States compensation shall be made such occupant or claimant for all property to be taken or damage done by reason of the construction of said railroad. In case of failure to make satisfactory settlement with any such claimant the United States district court at Arizona shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of either party, to determine such just compensation in accordance with the laws of Arizona provided for determining the damage when property is taken for railroad purposes; and the amount of damages resulting to the tribe or tribes of Indians pertaining to said reservation in their tribal capacity, by reason of the construction of said railroad through such lands of the reservation as are not occupied in severalty, shall be ascertained and determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, and be subject to his final approval: Provided, however, That said railroad company file with the Secretary of the Interior a bond, in such amount and with such sureties as the Secretary shall approve, conditioned for the payment of just compensation for said right of way to said individual occupants and to said tribe or tribes, as herein before provided, and said company may thereupon proceed to construct and operate its railroad across said reservation.

SEC. 3. That said company shall cause maps showing the route of its line through said reservation, and including the grounds for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior before constructing any portion of said railroad.

SEC. 4. That said company is hereby authorized to enter upon said reservation for the purpose of surveying and locating its line of railroad: Provided, That said railroad shall be located and constructed with due regard to the rights of the Indians and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.

SEC. 5. That the right herein granted shall be forfeited by said company unless the road shall be constructed through the said reservation within three years after the passage of this Act.

SEC. 6. That Congress shall have at all times power to alter, amend, or repeal this Act and revoke all rights hereunder. Approved, February 18, 1895.

February 18, 1895.

CHAP. 96.-An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Circuit courts of ap. States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventh section of the peals. Vol. 26, p. 828. Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

Equity appeals.

Extended to all in

"That where, upon a hearing in equity in a district court or a circuit junction proceedings. court, an injunction shall be granted, continued, refused, or dissolved by

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