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CHAP. 170.-An act to extend the time within which the board of audit for the District of Columbia may receive, audit, and allow certain claims that have never been presented to said board.

March 3, 1875.

Time extended

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the board of audit constituted by the act entitled "An act for the government of the District of for auditing cerColumbia, and for other purposes," approved June twentieth, eighteen District of Columtain claims against hundred and seventy-four, may receive, audit, and allow just claims bia. against said District of the first and second classes mentioned in the sixth section of said act, and claims for refunding sewer-taxes, not- 1874, c. 337, F. 6, withstanding the limit of time for presentation contained in said act, ante, p. 118. Res. and in the joint resolution to continue said board of audit, approved No. 2, post, 523. December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: Provided, That such claims shall be presented prior to the first day of July next Approved, March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 171.—An act granting the right of way through the public lands to construct and maintain a railroad.

March 3, 1875.

Right of way

P. Holland for

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through the public lands is hereby granted to Daniel P. Holland, the proprietor granted to Daniel of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his associates, suc. Jacksonville, Pencessors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad in the States of sacola and Mobile Florida and Alabama from the present terminus of said railroad on the Railroad. Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida, through the States of Florida and Alabama, to the city of Mobile, Alabama; and from a point on the line of said railroad to the city of Pensacola; and from a point opposite the corporate limits of the city of Jacksonville, on the Saint John's River, to the city of Saint Augustine, Florida; and the right, power, and authority are hereby granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors, assigns, or associates to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said railway, to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of the central line of said road where it may pass through the public lands, material for the construction and maintenance als. thereof; and the necessary grounds for stations and depots, or other necessary places, such as turn-outs and water-stations, are hereby tious, &c. granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors or assigns, to an amount not exceeding twenty acres for each ten miles in length of main line of railroad where it may pass through the public lands: Provided, That within one year from the passage of this act the said Daniel P. Holland, proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his successors, assigns, or associates shall file with the Secretary of the Interior his acceptance of this act and the map of the routes exhibiting the line of the road and the right to take material shall cease upon the completion of the said road.

SEC. 2. That said railroad shall be a post-route and a military road, and Congress at any time may fix rates of tariff for troops, materials of war, and mails, and may add to, alter, or amend this act.

SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed.

Right to materi

Grounds for sta

Acceptance and map of route; when to be filed.

Right to materials; when to cease.

Said road to be a

post-route and mil-
itary road; tariff
of rates.
Repeals.

SEC. 4. That if the said road shall not be completed and put in opera- Time allowed for tion within five years after the passage of this act all rights herein completion. granted shall cease and determine.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 172.—An act for the further security of navigation on the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Shear-booms on States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, bidge piers on and he is hereby, authorized and directed to inquire into the expediency Mississippi. of causing shear-booms to be placed on the upper end of all or any bridgepiers on the Mississippi River, for the better security and convenience of the navigation of said river for rafts of logs and timber, with specific report in each case.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

tension of.

one track.

Terms of joint

use.

CHAP. 173.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company", approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy two

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Washington and States of America in Congress assembled, That the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, ex- Georgetown Railroad Company may extend its tracks in Washington City, District of Columbia, from Seventh street west, down Water street, to the intersection of P street south; thence along said P street to the Coincidence of west side of the Arsenal gate: Provided, That wherever the foregoing route with Anacos- route may coincide with the route of the Anacostia and Potomac River tia and Potomac Railroad, on Water street or elsewhere in the District, or connect porRiver Railroad, tions of such route, but one set of tracks shall be used by both companies; which are hereby authorized and empowered to use such tracks in common, upon such fair and equitable terms as may be agreed upon by said companies; and in the event the said companies fail to agree upon satisfactory terms, either of said companies may apply by petition to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which shall provide for proper notice to and hearing of all parties interested, and shall have power to determine the terms and conditions upon which, and the regulations under which, the company hereby incorporated shall be entitled so to use and enjoy the tracks of such other street railroad company, and the amount and manner of compensation to be paid therefor: And How track in provided further, That neither of the companies using such track in comcommon to be used. mon shall be permitted to make the track so used in common the depot or general stopping place to await passengers, but shall only be entitled to use the same for the ordinary passage of their cars, with the ordinary halts for the taking up and the dropping of passengers; And provided further, That said railroad track shall conform to the grade established by the board of public works of the District of Columbia Approved, March 3, 1875.

Grade of track.

March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 174.-An act to provide for the sale of the buildings and grounds known as the Detroit Arsenal, in the State of Michigan.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Detroit arsenal, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Michigan, to be and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the custody Manner and and control of the Secretary of the Interior, for sale for cash, according

sold.
terms of sale.

Subdivision the property.

to the existing laws of the United States relating to the public lands, after appraisement, to the highest bidder, after giving not less than ninety days' notice of the time and place of such sale in three of the most prominent newspapers published in said State, and at not less than the appraised value, the buildings and grounds known as the of Detroit Arsenal in the State of Michigan: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the said property to be subdivided into tracts of not more than forty acres each, or into town lots with proper

Subdivisions to

streets to render the same accessible: And provided further, That each subdivision, together with any buildings, building materials, or other be sold separately. property thereon shall be appraised and offered separately, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, and in case any subdivision or subdivisions shall remain unsold, the sale shall be postponed from time to time until the entire tract shall be disposed of as herein before provided.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

Postponement of

sales.

CHAP. 175.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to revive with amendments an act to incorporate the medical society of the District of Columbia" approved July seventh eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

ed.

March 3, 1875.

1838, c. 26, s. 3,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to revive with amendments an act to incorporate the medical society V.6, p. 222, amendof the District of Columbia" which was approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be amended in the third section thereof by striking out the word "gentlemen" and inserting instead thereof, the word "persons."

Approved, March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 176.-An act authorizing the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company to straighten the line of their road.

March 3, 1875.

Wisconsin Cen

tral Railroad Company may change

Lands outside

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and approval of Congress are hereby given to the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company to build that portion of their road which lies between Portage line. City and Stevens Point on the line adopted by the act of the legislature of Wisconsin, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, instead of the line adopted by the act of the legislature of Wisconsin, April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chartering the Portage and Superior Railroad Company: Provided, That no portion of the lands belonging to said grant situated south of Stevens Point, and of ten miles limit which may be found outside of the ten-mile limits, measured from the of modified line. modified line of said road, shall pass to said company under its grant, but such lands shall revert to the United States and become part of the public domain, to be disposed of as other public lands, and the acceptance of the provisions of this act by said company shall be held to be a relinquishment of the same; And provided further, That this act shall not be construed as increasing said grant, or as granting to said company and lands whatever.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

No new grant by this act.

CHAP. 177.—An act amendatory of the act approved March. 3, 1873 entitled "An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri

March 3, 1875.

1873, c. 302, v. 17,

p. 616.

Saint Clair and

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Saint Clair and Carondelet Bridge Company be, and the same is hereby, authorized and em- Carondelet Bridge powered, in constructing the bridge authorized by the act of which this Company. act is amendatory, to erect over the main channel of said river two straight continuous spans of not less than four hundred and fifty feet Spans, how to be each in the clear, of the pier, at low water mark, the said two spans to constructed. be placed over the main channel instead of "the two spans over the main channel of the river" required by the act of which this act is amendatory; provided, That any bridge built under the provisions of

Cahokia Bend, when to be closed.

Plan to be submitted, &c.

Conditions, &c., of operating.

Right of amend

ment, &c.

this act, or the act of which this act is amendatory, shall not be constructed of arch spans.

SEC. 2. That if the said corporation accept the bridge site, numbered "2" on the plan and survey submitted to the Secretary of War, the company shall be required to close Cahokia Bend by a dam or similar work to hold the channel against the western bluffs above the bridge: And provided further, That after the said company shall have accepted the site and definitely planned the bridge with its piers, the plan shall be submitted to the Secretary of War for his approval. And in maintaining and operating said bridge it shall be subject to all the conditions and restrictions imposed by the act of which this is amendatory.

SEC. 3. That Congress shall at all times have the right to amend or repeal this act.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 178.-An act for the relief of General Samuel W. Crawford, and to fix the rank and pay of retired officers of the Army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S. W. Crawford, States of America in Congress assembled, That the retirement as a colonel, "etired as briga- on February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for disadier-general. bility on account of a wound received in battle, of Brevet Major General S. W. Crawford, United States Army, be, and the same hereby is, so amended that the said Crawford shall be retired and be borne on the retired list of the Army as a brigadier general, he having held the rank Commencement of brigadier general at the time he was wounded: Provided, That his retired pay as brigadier general shall commence from the passage of this act.

of pay.

Officers retired

SEC. 2. That all officers of the Army who have been heretofore retired for disability from by reason of disability arising from wounds received in action shall be wounds in action, considered as retired upon the actual rank held by them, whether in rank of, on retired the regular or volunteer service, at the time when such wound was

list.

received, and shall be borne on the retired list and receive pay hereafter accordingly; and this section shall be taken and construed to include those now borne on the retired list placed upon it on account of wounds received in action: Provided, That no part of the foregoing act shall Application of apply to those officers who had been in service as commissioned officers

Proviso.

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of

Smithsonian Institution.

twenty-five years at the date of their retirement; nor to those retired officers who had lost an arm or leg, or has an arm or leg permanently disabled by reason of resection, on account of wounds, or both eyes by reason of wounds received in battle; and every such officer now borne on the retired list shall be continued thereon notwithstanding the provisions of section two chapter thirty-eight act of March thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and be it also provided that no retired officer shall be affected by this act, who has been retired or may hereafter be retired on the rank held by him at the time of his retirement; and that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and are hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 179.-An act extending the privilege of the Library of Congress to the
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Use of Library States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint Committee of by Regents of both Houses of Congress on the Library be authorized to extend the use of the books in the Library of Congress to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution resident in Washington on the same conditions and restrictions as members of Congress are allowed to use the Library. Approved, March 3, 1875.

CHAP. 180.—An act to change the name of the pleasure yacht "Dolly Varden" to "Clochette."

March 3, 1875.

Name of yacht

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the owner of the pleasure yacht "Dolly Varden," of Boston, Massachusetts, be authorized to "Dolly Varden" change the name of said boat to "Clochette," and that from the pas- changed to "Closage of this act she be entitled to registry by that name. Approved, March 3, 1875.

chette."

CHAP. 181.-An act to authorize the acceptance in behalf of the United States of
America, of certain real property, occupied by the United States Consul, at Tunis.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to accept in behalf of this government, the title to the residence now, and for many years occupied by the consul of the United States at Tunis, which title has been courteously offered by his Highness the Bey of Tunis.

SEC. 2. That when the proper muniment of the title aforesaid shall have been furnished, it be lodged in the Department of State. Approved, March 3, 1875.

March 3, 1875.

Title to consul's residence at Tunis accepted.

Deposit of muniment of title.

CHAP. 182.—An act to incorporate the inland and seaboard coasting company of the District of Columbia.

March 3, 1875.

Corporators of Inland and SeaCompany of Disboard Coasting trict of Columbia.

Taxation.

Capital stock.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John W. Thompson, William G. Metzerott, Samuel Bacon, William Stickney, A. H. Herr, William B. Todd, J. H. Baxter, A. B. Stoughton, William Thompson, and their associates and successors or a majority of them, be and are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Inland and Seaboard Coasting Company of the District of Columbia, by which name said company may sue and be sued, may have a common seal, and generally may have and possess the rights and privileges usually possessed by similar companies; provided And this act of incorporation is granted upon the express condition that nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the property of said Inland and Seaboard Coasting Company from taxation under the laws of the several localities in which it may transact its business. SEC. 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollar nor more than one million dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and the said company is authorized and empowered to run vessels propelled by steam or other power between the cities of Washington, Georgetown, Alex- ness. andria, and New York, including the ports on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, and the tributaries thereof, and to prosecute a general coasting-trade in the transportation of passengers and freight of every description, subject to the rules and regulations and laws of the United States or the several States through which its boats may pass, or in which it may transact business; and the said company is also authorized to purchase hold, and convey such real and personal estate as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this act, and to purchase or construct such docks, wharves, and buildings as may be necessary for its own use. It shall not issue any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence of debt to be used as a currency.

Route and busi

Right to hold real estate and construct docks, wharves, &c.

Not to issue currency.

Board of direct

SEC. 3. That the affairs of the said company shall be managed by a board of directors, nine in number, who shall be stockholders, and be ors. elected annually, and hold office until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified; and the said directors, five of whom shall

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