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 112 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 112. 1852. Bremen line, until the expiration of their existing contract, receiving and delivering mails at Southampton, Cowes, or Plymouth, as the Postmaster-General may direct, according to such schedule as. shall be prescribed by the Postmaster-General, in order thereby to maintain through such lines, and the Collins line, a regular weekly communication by American mail steamers between the United States and the Kingdom of Compensation Great Britain and Ireland ; but the compensation for such additional trip therefor. shall not exceed the compensation allowed for each trip under the said existing contract : And provided, further, That the Postmaster-General shall , Ch¤¤%° °f be, and he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to negotiate with the t§§$QQ°°§,  contractors, for changing the terminus of the Havre line from Havre to werp. Antwerp, in Belgium, and to make an agreement for such change, if he shall think proper, but the increased compensation to be allowed for such change shall be limited to a pro raid allowance for the increased distance. Sec. 6. Aml be it further enacted, That the bridges across the Certain hunger Ohio River at Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and at Bridgeport, in
 * mXg‘j;h'}'€l °‘ the State of Ohio, abutting on Zane’s Island, in said river, are hereby

smcmmg'; declared to be lawful structures in their present position and elevation, and shall be so held and taken to be, any thing inany law or laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said bridges are declared sm mgm to be and are established post-roads for the passage of the mails of the m°·d° P¤¤*>·¤°¤·d¤, United States, and that the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company are f;};`;; t;;;}"' authorized to have and maintain their said bridges at their present site and elevation; and the officers and crews of all vessels and boats navigating said river, are required to regulate the use of their said vessels and boats, and of any pipes or chimneys belonging thereto, so as not to interfere with the elevation and construction of said bridges. Armovan, August  1852., CHAP. CX1I.-An Act wld A ro r'ation or z' h Jzou ,t- s, ua s, 12.,  and providing jbr the E?·ectz':? adgbctdblishszfnt 5-[fg!/I; mine;  Pngrpfias. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Appropnations. appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provisions of this act P,-mso M to into effect: Provided, however, If a good title to any land, which it Whpgtaiwy ¤!§¤¤ may be necessary to use, cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or FQ11d_ °°“rP “° the exclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession, when the interest of the llnited States demands it, before the appropmauon would by law fall mto the surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appropriations shall be applicable to the objects for which they are made at any time within two years after the first meeting of the Legislature in any State wherein such land may be situated, subsequent fb the passage of this act, to wit: Maine. Ma£ne.~ For a lighthouse on the Nubble, Cape Neddich, York, five thousand dollars. For 2. dumb beacon on Haddook's Ledge, in Penobscot Ba ,five hundred dollars. y For Jones’ fog-bells, to be placed at Cape Elizabeth, Sequin, Whitehead, and West Quoddyhead light-houses, ten thousand dollars. For the erection of n. beacon on Logey’s Ledge, in Portsmouth Har- 1850,011- 77· bor, in addition to an appropriation of five hundred dollars by the act gfHSeptember twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, five hundred 0 ars. For two spar-buoys on the Eastern and Western Sisters, at the eutrancc of Piscataqua River, one hundred and sixty dollars.