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 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 38, 42. 1869. 273 CHAP. XXXVIII.—An Act to estulzlislra certain Post-Road in the State of Com Feb. 19, 1869. nectzcut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of .Representatz'z¤cs of the United States of America in C'0ngress assembled That the consent of Congress D*`=““b*'ld8° iw, and the same is hereby. given to the erection of a drawhridge over the  afccégfd Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, by the Shore Line Rail- neetieut River way Company, in accordance with the terms of a resolution passed by l’§"l'§ Sl{,°"% the general assembly of said State at the May session thereof, A. D. 'mc` O' eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, amendatory of the charter of said railroad company. Sec. 2. And 6e tt further enacted, That said bridge, when completed BPM2G Md in the manner specified in said resolution, and in the place and in accord- ;°f;‘:_;§nlf“ ance with the plans of the board of engineers appointed in conformity to the resolution aforesaid, and in accordance with the requirements of the second section of the resolution of the general assembly of the State aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structure, and shall, with the railroad of which it is to be n part, be a post.-road for the transmission of the mails of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Congress reserves the right to Assent of withdraw the assent hereby given in case the free navigation of said river genesis? “‘°Y shall at any time be substantially and materially obstructed by any bridge if  °mwn’ to be erected under the authority of said resolution. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the Hbuse of Representatz'·ves. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tentpore. Indorsed by the President: “Received February 8, l809." [Nora BY rms Dmrnnrmnnr on STATE. —- The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. XLII. —-An Act to establish the Collection District of Aroostook, in the State of Feb. 22, 1869. Jyluine, and to more accurately define the Boundaries tf the District of Newark, New `——__`~_`° . €1`S€y. Be it enacted 6y the Senate and House of Representatives ey" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that portion of the State Aroostook co;. of Maine now included within the limits of the county of Aroostook be, l¢<=¤i<>{1 district and the same is hereby, constituted a customs collection district, to be es°“bl"Sh°d‘ called the district of Aroostook, of which Houlton, in the said county, shall be the only port of entry. Sec. 2. And be itjitrt/ter enacted, That a collector oF customs shall be collector, appointed for the said district, who shall reside at said port of entry, ‘§;’d°“°°·P“Y· and shall be entitled to the same compensation that is allowed to other col- ' lectors of customs on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern fron- 1864,ch,130,§2· tiers of the United States by the second section of the act approved June V0" "‘"‘ P' 13* seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four: Provided, That the aggre· Prcviscgate maximum compensation of the collector of Aroostook shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and which shall be the entire compensation allowed. SEO. 3. And be it further enacted, That the district of Newark, in the goyymiou di,- State of New Jersey, shall be extended so as to embrace all the waters tri? of Iiewgrg, and shores of Newark bay and the rivers and bays tributary thereto, the N' “H °" ° ' northern shore of the strait or passage known as Kill Van Kuil, and all that part of the western shore of the strait or passage known as Staten Island sound, or Arthur Kill, which lies north of the northern boundary line of the town of Rahway. Approved, February 22, 1869. v01.. xv. Pun.-18