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 610 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 286-288. 18'Z3. Twenty-tive And the Secretary of War is further authorized and empowered, in his f:;:;3‘:{’u;’° discretion, to locate the twenty-five acres referred to in said act hereby messed to the 3II19Dd€d,iu the northeasterly portion of the said lands of the United States, °°¤¤P¤¤¥ lypfm a11d' to release the same to the said company, its successors and assigns, pay°"? ° ws Subject to the conditions and provisos in Sfltld act contained, upon the pay- valuei lf; gm. ment of the full value of said twenty-five acres, to be ascertained as in said act provided: Provided, That said company shall elect to take said twenty- live acres and pay such value so iixed as aforesaid, within such reasonable time as may be fixed by the Secretary of War, and after due notice from the Secretary to said company. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCLXXXVI. ——An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railroad and Drawbridge across the Genesee River, in Mez1roe County, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and Manse of Representatives of the Zbzited Lake Ontario States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Lake Ontario Shore iigmcgsghggg Railroad Company of the Smteof New York ge, and they are lzereby, d,.,,_,,_b,.;dg€ authorized to construct a draw-bmrlge across the _ enesee 11ver, m onroe across the Gene- county, in said State, in accordance with the provisions of an act passed by “°° “"°"· the legislature of the State of New York, March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and entitled "An act to facilitate the construction of the Lake Ontario Shore railroad, and to amend the several acts in Bridge m be a relation thereto ;" and the said bridge when completed shall be deerned and £§;;°*;‘;i;‘;:&_ taken to be a legal structure, and shall, with the I`3,1lI`O>1(`l of which it is to p ’ be a part, be a post-road for the transmission of the mails of the United States, with the rights and privileges of other post-roads. l to be bum ,m_ Sec. 2. That said structure herein authorized shall be built and located deg certain regu- under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said l"t‘°“si river as the Secretary of \Var shall prescribe, and shall beat all times so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under the same, and the said structure shall be may bq changed at the cost and expense of the owners thereof, from time to time, changed; as Congress may direct, so as to preserve the free and convenient navigayighgw mcg tion of said river. And the authority to erect and continue said bridge may be F¢V0k€d· shall be subject to revocation or modification by law whenever the public good shall in the judgment of Congress so require, without any expense or charge to the United States. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCLXXXVH.—•An Act (l7llllD1`I'22’71g the Secretary of the Treasury in change "_`—""" the Name of Steamer “New England/’ In “City of Portland." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Name ofstesm- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- `?" ‘é1j¤-LE¤¤zh ury be, and he is hereby, authorized to change the name of the steamer tznncisy 2?Ei?m_ “New England," of Eastport, Maine, to that of “City of P0rt1aud," and land." grant a new register to said steamer. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCLXXXVIII. -— An Act fo authorize the Secretary nf the Treasury to dispose '°"""_"°‘“‘ of the old Post-ofce Property in Chicago. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives af the Mzited Old post-ompe, States of America, in Uongress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- &°:» P"°P°"Y '" ury be, and is hereby, authorized to exehanvc with the city of Chicawo the Chicago, maybe. f. 1 d. h I. f 1 13 _ d ° H. exchanged;  o tina, wit t his remamsiof tie 0 dcxgtoxnfiouse an pogt-0 rpc ui ( me ereon, a ie corner 0 i onroe a11 ear orn s ree s,1n e Cl y of Chichgo, Illinois, (said land fronting one hundred and ninety feet on Dearborn street and ninety feet on Monroe street, or thereabont,) for the piece of land, the property of the seh00l—fund of the city of Chicago, at the corner of Polk street and Fifth avenue, fronting three hundred and eighty