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 224 roarrrrirru coseaass. sees. II. ou. eso. ms. 1875.cb. 134, due and owing to James B. Eads and his associates, or that may become 18 S“‘*·•463· payable to said Eads, his assigns or legal representatives, in accordance 1878 cb 313 with the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred A,,,,,;p_],,8_’ and seventyfive, and the act amendatory thereof', prior to the drst day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. H. C. Lovell. To Henry C. Lovell, or his assigns, for balance due on account of Army transportation in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the claim for which has been duly audited and allowed by the Treasury Department, four hundred and seven dollars and forty-seven cents. _;_ C,,,,,,,,,,, For pay ment to Jacob Christian for quartermastcr stores and services furnished in eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as allowed by the accounting-oilieers of the Treasury Department, the sum of sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. _;_M_v,,,,,,,_ To pay James M. Vance the amount found due him by the accounting-officers of the Treasury for the value of a horse lost while in the service of the United States, one hundred and five dollars. F ,. 0 ,, W ,, g,, ,,_ That the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, bridge at Fort appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- S¤¢=Ui¤g- priated, to aid in the cou struction and completion of a free wagon-bridge, with stone abutments, or stone and iron abutments, and iron superstructure, across the Mississippi River at or near Fort Snelling, between the military reservation of the United States upon which said fort is situated and a point nearly opposite said fort, in the county of Ramsey, Pmam. Minnesota: Provided, That such bridge shall be constructed without CW'- the expenditure of any other or greater sum of money from the Treasury Hightand spun. of the United States: Provided also, That the hight of said bridge shall be at least sixty-eight feet above high-water mark, and that a span of at least two hundred feet in the clear be provided from the right or Fort p,,;,;;,, ;,;_,;,,,,,,,_ Snelling bank of said river toward the left bank thereof: Provided furilwr, That said bridge shall be and forever remain, a public highway, iree to the United States of America and to all the people thereofl Approvalofplan, That the location of said bridge, and the plans, specifications, and mv- estimates for the construction and completion thereof, shall be approved 5-,;,,,,,-,,;, ,,1,,,,, po by the Secretary of War. And whenever the said bridge shall have be made. been fully completed as hereinbefore provided, opened to travel, and irrevocably dedicated as a public highway, free to the United States of America and all the people thereof, the Secretary of the Trea ury shall pay to the persons entitled to receive the same by reason of the construction of said bridge, or to the commissioners authorized to build said bridge, the said sum of sixty-tive thousand dollars, which sum is How fo be kept in hereby appropriated for said purpose: Provided, That said bridge, when repair. constructed, shall be kept in good order and repair by the county of Ramsey, Minnesota; andthe United States shall never be liable to any expense in the maintenance or repair of said bridge. Auihm-sry lo abut That the commissioners authorized to build said bridge under a “"d {""!“’ ""”’·" °" special act of the legislature of Minnesota, entitled “An act to "°°"°"'°"‘ authorize and provide for the construction of a free bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Fort Snelling, and to lay out suitable roads and approaches thereto ”, approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy six, and the acts amendatory thereof, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, authorized to abut said bridge upon the lands of the United States known as the Fort Snelling military reservation, and to construct and maintain an abutment thereon for said bridge, at such point as the Secretary of War shall approve, and to survey locate, open and maintain public roads or highways from said bridge; for which purpose a right of way not exceeding one hundred feet in width, from said bridge, across said military reservation, upon such line or lines as the Secretary of War shall direct or approve, is hereby given and granted to said commissioners and their successors. Ri ,,;,,,,0,,,, ,,,,,1 To pay the treasurer of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company Danville Railroad the balance of the amount found due that company for transportation C¤¤¤I>¤¤Y· by the Secretary of War, and certified by the accounting-odlcers of the