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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 184, 185, 186. 1879. 467 From Green River City, via White River Agency, to Fair Plav Colo- Wyoming, con- From Clam Falls, via Bashaw, to Trout Brook. From Dixon, \Vyoming, to Hahua Peak, Colorado. From Fort Custer to Fort Benton. From Green River City, via Fontenelle and La Burgo, to Big Piney. From Hot Creek to Haw Hide Butte. _ From Fort Fetterman, via Fort McKinney and Old Fort Kearney to Tongue River, Montana. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 185.-An act making appropriations for fortincations and other works of de- March 3, 1879. fense, and for the armament thereof', for the iiseal year ending June thirtieth, my eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred Appropriations. thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any FGM Hrldfvftifimoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the protection, °“*‘°“S· preservation, and repair of fortiiications and other works of defense, for ‘ the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; also, the following for the armament of fortifications, namely: For the armament of sea-coast fortifications, including heavy guns and A1'm¤»m°¤b GW- howitzers for flank defense, carriages, projeetiles, fuses, powder, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for machine guns, one hundred and twenty-tive thousand Machine guns. dollars. For torpedoes for harbor defenses, and the preservation of the same, Torpedoes. and for torpedo experiments in their application to harbor and la-nd defense, and for instruction of engineer battalion in their preparation and application, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the money herein Precise. appropriated for torpedoes shall only be used in the establishment and maintenance of torpedoes to be operated from shorestations for the destruction of an enemy’s vessel approaching the shore or entering the channels and fairways of harbors. . Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 186. —An act to promote the education of the blind. March 3, 1879. Whereas, the trustees, superintendents, and teachers of the various Preamble. State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, represent- bhliduvnvlou vftlw ing the interests of over thirty thousand blind persons in the United “d· States, have united in a petition to Congress to take into consideration the needs of the blind in the United States; and VVhereas the Association of the American Instructors of the Blind, at their session in Philadelphia, in August, eighteen hundred and seventy- six, representing twenty-six State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, have set forth in a series of resolutions that the especial needs of the blind are embossed books SIIG. tangible apparatus, and have recommended that if any aid should be given by Congress it would most efficiently come through increasing the means of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and \Vhereas it appears that the Kentucky legislature, in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, by an act of special legislation, declared J amos Guthrie, \V. F. Bullock, Theodore S. Bell, Bryce M. Patten, John Milton, H. T. Curd, and A. O. Brannin, and their successors, la bodyrorporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the American Printing House lor the Blind, with the avowed purpose of printing books and making apparatus for the instruction of the blind of the United States, tor
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