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 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS: Sess. I. GH. 239, 240. 1882. 109 States, the postoffice, internalrevenue oliiees, and other government offices, at the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. The site, and buildings there- Site. on, when c mpleted upon plans and specifications to be previously made Plans. and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the Cost. cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the site Proviao. purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from tire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than nity feet, including streets and alleys; and that no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested m the United States, nor until the State of Pennsylvania shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein. Sec. 2. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the Appropriation. same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in · the purchase of said site and towards the construction of said building. Approved, June 27, 1882. CHAP. 240.-An net authorizing the Texas and Saint Louis Railway Company to Jlllw 27, IBB2- build certain bridges in the State of Arkansas. ‘-"*""' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Texas and Saint Louis B”d8°¤ m S****° _ Railway Company, in Missouri and Arkansas, a corporation duly and {’,£$;'{‘,“'}I.“Q;a:’a;’3 legally organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Sm,; {Ami, mm. ' · States of Missouri and Arkansas, its successors or assigns, be, and is way Company hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge, and approaches °'°*'i _ . thereto, over the Wliite River, in Monroe County, `in the State of Ar· Mwblm R"°*'· kansas, near the city of Clarendon, at the point where said company’s °"°° C°"°°Y’ line of railway as now projected crosses said river; and also a bridge, ‘ and approaches thereto, over the Arkansas River, in J elferson County, Arkansas River, in said State of Arkansas, near the city of Pine Bluff, at the point where ·7°iY¤¤'¤°¤ C°¤¤W» said com pany’s line of railway as now projected crosses said river; and also a bridge, and approaches thereto, over the Saline River in the Saline River, State of Arkansas, at the point where said eompany’s line of railway as x now projected crosses said river; and also a bridge, and approaches therete, over the Ouachita River, in the county of Ouachita, in the State 0¤=¤=hif• Rivcr, , of Arkansas, at the point where said company’s line of milway as now ****1 , projected crosses said river; and also a bridge, and approaches thereto, over the Red River, in La Fayette County, in the State of Arkansas, Red giver, at the point where said company’s line of railway as now projected crosses said river. Said bridges shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railway trains, and, at the option of said company by which it may be built, may be used lor the passage of wagons and vehicles ot' all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot-passengers for such reasonable rates of toll as may be prescribed by said company sulyiect to the revision and regulation of the Secretary of War. Sec. 2. That if the said bridges, or either of them, over the said Form and wu- White and Arkansas Rivers shall be made with unbroken and continu- ¤¤‘¤¤¤i°¤· “ ous spans, there shall be at least one span of a height of not less than eighty ieet above low water or fifty feet above highest water measured to the lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge, and said span shall have a clear opening of at least three hundred feet between the iers, measured at right angles to the current at every stage, and shall be over that portion of the river or rivers used by boats dunngordinary sta s of water; and the bridge or bridges shall be at right angles to anghe piers llel with the current of the river. And if the said bridges, or eitge? of them, over the said White and Arkansas Rivers