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 78 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 416, 417. 1886. Not t<> crew! not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and that any sum which $15900- may remain of the amount; so estimated and deducted from the said fund for the purpose named in this ection shall be by the Secretary of State covered into the Treasury of the United States; and the said Secretary of State shall further make an estimate of the net amount which will probably be realized and covered into the Treasury from the sale of the furniture and property hereinbefore named. _ _ Mode of ascer— S121c. 5. That the amount which shall be paid out and distributed in ““"’“`d‘ which are now existing as rendered by the said court against the Geneva award fund, and in payment of the expenses, salaries, and other outlays contemplated and provided for in this act. and in the act re-establishing the said court, approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be ascertained in the following manner: To the sum of nine million seven hundred and three thousand nine hundred and four dollars and eighty-nine cents, this being the amount of the said Geneva award fund remaining in the Treasury, as disclosed by the Treasury report of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives dated April twentysecond, eighteen hundred and eighty-tour, shall be added the premium realized from the sale of certain bonds in which the said fund was invested, namely, the sum of three hundred and eighty-tive thousand one hundred dollars and seven cents, making ten million ' eighty-nine thousand and four dollars and ninety-six cents; and to this · sum shall further be added the estimated value of the said furniture and property; as provided for in section four of this act; and from the aggregate sum so ascertained shall be subtracted the estimated cost of the services and expenses provided for being estimated in section four of this act, and also the amount provided for in section one of this act, together with all the other expenses of the court; and from the " amount so ascertained shall be further deducted the aggregate of the judgments of the iirst class which have already been paid, and the Distribution. balance shall be applied as follows: First, to the payment of the judgments of the tirst class yet remaining unpaid as provided in said act, approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the residue . shall be paid out and distributed pro rata upon the judgments in favor of claimants of the second class, as provided in said last named act. And the amounts so ascertained as aforesaid are, for the purpose of Appropriation. making the payment aforesaid, hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 2, 1886. une . CHAP. 417.-·—An ac to au orize he s ‘ ‘ U Mmm .:1-.@i‘£. i.i.i S...i, k.,-.. I. mtg Kn, limi €.§’2.£1*t‘i?.§§’.°o§’£ 3.2.*2*1:1 ,...t..€*‘.$F°°*°“ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten 1-sland States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the 5**%;* '£]*g*¤g°aI§; Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Company, a corporation existing m;,m;;,dNcw Yom under the laws of the State of New York, and the Baltimore and New R. R. Co., author- York Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the ized r¤__bric1g¤ Ar- State of New Jersey, or either of said companies, to build and maintain ``sey to Richmond County, New York, for the passage of railroad trains, engines, and cars thereon, and to lay on and over said bridge railway I tracks thr the more perfect connection of any railroads that are or shall _ _ be constructed to the said sound at or opposite said point; and in case l-¤*S¤¤°¤· of any litigation concerning any alleged obstruction to the free naviga» tion of said sound on account of said bridge, the muse may be tried before the circuit court of the United States of either of said States in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge touches; and that all
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