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 FORTY·NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 849, 893. 1886. 217 ceed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; said contract to be made only on condition that there shall be a favorable report made by the existing Naval Board on the system; to be paid for as the work progresses, and upon the report of such board or boards of inspectors as the Secretary of the Navy may for that purpose appoint, reserving thirty per centum on all such payments until the whole work is completed and accepted by the Secretary of the Navy. The Pneumatic Dynamite-Gun Company shall furnish bonds satis Bonds. factory to the Secretary of the Navy for the faithful performance of its contract, and for the refunding of the money paid hereunder in case of the non-performance of the same, and shall further agree with the Secretary of the Navy upon a limit of price which shall not be exceeded in any future contracts which the Government may desire to enterinto for the purchase of the eompany’s guns. Sec. 10. That towards the construction and completion of the vessels A1*D¤‘eD¤‘i=¤¢ie¤- hereinbefore mentioned, including the vessel and guns mentioned in section nine, the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, of which not more than seventy-five thousand dollars may be expended in manufacturing, purchasing, and experimenting with torpedoes of domestic manufacture and not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in improving the plant of such of the navy-yards as he may select. Approved, August 3, 1886. CHAP. 893.-An act for the benefit of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Aug""? Q 1%- Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and W"""" Idaho, and Nevada when a Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uuiwd States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the Secretary of Claims efeerteip the Treasury and the Secretary of War, in adjusting the claims of the §*'!*°° ‘“‘d T°”" States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and °$:°{Q 12 P_2·,6_ Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho and Nevada Vol. 22: p. 111. ‘ when a Territory, arising under acts of Congress approved July twenty- Certified eeviee seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and June twenty-seventh, ;’;`cg,‘§;ffi“,;“°5,a*é2 eighteen hundred and eighty-t.wo (United States Statutes, volume n,- 1,,,,, n,,," §°,.,g,_ twelve, page two hundred and seventy-six, and volume twenty-two, page mils. one hundred and eleven), shall find that any original paper relating to the claims of said States, as provided for in said acts, shall have been lost, destroyed, or missing, upon proof thereof a copy of such paper may be certified by the proper onicers of such State or. Territory under their seals of office, or, if such copy cannot be furnished, any other competent secondary evidence of the contents of such paper when filed with the Secretary of the Treasury or Secretary of War, shall be received by them in lieu of such lost original papers, and used in evidence in the adjustment of their said claims in all respects as said original. All provisions of this section applicableto States shall be equally applicable to the Territories. Sec. 2. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail three. Army officers to assist him in examining and reporting upon the claims ,wA;:‘,_{,{£°:;°d€: • of the States and Territory named in the acts of June twentyseventh, s,,, in examining eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter two hundred and forty-one claims. of the laws of the Forty-seventh Congress, and such officers, before WL 2% P- IU- entering upon said duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that they will carefully examine said claims, and that they will, to the best of '°‘i"· !‘·“°· their ability, make a just and impartial statement thereof as required by said act. Approved, August 4, 1886.