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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. SnSs. I. CHS. 390, 391. 1888. 185 sixty days from the completion thereof, and a majority of said referees shall be competent to act in case of the absence of a member after_due notice. And upon the failure of either party to make such appointment within thirty days after the appointment made by lIl19·}.)I'€S1(l€1'l`l3, the vacancy shal be filled by the district judge of the United States court held at Fort Smith, Arkansas, upon the application of the other party. The chairman of said board shall appoint the time and place of all hearings within the nation to which such occupant belongs. Each of said referees shall receive for his services Pe? of referees. the sum of four dollars per day for each day they are engaged in the trial of any cause submitted to them under this act, with mileage at five cents per mile. Witnesses shall receive the usual fees allowed by the court of said nation. Costs, including compensation of Said referees, shall be made a part of the award, and be paid by such bridge company. In case the referees do not agree, then any two of them are authorized to make the award. Either party being dissatisfied with the finding of the referees shall have the right, within ninety days after the making of the award and notice of the same, to appeal by original petition to the district court held at Fort Smith, App°°*'· Arkansas, which court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the subject-matter of the petition, according to the laws of the State of Arkansas, for determining the damage when property is taken for railroad purposes. If, upon the hearing of said appeal, the judg- C°S°’" ment of the court shall be for a larger sum than the award of the referees, the costs of said appeal shall be adjudged against the bridge company. If the judgment of the court shall be for the same or a less sum than the award made by the referees, then the costs shall be adjudged against the party claiming damages. When proceedings have been commenced in court, the bridge company s all pay double the amount of the award into court to abide the judgment thereof and then have the right to enter upon the property sought to be condemned and proceed with the construction of said bridge. Sec. 5. That the bridge authorized to be constructed under this apS*;$>¤$ge;¥m§{0‘lY¤t;¤ act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations p ’° ‘ for the security of the navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe. Sec. 6. That the said bridge company may charge such reasonable Tellerate of tolls for the transit or passage over the same of wagons and vehicles of every description for animals and foot·passengers as are provided by existing laws of the Choctaw Nation. Sec. 7. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction Cornmencementand of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year °°"‘*‘“"°"· and completed within three years from the date thereof. . Sec. 8. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Amemxmeue. expressly reserved. Approved, June 18, 1888. CHAP. 391.-—An act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the June 18, issa Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, so as to make ";""""“"’ Inauguration Day a holiday within said District. Be fit enacted by the Senate and HOl.lS€ of Representatives of the L"niteel States of America in Congress assembled, That section nine higgwmggpgyp hundred and ninet -three of the Revised Statutes of the United cgiumiugi States, relating to the District of Columbia, be, and the same hereby p_*}i,§·· D- O··S"’°~””· is, amended, by adding to the days therein declared to be holida *s within the said District, that day upon which the President of the United States is inaugurated. otherwise called Inauguration Day, and that such day shall be a holiday for all the purposes mentioned in said section. · Approved, June 18, 1888.