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 244 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 593, 594. 1888. necessary expenses, for such delegates as are not salaried officers of the United States, and the latter shall be allowed their actual necessary ex nses. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to providieg the conference with such facilities as may be deemed necessary. The powers and authority conferred by this act upon the persons Termination appointed b the President by forcethereof, shall terminate on the iirst day of lanuary, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety, or sooner at the discretion of the President. Re1¤>rr¤f ¤·xn¤¤¤¤¤· Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretaryof State to transmit to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this act. Approved, July 9, 1888. July 9, xw. CHAP. 594.-An act authorizipg the construction of railroad bridges across the ·····*—w‘·""‘ River and across the Clear ater River, by the Oregon Railway and N aviga- 011 Hlpally. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Nf¤P8*g£*g•Yl:Y¤” United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of myvlgsugesmkepmz Congress is hereby given to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, a corporation incorporated and organized under the laws ` of the State of Oregon, and to its successors and assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge, and ap roaches thereto, across the Snake River, in the Territoiéy of Wasliington, near Texas Ferry on said river; and also a bri ge, and a roaches thereto, across the Clear Water River, in the Territory otplldaho, between its mouth and the boundary-line of the Nez Percé Indian Reservation. Said bridges shall be so constructed as to provide for the passa e of railway trains, p,¤“y,w.gm,.¤.1 and, at the option of the said corplorations, ma lm used for the pas- ?°°°'>**d8°=*— sage of wagons and vehicles of a kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot-passengers, for reasonable rates of tolls to be fixed by said company. Mw- Sec. 2. That any bridgle built under this act shall be constructed as a pivot draw—bridge, wit a draw over the main channel at an accessib e and the best navigable point, and with s ans giving a clear waterwa, measured at the lowest stage of waterlknown at the locality, of sucli width and height as the Secretary of War may, upon examination, prescribe; and the owest part of the superstructure of the bridge shall e of such elevation above thpvplane of the highest flood known at the locality as the Secretary of ar may deem advisable, and provision shall a so be made in the location and construction of abutments and approaches to allow the free passage of flood water- and the piers of said bridges shall be parallel to and the bridges shall be at right angles mum. to the current of the river: Provided, That the draw shallle opened °*’°'““‘ d""' promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats and other water-craft, except when trains are passing over the draw; but in no case shall unnecessary delay occur in opening the draw during or after the passage of trains; and said corporation shall maintain, at ugnu. its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights and other signals on said bridgles as the Light-House Board shall rescribe; and said corporation s all provide, at its own expense, such) sheer—booms, guide-piers, and other evice as may be necessary to facilitate the safe assage of boats or other water-craft through the spans of said bridges. The said bridges shall be located and built under and subject to such regulations for the security of the navigation of said rivers as the wwgxrw Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said "°”"°company shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of each of said bridges and a map of the llocation, giving, for the space of one mile below and one mile above the proposed ocation, the topography of the banks of the river, the shoralines at high and low water, the direction and strength