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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 991, 999. 1888. 473 for the same shall be made as in the discretion of the Secretar of the Navy may be deemed advisable. In the construction of all of said vessels all the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen '1'¤¤¤S ¤f v01-24.p. hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the naval es- 215’°°b°°bS°"°d' tabl1shment" as to material for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice · of, and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manufacture. If the Secretary of the Navy Domescicmauumcc shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the building U"' of any of said vessels, then he may build such vessel or vessels in such navy-yards as he may designate. Coxsrnccrrox AND STEAM MACHINERY: Towards the construc- nmmmy, berm, tion and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein author- °t°‘ ized by Congress with their engines, boilers, and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse-power under contracts now existing and to be made under this act, three million five hundred thousand dollars. ARMAMENT: Towards the armor and armament of domestic manu- armament. facture of new ships heretofore and herein authorized, two million dollars ; in all, five million five hundred thousand dollars. STEEL Pnacricu Vassar.: For the construction of one steel prac- sm: practice verse: tice vessel of eight hundred tons, for the use of the United States ““°h°'*“"· Naval Academy at Annapolis, except when in emergencies it may be used for other purposes, to be built by contract in accordance with the terms of the "Act to increase the naval establishment," V¤i·24»v-2*5- approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. · Approved September 7, 1888. CHAP. 999.-An act declaring that certain water reserve lands in the State of September 10, 1888. \Visconsin are and have been subject to the provisions of the act of Congress en- ""_"‘* titled "A11 act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United StateS," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Anzericcz, in Congress assembled, That all lands in mguzerimyrnmwi the State of Wisconsin described in and withdrawn from sale by the {‘{,‘}f,‘§,,‘j§{‘,;{'”° "”“"*” proclamations of the President of the United States issued March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty, April fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and November twenty-eighth. eighteen 1’¤·¢.p-GM hundred and eighty-one, for the reason that said lands would be required for or subject to fiowage in the construction of dams. reservoirs, and other works roposed to be erected for the improvement of the navigation of tds Mississippi River and certain of its tributaries. be, and the same are hereby, declared to be, and to have been at all times heretofore, subject to the provisions of a certain nrt of Congress, entitled "An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,"approved March V01.18. p. 482. third, eighteen hundred and seventydive. as fully, eifectually, and to the same extent as though said lands had not been described in said proclamations. or withdrawn from sale thereby, but had remained with the body of public lands subgect to private entry and sale: I’rori:le¤l, hoarever, ll`hat any and al parts of said lands ac- hmm. quired by any railroad company under said actof Congresssliall at all times be subject to the right of flowage which at any time may Bight ornowage. become necessary in the construction or maintenance of dams. reservoirs, or other works which may be constructed or erected by or