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 492 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1037, 1038. 1888. ,€;`g*'*°“““'** °°‘· lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall vei. 12, p. sou. be the practical instruction of the in ustrial classes in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics; and after that, said details to be distributed, as nearly as may be practicable, according to population. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ommeaomerc. ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be s ared for that purlpose, such number of the same as may aptpear to be required for m` itary instruction and practice by the stu ents of any college or university under the provisions of this section, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and aww. for the return of the same when required": Provided, That nothing €,,§’§§,.,“tl,,Q’{,,€°{§€,tl‘,,°f" in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers of V<>1-¤0.v·32¤- the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professors in scientinc schools or colleges as now rovided by act of Congress approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron-ship buildin among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States;" and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government on the terms and conditions hereinbefore provided to any college or universit at which a retired officer of the Army may be assigned as providedr by 1z.s.,»¤.1z¤0,p. am. section twelve hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes. Repeal provisions. Sec. 2. That the said section twelve hundred and twentyfdve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the said act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty- four, and a l acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, savin always, however, all acts and things done under the said amended section as heretofore existing. Approved, September 26, 1888. september 26, isss. CHAP. 1038.-·~An act to incorporate the Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator, and "'"`—_"_”‘__ Railway Company. Be-nf enacted by the Senate and Ho2¢se of Represenfatives o£ the D_§cg,¤r¤ig;_<;*;;j):3¤;g]$i United Stales of Americzr in Congress assembled, That Ant ony mnésy éompahy in- Hyde. William A. Gordon. Robert B. Tenney. Henryé H. Dodge, °°,',{’g,',Ep*j§‘,}·_,0,,, Morris J . Adler, Edward L. Dent. John A. Baker, Jo n Marbury, and Henry M. Sweeny, their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby. created a body corporate under the name of the Georgetown Bar e, Dock, Elevator. and Railway Company. with authority to necks builid and maintain a dock or docks on the Potomac River west of Rock Creek. and to receive therein, and send therefrom, barges, vessels, cargoes, and railway cars, from and to any points on the Potomac River and its tributaries and coastwise; and to construct and Railway. maintain single or double track railways in the city of Georgetown or West \Vasl1ington, District of Columbia, through and along Location. Water street, beginning at a point on the west side of the Aqueduct Bridge, through and a ong said Water street, under said brid e to the eastern terminus of said "Water street at Rock Creek, witg the privilege of extending its tracks from the intersection of Water street and Washington or Thirtieth street alon Washington or Thirtieth street to the Potomac River, and from die intersection of Virginia avenue and Washington or Thirtieth street along Virginia avenue to Rock Creek, with sidings, turn-outs, turn-tables, and switches necessary for the deliveryo cars to warehouses and depots along said streets; and also to construct and maintain warehouses,