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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 18-20. 1890. 13 and maintain, under the provisions of said act, as far as applicable, except as herein modified, altered, or amended, either a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge, or a railroad, or wagon and footpassenger bridge, and in the event that only a wagon and foot-passenger bridge be built that the provisions in said act for the passage of railroad trains and rights of railway companies incident thereto shall not arp ly. Sec. 3. Eat in case the bridge authorized at or near Burlington, xgsegl ¤f spans Iowa, by an act approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty- m ‘ eight, be constructed in the immediate vicinity of the existing railroad bridge, the lenglth of spans required by said act may be so modified as to make the clear channel-ways correspond in length and location to the clear channel-ways of the existing ridge z Provided,. _ That in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of naviga- tion? ° °°"“"’g“‘ tion be not materially affected thereby. Approved, February 21, 1890. CHAP. 19.--An act to require the Superintendent of Census to ascertain the Febnu-y22,1m0. number of people who own farms and homes, and the amount of mortgage indebt- ·——t··;· edness thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be g2g3Q03m- t the duty of the Superintendent of Census, in addition to the duties Owners 4} riding, now required of him by law, to ascertain the number of persons who '“°"*g°$°“·°°°- live on and cultivate their own farms, and who live in their own homes, and the number who hire their farms and homes, and the number of farms and homes which are under mortgage, the amount of mortgage debt, and the value of the property mortgaged. He shall also ascertain whether such farms and omes have been mortgaged for the .whole or.;par,t of .the purchase money for the same, or lor other purposes, an the rates of interest paid upon mortgage oans. Sec. 2. That for the purposes of this act the sum of one million APP*°P?i¤u¤¤· dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise apropriated. Sec. 3. at the provisions of sections thirteen, fourteen, fifteen pennies, ew. and sixteen of the "Act to provide for taking the Eleventh Census v°“°·"·’“•"“· and subsequent censuses," approved March rst, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall apply to the provisions of this act. Approved, February 22, 1890. CHAP. 20.-An act to authorize the President to confer brevet rank on officers February sms0c. of the United. States .Army.for gallant services in Indian campaigns. w'-“"` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President M-my. of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, ,,:Q,"}Y,$“ {;j at his discretion, to nominate, and by and with the advice and con- dimwmvaisns- ’ sent of the Senate, to appoint to brevet rank all officers of the United States Army, now on the active or retired list, who by their department commander, and with the concurrence of the commanding general of the Army, have been or may be recommended for gallant service in action against hostile Indians since January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Sec. 2. That such brevet commissions as may be issued under the nm of mms provisions of this act shall bear date only from the passage of this "°"‘· uct: Hwided, however, that the date of the particu ar heroic act 1;Pz_g¢i·;·] -_“_ for which the officer is promoted shall appear in his commission. N