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 650 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1261-1263. 1890. nxmmgnwn. shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operations of the same. Lawrul mucwre Sec. 3. That any bridge built under this act and subject to its "‘° ’°°"°°°°‘ limitations shall be a lawful structure and shall be recognized and known as a post·route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same and its approaches of the mails, the troops, and munitions of war of the nited States, or passengers or freight than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways eading to said bridge, and it shall enjoy the rights and privilegles of other gostroads of the Jumps mlegrnph. United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be " f m" granted to all telegraph and telephone companies, and the United tates shall have the right of way across said bridge and its apreunnwegnph. preaches for said postal telegraph purposes. A¤¤¤**¤¤¤'·· M- Sec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved, and the right to reeiuire any changes in said rumour. cw structure, or its removal, at the ercipense o the owners thereof, whenever the Secériagsary of Vicar shall edecide that the public interest requires it, is o express reserv. *¤‘ Sec. 5. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction °°of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date hereof. Approved, October 1, 1890. ~ 0¤¤>¤¤¤’i. 1896- CHAP. 1262.-An act to amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine "-U`"' of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ez Representatives of the _ United States of America in Congress assem kd, §_‘§’{'§,_I3f‘g’,§,?;P_“0_ “Sec. 2399. The printed manual of surveying instructions for the •¤¤¤¤¤¤¤- survey of the public lands of the United tates, and private land m;£¥¤n;c¤t*;Lg;S¤¤;;{l;¤¤;g claims, prepared at the General Land Olnce, and bearing date Depm or un sm-veying cember second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the instructions °°"“‘°" of the Commissioner of- the General Land Office, and the special instructions of the Surveyor-General, when not in coniiict wit said printed manual, or the instructions of said Commissioner, shall be taken and deemed to be a part of every contract for surveying the public lands of the United States, and private land claims. ’ Approved, October 1, 1890. October 1. mv. CHAP. 1263.-An act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California ___""" as forest reservations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Regrresentatives of the ' ,_.}',}‘{.‘Q,';",,,L'°“°"""’”*· United States of America in Congress assemble, That the tracts of Boundaries. land in the State of California known as described as follows: Commencing at the northwest cornor of township two north, range nineteen east Mount Diablo meridian, thence eastward1y on the line between townships two and three north, ran twenty-four and twenty-five east; thence southwardly on the lids between ranges twenty-four and twenty-five east to the Mount Diablo base line; thence eastwardly on said base line to the corner to townshilp one south, rangestwentyéive and twe11ty-six east; thence southwar ly on the lme between ranges twenty-five and twenty-six east to the southeast corner of township two south, ranve twenty-five east; thence eastwardly on the line between townships two and three south,