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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1268-1270. 1890. 657 filed_to the decision of the commissioners as herein provided for, and the judgment of the court is for a greater sum than the amount awarde by the commissioners, then the said company shall pay all costs; but if the amount awarded by said commissioners as damages, or 1f the judgment of the court shall be for the same or less amount of damages than the amount offered by the company before proceedings were commenced, then the cost shall be paid by the other company. Sec. 10. That every railroad company operating a railroad in the ri-smspomp at au Indian Territory sha cause all passenger and freight trains runnin *""°"“°°"‘°"“· °“· on its road to stop at all points on its road where another railroad crosses, joins, unites, or intersects, and take and receive on said trains all passengers and all freights and mailoifered at that point, and sha carry the same, and shall also discharge at said point all assengers desiring to stop there and all freight and mails consigned to sai point, and no rai road company shall in any wise discriminate n1¤mmm¤1¤¤¤ mr. against passengers or freight transported or conveyed by any inter- b‘°“°“· secting railroa company. Sec. 11. That any railroad comrpany violating any of the provisions _Pe¤¤ltY m mm. of the precedirgg section shall fo eit and pay to the company or in- °‘°"" dividual injur thereby double the amount of damages which said companfy or individual may have sustained, to be recovered in any court 0 competent jurisdiction. · Approved, October 1, 1890. CHAP. 1269.-An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands of the October 1, 1890. United States and to authorize the taking and Bling of Bnal proofs in certain cases. iiw Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Ryrresentatives of the United States og America in Congress assemble, That in cases now rubuc mas. before any of the land onices of the United States in which there m‘{_g“;,P,*j§n'P”0,gf,6°;$i has been or is now a vacancfv in either of the offices of register or register on- receiver as receiver, where the day set or hearing iinal proofs came during the '“°““°‘ ` vacancy in said office, and there is no contest or protest against said claims, and where the remaining officer has taken said proofs and reduced the same to writing, the same may now be passed upon by the register and receiver as if the same ha been ta en when there was no vacancy. Sec. 2. That hereafter, when a vacancy shall occur in any of the f1¤ vwnncy in omce land offices of the United States by reason of the death, resignation, $s ghr$»°:il$? or removal of either the register or receiver, and the time set for °**° P*°°*= takin final proofs falls wit in the vacancy thus caused, the remaining officer may proceed to take said final proofs, in the absence of any contest or protest, reduce the same to writing, and place it on tile  ghe office to be considered and passed upon when the vacancy is fi e. Approved, October 1, 1890. CHAP. 1270.-—An act to 'authorize the appointment of Assistant Surgeons 0¢¤0b¢¤‘ri890- Thomas Owens and William Martin, United States Navy, not in the line of promo- UU" tion, to the position of Surgeons, United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, . and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representahlfves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President  D md be, and is hereb, authorized to appoint Assistant Surgeons Thomas wmmm mmm may Owens and William Martin, Unite States N avyé not in the line of §g,“§{’°,f_{‘°°°§,*"‘{,,*Qf’-,fPZ’ promotion, to the rank of surgeons, United States avy, not in the line ¤¤¤- STAT L—vo1. xxvx-—-42