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 FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 28, 29, 32. 1893. 417 the United States, or for through railway passengers or freight passing over said bridge, than the rate per mile paid for their transmission over the railroads leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal- P<>¤¤\ telegraph. telegraph purposes, and all telegraph or telephone companies shall have equal rights. Sec. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Vg; by ·>¤¤¤r wmshall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the Pm ' passage of railway trains over the same and over the approaches thereto upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use, and C°”‘P°” °**°¤· in case the owner or owners of said bridge, and the several raih·oad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use, fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties, and all telephone and telegraph T°};={l!;>¤¤ ¤¤·1 me companies shall have equal rights and privileges in constructing and gm °°°' r· operating their lines across said bridge. Sec. 5. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction of wglmggzumt =¤¤·| the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and ` completed within three years from the date hereof Sec. 6. That such alterations or changes as may be required by the Chances- Secretary of War or Congress in the bridge constructed under the provisions of this act shall be made by the said railroad company at its own expense, and at any time after the completion of the bridge; and the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly re- A¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤» vw served; and the right to require the entire removal of the bridge constructed under the provisions of this act, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interests require it, is also expressly reserved. Approved, January 10, 1893. CHAP. 29.-An act to admit free of duty the wreckage of the ships Trenton and J*'“¤¤'¥ W 1993- Vandalia, presented by the United States to the King of Samoa. __""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ,,,:Y¥§$,’f,“§°V‘f,;Q,',f;j;F1 Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to admit free of duty the wreckage w be ·mm1m¤1im or from the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presented by the United States d""" Government to the King of Samoa for the beneiit of the Samoan people, and to rethnd the sum of seven thousand one hundred and twenty-eight Refund or mount . dollars, being the amount of duties paid to the collector of San Fran- °°"°°°°°' cisco, to the proper parties in interest. Approved, January 10, 1893. CHAP. 32.-An act granting to the Blue Mountain Irrigation and Improvement J=¤¤¤‘y 12. 1893- Company a right of way for reservoir and canals through the Umatilla Indian Rese1·· ‘*_"'”°‘;` vation in the State of Oregon. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Blue Mountain Irri· gala}; }‘¤°{“}f_j‘;,£Q’; gilt10D and Improvement Company, a corporation organized and exist- mm Comvnnr. mg under the laws of the State of Oregon, may purchase so much of ,,,¥“{y°L‘,':°m§' I:,?;'}}}; Sections one (1) and two (2) in township one (1) south of range thirty- ¥*¤#*"*g*g¤ M *:;¤*· three (33) east Willamette meridian, in the Umatilla Indian Reserva· i:°§i,° m °° °° tion in the State of Oregon, as may be required by said company for the purpose of a reservoir, dam and grounds accompanying, out of lands alotted to or which may have been selected for allotment by any Indians, if said company shall be able to agree with the Indian owners or allottecs thereof upon the terms of such sale and the Secretary of the Interior shall approve and ratify the same; but the said company shall vox. XX\’H-i2?