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 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 213-215. 1894. 229 CHAP. 213.—A11 Act _Extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keep- August 4, 1894. ers and crews of life-saving stations. ·+——— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privilege of admission Marine hospitals. to and temporary treatment in the marine hospitals under the control ,0I;jf¤oQ;YEgdS¤f*i¤¤ of the Government of the United States be, and is hereby, extended to H I ' the keepers and crews of the Life·Saving Service under the same rules and regulations as those governing sailors and seamen, and for the purposes of this Act members of the Life-Savin g Service shall be received in said hospitals and treated therein, and at the dispensaries ' thereof, as are seamen of American registered vessels; but this Act L“¤i*¤“°¤· shaill not be so construed as to compel the establishment of hospitals or ispensaries for the benefit of said keepers and crews, nor as estabishing a home for the same when permanently disabled. Approved, August 4, 1894. CHAP. 214.-—An Act To authorize a compromise and settlement with the State of A“g““ 4· 189* Arkansas. · HH Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Ark¤¤¤¤¤· Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior, or any three persons they cD§‘;;**€;*Qg°QQ:f;; may jointly select or cause to be selected on behalf of the United States, mms, sm. are hereby fully authorized and empowered to compromise, adjust, and nnally settle with the governor of the State of Arkansas, or with such person or persons as may be authorized by the laws of that State to act in its behalf, upon such terms and conditions as to them may seem just and equitable, subject to approval by Congress, as hereinafter provided, all or any of the differences between the Government and the said State growing out of and arising from the issue of certain bonds by the said State which are now owned in their own right or held in trust by the United States; the five per centum fund which accrued to the said State under the Act approved June twentythird, eighteen hundred V<>1-5.1>-58- an d thirty-six; the unpaid portion of the distribution fund which accrued to the said State under the Actapproved September fourth, eighteen v01_  I, 45;, hundred and forty-one; the swamp and overflowed lands in place granted by the Act approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and v·»1.=», p. sm. fifty, and not heretofore approved to the State; the land and money indemnity due the said State under the Acts approved March second, VM 1** iii 63* eighteen hundred and fifty-tive, and March third, eighteen hundred and Wl- 11. r- 25k fittyseven, and all other claims and demands of whatever kind or nature; and any compromise or settlement they may make with the said State shall be fully reported back to Congress, giving the basis thereof, for its further action, said compromise not to be etlectual and iinal until approved by Congress. Approved, August 4, 1894. CHAP. 215.-An Act ’l`o graht to the Arkansas, Texas and Mexican Central Rail- A“g'fF°j·_E94_‘A_ way Company a right of way through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. ~ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Arkansas, Texas and augrgtapizu 'ggigs Mexican Central Railway Company, a corporation created under and Rauwav ·C.,mp,,,,, by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, e;=;g;;dT{:1srgtj);§_ my- invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway, telegraph, and tele— _ phone line through the Indian Territory, beginning at a point to be L°°**¤°¤·