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 634 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 29, 33, 34. 1895. ei·mng,m. For grading roads near new Academy building and cadet barracks, three thousand dollars. For macadamizing picket line at cavalry stables, five hundred and sixty dollars. Stable,etc. For repairs and improvements to quartermaster’s stable and barn, including concrete floor, new stall partitions, new mangers and feed boxes, and new flooring for granary, one thousand five hundred dollars. For additions and improvements to barracks of Company E, engineers, namely: For enlarging latrine and adding four water-closets and three urinals; for painting and repairing all outside woodwork; for repairing windows and skylights and repainting outside walls, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. One latrine, one thousand five hundred dollars. ess mm. New eight-inch gas main from gas works to the administration building and new six-inch gas main thence to the new set of officers’ quarters, below the south gate, six thousand dollars. 1··¤mann·s,ew., new Furniture for new Academy building, including gas fixtures, twenty- "““'“”¥· one thousand threehundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty cents, to be immediately available. Approved, January 16, 1895. J¤¤¤¤'y19, 1895· CHAP. 33.-An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Tex- W arkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River in the State of Arkansas," approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-fonr. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m§,g1zgi>r#:=~¤¤L*¤1¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled *‘An 4,,,;, ,,_é2_ Act authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River in the State of Arkansas/’ approved April twenty- first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: H¤1z1¤¤<><1¤<=¤¢ ·‘That if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, there shall be at least one span of a height of not less than forty feet above low water, as understood at the point of location, measured to the lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge; and said span shall have an opening ot two hundred and fifty feet from center of pier to center of pier." ,ng§*,ge*;>,{e_g¤¤¤*¤¤*· Sec. 2. That the time for the commencement of the construction of Am, p.<s4.` said bridge is hereby extended to within one year and its completion to within three years from the approval of this Act. Approved, January 19. 1895. January 19. 1895- CHAP. 34.-An Act For the relief of homestead settlers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, W""“"""""‘" and Michigan. _ rmmtie. Whereas during the summer and autumn of eighteen hundred and ninety-four extensive forest fires prevailed in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, resulting in the death of many homesteaders and their families, the destruction of their property and effects, and of much of the green timber growing upon them, which homesteads are valuable chiefly for the timber standing and growing on them; and, YVhercas under existing law homesteaders are not allowed to cut or sell green or burned timber, except for the purpose of clearing and improving, and all burned timber not cut within a short period will become worthless and a loss to the settler and the Government: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United paw, ,,,,,,1,, States of America in Congress assembled, That all such persons actually occupying homesteads in said States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and