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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 141, 147, 150. 1896. costs, including compensation of the referees, shall be made a part of the award and be paid by such railroad company. _ Limit¤¤¤¤¤· Sec. 4. That all lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be used for railroad purposes strictly, and not more than twenty acres of land at any one station shall be acquired hereunder by any one railroad company; nor shall any additional land be so acquued which is not contiguous to land already occupied for railroad purposes. Received by the President, April 14, 1896. nr rms: Dnranrmnnr or Scurn.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States thr his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originatul within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] May 1, 1896. CHAP. 147.-An Act To provide for reimbursement of the expense of constructing ———··;··—·"‘ a sewer upon the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United me spi-mp, arr. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- 1>•ym¤¤¤ for wv- rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Albert B. Gaines, S. H. Sfift, and A. S. Garnett, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, S. W. Fordyce, of Saint Louis, Missouri, and Charles B. Platt, of the city of New York, out of any money under his control derived from leases of bath-house sites and from the sale of lots on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, and available for the protection and improvement of said reservation, the sum of nine hundred and thirty dollars, in reimbursement of the amount actually expended by said persons in the construction of a sewer upon the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Approved, May 1, 1896. May 4, 1896. CHAP. 150.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Oregon ""‘”"*"'-"“ and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the state of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post roud." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ,ng{,°,§°’;,g}‘,‘,Qol'Q$QQj States o_/`America in Congress assembled, That “An Act to authorize the rms- O Oregon and Washingtori Bridge Company to construct and maintain a br'}Q;;;g°¤g£dl$;b'y; bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the mm. State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road," approved v°’· 2“· l’· 2* March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and the same is hereby, extended, revived, and declared to be in full force and etiect from and after March twenty-iourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Section twelve of said Act, which provides that said Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge therein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within {bur years fr·om the date of the approval thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the time within which said bridge is required to be commenced shall be within two years from June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-tive, and the time within which it is required that said bridge be completed shall be within four years irom the twenty- fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety- tive. Approved, May 4, 1896.