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 188 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 254, 255. 1896. the District: Commissioners shall approve, and returning over the same 'f*m*¤··. i route to the poinjs of beginning: Provided, That within the city of Washwi1:1$¤?,;J,Y   ington a doubletrack rmlway shall be constructed: Provided further, W2’*;* ;;’i°],’;_ °°m°“‘ "'d That the line of said railway company shall be commenced within three l months and completed within one year from the date of the passage of this Act, with the exception mentioned in section four of this Act." 1m.av¤p·>w¤:. Sec. 2. That the motive power to be used on the lines in this Act spccided shall be the underground electric system within the city of Washiugton and the overhead trolley system outside the city of Washinngtou. cmmgmne bridge. For crossing the Navy-Yard bridge the said company may, in the discretiou of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, use either horse power or the underground electric system to propel its cars; and the said company shall have the privilege of carrying an electric current across the said N avy—Yarel bridge in such manner as the said Commissioners of the Districtrof Columbia shall prescribe. T¤¤¤*°¤¤ Sec. 3. That the Capital Railway Company, the Metropolitan Railroad Company, and the Capital Traction Company are hereby required to issue free transfers at the point of intersection of their respective lines. so that for the payment of one fare a passenger on either road shall have the privilege of riding over the lines of both. ¤•¤•¤¤¤¤¤¤•»f1¤»r- Sec. 4. That the portions of the companys route from Congress or °°"' °"°"d' Peucote Heights to Shepherd’s Landing andthe Harrison street branch east to the District line shall be completed within two years from the mM_ passage of this Act: Provided, That failure to complete the said por- £~£$:*;g;¤¤•€*¤M tions of the routes as provided for in this section, and, also, failure bo ° Pcomplete the extension on Eleventh street east, shall operate to repeal tha authority to build said portions, and shall not repeal the charter of sm com ny. · Auaammmem 81:0. 5??1!hat Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, May 28, 1896. 1i.•y28.1$6. CHAP. 255.-An Act Tc amend section forty-one hundred and thirty-one of the "‘—*"’*" Revised Statutes of the United States, to improve the mcrcb¤nt·ma.riuo engineer service and thereby also to increase the edicieucy of the Naval Reserve, und for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Shipvi¤s· States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-one hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: SX;:¤5=gl;Q:i· U¤*¤>¤ ** S20. 4131. Vessels registered pursuant to law and no others, except n.s.,m.41si,p.m, such us shall be duly quulitied according to law for carrying on the psa.    and entitled to the benefits und privileges appermining to such vessels; but no such vessel shall enjoy such benefits mul privileges longer than it shall continue to be wholly owned by u. citizen or citizens of the United States or u corporation created under the laws of any of the States thereof, and be commanded by 0. citizen of the United States. Axnomcm mum;. And nll the odieers of vessels of the United States who shall have ‘""'· charge of a watch, including pilots, shall in ull cases be citizens of the United States. The word ·*officers" shall include the chief engineer and each assistant engineer in charge of za. watch on vessels propelled wholly or in part by steam; and after the iirst. day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no person shall be qualified to hold alicense as n commander or watch officer of a. merchant vessel of the United States who is not n. l\3tiV0~b0l'l\ citizen, or whose naturalization as a citizen shall not have been fully completed? Licenses m no my Sec. 2. That all licenses issued to such officers shall be for a term of °“’ ’ ‘“'“· five years, but the holder of a license may have the same renewed for ggvgiy; H h another five years at any time beibre its expiration: Proridcd, however, ,;,,,,3.;,  °“ That any officer holding a license, and whois engaged in n service which necessitates his continuous absence from the United States, may make
 * ”;$;j‘f§·P ,°_,.°l z, coasting or tishing trade, shall be deemed vessels of the United States,