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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 417-419. 1896. 393 expense of the said company, in order the more eifectually to preserve the free navigation of said river. _ Sec. 7. That this Act shall be null and void unless the construction Ccmmncomout and of said bridge shall be commenced within one year and completed within °°““’l°"°“‘ three years from the passage of this Act. Sec. 8. That Congress shall have power at any time to alter, amend, -*m°¤d¤>¤¤*»¤*¤· or repeal this Act. Approved, June 11, 1896. - _CHAP. 418.-An Act To make the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, a port of imme- J¤1w11.1896. diate transportation. it Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges of the Effitgjimmodhm seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and rroooponouoo pomeighty, governing the transportation of dutiable merchandise without 1'3¥§5_21,,,_174_ appraisement, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Erie, in the State of Pennsylvania. Approved, June 11, 1896. CHAP. 419.-—An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Juv 11, 1896. government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, "i_""‘? eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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 half of the following District or co1umsums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in °“` “”'°""“"°““‘ the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the mer from nimaa revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, being """““°“· _ for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: GENERAL EXPENSES. G¤¤¤r¤1¤¤1>¤¤¤¤¤- Fon Exncmzrvn Orman.: For two Commissioners, at ive thousand §g;g_*{;;;,g;§;°·sm_ dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four mm·y,¤a. ’ dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; janitor, seven hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars ; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars ; deputy property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six'hundred dollars; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; live assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, nfty-one thousand and eighty-nine dollars: Provided, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are Previous.