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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 355-357. 1897. 603 twenty-eight north to the northwest corner of township twenty-seven g north, range thirty-one west; thence north on range line between ranges thirty-one and thirty-two west to the seventh standard parallel north; thence west along the seventh standard parallel north to the western boundary of the State; thence north on said boundary line to the northwest corner of the State on the national boundary line on the forty- ninth parallel, north latitude; and thence east on said national boundary line to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby constituted a new land district, to be called Flathead land district of the State of Montana, and the land office for said district shall be located at the °’“°° ‘* K*‘“’P°“· town of Kalispell. _ _ Sec. 2. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of ,,{:§§‘f,f,°§Q,;‘g‘,¥$‘v' the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint a register and receiver for ` such land district, who shall discharge like and similar duties and receive the same amount of compensation as other officers discharging like duties in the other land offices of said State. Approved, March 2, 1897. CHAP. 356.-An Act To vacate Sugar Loaf Reservoir site in Colorado and to M¤1’°h2· $897- restore the lands contained in the same to entry. `i"`"`" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P M, me States of America in Congress assembled, That the public land embraced sggsf Los?. Reserin the reservoir site known as Sugar Loaf Reservoir site, numbered five, Kgisoigfi gg{,m:°· W located in Lake County, Colorado, which was withdrawn from entry and ` settlement under the provisions of the Act making appropriations for V°1·”·P·52°· sundry civil expenses of the Government, approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby restored to the public domain, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to dispose of the same at public auction after thirty days’ notice by advertisement, at a price not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre, under such regulations as he may prescribe so as to secure the early building and permanent maintenance of a reservoir for the storage of water to increase the ilow of the Arkansas River as contemplated by the Government in reserving the reservoir sites of the arid region, but nothing herein shall prevent the purchasers or their assigns from using said water for mechanical, manufacturing or other purposes which does Pr. not materially lessen said contemplated increased dow: Provided, That smwgénemi or we nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive the State of Colorado *°'· of the control of the water in any reservoir which may be constructed on this site by any person or corporation or association, under the regulations provided by the State laws in such cases. Approved, March 2, 1897. CHAP. 357.-An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge M¤¤=h 2- 1897- across the Saint Lawrence River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Northern New York R£,‘§Q§'°§,°§;°;§ Railroad Company, a corporation organized and created under and by ¤¤¤ybrg1_z•» S¤;¤pL¤w— virtue of the laws of the State of New York, or such railway or bridge {Q'}`; N}?" °g"" company now or hereafter incorporated under the laws of said State or of the Dominion of Canada as the said Northern New York Railroad Company or its assigns may unite with, be, and it hereby is, authorized and empowered to construct, own, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Saint Lawrence River, trom a point on the right or southerly bank thereof at or near the village of Hogansburg, in the county of Franklin, in the State of New York, to a point on the Island of Cornwall near the town of Cornwall, in the county of Cornwall and Stormont, Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, at such point as may be most convenient to said corporation