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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 375-377. 1899. 993 accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon dually determine the location of the building to be erected. The compensation of said commissioners shall be iixed by the Sec- —·¤¤¤·1>¤¤·=*·i¤¤ vt rotary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the member Prwm ‘ of said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be {J: T'°"““" "‘°'“' paid only his actual traveling expenses. . The building shall be unexposed to danger fromiire by an open space FM ¤r¤=•>- of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP 376.-An Act Making an appropriation to carry out the obligations of the M¤¤'¤h 2- 199- treaty between the United States and Spain concluded December tenth, eighteen ’""_""“`“`—" hundred and ninety-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carry- Swiving out the obligations of the treaty between the United States and sgggimbw Spain concluded at Paris on the tenth day of December, anno Domini PM r·175¤· eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to become immediately available upon the exchange of the ratiiications of said treaty, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- · priated, the sum of twenty million dollars. Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 3'I‘I.·-An Act To set aside a portion of certain lands in the State of Wash- Merch 2. 1899- ington, now known as the Pacilic Forest Reserve, asa public park, to be known as W the Mount Ranier National Park. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ·. States of America in Congress assembled, That all those certain tracts, M¤¤¤t Rmrier Napieces, or parcels of land lying and being in the State of Washington, ib(g1t:1n,£:l:3li¤ld‘dd?b- and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point three miles east of the northeast corner of town- !·¤¤¤¤i¤¤· ship numbered seventeen north, of range Six east of the Willamette meridian; thence south through the central parts of townships numbered seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen north, of range seven east of the Willainette meridian, eighteen miles more or less, subject to the proper easterly or westerly offsets, to a point three miles east of the northeast corner of township numbered fourteen north, of range six east of the Willamette meridian; thence east on the township line between townships numbered fourteen and fifteen north, eighteen miles more or less to a point three miles west of the northeast corner of township fourteen north, of range ten east of the Willamette meridian; thence northerly subject to the proper easterly or westerly otlsets, eighteen miles more or less, to a point three miles west of the northeast corner of township numbered seventeen north, of range ten east of the Willamette meridian (but in locating said easterly boundary, wherever the summit of the Cascade Mountains is sharply and well defined, the said line shall follow the said summit, where the said summit line bears west of the easterly line as here‘n determined); thence westerly along the township line between said townships numbered seventeen and eighteen to the place of beginning, the same being a portion of the lands which were reserved from entry or settlement and set aside as a public reservation by proclamation of the President on the V·*· ¤"·P·1°°°· twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States the vox. xxx--63