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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 377-380. 1899. 995 describing such tract according to such survey; and in case such tract, as originally selected and described in the list filed in the local land office, shall not precisely conform with the lines of the official survey, the said company shall be permitted to describe such tract anew, so as to secure such conformity. Sec. 5. That the mineral—land laws of the United States are hereby Mi¤¤r¤1 land laws extended to the lands lying within the said reserve and said park. °x°°"d°d t° P'"' Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 3'I8.—Au Act Crotting the ohlco of Admiral of the Navy. March 2, 1899. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the President is hereby gf;,;`; 0, Mmm, authorized to appoint, by selection and promotion, an Admiral of the ¤=riv¤<1- Navy, who shall not be placed upon the retired list except upon his Post,p.105. own application; and whenever such office shall be vacated by death or otherwise the office shall cease to exist. . Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 379.-An Act To attach Claiborne County, Mississippi, to the western March 2,1sss. division of the southern judicial district of Mississippi.————· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Claiborne County, Mis- d£g*;t*¤¤*PPi J¤¤*¤i•l sissippi, be, and it is hereby, embraced in the western division of the cnriuéme canary southern district of Mississippi, as tlxed by the Act of Congress describ- Qfj'°§$§,:fo,§hj,,'Q{,{; ing the western division of the southern district of Mississippi, the southern district. court thereof being held at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Sec. 2 That all process issued to and served upon parties in said w§;e·~;>¤; ¤>¤¤¤¤¤b1•> county returnable to the United States court at Jackson, Mississippi, l" ” mg' is hereby returnable to the next succeeding term of said court at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and all causes pending in the Jackson, Mississippi, court against citizens in said Claiborne County may, upon the order of the judge thereof, be transferred, upon motion, to said Vicksburg court. Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 380.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Arkan- Much Z 1899- sas Northwestern Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the H Indian Territory, and for other purposes," and extending the time for constructing and operating the said railway for two years from the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqnresentatives of the United States o/'America in Congress assembled, That section eight of the Act AE:l$$,*:gL{]°ge:;P> entitled "An Act authorizing the Arkansas Northwestern Railway sm ninnmy for com- Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Terri- §§;‘°g'hrg_§g,f*¤,';fd,;’,f tory, and for other purposes," enacted March twenty-fifth, eighteen Territory- hundred and ninety-six, and in force April fifth, eighteen hundred and V"' 2°"‘8°‘ ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " Sec. 8. That said railway company shall build at least one hundred miles of its railway within five years after the passage of this Act or the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to that portion not built. That said railway company shall construct and maintain continually all fences, roads, and highway crossings, and necessary bridges over said railway wherever said roads or highways do now or may hereafter cross said railway’s right of way, or may be, by the proper authorities, laid out across the same." Approved, March 2, 1899.