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 630 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 546. 1898. senger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments, cutting out underbrush, and mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; ior roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law; in all, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. PPgr¤1:¤¤ of Point To enable the Secretary of War to complete the battlefield of Look- '§,,;‘§q_‘,_m_ out Mountain, in the Cbickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, ' by the purchase of the Point Park at the north point of Lookout Mountain, heretofore authorized by Act of Congress, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. gw1v1-- Smrou Nxtrrorux. MILITARY PARK: For continuing the work of x°°°°°°' establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and · historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation . of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, fifty-tive thousand dollars. G¤¢¢y¤1·¤rz· Gnrrrsnone Nsrromut Punk: For continuing the work of estab- E‘p°"”°°’ lishin g the National Park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; ior the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates, ` marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars. mf}?-ineer Depart- ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Rivvr and 1=¤rb<>r Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers under con- YH¤;··1¤¤¤Riv¤r»N¤w For improving Hudson River, New York: Completing improvement, °” ‘ one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and six dollars and - nfty-six cents. numimmz. ou. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. cewmis my, mw Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For completing Y""" improvement of Bay Ridge Channel, the triangular area between Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, and Red Hook and Buttermilk channels in gig laarbor of New York, New York, one hundred and thirty thousan dollars. S¤v¤¤¤¤h.G=¤- Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. cimnn-rim: semis. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing G"°'¤"‘“"“ """"“· improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Portland- lm. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. nemmi. ne. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: For continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. Boston. Mm- Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvemen t, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. m$···g:l;;·;·· 3; Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: n..,·,i:in,.it iiinmi,  continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-tive thousand o ars. 1sn·ig¢i»p·~¤ Harbor. The provision in the river and harbor Act of June third, eighteen Y$}§,;".,,,l*,f§Y“'1‘ hundred and ninety-six, authorizing the expenditure of ten thousand dollars upon Yellow Mill Pond, so called, in Bridgeport Harbor, conditioned upon the construction by the city of Bridgeport of a drawbridge upon plans approved by the Secretary of Vlfar, is hereby so amended as to permit the immediate expenditure of said sum in the discretion of
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