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 904 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 210, 211. 1899. passageways, and roof as may be necessary to make the present build- - ing suitable for the purposes of a library; for removing and returning the books, maps, pictures, and the like, now in the library, seventy thousand dollars; _ nuginw- mia mv. Renewing the brick paving of the basement and areas of the engineer "’Y *’“"‘°"°·°‘“· barracks, three hundred and fifty dollars; _ Constructing a drain four feet wide, one hundred and thirty-tive feet long, and averaging twelve inches in depth, at the cavalry barrack, and for concreting area of same, in all about five thousand four hundred square feet, one thousand dollars; New kitchen for quarters numbered thirty-nine, one thousand dollars; New kitchen for quarters numbered thirteen, one thousand dollars; Addition to quarters numbered twenty-seven, four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; rum;. Tunnel in rear of target for heavy ordnance, twenty feet in diameter by twenty feet deep, two hundred and thirty-three cubic yards rock excavation, at six dollars, one thousand three hundred and ninety- eight dollars; I·‘i1¤¤rb•d¤- Completing the construction of a set of filter beds and connecting the same with the new reservoir, including all necessary appurtenances, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars; W¤f·r·•¤m>\r ¤>·¤- Completing necessary improvements to the water supply system, to thousand dollars; rebuilding and enlarging the Cascade intake, two thousand dollars; laying eight-inch pipe from Cro’ Nest intake to the new reservoir (six thousand feet pipe laid), five thousand dollars; raising the jetties forming channel for the springs led directly into the new reservoir, and concreting sides and bottom, one thousand dollars_; for repairing Rouhd Pond intake (damaged by ice), cleaning out Delafield reservoir, and for care of system, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars; Home fqr k¤¤p¤r Building a house for the keeper of the new reservoir and filter house, "°" "’°"°"‘ °t°‘ including a storeroom for tools and materials, one thousand dollars; F¤r¤i¤¤g§iL¤¤¤·· d liighting and furnishing the Memorial Hall, twenty-five thousand o ars; Total buildings and grounds, one hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Approved, February 27, 1899. Felirunry 27, 1809. CHAP. 211.-—-An Act To authorize tho Grand Rapids Water Power and Boom -- - - » -·-— ·—-— Company, of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to construct g dom and bridgs mms, the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U nited emmi sqm. States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress §,,j*,}§'C,,¥{;Q{;",,,.,‘§,‘;§_§" is hereby granted to the Grand Rapids Water Power and Boom Comzctwigzsgtsmisager pany, of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, its successors and assigns, to conm,,{,_ " “‘ struct across the Mississippi River, at a point within the limits of the 1»¤>-<»¤¤-·f¤rw¤¢<=r· village of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to be approved by the Secretary "°`°" °°"’°°°°‘ of War, a dam. canal, and works necessarily incident thereto, for waterpower purposes, and a wagon and foot brid e if desired in connection therewith for the purpose of travel. Said gem shall be so constructed that there can at any time be constructed in connection therewith a giimoi. t t I suitable lock for navigation purposes: Provided, That the Government _,,_,_"`°’""""' °"“ ’"· of the United States may at any time take possession of said dam without compensation and control the same for purposes of navigation, but shall not do so to the destruction of the water power created by said dam to any greater extent than may be necessary to provide c¤¤¤t¤we.i¤¤,m. proper facilities for navigation: Provided also, That said dam shall be so constructed that it will not at any time raise the water surface, at a point three hundred feet above said dam, to an elevation higher than
 * °”" be immediately available, as follows: Eularging Cro’ Nest intake, one