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 906 FIFTY—FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 212, 218, 219. 1899. location and designs and drawings of each of the bridges; and until the said plans and locations are approved by the Secretary ot Vi ar the www bridges shall not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in the plans of said bridges, or any one of them, during the progress of construction or after completion, such changes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, and all changes in said_ bridges, or any one of them, required by the Secretary of War, at any time, or their entire removal, shall be made promptly by the corporations or persons owning or operating said bridges, attheir own expense. _ Ar¤¤¤•1¤¤¤¤•=- Sec. 5, That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. _ _ _ C¤¤]=:g,·j;°¤¤¤°¤°*¤‘* Sec. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if actualconstruction of °°°°Pthe bridges herein authorized is not commenced within one year and completed within three years irom the date thereof Approved, February 27, 1899. February2B. 1899- CHAP. 218.-An Act Relative to the payment of claims for material and labor ";""“` " furnished for District of Columbia buildings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United nnmcmrcoliuubia. States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter any person or ,,,Bf,§‘,_2{‘,‘;fZ'§§’Z$§‘f.H’f persons entering into a formal contract with the District of Columbia men. and ¤¤¤v1•>y¤¤¤· for the construction of any public building, or the prosecution and completion of any public work, or for repairs upon any public building or public work, shall be required, before commencing such work, to execute the usual penal bond, with good and snilicient sureties, with the additional obligations that such contractor or contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying him or them labor and matemos me to be rials in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contract; and f" ‘“*· °*°·anyperson or persons making application therefor and furnishing aflzi davit to the department under the direction of which said work is being or has been prosecuted that labor or materials for the prosecution of such work has been supplied by him or them, and payment for which has not been made, shall be furnished with a certified copy of said contract and bond, upon which said person or persons supplying such labor and —•¤i* °¤- materials shall have a right of action, and shall be authorized to bring suit in the name of the District of Columbia or the United States for his or their use and benetit against said contractor and sureties and to Pr·¤>¢w~· I prosecute the same to final judgment and execution: Provided, That `5{§‘§,§’§F’ZfZ° w i"` such action and its prosecution shall not involve the District of Colum- the court in which such action is broughtis authorized to require proper security for costs in case judgment is for the defendant. Approved, February 28, 1899. }"*’*”’¤*¤'l·' 2*- *999- CHAP. 219.-An Act Granting to the Clearwater Valley Railroad Company a "__`;; right of way through the Nez Perees Indian lands in Idaho. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Rgl*==·H¤*$·* ij Ugg States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way is hereby ro grant IIB. . of way through Bez granted, as hereinafter set forth, to the Clearwater Valley Railroad ’°'°°“ *‘”"’·m*""'· Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Oregon, and its successors and assigns, for the construction and operation of its railroad and telegraph line through the Nez Perces Indian Reservation in the State of Idaho, and also through lands (br- _ merly embraced within said reservation which have been allotted to the L°°*°°¤· individual members of the Nez Perces tribe of Indians, beginning at a point on the western boundary of the said Nez Perces Indian lteservation in section twenty-tive, township thirty-six north, range live west
 * ·:;;;;j,;;§_=j{·* =··*· bin or the United States in any expense: Provided, That in such case