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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 486, 487, 489. 1900. 181 land embraced in said surve : Provided, That there shall be reserved P'°'”"°· _ to the United States for theyuse of the public as a highway a strip of wgsilmmon mush land sixty feet in width, parallel withand) as near as may be practicable to the shore line of Shelhkoif Straits`; and for the purpose of allowin access by the public to the waters of Shellikoff Straits, a strip of lang fifty feet in wi th across said survey shall also be reserved, to be located, as near as practicable, between corners seventeen and thirty of said survey, extending from Shellikoif Straits to the Karluk River, and not to interfere with any existing improvements; and upon payment of the P¤*€¤*· price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for said land, and submission of proof that said land embraces improvements of the claimant and is needed in the prosecution of its business, patent shall issue as in other V°‘· 3°· P- **8- cases under section ten of the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and roviding Sor right of way for railroads in the _ district of Alaska, and) for other purposes; ” but the limitation in said Ex°'“""°“* °'°‘ Act, that no entry shall extend along the water front for more than one hundred and sixty rods, shall not be held to apply to such entry of the_Karluk Packing Company. Approved, May 21, 1900. CHAP. 487.-An Act To amend section three thousand and live of the Revised May 21-190**- Statutcs of the United States. . i "`_"—°"""' Be it enacted by tbe Senate and House §fRepresentattves of the United States of America in Congress assemble, That section three thousand b0'f,{§‘“5{§‘}’Q,°§‘,*,;°,§{ $2 and fiveof the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to gggjgsgtgm of merread as follows: eounmes. °r migu " Sec. 3005. All merchandise arriving at any port of the United ,,,1}§gg‘§?·$°°5·P·5’°· States destined for any foreign country ma r be entered at the customhouse, and conveyed, in transit, through the territory of the United States, without the payment of duties, under such regulations as to examination and transportation as the Secretary of the Treasury inay prescribe." » Sec. 2. That the joint resolution .entitled "Joint resolution in gexican Free Zone. reference to the Free Zone along the northern frontier of Mexico and °p°a' adjacent to the United States,’ approved March iirstyeighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Y<>1.28, p. we full operation of section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes as existing prior to the adoption of such joint resolution is hereby revived. Approved, May 21, 1900. CHAP. 489.-An Act To constitute Durham, North Carolina, a port of deliirery in May 22, 1900. the customs collection district of Pamlico, and to extend the privileges of th_e seventh **‘_‘-***' section of the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to said port. p Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofltegreseatatives 0 _§ the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Durham, orth Caro- mgdngrhgtnanf dgfvéc., lina, be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery in the customs "° ”' collection district of Pamlico, and the privileges of the seventh section gr¤a1¤gg?1i¤¢rgwgr¤¤¤- of the Act of Con ress approved June tent, eighteen hundred and pV0l.21,}£174.eg“` eighty, governing She immediate transportation of utiable merchandise - without appraisement, are hereby extended to said port of Durham. Approved, May 22, 1900. ‘