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 182 FIFTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 541, 542, 546. 1900. N¤·Y23·1900- _ CHAP. 541.-An Act To amend section eight hundred and sixty-four of the "1_"”"" Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to taking depositions de bene e se. Be it enacted by the Senate and House cgi/`Re esentatives of the United ¤¤1><>¤i¤1¤¤¤ ds berm States of Amerika in Congress assemble, Tlilit section eight hundred °slil`s.,se6. 864, p. 164, and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the '“”°“d""· same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Mode of mkins- “Sec. 864. Every person deposing as provided in the preceding section shall be cautioned and sworn to testify the whole truth, and carefull examine. l -—nypewri¤-i¤z- "}l·Iis testimony shall be reduced to writing or typewriting by the oflicer taking the deposition, or by some person under his personal supervision, or by the deplonent himself in the o{Hcer’s presence, and by no other person, and s all, after it has been reduced to writing or typewriting, be subscribed by the deponent." Approved, May 23, 1900. M8? 23- 1900- W  542.-An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Esther, of __-___-;—T_ l. GW P BEDS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe· resentatives of the United 8,§f,§;,mf,’m’é§§§f,§ States of America in Congress assembled, Tbat the Commissioner of register- Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to causemthe foreignbuilt steamer Phoenix, of Norway, purchased and wholly owned by an Americandcgizen, and repaired by nim, to be registere as a vessel of the Unite tates. · Approved, May 23, 1900. May 24, 1900. CHAP. 546.-An Act To amend section eight of the Act of Congress entitled "Au ···;"··"__ Act to authorize the Fort Smith and Western Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Creek nations, in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes? Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqwesentatives of the United S,§§1*g§§”§$éfé’£ States of America in Congress assembled, That section eight of the Act izsmom through to authorize the Fort Smith and Western Railroad Company to congiiniiiltrislvrxiitiiiiu gleriil struct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Creek nations, 00%, B0 P ,3.,, in the Indian Tcrritoryyand for other purposes, be, and the same is sme¤hec.’' hereby, amended to read as follows: mgfps °f '°“t° t°b° “Sec. 8._ That said company shall cause ihaps, showing the route of, 1 its located lines through said nations, to be filed in the office of the l Secretary of the Interior and also to be filed in the office of the principal chiefs of said nations; and after the filing of said maps no claim for a subsequent settlement and improvement upon the right of wa _(Q*¢g;gg¤mm,,e Sw shown by said maps shall be valid as against said company: Provided; non. That when a map or maps of the first eighty miles of said line from Fort Smith to a crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad at or near South Canadian shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior,.the same may be approved by the Secretar of the Interior to authorize the commencement of construction of said, eighty- —r¤m¤i¤im= section - mile section: Provided further, That a map or maps showing (sections of at least twenty-five miles in length) of the remaining portion of said line in the Indian Territoryshall be filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior before the construction of any such said remain- Bri<1s¤¤ ¤¤t¤¤r1¤¤<1- ing section shall be commenced; and said company shall have the right ‘ to build in the line of said railroad a bridge across the Poteau Rive1· and bridges across the two forks of the Canadian River crossed by said line, but the plan of construction of said bridges shall be first approved °"‘“g°“·°‘°· by the Secretary of War: Pa·o#videdfw·t/ter, That said railway com-