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 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTYSIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Passed at the _/Erst session, which was b un and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Uobambia, on Monday the jgnrth day of December, 189.9, and was aeyourned without day on Thursday the seventh day of June, 1.900. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, President; WILLIABI P. Fern, President of the Senate, pro tempore; DAVID B. Hmmnnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.—An Act To extend the time for examination of monthly accounts by December 20»1899- bureaus and offices of the War Department. W Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con ress assembled, That the time for examination f,V;;1gffg§g%¤g·0f of monthly accounts by the bureaus and offices of the War Department n¤o¤m1y accounts; after the date of actual receipt and before transmitting the same to the tum °x°°"d"d‘ Auditor for the War Department, as limited by section twelve of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved July V¤1.28.p.209. thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereb * extended from twenty days to sixty days for the period of one year from the date of the passage of this Act. ._ · Approved, December 20, 1899. CHAP. 2.—An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to change the material January 25,1900. to be used in the construction of the dry docks at the navy—yards at League Island, 1_——"‘"‘— Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, from timber to concrete and stone. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of "An Mmaspe Isgargid and Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year Y;1i§s.San wi ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other ,0f."_§*g,‘€{*0§,§s"},‘§f,§Q,§{ purposes," approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, izedrelating to the construction of dry docks, as modified by "An Act V<>k¤’»<>.x>1>-37e,1<>35- makin · appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year endin June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes," approveg March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby further modified so that the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, contract for the construction of the dry docks at League Island, Pennsyl~ vania, and at Mare Island, California, in addition to those at Boston, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be built of concrete and stone, and in such case the limit of cost of the dry docks for VOL xxxi-—-1 1