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 1111rrY-sixT11 CONGRESS. sms. 1. cu. 791. 1900. 625 Park by way of the Jones Creek trail or other most practicable route to a point on the Yellowstone River near where said river flows from. _ Yellowstone Lake: Provided farther, That road extensions and im- R°*‘“ “"*‘*“*‘°“*· provements shall hereafter be made in said park under and in harmony with a general plan of roads and improvements to be approved by the Chief of Engineers of the Army. CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL PARK: For compensa- ggggggggyhjséll G tion and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant i_n cnmmnoogag historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for tate monuments, mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron i gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, restoring the park after its use for mobilizing troops; and for the urchase of and already authorized by law; in all, sixty thousand dollars. To complete the work of improving the Lafayette State road in Georgia from Lee and Gordans Mills, in that State, to Lafayette, ten thousand dollars. SI-IILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: For continuin the work of Shilohestablishing a national military park on the battlefigeld of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretariy, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and istorical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, pure ase and transportation of sulpplies and materials, office and other necessary exgenses, fifty-five thousand dollars. nrrrsnune NA·r1oNA1. PARK: For continuing the work of estab- G°"~¤'*"“'g· lishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsy vania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and _ gates; marking the lines of battle wi tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield · and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the , commissioners in Gettylsburg; compensation of three civilian commis- I sioners, clerical and other services; expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in Eosition, and all otherexpenses incidental to the foregoing, seventy- ve thousand dollars. » VICKSBUBG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: For continuing the work of Vichhhhhg establishin the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compen-. sation of three civilian commissioners, the secretary, assistant secretary, and assistant to the commissioners; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, monuments, markers, and historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; these and other necessary expenses, sixt -five thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of six thousand dolllars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated for that purpose, may be used in the purchase of lands as a part of the site of said park. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. mggsihshr verm- FoR coNs·1·RUc*r1Ne Jnrrims AND OTHER WORKS AT Sotrrn PAss, iS°}lg! Pm. Missis MISSISSIPPI RIVER: To enable the Secretary of War to pa to the ii§i?y¤iZlif10hs1m0; legal representatives of James B. Eads, deceased, the secondy moiety ,‘,‘§§€dl’· Em ““‘ of the sum of one million dollars retained by the United States unde1· the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive (first sec- V<>*·18·1>-465- tion on pave four hundred and sixty-five of Eighteenth Statutes), to be glaid, all or in part, on the expiration of twenty years’ maintenance of the channel, five hundred thousand dollars. v01. xxx1—-40