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 28 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 17,18. 1900. F¤bF¤¤f>’ 10- 1900- CHAP. 17.-—An Act To amend section four of the Act of Congress approved June wi"'; Sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, certain lands as a city park, and for other purposes. ' _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House_0fR@·esentatiees of tbe United §g§g¤S£§ghé*—I§<- of States of America in Congress assembled, That section. four of the Act certainqland granted of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, ‘°g%‘3·21’p_2S9_ granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a parcel of land known pslfhe cemetery lot for a city park only, be amended so as to read as o ows: "That whenever the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall relinquish to the United States of America all its right, title, and interest in and to the following-described lot or parcel of land, being a (part of said cemetery lot, but_wh1ch is now described in the plats an surveys of said city as lot sixteen, block seventy-eight, to wit: Commencm at the Southwest corner of the said city park, in block seventy-eight og the Hot Springs Reservation, and formerly known as cemetery lot, and running thence easterly along the north line of Benton street one hundred and fifty feet; thence northerly two hundred and thirty-five feet to a oint on the north line of said park one hundred and fifty feet easterly ofp the northwest corner thereof; thence to said northeast corner; thence along the west boundary line of said ark two hundred and sixty-two and seven-tenths feet to the point of beginning, the same being a part of said lot sixteen, in block seventy-eight aforesaid, which is hereby reserved by the United States as a site for the public building provided V0]- 30- P- 983- for by Act of Congress approved March second,eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the right an title of the United States to all the remaining part of said cemetery lit, now known as lot sixteen, in block seventy-eight, shall vest absolutely in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, fO1' city park, city building, auditorium, or other nublic purposes." Approved, February 10, 1900. February 1:;,1900. _ CHAP. 18.-An Act Granting pprmission and authority to the Orleans levee —————-————·—— board to move, without cost to the mted States, the existing line of levee in front of the marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana. Be it enacted  tbe Senate and House of Representatives of the United igpfgaggiiegpsé mud States of Amcmea in Congress assembled, That permission and authority my mov, um, of be, and they are hereby, granted to the Orleans levee board to move, §§g§1f)gp{{g{*'*6g mw without cost to the Unite States, the existing line of levee in front ` ’of the United States marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the square bounded by State street, Henr Clay avenue, Tchoupitoulas street, and the Mississippi River; said line of levee to be moved outwardly in the direction of said river to the new line of iuFr&¤;tgtr¤€*- <>r¢¤· levee established by the said Orleans levee board, and th_at the city of g ’New Orleans be, and it is hereby, authorized to extend, lay out, open and to keep open. through the said marine-hospital pro erty, the street known as Front street, one hundred and ten feet widie, extend- " ing from Penniston street to the upper limits of the city of New Orleans, a distance of about five miles, as rovided for under ordinance of the city of New Orleans, numbered &teen thousand and eighty, council series, aplproved March iirst, _ eighteen hundred and ninety- __§g’g;°g§; use 0, by nine: Provided, _ at in case the said c1ty of New Orleans has granted, railroads, ac. or shall grant, a right of way over said street to any ra1lway company, corporation, firm, or person, or that said street shall be used for railway purposes, such grant, privilege, or use shall be -upon condition that no part of said street within the limits of said marine-hospital property (or within one thousand feet from the same) shall be used · or depot purposes, or railroad yard, or for the purpose of switching,