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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Srzss. I. Cns. 1372, 1373. 1906. 107 Point Pleasant, WVest Virginia; Burlington, Vermont; Jacksonville, Florida.; Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per year for each local inspector. "And in addition the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may appoint, Assxssmumspwwm. in districts or ports where there are two hundred and twenty-five S°l°"°B‘ steamers and upward to be inspected annually, assistant inspectors, at a salary, for the port of New York, of two thousand dollars a year each; for the port of New Orleans, Louisiana; the districts of Philadelphia Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois, and the district of San Francisco, California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per.year each, and for all other districts and ports at a salary not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars a year each; and he may a point a clerk to any such Clerk’s salary uiboard at a compensation not exceeding one thousand six hundred dol- °"”°d‘ lars a year to each person so appointed. Every inspector provided for Mileage, em. in this or the preceding sections of this title shall be paid his actual and reasonable traveling expenses or mileage, at the rate of five cents a. mile, incurred in the performance of his duties, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. ‘ Assistant inspectors, appointed as provided by law, shall perform D¤¤¢¤· such duties of actual inspection as may be assigned to them under the ` direction, su ervision, and control of the local inspectors. "And the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may from time to time Dewidetail said assistant inspectors of one dport or district for service in any other port or district, as the nee s of the Steamboat-Inspection Service may, in his discretion, require, and the actual and reasonable traveling expenses or mileage of assistant inspectors so detailed shall, subject to such limitations as the said Secretary may in his discretion prescribe, be paid in the same manner as provided in this section for inspectors.", . Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and after “°°‘· the first day of May, nineteen hundred and six. Approved, April 9, 1906. CHAP. 1373.-—An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Snake Apr1l9. 1906. River between Whitman and Columbia counties, in the State of Washington. _____j@L__ [Public, No. 90. Be { thenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ¢p" the United 1 States 0 f American in éimgress cmaembled, That the Chicago, Milwaukee §i§•;M*l'§*;é and Saint Paul Railway Company of \Vashington, its successors and and sand ram mmassigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a f,',‘{§gf°”"“"’ “‘“’ railroad bridge and approaches thereto· across the Snake River from I·¤¤¤¤¤¤- some convenient and practicable point on the east bank of said river in Whitiiian County, to some convenient and practicable point on the west bank in Columbia County, in the State of Washington. Sno, 2. That the bridge herein authorized shall be located and con- npifggg-*;;,3; fg *0 structed under and subject to such regulations for the security of the` navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, and said company shall submit to the Secretary of War for is approval a plan of said bridge and a map of the location, showing for one m11e above and one mile below the proposed location the topography of the banks of the river, the shore lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current, soundings showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge in that vicinity, and such other informationias may be required for a full and satisfactory understandingcof the subject; and until said plan and location are approved by the c-