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 352 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 227-229. 1916. Dam now under construction by the Reclamation Service, and which will flood such right of way, such quantity of water as the Secretary of the Interior may find to be necessary for the oihpration of said company’s railway, but not exceeding thirty m on gallons of rwpam. water per month: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall °°““”·°°°* at all times have authority to determine the tunes, place, and manner in which said Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company shall be permitted to take suc water from said reservoir, and that all Tmense incident thereto shall be borne bg said railway company: ¤R·*•*§*¤¤ ¤¤ **¤¤· P ed further, That neither the United tates nor its successors " in interest shall be held liable for or obligated to suppl; the water hereinbefore described, but in the event that the Unite tates or_1ts successors in interest shall abandon the use of the land upon which the said the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has its said right of way for a reservoir site as herein contemplate, said right of wag, so far as the same may be conveyed to the mted States hereun er, shall revert to the said railway company. Approved, July 8, 1916. July 8, 1916 [H- B-228-l CHAP. 228.-An Act To amend the United States homestead law in its appli- cation to Alaska, and for other purposes. Be tt enacted the Senate and House o Re eeentativea o the United Qxfmd mm States of Amerilg in Congress assembleoi Tlihlt every pergon who is =¤¤*•<ii¤¤- qualiiied under existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of the United States who has settled upon or who shall hereafter settle upon alia of the public lands of the United States situated ummm  the_District of _ aska, w ether surveyed or unsurve ed, with the ven. s2,p.im. intention of claiming the same under the homesteady laws, shall, subject to the provisions and limitations of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, chapter one thousand and two, United States Statutes at Large, p e one thousand and twenty- _ eight,_be entitled to enter one himied and sixty acres or a less Fam, mw M quantity of unzqépmpriated public land in said District of Alaska, when mann. and no more, an a former omestead entry in any other State or y,,,,,"""",,mm,'”_ Territory shall not be a bar to a homestead entry in Alaska: Providedilitillat nothpig hegein contaixaed shall be construed to limit or curta e area o an omesteadc aim heretofore lawf 1 ` e. L“""·‘ °"°°""‘* Sec. 2. That thereyshall be excepted from homestedlibselalgdilegt and_entry under this Act the lands in Annette and Pribilof Islands the islands leased or occupied for the propagation of foxes, and such gggeigulsgggsolasznpige been or may be reserved or withdrawn froml Approved, July 8, 1916. CHAP. 229.-An Act To authorize the construction maintenance and o ration [rebut, Ns. nv.; ggitttégggscargissgahlgsgigigigyixx t zgijzmrsgglme between townships twgllre and _ Be it eru1cted_by the Senate and House o Re esentatives . . ¥5uggG*i*j;s§g*g*·COmtv’ States of America an Congress assembled,fTh£t· the Osceol(ggiied%lsllg Ai-a,msy limes. River road improvement district numbered one of Mississippi County, Arkansas, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, Lmucn maintain, and operate 21 bridge and approaches thereto across Little - River, at a_po1nt suitable to the interests of navigation at a point Omsmmm whgre the hne betweeutownships twelve and thirteen north, range v,,,_ 3,, p_ ,,,_ egg 1; east, crosses sand river, in accordance with the Act entitled "An