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50 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 105-107,117, 118. 1884. scribc, and shall be provided with such suitable and convenient draw as the said Secretary shall deem needful for the proper purposes of navigation of width not less than that of the S3m\ 1llB·VQ.llU) Extension Railroad Company’s draw in their bridge across Missiaquoy Bay ; M¤·i¤¤~¤¤¤¤¤¤¤d and the maintenance and management of said structure shall be subject to such of the provisions of section six of chapter fifty-two of the 22 S‘“‘·· *2* acts of the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress as the Secretary of War may, from time to time, deem needful; and the authority to erect and continue said bridge shall be subject to rcvocsmon and modification bylaw whenever the public good shall, in the judgment of Congress, so require, without any expense or charge to the United States. Act amended, Sm:. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 20, 1884. CHAP. 106.-—An act to change the times of holding district and it courts of the United States in the northern district of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled? That hereafter the regular terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States in the northern district of Georgia now held on the first and second Mondays of September respectively shall each be held on the first Monday in October in each year. Approved, Juno 20, 1884. Juno 20, 188L CHAP. 107.-An act to authorize the National Academy Science to receive and hold trust funds for the promotion of science, and other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Academy of Sciences, incorporated by the act of Congress approved March third,

,,,,,,3 and I, 0] d eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and its several supplements, be, and trust funds, m. the sameis hereby, authorized and empowered to receive bequests and 12 sum., 006. donations, and hold the sameiu trust, to be applied by the said academy in aid of scisutiiic investigations and accordingto the will of the donors. Approved, J unc 20, 1884. J unc 21, 1884. CHAP. 117.-~A.u act to extend an act approved August eighth, sightssn hundred and

·i··—·· eighty-t.wo, to encourage and promote telegmphic communication between America

and Europe. Bc it enacted by the Sonata and House of Reproaentatilvca o the United a glgggggig of America in Congress assembled, That tho time to cngmaucs lay- 1,,.,,,;, ,m,_,¤d,d_ mg the cable as provided m the act: approved August eighth, eighteen 22 8,,% 372 hundred and eighty-two, to encourage and promote telsgraphic commumcstnou between America and Europe, bc, and tho same is hereby, sxwudcd until the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and eightysix. . Approved, J uns 21, 1884. Juno 23, 1884. CHAP. 118.-—An act gu authorize the construction of s bridge across the Missouri ··············—····· Rxvor at the city of Leavenworth, Ksnsss. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcmntativec 0 the United um f:::};: States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lsiful for sbs L, . ,. 6 B , M. { L Leavenworth Bridge Company, a corpomti on organized for that purpose Kam. under the general corporation laws of the State of Kansas, or its assigns,