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458 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 948, 991. 1888. shall hlave been obtained before said bridge shall be built or commence . c0"`if;j{;f)‘;f°m°“*”¤d Sec. 6. That unless the construction of said bridge be commenced within one year and finished within three years from the date of the passage of this act, the provisions of this act shall be null and void. Am¤¤d¤¤¤¤¤» M Sec. 7. That Congress reserves the right to withdraw the authority and power conferred by this act, in case the free navigation of said river shall at any time be substantially or materially obstructed by said bridge, or for any other reason, and to direct the removal or necessary modifications thereof at the cost and expense of the owners of said bridge; and Congress may at any time alter, repeal, or amend this act. Approved, September 6, 1888. September T. 1888. CHAP. 991.-An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal °"""_‘”"" year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the N¤;'·f·l¤;°"*°°“PP'°‘ United States of Amerfica in Congress assembled, That the following Wm sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be aid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes: P¤y <>f the N¤v¥· PAY or run NAVY. For pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; Admiral’s and Vice-Admiral’s secretaries; clerks to commandants of yards and stations- clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; inspections; receiving-ships and other vessels; extra pay to men re-enlisting under honorable discharge; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, includin men in the eng·ineer`s force and for the Coast Survey service and Tish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and fifty boys, at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million eighty-two thousand four hundred and four dollars. mueeumeous PAY, MISCELLANEOUS. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling underorders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, eomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling exnses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the ggaval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy—yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of in uiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerk’s and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-pa masters` offices of the various cities. including clerks, furniture, fuel}; stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and omestic; telephones; copying; care of libra , including purchase of books, prints, manuscripts. and periodicallh; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports, professional investigation, cost of special instruction at home or