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FIFTY-FIRST CONGLRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 56, 58, 60. 1890. 33 CHAP. 56.-An act to susdpend the enforcement of the act approved March M¤¤‘¤h29.1890- second, eigjhteen hundred an eighty-nine, entitled "An act to amend sections U forty-four undred and eighty-eight and forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes requiring life-saving appliances on steamers." ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House og Re resenta-tives of the United States of America in Congress assem led, Shat the provisions Life-saving appliof an act to amend sections forty-four hundred and eighty-eight and ““{$‘§§_°”2§f“I'}}°"§b,, forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the ¤¤;>¤§1¤d- _ ’ United States, requiring line-carrying projectiles and the means of 4m_pj9€§°°‘°” 4m' propellingthem to be carried on steamers and the rules and regulations j°c‘fgl’;°g{c'Y*¤8 P'°· relating thereto adopted by the Board of Supervising Inspectors and ·rre¤é»;rdy`rm¤¤,et¤., approved by the Secretary of the Treasury March second, eighteen ““"’°“° · hundred and ninety, be, and they are hereby, suspended from opera- POM- P-1083 tion and enforcement for the period of one year. Approved, March 29, 1890. CHAI'. 58.-A.n act authorizing the purchase of tents by the Secretary of War, March 31-1890- and for other purposes. `U""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢i%R{‘presentattve.s· of the United States {America in Congress assemble , hat the Secretary of g;°h'*L$°gt'¤¤;¤°d_ War be, and e is hereby, authorized to purchase twenty-five hun- snremipipunpspq dred tents, or so many thereof as may be necessar , for the use of ,k’§§',_?f"*’*"· "“' L°“‘ the people driven from their homes in the states ol, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana by the present iloods prevailin in said states. Sm. 2. That said tents shall be loaned to the autllorities of said mS;°{§m°°’Y °* W"' Sgaézves for the purposes aforesaid, at the discretion of the Secretary ' 0 ar. ‘ Sec. 3. That twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ‘”'°""““°"· may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the Said tents herein authorized to be purchased; and this appropria- bl§“’“°‘“*°°*Y *“““* tion shall be available upon the passage of this act. ` Approved, March 31, 1890. — t CHAP. 60.-An act to establish two additional land offices in the State of Mon- Aprll1, 1890. ana. ·—-———————- lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Reg&resentat·t*ves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that por- P¤W·=1l:¤d¤· mm tion of the State of Montana bounded and described as follows: Com- mdmwmp-;"‘$g Mull mencing at a point on the southern boundary of the State where the °’*,”{&;*g1°fgh:g· dh line between ranges fourteen and fifteen west of the Montana princi- ma; muuumss. pal meridian intersects said boundary, and running north along said ine to the northern boundary line of the State; thence wit said boundary line to the northwest corner of the State; thence southwardly along the boundary line between Montana and Idaho, to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a new and district, to be called Missoula land district of the State of Montana, and the land office for said district shall be located at the town Ind cmw nr we of Missoula. °°“l°‘ Sec. 2. That all that portion of the State of Montana commencing Juuxm um umm; at that point on the first standard parallel north, where the range "°"“‘*“'“”· line between townships twenty-seven and twenty-eight east of the principal meridian intersects the same; thence running north along said range line to the southern bank of the Missouri River; thence westerly along said river to the point where the range line between ranfes twelve and thirteen east of the principal meridian intersects Sai river; thence south along said range line, between ranges twelve and thirteen east, to the nrst standard parallel north, and thence STAT L-voL xxv1———3