FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 59, 60. 1896. 69 equipments and stores,binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use in target ranges; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including salaries of civilian employees, sup- Military uiegmpn. plies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, eighteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. C··¤¤¤s¤¤*¤ ¤¤1·¤¤¤¤¤· For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General, in m_g¤¤·¤¤¤¤•*i¤z Gmhis discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. ` For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military Hmqanmrs. dedepartments, and in inspection districts, including the staff corps serv- °m'"°" ‘°°°` ing thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference, and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders. _ For contingent expenses of the military information division, Adju— ¤¤1i*¤*y*¤f¤¤¤¤*i¤¤· taut-General’s Office, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Approved, March 16, 1896. CHAP. 60.-—An Act To authorize the Saint Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad March 18, 1896. Companyto construct and operate a railway through the Indian and Oklahoma Ter- ‘··——-— ritories, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Saint Louis and 1,%;*: Ié§,‘§“1§_:','}r2:{ Oklahoma City Railroad Company, a corporation created under and by Company gunna virtue of the laws of Oklahoma Territory,,be, and the same is hereby, Q§§,{‘°0Y§,],'§,§;I§gf§,¥ invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, own- ¤>=i·>¤- ing, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory, beginning at a L°°°**°¤· point to be selected by said railway company at or near Sapulpa, in the Indian Territory, and running through the said Territory and the Territory of Oklahoma by way of Chandler and Oklahoma City to a point on Red River at or near the west line of the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation, with the right to construct, use, and maintain such tracks, turn·outs, and sidings as said company may deem it to their interest to construct._ SEO. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for all W'°*°" purposes of a railway, and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Indian Territory and Territory of Oklahoma, and to take and use a strip of land one hundred feet in width, with n. length of two thousand feet, in addition to right of way, for stations, ior every ten miles of road, with the right to use such addi- S““°"“· tional ground where there are heavy cuts or fills as may be necessary for _ the construction and maintenance of the roadbed, not exceeding fifty feet in width on each side of said right of way, or as much thereof as _ may be included in said cut or iill: Provided, That no more than said f;;};;';;, mmm_ addition of land shall be taken for any one station: Provided further, immm at- ma That no part of the lands herein authorized to be taken shall be sold ““" by the company, and they shall not be used except in such manner ‘ and for such purposes only as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railway, telegraph, and telephone lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be used, such portion
