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1032 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sus . III. Ch. 421. 1899 In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, eighty-three thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-three cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. P¤¥·1i•= WMM- PUBLIC WORKS—BUB.EAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS—NAVY-YARDS AND STATIONS, NAVAL ACADEMY, AND NEW NAVAL OBSEBVATOBY.

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hospital numbered twenty-eight, six thousand dollars; sawmill for construction and repair, thirty thousand dollars; foundry for construction and repair, forty thousand dollars; plate-angle, smith, and beam shed for construction and repair, thirty-five thousand dollars; electric-11ght plant, fifty thousand dollars; electric-light buildmg, thirty thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, fifteen thousand dollars;. coal-storage and coal-handling machinery, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, three hundred and six thousand dollars. ¤¤·¤>¤·¥•••· N Avx-xA1m, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: New gate and entrance house to yard, twenty-five thousand dollars; new railroad system, forty thousand dollars; locomotive and cars, ten thousand dollars; constructing new piers and extending old ones, and dredging, one hundred thousand dollars; coal—storage and coarhandling plant, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; repairing drainage system and connecting with metropolitan sewer, twelve thousand dollars; electric-light building with coal-storage and coal-handling appliances for same, fifty thousand dollars; electric elevators in four storehouses, twelve thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, three hundred and seventy- nine thousand dollars. mi.i-pmue or That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to provide for §,§’,{‘,,'§ "‘ {,‘;,";E§‘{’,,’,§f the enlargement of the slip or dock at the southern boundary of the Mrz1:H1r•>¤¤ ¤¤¤·· United States navy-yard at Boston, Massachusetts, partly upon the """ land of the navy-yard and partly upon lands belonging to the Fitchburg Railroad Company, said slip to be enlarged beyond its present width eighty feet upon the lands of the United States and twenty feet upon the lands of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, so that the same shall be one hundred and sixty feet in width, measured northerly from the land parallel to and twenty feet southerly from the boundarybetween the lands of the United States and lands of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, and to be increased in length, to a total of five hundred and seventy feet, measured from the harbor commissioner’s line as now established upon the front of the said railroad company’s property; the said slip to be used by both the Fitchburg Railroad and the United States for comm. the berthing of vessels at their respective wharves ; and the Secretary of the Navy is empowered to make a contract with the said Fitchburg xmmingnnsmt Railroad Company pursuant to the provisions of this Act. That in '“°’°°°‘ consideration of the privileges granted by this Act to the Fitchburg Railroad Company for the use of a portion of this shp extending northerly of the boundary line of the United States navy-yard, said railroad company shall build suitable retaining walls upon the east side and at the head of the slip upon the Government lands, or if the United States shall so elect in lieu thereof shall pay to the United States such nnagrantniu. sums of money as may be determined by arbitration, and shall dredge the entire slip or basin to a depth of thirty feet at mean low water and maintain such depth as long as it enjoys the privileges above stated. ..¤¤¤ nr. It is further provided that the said railroad company shall use and occupy only sixty feet of the width of the said basin within the limits of the navy-yard property, and is to erect no construction of any kind within the limits of the said basin, either upon the lands of the Government or upon that portion of the said railroad company’s lands Nsgppquggaogsyil- included in the basin. That the right to use said dock or any part ’ "‘ ‘ thereof by said railroad company may be temporarily suspended by the Secretary of the Navy whenever in case of war or other emergency it