F IFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 1301-1302. 1902. 481. een hundred and ninety-tive, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appro- £tf:i<>¤ of ”PP*'°‘ priated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, P m' and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexfpendjed balances of allotments for . preceding quarters may be expende : Provided, That so much as may _Q$,c"‘,',‘{,u,81Rep0,, be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Sec- ` rem.? of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January v°*· *8* P· 6** tHel h, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said a otment. The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, mQ‘§gwj§,*f‘g ““" m' on the requisition of the head of any Executive Department or other Government establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in du licating processes; also complete patented devices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, and to ching: such supplies to the allotment for lprinting and tilpding of the partment or Government establis ment r u111n e same. Slo en§ble the Public Printer to comply with the provision of the m'" °‘“"“°“°°· law granting thirty days’ annual leave to e employees of the Governmem}; 1fK·int11}g Office, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, or so mu ereo as may be necessary. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers ,,,Sb“§'§§f§§f“1“i“ ’° and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and all laws or parts of laws in conhict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. — Approved, June 28, 1902. CHAP. 1302.-An Act To provide for the construction of a canal connecting the ·l¤¤*> 28- lmwaters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. . S Be it ?a2ted by the Segycte and Ilmwe 0: R'ei€1resm11;at1é·ges oygthe Zgzitled I mmm mm tates 0 merwa an rece ass , at the resident o the Ii,,,.,;,,, j,, ,,;,,,,_ United States is herebyozhthorized to acquire, for and on behalf of gpcé- of (fig: ¥;g;i·¤g;;g the United States, at a cost not exceeding forty millions of dollars, tii0¤°izeaf° pn ‘ the rights,_privileges, franchises, concessions, grants of land, rightof way, unfinished work, plants, and other property, real, {persona , and mixed, of ever name and nature, owne by the New anama Canal Company, of Eyrance, on the Isthmus of Panama, and all its maps, plans, drawings, records on the Isthmus of Panama and in Paris. mcludin all the capital stock, not less, however, than sixty-eight thousand eigit hundred and sixty-three shares of the Panama Railroad Com ny, owned by or held for the use of said canal company, provided); satisfactory title to all of said property can be obtained. Sec. 2. That the President is hereby authorized toacquire from the O0*f;4g’,§i:‘ "'°>' "°'” Republic of Colombia, for and on be alf of the United States, upon ` such terms as he mav_ deem reasonable, perpetual control of a strip of land, the territory of the Republic of C0 ombia, not less than six miles in width, extending from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and the right to use and dispose of the waters thereon, and to excavate. construct, and to perpetually maintain, operate, and protect thereon a C°“““'*°'*°"· canal, of such depth and capacity as will afford convenient passage of ships of the greatest tonna e an draft now in use, from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, wdiich control shall include the right to per- _ petualhy maintain and operate the Panama Railroad, if the ownership P’““'““ R““"“" thereo , or a controlling interest therein, shall have been acquired by von xxxn, rr 1-31
