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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 275-277. 1887. 429 CHAP. 275.-An act to make Tampa, Florids, a port of entry. Feb. 28, 1887. Bc it enacted by 'the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o/'A mcrica in Congress assembled, That the port of Tampa, Hills- Tampa Fieborough (`ounty, Florida, be, and the same is hereby, made a port of m]:{r;d° '* Pm °f entry. ° Approvt d, February 28, 1887. CHAP. 276.—An act to correct the record of Captain Edmond G. Fechét. Feb. 28, 1887. l Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to correct the Edmond G_ p,,- record of Captain Edmond G. Fechét, of the Eighth Regiment of Cav- chét. airy, United States Army, and tix his relative rank as provided in scc- R°°°*d°°¤’°°*°d- tion twelve hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to commission the said Edmond G. Fechét a captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry R. S., sec. 1219, aforesaid, to date from the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred P- 215- and seventy, that being the date his present commission as captain would have been dated had not an error been made in the iirst arrangement of the lieutenants of said regiment: Provided, That the issuing Promo. of such commission shall not entitle said Fechét to any extra pay or com- Not to give expensation. - *18 Pw- Approved, February 28, 1887. . _ CHAP. 2jl’I.·-—An act granting io the Kanawha and Ohio Railroad Comlpany the Fgb_28, 1881, nghttolsy its track through mted States lock and dam property in t c Great ——-———- Kanawha Valley, State of West Virginia.' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Kanawha and Ohio Right of way to Railroad Company is hereby authorized to maintain and use its track K =!¤ M'? ¤ ¤¤¢l through the United States property at lock and dam number six on the gg; ,5* 'tLf_;’u“,‘} north side of the Great Kanawha River, in Kanawha County, West Gcvsmugeut ,,,5,- Virginia, and to use for a right of way through said property a section erty on the Great of land fifty-four feet wide and bounded and described as follows, to §;*·¤*·"h°· R¤"°’» wit: Beginning at a point in the lower line of the United States lot one Lgzttign hundred and sixty-three feet from the corner-stone marking the lower ` or western end of the line to said lot along the public road, running thence north sixty-six degrees east six hun red feet through the said lot to a point in the upper line thereof; thence with said upper line south twenty~four degrees thirty minutes east, crossing the center line of the said railroad at twenty-seven feet, in all fifty-four feet; thence south sixty-six degrees west six hundred feet through the said lot to a point in the lower line thereof; thence with the lower line of said lot north twenty-four degrees thirty minutes west, crossing the center line of the said railroad at twenty-seven feet, in all, fifty-four feet, to the place of beginning, containing about threefourths of an acre. And the privilege is also hereby granted to said company of hereafter laying, maintaining, and using a track through the United States property on the north bank of said river at lock and dam number four, and at lock and dam number three, and at lock and dam number two, in said county, subject however, to the antecedent written consent and approval of the Secretary of War as to location, construction, and width of right of way : Provided, That said Kanawha and Ohio Railroad Com- Prmm. pany, its successors and assigns, shall if the Secretary of War in his discretion require it, pay a reasonable yearly rental for said property, Rsnm. the amount thereof to be ascertained and prescribed by the Secretary