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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.- Sess. I. Cus. 804, 805, 806. 1890. 333 Whereas said agreement has been confirmed by the legislatures of iéhe said States of ew York and Pennsylvania, respectively: Thereore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Ngguggggiwgegwn the Congress of the United States be, and hereby is, given to said symms, ehtlabliseligd agreement, and to each and every part thereof; and the boundaries ;{0v£'Q§:gm:§ established by said agreement are ereby approved and connrmed. ' Approved, August 19, 1890. CHAP. 805.-An act author1zm' ‘ g the ci of Charleston, South Carolina, to o A 19, 1890. Concord street through the grounds of thetllnited States in that city. pen Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the city of 01>¤r1¤¤¤>¤.S·0.,m¤y Charleston, South Carolina, `be, and it is hereb *, authorized to open Z’£§2,;,;T?,°c’L§§"§{ Concord street through the grounds of the U)nited States in t at °**° Um S*°°*· city upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treas- Terms and comury may prescribe. “°“ Approved, August 19, 1890. CHAP. 806.-—An act to establish a national military pmk at the battle-field of August 19, 1890. Chickamauga. ‘“‘*"—`—""‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0j"R3p2·esentatives of the United States,o_f America in Congress assemble , That for the pur- C,gQ;§fl§•g¤¤E?g;¤ t.¤¤3 pose of preserving and suitably marking for historical and lprofes- rim: aéiit. sional military study the fields of some of the most remarkab e man- "·""°'* _ euvers and most brilliant fighting in the war of the rebellion, and coi-Sigma. upon the ceding of jurisdiction to the United States by the States J""°d‘°"°"‘ ' o Tennessee and Georgia, respectively, and the report of the Attorngy General of the United States that the title to the lands thus rms. c ed is erfect, the following described highways in those States Highways ummm are hereby declared to be approaches to and parts of the Chicka- ‘,£,*?§.Y’3€h,$§,kY° “"° manga and Chattanoogla National Military Park as established by the second section of this act, to wit: First. The Missionary Ridge nesmpnonomuis. Crest road from Sherman Heights at the north end of Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee, where the said road enters upon the ground occuqied by the Army of the Tennessee under Mpjor-Genera William ‘. Sherman, in the military operations of ovember twenty- fourth and twenty-nfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; thence along said road through the positions occupied by the army of General Braxton Brag on November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and which were assaulted byhthe Army of the Cumberland under Major-General George H. omas on that date, to where the said road crosses the southern boundary of the State of Tennessee, near Rossville Gap, Georgia, upon the ground occupied by the troops of Major-General Joseph Hooker, from the Army of the Potomac, and thence in the State of Georgia to the junction of said road with the Chattanooga and Lafayette or State road at Rossville Gap; second, the Lafayette or State road from Rossville, Georgia, to Lee and Gordon’s Mills, Georgia; third, the road from Lee and G0rdon’s Mills, Georgia, to Crawfish Springs, Georgia; fourth, the road from Crawfish S rings, Georgia, to the crossing of the Chickamauga at Glass’ Mids, Georgia; fifth, the Dry Valley road from Rossville, Georgia, to the sout ern limits of McFarlan ’s Gap in Missiona§ Ridge; sixth, the Dry Valley and Crawfish Siprings road from cFarland’s Gap to the intersection of the roa from