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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 167, 168, 170. 1894. 159 For refloorin g and interior painting of barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, one thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to engineer boathouses, one hundred dollars. I For necessary repairs to engineer equipment shed, two hundred dollars. For placing gas pipes and gas fixtures throughout the barracks of Company E, Battalion of, Engineers, three hundred dollars. For one steam road roller, four thousand dollars. Rnd ’°“°’· For completing one platform for new eightinch ride, one platform for Gun p1¤¤f¤rm•. new twelve- inch breech-loading mortar, and three front-pintle platforms in the sea-coast battery, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars. Approved, July 26, 1894. CHAP. 168.-An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and tbirty-seven of July 26, 1884. the Revised Statutes of the United States as to soldiers' homes. m Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-eight hun- h N•¢i°¤•l ¤¤¤i•¤` dred and thirty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as °E°§ »¤.¢sav,p.m, amended by the Act of Congress approved February eighth, eighteen "'{;’;',j‘,°{*·p_,2,_ hundred and eighty-one, be, and hereby is, repealed and re-enacted to ` read as fo1lows,rto wit: “Sec. 4837. hat the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the n,gl·:=_{*¤°¤*•*¤'·•*¤*· House of Representatives shall cause to be sent to the National Home ' for Disabled Volunteer-Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, and to the branches at Togus in Maine, Milwaukee in W'1sconsin, Hampton in Virginia, Marion in Indiana, Leavenworth in Kansas, Santa Monica in California, and to the homes for the widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors sem umm ea. established and maintained by any State or Territory, and all soldiers and sailors’ homes established by the authority of any State or Territory receiving aid from the United States under legi lation of Congress, each, one copy each of the following documents: The session laws of R°¥·°•m~°¤:{•:g;·;;:f Congress; the annual messages of the President, with accompanying y ` documents in the abridgment thereof; the daily Congressional Record; and the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to furnish to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives the documents referred to in this section." Approved, July 26, 1804. CHAP. 1'l0.——An Act Granting the use of certain land to the town of Castine, July 30.1894. Maine, for a public park. ———--—————— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted E;§{ ¤·¤¤m I to the town of Castine, in the State of Maine, the right to occupy, Publi, WT °r improve, and control, for the purposes of a public park for the use and benefit of the citizens of the United States. and for no other purpose whatever, the tract of land owned by the United States situated in the extreme southerly part of said town of Castine, containing three acres, more or less, and known as the “Fort Madison lot”—said tract being more fully described in the deed of Joseph and Phebe Perkins, conveying the said land to the President of the United States, dated April iirst, eighteen hundred and nine, which deed is recorded in the records of Hancock_ County, Maine, book numbered twenty-seven, page one hundred and five——upon the following conditions and provisions, namel : First That the said town of Castine shall ascertain by proper survey Surv¤Y· and accurately mark in a permanent manner the boundaries of said tract of land according to the description given in said deed; that no