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I 100 FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 424. 1899. PYg¤¤¤¤i*¤ N=¤i¤¤¤l IMPROVEMENT or YosEM1TE NATIONAL PARK: For the protection Expenses. of the Yosemite National Park, and construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four P'°****°- thousand dollars: Provided, That so much thereof as may be necessary £gm¤;$¤¤*°;’ta;° QQ; shall be expended as follows: The Secretary of War shall appoint three

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of, the Regular Army of the United States, both to act herein without additional compensation; and the third a civil engineer and member of the department of highways of the State of California, who shall be paid herein only his actual expenses. The duties of said commission shall be to examine, determine the lengths, widths, elevations, grades, conditions, ownership, cost of construction and present values and annual cost of maintenance, rates of toll charged, annual tolls collected, and the length of season open to travel and actually traveled by the public of each the “Big Oak Flat toll road," ·‘ The Coulterville toll road," " The Wawona toll road," and the "Tioga road," all in and about the Yosemite National Park, California; and also, so far as applicable, said data with reference to new wagon road by the best attainable new route from said Yosemite Valley to a suitable point in Merced County, and of a second such in Mariposa County, and of a third such to railroad connection in Tuolumne County, and to any other practicable route, and also to a new wagon road connecting said “Tioga road” with aroad traveled by wagon in Mono or Inyo County, said State, and also to a wagon road to Hetch Hetchy Valley in said_park. Said commission is authorized to do all acts and things necessary to complete said purpose, and shall report to the Secretary of the Interior the results of such examination. €;=1>r¤¤¤¤ ¤<¤=¤= N- SUPREME Connr REPORTS! To pay the reporter of decisions of the ’° `°' Supreme Court of the United States forseventy-six copies each of volumes one hundred and seventy-three to one hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two V·>L25·P-°°r dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred and eight dollars. omega Register of BIENNIAL REGISTER or THE UNITED STATES: For preparation of um U’“°°d Sm"' the Official Register of the United States for eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, four thousand dollars. Memonlgl bridge. Memorial bridge across Potomac River: To enable the Chief of Engi- P‘{.§§’,§‘;°,,,§`Qf§g,S_,,,,_ neers of the Army to continue the examination of the subject and to make or secure designs, calculations, and estimates for a memorial bridge from the most convenient point of the Naval Observatory grounds or adjacent thereto, across the Potomac River to the most convenient point of the Arlington estate property, the sum of five thousand dollars. Gqvemmlcnc Hospi- GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR. THE INSANE: For current expenses m ‘°" "‘° "°"“°‘ of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Govern ment Hospital for the Insane of the insane from theArmyand Navy, Marine Corps Revenne—Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United Stateswho are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred and ive dollars and twenty cents; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital. Buiildings =·¤·1 For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the g’°“” °' Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, hfteen thousand dollars.