400 FIFTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 247, 248. 1898. dation of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, to grant a right of way to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company to lay a single track across the Dry Valley road at such point or place thereon as said commission may determine upon; and also, upon like recommendation of said commission, may grant such other conces— · sions as may be necessary to permit the said Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company to extend its lines to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Promo- National Park: Provided, That such grant or grants shall only become C,2}{‘Q`,§“f,'f,‘Q”,§“§’§ti0'§{’,§i or be operative on the condition that the track and tracks and roadbed PMR 9•····¤{=i¤¤i¤;P *0 of said company, and the right of way for any and all extensions of its g{”§°"°"`° °°° l°°’ road to said park from the point of crossing said Dry Valley road shall iirst be definitely iixed and located upon a line or lines which shall be satisfactory to and approved by said commission; and no part of said line or lines of road, after being so located, established, built, or constructed, shall be changed, moved, or extended without the consent in writing of said commission thereto being first had and obtained, and upon the further condition that an agreement satisfactory to said commission and approved by it shall be entered into on the part of said company for the proper maintenance of the crossing of said Dry Valley road, and at all times keeping the same in proper repair and condition. Approved, May 7, 1898. May 7,189s. CHAP. 248.-·An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of i 4v1A defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United F¤rqi¤q¤¤¤¤¤ ¤rr¤> States of America in Congress assembled, That the sums of money herein
- ”°°"°°°°°' provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely: Fvrrificetivns-vw FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. <+¤¤_ and m·>r¤¤¤· For construction of gun and mortar batteries, three million dollars. msi:;?"" For the procurement of land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works, for iortiiications and coast delenses, three hundred thousand dollars. nepsm. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which tlhepe may be no special appropriation available, one hundred thousand o ars. · rats. For preparation of plans for fortilications, five thousand dollars. S¤¤w¤11··-·>¤•·- I Sor construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty-tive thousand c dollars. msitseze. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels lending to our principal seaports, needful casemates, cable galleries, and so forth, to render it possible to operate submarine mines, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Amameue. ABMAAIENT OF FORTIFICATIONS. A;;:y;·;•;:g¤;j;_»g;_¤¤· For tinishing and assembling coast-defense guns of eight-inch, ten. · ‘ ‘ inch, and twelveinch caliber, and one type sixteen-inch gun, at the grlnay Gun Factory, three hundred and eleven thousand five hundred o ars. -m··1. For oil-tempered and annealed steel for highpower coast-defense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, three hundred and _;:·£·;¢:A1 pm, Pu sixty-nine thousand five lumdred dollars: Provided, That no contract ,,,,,,;,;,_ for oil-tempered and annealed steel for higlrpower coast-defense guns and mortars shall be made at a price exceeding twenty-three cents per Steel-wire s.·;..·.>u¤ pound; Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Wznr, a 8*****- portion of this money may be used for the purchase of material tor steel—wire seacoast guns.
