1024 FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 998-1000. 1903. into any foreign country, or driven across such boundary line by the owner for temporary pasturage purposes only, together with their offspring, may be brought back to the United States within six months _ free of duty, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of ,,§§,E,,§’p1,§%°,l.’l° BLT the Treasury: And provided lfa¢·the1·, That the provisions of this Act P°¤°<*· shall apply to all such anima s as have been imported and are in quarantine, or otherwise in the custody of custom or other officers of the United States, at the date of the passage of this Act." Approved, March 3, 1903. ` March 3,19%. CHAP. 999.—·An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain ‘ lands therein mentioned. . _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f R esentattves 0 f the United §;’,{’§§‘é,,,,,,,,0l,,I,,_ States of America in Ocngress assembled, 'Tqfat the Secretary of the g{s)¤;i:g3¤¤v1¤¤d¤¤¤- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold, under_the Vol. za p. csv. rovisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-tive, Revised _ Statutes, as amended by the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, roviding for the sale of isolated tracts, in so far as the same shall applly, the south half of the northeast quarter of section four, townshi forty-seven south, of range twenty-nine east, in Lee County, Florida being eighty acres of land formerly occupied for agency purposes for the Seminole Indians in that State, which and is no longer needed by the United States. _ Approved, March 3, 1903. ‘ March 3. 1903. CHAP. 1000.-An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works
of 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 Re esentatives 0 f t/ae United Fcrpiiicnricnsnppro- States ofzlmemea in Con ress assembled, £at the sums of money m°°`°°‘°‘ herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of an moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely: Fonrrmcarroxs AND ormca worms or rmraxsn. m<§;*;m¤¤d ¤>¤¤‘¤¤¤ For construction of gun and mortar batteries, two million two hun- ` dred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. Range mmm. For installation of range and position finders, two hundred and ~ twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. sms. For the procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining thereto. needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of · works for fortifications and coast defenses, two hundred thousand
on Cum dollars: lbmsided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to
ings mam. purchase land on Cushings Island, Portland Harbor, Maine, for which appropriation was made in the Act making applropriations for fortifi- Am, p. aus. cations and other works of defense, and so fort , approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, at such times and in Such parcels and guantity as may appear to him to be for the best interests of the overnment. selmmigms. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most im rtant harbors, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. P'”°’””°¤·°‘°- For th;) protection, preservation, and repair of fortihcations for which there may be no special appropriation available, three hundred thousand dollars:
