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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. .I. Cns. 1354, 1355. 1906. 93 hospital, and grant of thirty thousand acres for the benefit of penal, reform, and educational institutions in Carbon County, said selections being approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior on March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. _ The said State shall be authorized and permitted to select an equal l,E;°§°"°° °f °"'“ number of acres from the unappropriated public lands of the United States in said State in the same manner, for the same purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations under which the lands so reconveyed were selected and held. Sec. 2. That the lands so reconveyed shall be restored to and miigiggvéyggbiighgi become a part of the public domain and be subject to disposal by the “‘“*”· " Government in the same manner in which other public lands of a like character are disposed of. Approved, March 31, 1906. CHAP. 1355.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act permitting the Wash- Mamh Sb 1906- ington Market Company to lay a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west," [S'4883'] approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundre and five. [Public, No. 76.] Be it enacted by the Senate and .H2use ef}? ·esentati·ve.s of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tibiit section one of the Act Qj,¤¤{g¤¤&°¤gi§{¤l;¤£ entitled "An Act permitting the Washington Market Company to lay mayulsy a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west," approved February §‘{,,‘}‘,f.,,°'{°,,"?,'{},_ S"' twentv—third, nineteen hundred and five, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "That the Washington Market Company is hereby authorized to $,°gf“§§"·p_ H, lay a. conduit and pipes from Center Market eastward across and under amended-` Seventh street west, for refrigerating purposes, under the following conditions, namely: The conduit and pipps therein shall be laid in a straight direction, at a right angle to the uilding lines of said Seventh street-, to the west building line of square numbered four hundred and sixty-one of the cit of Washington, and from and near the intersection of said conduit with the west building line of said square; the said con- mvxiqummma. duit and pi s may be conducted through excavations to be made under the sidewalks on the west and south sides of said square, in directions parallel to said sides, respectively, and under the pavement of the alley in said square numbered four hundred and sixty-one, with such servicepipe connections extending to buildings on said square as said W'ashington Market Company may think proper. They shall be located as lmcnuonnndimpecdirected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and be laid t°"‘ under their ins Jection; and the cost of such inspection, together with the cost of repiacing the pavement, curbs, andsidewalks disturbed in connection with said work, shall be paid in advance by the Washingtoii Market Company. The conduit and pipes shall be used for no other qgdcouduic. em., purpose than refrigeration for the use of persons engaged in said square "` ”° ' numbered four hundred and sixty-one in the traiiic in meat and other articles of market produce; and the said company shall not rent or sell the said conduit or pipes, or any part thereof, but may sell for a time, not to exceed twelve months at any one sale, the use of the fluid transmined? Sec. 2. That said Vlrashingtou Market Company shall make aiiidavit G’°“'°'“'"*“8'· to the board of personal tax appraisers on or before the iirst day of August each year as to the amount of its gross earnings for the preceding year ending the thirtieth day of June from the conduit or conduits herein authorized to be laid, and shall pay to the collector of taxes ce§Q¥.'}j§§‘m‘;{,,f,L’°‘ of the District of Columbia the sum of four per centum per annum on such gross earnings. Approved, March 31, 1906.