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370 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 464, 465. 1882. cause to he erected thereon, at the city of Fort Wayne, in_the State of Indi a substantial and commodions public building, syithlire-proof vaultlisator the use of the United States district and circuit courts, internal-revenue service, post office, and other goyernment offices; the mm plans, specifications, and estimates for said building liavingfirst been R. S., 3734, 131. prepared, examined, and approved as required by SGGUOD. thirty seven hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, · upon calculations and specifications that will insure the completion of Cost. the building at a cost not to exceed the the sum of one hundred thoubmw. sand dollars; Provided, That no money to be appropriated for sa1d_bu1ld- · Title. ing shall be used until a valid title to the site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Indiana shall have to the `United States jurisdiction over the same for all purposes, dumng the time the government shall be or remain the owner thereof, except for the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State and the service of civil process therein. Appmprihtivu- _ Sec. 2. That for the purposes above mentioned the sum of fifty thou- · sand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. _ · Approved, August 8, 1882. CHAP. .—-An no o authorize th construction of a bric e over the Saint Croix

 River4l?:meen th: city of Calais, {Kaine, and Saint Stepheifs, New Brunswick.

` Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqwesentatives of the United Bridge over Slides of America in Uollgress assembled, That the Maine Sh01°0-Line $¤i¤* Cmk RiY¤¢» Railway Company, a corporation organized and created under and by . §’:_'°;°:d°§;Qf{ virtue of the laws of the State of Maine be, and is hereby, authorized sis’pn.¤·s, gw and empowered to construct own, maintain, and operate a railway · Brunswick. bridge over the Saint Croix diver between the city of Calais, in the State of Maine, and the town of Saint Stephens in the Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, at such point as may be most convenient to said corporation to unite and connect their railroad to be ` constructed by them in the said city of Calais with any railroad that may be constructed by any person or company in the said Dominion of Canada, and to build and lay on and across said bridge ways or tracksfor the passage of railway trains and foot-passengers, for the transit of which said corporation may charge a reasonable toll; and that said · Declared • uw. bridge, when completed, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structful structure. ure, Hm md bc, Sec. 2. That the plan and location of any bridge the construction of uonmbeappmeu which is hereby authorized shall be subject to the approval of the Secby Secretary of rctary of War; and the bridge, if built at any distance greater than W"- one Hundred feet below the present toll·bridge between Calais, Maine, and Saint Stephens New Brunswick, or the head of navigation, shall Free uavigatinn be so located as not to obstruct, impair, or injuriously modify the free °f;}i:;’ !;tf°”°d· navigation of the river, and shall be built with the piers parallel to the ’ . current, leaving the waterway unobstructed by rip-rap or piling, or other obstructions, and shall have at the crossing of the main channel Draw. of the river a draw of not less than sixty feet of clear opening, which shall be located at a point best calculated to accommodate commerce, which draw shall at all times be opened promptly for passing vessels upon reasonable signal, except when railway trains are passing over the Lights. same; and at all times during the season of navigation proper signal-. lights shall be used and maintained at the expense of the aforesaid P1-mace. company to guide vessels approaching said draw: Provided, That the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced until the plan and location thereof have been approved by the Secretary of War, and the said company has been noliiied of the same in writing: And provided further, That the consent of the proper authorities of the Dominion of