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FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 158, 164, 165. 1870. 167 exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and only of such officers of the army and navy and of the pay department in whose accounts there is no apparent. fraud against the United States: And provided further, That Act tobe ln thu; act shall remain in force for two years from and after its passage and f°'°° "'° ¥°””· no onger. Approved, June 23, 1870. CHAP. CLXIV. ——An Act to lo al Citizens in h es 'n i 2 8 . vices in taking the U7¤il]:IyStdtes Census déghgeffhuggd fw Sm Be tt enacted by the Senate and Hama of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of loyal citi- ,(Pl°lm§°fl°Y*1 zens in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, (§E€;°°ia¥;lth{°u Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, for ser- rebellion foi, sei-— vices rendered as United States marshals and their assistants in taking "i°°"’ in "‘ki“K the eighth census in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, may be paid i225g2s1z0;,;; out of any unexpended balance of any moneys hitherto appropriated for 7 the payment of United States marshals and their assistants for services Sw PM P- 314- rendered in taking the eighth census in the year eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no money shall be paid on account of any such proviso., claim until proof, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, of the loyalty to the United States throughout the late rebellion of the person by whom said service is alleged to have been performed, shall have been furnished, among which proofs shall be the oath of the person alleged to have performed the said service, if such person be living: Provided, That satisfactory evidence shall be submitted to the proper accounting officers that the claimants under this act have never received compensation for their services from t-my source whatever. Approved, June 24, 1870. CHAP. CLXV. —-An Act to amend anCAcL incorporating the National Junction Railway June 28, 1870. <··¤1¤>¤¤y- 'T56s3h.'?. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United A"'°r P· °* States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of “An Location or act to incorporate the National Junction Railroad Company," approved 3°°‘l {B" Ngqlm March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtymlne, be so amended w`Q';°é°g:,,p,;§ that the said corporation be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to changedsurvey, locate, lay out, construct, collect tolls upon, maintain, and enjoy a railroad line, with appurtenances and machinery necessary for one or more tracks, within the District of Columbia, either upon the route specified in said section, or in the following manner, to wit: Commencing at the northern terminus of the Aqueduct bridge, in the city of Georgetown; thence in an easterly or northeasterly direction, by the most feasible route, to Rock Creek; thence along said creek, or parallel thereto, to its junction with the Potomac river; thence along said river bank, or parallel thereto, to the foot of Twenty-sixth Street of Washington city; thence on the south side of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, to its terminus; thence by the most direct and eligible route, southerly of and avoiding the public grounds, to the intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Capitol Street, conforming to the grade of such streets and avenues as the road may pass over; thence to the eastern branch of the Potomac river, at or near the navy yard, at a point to be indicated by the ·Secretary of the Navy. l Together with a branch road from the main line, commencing at the intersection of Virginia and Delaware avenues; thence to a point on First Street east, on city grade; thence under said street, by an underground excavation or tunnel, to a, junction of the Metropolitan and \Vashmgton branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. Also the privilege of loca- Umm depot tion and construction of an union depot on the main line of said road; the power to condemn ground for the location of the same, granted m the