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70 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 376, 377, 381. 1886. cost prescribed in said act is hereby extended as aforesaid, and no plan shall be approved which will involve an expenditure for site and building complete, including approaches, greater than the limit herein fixed. Approved, May 24, 1886. May 26, 1886. CHAP. 3'l7.—An act making appropriationtosupply deiiciencyin amount required —-—·-;— for expenditure to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for examination and surveys required by acts of Marc third, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, and June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-eight, to ascertain dept of water aud width of channel at South Pass of Mississippi River.

 Be it enacted ln; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

South Pass, mis States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sum be, and ¤i¤¤PP1 RWM'- the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not Deficiency ap- otherwise appropriated, to wit: To supply deficiency in amount required P¤{P¤*!¤°¤f°F °!· for expenditure to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for

,';.QY$;°':° $0*;: examinations and surveys required by the acts of March third, eightmy sepnmgwam- een hundred and seventyfive, and June nineteenth, eighteen hundred

and width or chan- and seventy-eight, to ascertain the depth of water and width of channel DQ; I 18 463 secured and maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at South v31I20, $:168: Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War to ’ report to Congress during the maintenance of the work, six thousand _ _ four hundred and ninety-two dollars. im; Sec. 2. That the money hereby appropriated shall be immediately gmc_ V available. Approved, May 26, 1886. M3? 27, $$6- CHAP. 381.-An act to provide for the ascertainment of the market value of cer- ""‘tt"*" tain property in the city of hicago, and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell and convey said property. Preamble. Whereas the Chicago and Great Western Railroad Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Illinois, is constructing its railroad within the city of Chicago, and possesses, under its charter and under the ordinances of said city, a franchise to construct, maintain, and operate its railroad to Harrison street, in said city, for which purpose it has acquired, and is acquiring, by purchase and otherwise, the real estate lying between Taylor street and said Harrison street, and west of Fifth avenue; and ‘ Whereas the United States owns the south half of block eighty-seven, in school-section addition to Chicago, which is in the center of the property so acquired and being acquired by said railroad company for terminal facilities, and is vacant, and is indispensable to said company in exercising said franchise and atfordiug to the public the terminal facilggagéqgghich said company has so purchased the property as aforesaid: _ Be it cnlzctod by the Senate and House o R resentatives o the matted wig: Bisdcgggie States of America in Congress assembled, That she Secretary é the Treasago and Gnu, un-y be, and he is hereby, directed to name, within ten days after the w,,mmB_B_c,,_ passage of this act, a commission, to consist of three disinterested per- Appraisal. sons, whose duty it shall be to ascertain and report to said Secretary within twenty days after their said appointment, the cash market value; of the lot above mentioned in the city of Chicago; and the said Secretary is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey the said lot to the said Chicago and Great Western Railroad Company at such price, not less in any event than the value thereof as appraised and reported by said commission, as he and said railroad company shall agree upon; the said price, when agreed upon, to be paid in cash: Provided Promo. however, That nothing in this act shall be construed so as to direct

of   to make said sale unless he shall deem the price fixed by the

,,6,,,, as to price, commission or agreed to be paid by said railroad company to be a fair 0 0.