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FORTY-NINTI1 CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 7 47, 755, 756. 1886. 129 Sec. 5. That in plotting these grounds the Secretary of War, in his Ground for pubdiscretion, may reserve all that part of the reservation lying south of 1*0 Park *****3* b° Portage street, to be set apart and kept by the municipal authorities of r°“°Yv°°l‘ Sault Sainte Marie, as a. public park thr its citizens and the people of the United States. Sec. 6. That section three of this act shall not be of effect: until the New site m be purchase of :1. new site, provided for in section four, shall have been P"mh¤¤¤d b•>f<>¤¤ effected. sale of old. Approved, July 8, 1886. CHAP. 'I55.-An act relating to the licensing of vessels engaged in towing, to July 9 1886_ carry persons in addition to their crews. e; Be it enacted by the Sena tc and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any steam-vessel engaged Stwm ww-bouts in the business of towing vessels, rafts, or water-craft of any kind, and "u:’w°dmf)° °31“`Y not carrying passengers, may be authorized and licensed by the super- 2h,,?: ESOW? unt'; visin g inspector of the district in which said steamer shall be employed, tation. ’ to carry on board such number of persons, in addition to its crew, as R·S-»¤¤·=-4‘l52.p- the supervising inspector in his judgment, shall deem necessary to carry Sw on the legitimate business of such towing steamers, not exceeding, ‘ however, one person to every net tou of measurement of said steamer: Provided, however, That the person so allowed to be carried shall not be I’r•wi¤•· carried for hire. th§rgg)r*° °h°"¤° Sec. 2. That every steam-vessel licensed under the foregoing section Life-pmservem. shall carry and have on board, in accessible places, one life-preserver · for every person allowed to be carried, in addition to those provided for the crew of such vessel. S20. 3. That team-vessels of one hundred tons burden or under, Certain steam engaged in the coastwise bays and harbors of the United States, may *6***% ¤¤¤Y <=¤¤'¥ be licensed by the United States local inspectors of steam-vessels to :fi‘;:;:‘;’l'::·v‘;::"· · carry passengers or excursion on the ocean or upon the Great Lakes buikneads. 8 of the North or Northwest, not exceeding fifteen miles from the mouth of such bays or harbors, without being required to have the three R S mc 4490 water-tight cross-bulkheuds provided by section forty-four hundred and 86.,; " ‘ ’P' ninety of the Revised Statutes for other passenger steamers: Provided, Proviso. That in the judgment of the local inspector such steamers shall be safe and suitable for such navigation without danger to human life, and that they shall have one water-tight collision bulkhead nots less than five {bet abaft the stem of said steamer. Approved, July 9, 1886. CHAP. 756.-An act to reimburse the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Jnly 9 H86_ Soldiers for losses incurred through the failure of the Exchange National Bank of ,_..J... Norfolk, Virginia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House fi! Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, but the Secretary of the.'1‘reas- National Home ury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed topay, or cause tobe 5**:* V3; paid, to the treasurer of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer iulbnmlfurffsm Soldiers the sum of twenty thousand two hundred and sixty-two dol- incun-on qmmgn lars and forty-six cents, out of any moneys in the Treasury not other- fu i 1 u i- e pr Ex. wisc appropriated, to be held and expended by him as originally in- g£1‘;5;I(1;?;;§’{,‘! tended and any dividends hereafter made in favor of the Home shall be ’ ’ paid to the United States and covered into the Treasury. Sec. 2. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the Depositaries of duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to require from the president and H¤·{¤·{w f $1 0 ¤ ¤> cashier of all banks used as depositories by the treasurer of the Home Fm " · a deposit of bonds sufficient in amount to fully secure all moneys pertaining to said Home left on deposit with any such bank. Approved, July 0, 1886. STAT L—-VOL xxiv-—9